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10:10 AM ET, November 26, 2006

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Washington Post:
Baghdad Braces For More Reprisals  —  Cellphones and Web Spread Threats, Fear  —  In the aftermath of one of the deadliest spasms of violence, a new level of fear and foreboding has gripped Baghdad, fueled in part by sectarian text messages and Internet sites, deepening tensions in an already divided capital.
Discussion: Healing Iraq
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Mercury News:
Al-Sadr loyalists take over Iraqi television station  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Followers of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state-run television Saturday to denounce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis "terrorists" and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?  —  Is Iraq in a civil war?  —  Though the Bush administration continues to insist that it is not, a growing number of American and Iraqi scholars, leaders and policy analysts say the fighting in Iraq meets the standard definition of civil war.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
DhinMi / Daily Kos:   This Could be the Beginning of the End of Iraq
Claudia Parsons / Reuters:   Baghdad violence fuels fears of civil war
Alexander Litvinenko / BBC:
In full: Litvinenko statement  —  Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko dictated a statement two days before his death, which was read out by his friend Alex Goldfarb outside University College Hospital in London on Friday.  —  I would like to thank many people.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
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Observer:
Spy death linked to nuclear thefts  —  An investigation was under way last night into Russia's black market trade in radioactive materials amid concern that significant quantities of polonium 210, the substance that killed former spy Alexander Litvinenko, are being stolen from poorly protected Russian nuclear sites.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Washington Times:
Rockets fire into Israel  —  Militants fired at least five rockets into southern Israel from Gaza Sunday on the first day of a cease-fire agreement.  —  No one was injured in the attacks.  —  Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks and said it would not agree …
Discussion: Power Line and jules crittenden
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Diaa Hadid / Associated Press:   Hamas women seek bigger political role
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Israel accepts Palestinian groups' offer of ceasefire
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Power Line
Gateway Pundit:
Another Massive Anti-Chavez Protest in Caracas  —  Amazing!  —  It was the largest protest in Venezuelan history!  —  V-Crisis has the story and more photos from the demonstration today in Caracas.  —  (Hat Tip Instapundit)  —  Venezuela News and Views has video!
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Aleksander Boyd / Venezuela Crisis:   Venezuela: Hundreds Of Thousands March To Support Rosales
G. Willow Wilson / eteraz.org:
AZHAR OUTLAWS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION  —  The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, the oldest and most highly respected institution in Sunni Islam; and the Grand Mufti of Egypt have released an official fatwa declaring the practice of female circumcision (also called female genital mutilation or female genital cutting) un-Islamic.
Discussion: TigerHawk and Secular Blasphemy
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Iraq Group a Study In Secrecy, Centrism  —  In the history of U.S. foreign policy, there's been nothing like it: a panel outside government trying to bail the United States out of a prolonged and messy war.  —  The innocuously titled Iraq Study Group, which has evolved into a parallel policy establishment …
Laurie David / Washington Post:
Science a la Joe Camel  —  At hundreds of screenings this year of "An Inconvenient Truth," the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie.  —  The producers of former vice president Al Gore's film …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Think Progress
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Police Kill Man After a Queens Bachelor Party  —  Hours before he was to be married, a man leaving his bachelor party at a strip club in Queens that was under police surveillance was shot and killed early yesterday in a hail of police bullets, witnesses and the police said.
Discussion: the talking dog
Pajamas Media:
EASY PREY IN PARIS — "A jackpot, a Black and a Jew."  —  In which a French policeman protects a Jewish fan of Israeli soccer team assaulted by Paris St. Germain hooligans.  Score: 1 dead, 1 critically injured.  National state of anti-semitic denial continues in France unabated.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Vicki Lee Parker / Raleigh News & Observer:
Holiday retail season starts strong  —  Packed parking lots, packed malls, packed shopping bags.  —  That was the scene Friday — and the prediction for today.  —  The traditional after-Thanksgiving day sale — known as Black Friday — is just the tip of the holiday shopping frenzy.
Discussion: New York Post
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
EXPANDED HOURS, DISCOUNTS LURE SHOPPERS  —  It was cold, it was dark and in some places it was foggy.  None of that would stop millions of bargain-seekers from climbing into their cars for a pre-dawn raid on their local malls, electronics retailers and discounters for the official start to the holiday season.
Brent Budowsky / The Huffington Post:
Sad Sunday: Iraq War Longer Than World War Two.  JFK Was Right, George Bush Is Wrong  —  The tragic milestone has arrived, the Iraq War lasted longer than the Second World War, with the President telling us that many more days are left in his tragedy drenched in blood..
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:   A hard-to-understand story in tomorrow's New York Times …
New York Times:
Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist  —  After six years of technological research, more than $4 billion spent by Washington on new machinery and a widespread overhaul of the nation's voting system, this month's midterm election revealed that the country is still far from able to ensure that every vote counts.
 
 
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