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5:35 PM ET, October 11, 2006

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Coleen Long / Associated Press:
Aircraft Hits Manhattan Building; 2 Dead  —  A small plane crashed into an Upper East Side high-rise Wednesday, shooting flames out the windows, raining debris on the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers' nerves exactly one month after the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
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New York Times:
Small Aircraft Hits Building in Manhattan  —  An aircraft crashed into a residential high-rise building on New York City's Upper East Side this afternoon, igniting several apartments before pieces of the aircraft crashed to the ground, the police and witnesses said.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Small aircraft crashes into NYC skyscraper  —  Right off the East River, on 72nd Street.  It looks like an apartment building; the fire is small, perhaps confined to one apartment unit thus far.  Fox and CNN are carrying it live.  —  No clue what's going on yet.  It is, in fact, overcast here today.
CNN:
Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building on Manhattan's East Side on Wednesday, killing at least one person, the New York City Fire Department said.  —  Flames were shooting out from several windows midway …
Associated Press:
Small Aircraft Hits Building in Manhattan  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A small plane crashed into a high-rise on the Upper East Side, raining down debris on Manhattan and unleashing what witnesses reported was a gigantic fireball, police said.  —  The aircraft struck the 20th floor of a building …
Discussion: The Indepundit
Colleen Long / Associated Press:   Yankee Cory Lidle on NYC plane; 4 killed
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush: Iraqis Are Willing To 'Tolerate' This 'Level Of Violence'  —  Today in his press conference, President Bush applauded the courage of Iraqis, stating that he is "amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they're willing to — you know, that there's a level of violence that they tolerate."
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CNN:
Study: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths … BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) — War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a new study reports.  —  Violence including gunfire and bombs caused the majority of deaths but thousands of people died …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A MOST GHOULISH DEBATE  —  It is an unseemly thing to be debating …
Jonathan Bor / Chicago Tribune:
654,000 deaths tied to Iraq war
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Back Talk
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:   Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600,000, Study Estimates
Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
Solving the Korean Stalemate, One Step at a Time  —  IN 1994 the North Koreans expelled inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and were threatening to process spent nuclear fuel into plutonium, giving them the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
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White House:
Press Conference by the President
Discussion: First Draft
Nico / Think Progress:
After Blaming Clinton For North Korea Nuke, McCain Blasts People …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Reid Got $1M in Land Sale  —  Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.  —  In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress …
Associated Press:
Army plans current Iraq troop levels until 2010  —  Top officer says future planning 'is not a prediction' of how war is going  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army has plans that would keep the current level of troops in Iraq — about 15 brigades — through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday.
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Army: Troops to stay in Iraq until 2010
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Shays Hits Hard In Page Scandal  —  Invokes Chappaquiddick In Rebuking Farrell; Polls Show Issue Not Helping Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership - including Diane Farrell …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote  —  The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites.
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Rhonda Schwartz Reports / The Blotter:
Foley Cruising in His BMW; Another Dorm Visit in 2000  —  Rhonda Schwartz Reports:  —  A staff supervisor at the dorm for congressional pages intervened when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) tried to pay the teens a nighttime visit in the summer of 2000, ABC News has learned.
New York Times:
Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center  —  Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values.  —  "You saw what happened with the pope," …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills  —  Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.
Howie / The Jawa Report:
Cube Worshippers Offended By Cube  —  They claim they don't worship Idols.  But replicate their cube and they get all hissy about it. … More here from The Register: … Hat tip : LGF.  —  The offensive Apple cube they find offensive.  —  The actual cube in the center of Mecca that they bow toward.
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