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6:35 PM ET, November 25, 2006

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Curt / Flopping Aces:
Getting The News From The Enemy  —  Yesterday there were two incidents that I wrote about involving the use of enemy propagandists by our MSM.  Now take a look at the latest "all hell is breaking loose" report on Iraq, from the AP of course: … As we have learned quite well over the years …
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Solomon Moore / Los Angeles Times:
Wave of retaliation sweeps Iraq  —  Shiite bloc's threatened walkout could lead to the government's collapse.  —  BAGHDAD — Iraq's civil war worsened Friday as Shiite and Sunni Arabs engaged in retaliatory attacks after coordinated car bombings that killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood the day before.
Multi-National Force:
One Mosque Burned in Hurriya  —  Multi-National Corps - Iraq  —  Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory  —  APO AE 09342  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  RELEASE No. 20061125-09  —  One Mosque Burned in Hurriya  —  Multi-National Corps - Iraq PAO  —  BAGHDAD — Contrary to recent media reporting …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
In Iraq, Reprisals Embolden Militias  —  Shiites Attack Sunni Mosques to Avenge Mass Killings; Lawmakers Threaten Boycott  —  In a wave of reprisal killings, Shiite militiamen attacked Sunni mosques in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq on Friday, defying a government curfew and propelling the country further toward full-blown civil war.
Discussion: MyDD, The Belgravia Dispatch and PBD
Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
Iraq P.M. struggling ahead of Bush visit
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Chuck Hagel / Washington Post:
Leaving Iraq, Honorably  —  There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq.  These terms do not reflect the reality of what is going to happen there.  The future of Iraq was always going to be determined by the Iraqis — not the Americans.  —  Iraq is not a prize to be won or lost.
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Despite Election Results, Edsall Still Sees 'Red'  —  Thomas B. Edsall, replacing John Tierney this month on The New York Times' op-ed page, follows up his ill-timed book, which had predicted hard times for Democrats on the campaign trial, by forecasting more trouble ahead for the party.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Democrats Won.  We Won.  Get It?  —  I know some friends of mine really respect Tom Edsall's work, and maybe he was good once.  I don't see it.  I read some of his book 'Building Red America', and it was an analytically useless description of why the Republicans will always maintain a narrow majority.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Prairie Weather
Daily Mail:
How many more were poisoned?  —  As the deadliest poison known to man was revealed to have killed Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko, the question last night was: How many more lives could it claim?  —  The 43-year-old former KGB officer was the victim of polonium 210, a radioactive element used as a trigger in nuclear weapons.
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Mike Sullivan / The Sun:
Deathbed spy accuses Putin
Discussion: Hot Air and The Strata-Sphere
Tom Geoghegan / BBC:
The mystery of Litvinenko's death
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Cahal Milmo / Independent:   Who killed Litvinenko?  —  Alexander Litvinenko was a man …
New York Times:
U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself  —  The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons …
Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Racoon Hunting and the Battle for Anbar  —  There is a dichotomy developing in the Anbar Province.  On the one hand, there is a window of opportunity to score the finishing defeat of al Qaeda.  On the other hand, U.S. forces rules of engagement and command lack of willingness to engage the enemy is holding this defeat in abatement.
Discussion: Instapundit.com and TigerHawk
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Waxman has Bush administration in sights  —  LOS ANGELES - The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration's biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.  —  Rep. Henry Waxman (news …
Reuters:
Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general  —Text+MADRID (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday.
Discussion: Y.A.C.R.W.B
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Pelosi's Ascendancy in House Puts a Close Liberal Ally in the Spotlight  —  In a friendship stretching over 30 years and many plane trips to Washington from their neighboring California districts, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and George Miller have become so close that, as colleagues say, they finish each others' sentences.
Discussion: Sirotablog and Booman Tribune
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
A New, More Prosperous Black Friday For the New Democratic-Controlled Age  —  It's sounding like Black Friday shopping was big this year.  —  I ventured out last year and bought myself a pair of jeans.  Yeah, I know.  Bah humbug, right?  But I'm not ready to shop for anyone else this early in the season.
Discussion: Instapundit.com
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Tricia Bishop / Chicago Tribune:
Stores revert to 'Merry Christmas'
Discussion: The Mahablog and protein wisdom
BBC:
Hariri court gets Lebanon backing  —  Lebanon's cabinet has given final approval to a plan for an international tribunal to try suspects in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.  —  The emergency session was held without six pro-Syrian ministers after talks to bring them back to the cabinet failed.
Washington Post:
Energy Firms Come to Terms With Climate Change  —  While the political debate over global warming continues, top executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable.
 
 
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Little Green Footballs:
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