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New York Times:
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says — A boy at his father's coffin in Baghdad yesterday. Death rates were higher outside the capital, the study said. — A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since …
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A MOST GHOULISH DEBATE — It is an unseemly thing to be debating how many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion and occupation by US troops. I'm absolutely sure that most opponents of the war feel that way. They would, I'm sure, wish that we would all just sit back and accept …
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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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David Brown / Washington Post:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 — A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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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 …
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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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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.
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.
Ruth Gledhill / Times of London:
Pope set to bring back Latin Mass that divided the Church — THE Pope is taking steps to revive the ancient tradition of the Latin Tridentine Mass in Catholic churches worldwide, according to sources in Rome. — Pope Benedict XVI is understood to have signed a universal indult …
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 …
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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.
Daniel Pipes Columns:
Don't Bring That Booze into My Taxi — A minor issue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) has potentially major implications for the future of Islam in the United States. — Starting about a decade ago, some Muslim taxi drivers serving the airport declared …
James Wolcott:
RATFINK WRITES NEW BOOK — Such gorgeous weather we've been enjoying in New York. Good-to-be-alive weather, driving the blues away. The news has also cooperated with this morale lift. The Yankees went down in shabby defeat in the first round of the playoffs, igniting a welter of recriminations, which is always fun.
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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