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2:15 PM ET, November 24, 2006

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Washington Post:
Assault on Iraqi Civilians Is Deadliest Since 2003  —  A barrage of car bombs, mortar attacks and missiles battered the Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City on Thursday afternoon, killing around 200 people and injuring as many more in the single deadliest assault on Iraqi civilians since the start of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
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New York Times:
Iraq Toll Rises; Shiites Warn of Government Withdrawal  —  As the death toll from a series of devastating car bombs in a Shiite district here rose today to more than 200, a powerful legislative bloc loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr threatened to withdraw from the government …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Why I hate, rather than dislike, the Bush movement  —  Dick Cheney, October 24, 2006 … UPI, October 23, 2006 … George Bush, October 18, 2006 … Don Rumsfeld, October 26, 2006 … John Hinderaker, November 10 … New York Times, today … Boston Globe, yesterday … Washington Post, today
Discussion: Eschaton
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Baghdad attack death toll rises to 202  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Muslim insurgents blew up five car bombs and fired mortars into Baghdad's largest Shiite district Thursday, killing at least 202 people and wounding 252 in a dramatic attack that sent the U.S. ambassador racing to meet …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:   1,000 Iraqis a Day Flee Violence, U.N. Group Finds
Sky News:
Spy 'Poisoned By Radiation'  —  A large quantity of radiation, probably from a substance called Polonium 210, has been found in the body of dead ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.  —  The "major dose" of alpha radiation was detected in his urine, said Government experts, who added that Polonium 210 is only dangerous if ingested.
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BBC:
Radiation found after spy's death  —  Police probing the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko have found above-normal levels of radiation at three locations in London.  —  Mr Litvinenko's death has been linked to the presence of a "major dose" of radioactive polonium-210 in his body.
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Radioactive substance in ex-spy's body  —  LONDON - A former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic who blamed a "barbaric and ruthless" Russian President Vladimir Putin for his fatal poisoning had a toxic radioactive substance in his body, the British government said Friday.
Discussion: Power Line
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   A Nuclear End For A Putin Critic
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
'The bastards got me, they won't get us all'
Discussion: Publius Pundit
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Drug Industry Is on Defensive as Power Shifts  —  Alarmed at the prospect of Democratic control of Congress, top executives from two dozen drug companies met here last week to assess what appears to them to be a harsh new political climate, and to draft a battle plan.
Discussion: Attytood
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Andrew Bridges / Associated Press:
Congress seen pushing for imported drugs  —  WASHINGTON - Efforts to allow Americans access to cheaper prescription drugs from abroad should blossom once Democrats assume control in Congress, but it won't be a top priority, lawmakers and health care experts said.
Discussion: Don Surber
David Sirota / Sirotablog:
The Money Party vs. The People Party
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Is the L.A. Times Repeating Enemy Propaganda?  Or Is There Another Reason The Paper Is Getting Basic Facts Wrong and Failing to Report the Military's Side?  —  Is the L.A. Times reporting unconfirmed enemy propaganda from an Iraqi stringer with ties to the insurgency?
David Johnston / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Revive Demand for Classified Data  —  Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed …
Agence France Presse:
Russian rocket deliveries to Iran started  —  Russia has begun deliveries of the Tor-M1 air defence rocket system to Iran, Russian news agencies quoted military industry sources as saying, in the latest sign of a Russian-US rift over Iran.  —  "Deliveries of the Tor-M1 have begun.
Discussion: A Blog For All and protein wisdom
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
DOUBLE THUMP  —  GOP WOES DEEPENING  —  PRESIDENT Bush contributed a new word to the political lexicon when he called the GOP defeat on Election Day a "thumpin'."  Now, two weeks after the election, the full nature of the "thumpin' " is coming through pretty clearly …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
HOW BAD WAS THE DAMAGE? PART 3
Discussion: Townhall.com and Dinocrat
Agence France Presse:
Policeman kills PSG fan in post-match racist violence  —  A French police officer — a black man in plain clothes — shot dead a Paris-Saint Germain football fan after being turned on by a mob during racist violence that followed the team's defeat by Israeli side Hapoel Tel-Aviv.
ABC News:
AWB given advance warning of Iraq troop deployment  —  Previously secret AWB documents have revealed that the wheat exporter was told Australia would join the war against Iraq a year before the Federal Government says it decided to commit troops.  —  The information came from Australia's Ambassador to the United Nations, John Dauth.
Discussion: Gun Toting Liberal
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John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Downing Street Memos Down Under
Discussion: toohotfortnr and A Tiny Revolution
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
An Electronic Canary  —  Americans can be grateful that Sarasota County is in Florida and not in Montana or Virginia.  —  There's nothing wrong with Sarasota, a lovely place.  But if the voting snafus in the contest for Florida's 13th District had hung up either of this year's two closest Senate races …
 
 
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
In Video, Hussein Uses Slingshots and Bows to Rally Iraqis for War
Discussion: Think Progress
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Just an Anti-Semitic Laugh? Hardly.
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Jerusalem Post:
UN human rights head slams Israel
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Raja / The Lebanese Bloggers:
To hell in a hand-basket...  that's where Lebanon's leaders seem intent …
Ali Eteraz / eteraz.org:
Western Muslim Opinion On The War in Iraq
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DINNER (AS DEPICTED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES) …
Newsweek:
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Olivia Munoz / Associated Press:
Calif. Judge Blocks Raids on Homeless Camps
Terry Glavin / Tyee:
Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Peaktalk