memeorandum: Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines (Ian Urbina/New York Times)

1:46 AM ET, September 24, 2006

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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:

Big News: bin Laden dead; Bigger News: Ansar al Sunnah Head Captured! — Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta today! First, bin Laden is reportedly dead. Or dying. Or whatever. In any event, I don't believe it. But it's the kind of rumor I dig. Thanks to everyone that e-mailed it to me.

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CBS News:

French Want Probe Into Bin Laden Leak — Chirac: Osama's Death 'In No Way Whatsoever Confirmed' — (CBS/AP) French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid …

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CNN:

Rumors swirl over bin Laden's fate … PARIS, France (CNN) — Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has a water-borne illness, a Saudi intelligence source told CNN on Saturday, a report that conflicts with an article in a French newspaper saying that the man who has been hunted by the United States for the past five years is dead.

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Osama's dead possibly gravely ill! Update: Alive and well, says Hamid Mir; Update: Video added — Naturally the news breaks on the one morning of the week that I sleep in. — Catching up now. Mary K's got the best round-up. Note in particular the report from Time that she links …

John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
France Looks Into Bin Laden Death Report

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Agence France Presse:
French newspaper says Saudis believe bin Laden dead

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Claude Salhani / UPI:
Analysis: Is bin Laden truly dead?

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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Bin Laden Dead?

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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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BBC:

Violence sweeps Iraq on Ramadan — At least 35 people have been killed in a car bomb attack on a kerosene tanker in the mainly Shia district of Sadr City in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. — Nine severed heads were also found in the city of Tikrit as violence swept across the country.

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Think Progress:
Fox on The Defensive, Promos Interview As 'Clinton Gets Crazed'

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Ian Urbina / New York Times:

Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines — A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.

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Beth Lucas / East Valley Tribune:

Sept. 11 inscriptions spark outrage — Inscriptions etched into Arizona's Sept. 11 monument — meant to inspire and capture the horror of the terrorist attacks — sparked the beginnings of a political blog battle this week. — The monument was unveiled at Phoenix's Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza near …

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Gary Hart / The Huffington Post:

The October Surprise — It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election. — Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous …

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Pachacutec / Firedoglake:

Late Nite FDL: We Keep Going — I saw this movie last night. It was a rip! — I like screwball comedy when the actors don't play it or mug overtly for laughs. The actors here, including Greg Kinnear, Steve Carrell, Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin all play their characters pretty straight …

Reuters:

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 23 — Source: Reuters — Sept 23 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents and other developments in Iraq reported on Saturday, as of 1930 GMT. — Asterisk denotes new or updated item. — *HAWIJA - Two U.S. soldiers were killed …

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Editor and Publisher:

'Wash Post' Endorses Lieberman for Senate — While Hitting War on Front Page — NEW YORK The Washington Post's editorial page endorsed Sen. Joe Lieberman for re-election in his third-party Connecticut U.S. Senate race on Sunday, saying that even though he lost the Democratic primary …

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