memeorandum: How the imams terrorized an airliner (Audrey Hudson/Washington Times)

8:20 AM ET, November 28, 2006

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How the imams terrorized an airliner — According to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials, the imams displayed other suspicious behavior. — Three of the men asked for seat-belt extenders, although two flight attendants told police the men were not oversized.

Discussion: Power Line and Hyscience

Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
How the imams terrorized an airliner

Discussion: Stop The ACLU, Ed Driscoll.com and JunkYardBlog

Washington Post:

Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker — The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months …

Discussion: INDCJournal, Eschaton, Riehl World View, The Reaction, AMERICAblog, The News Blog and Oliver Willis

Fox News:

STATES, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARGUE FOR PRIMACY IN GLOBAL WARMING FIGHT — WASHINGTON — The debate over whether humans are to blame for Earth's rising temperatures isn't decided yet, but it is quickly being eclipsed by a new argument over who should manage global warming policy in the United States.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Richard Black / BBC:

Carbon emissions show sharp rise — Environment correspondent, BBC News website — The rise in humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide has accelerated sharply, according to a new analysis. — The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Washington Post:

Civil War in Iraq Near, Annan Says — The Iraq Study Group began two days of intensive behind-closed-doors deliberations yesterday as the White House conceded that Iraq has moved into a dangerous new phase of warfare requiring changes in strategy. In a sign of the growing global concern about Iraq's fate …

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, The Belgravia Dispatch, TalkLeft, The Reaction and The Carpetbagger Report

Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
NBC Declares 'Civil War' In Iraq, McCaffrey: WH Rejection of Term 'Nonsense'

Discussion: Hot Air, Obsidian Wings, WuzzaDem and Attytood

New York Times:

Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq — A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr. — The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Talking Points Memo, Israel Matzav, PBD, INTEL DUMP and AMERICAN FUTURE

Confederate Yankee:

Drugs are Bad... Apparently, even nominal quantities of over-the-counter cold medications can cause you to see the most interesting things. — I know this, because this Reuters picture has all the earmarks of a crudely-edited PhotoShop, from the rather odd smudges and apparent artifacts around …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money

Will / Attytood:

Who's unhinged now? — You could have seen this coming a mile away. — With Democrats poised to take control of Congress, Iraq now officially a "civil war" (in most quarters), and George W. Bush becoming the lamest duck to waddle through the Oval Office in recent memory …

Discussion: Jesus' General

Don Babwin / Associated Press:

'Nativity' Booted From Ill. Holiday Fair — CHICAGO (AP) - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and PoliPundit.com

Kim Priestap / Wizbang:
THE NATIVITY IS NOT WELCOME IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO

Discussion: Hot Air and Stop The ACLU

Saeed Ahmed / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Informant in shooting says he never bought drugs at house — Says he was asked to lie — The confidential informant on whose word Atlanta police raided the house of an 88-year-old woman is now saying he never purchased drugs from her house and was told by police to lie and say he did.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Patterico's Pontifications, QandO, Reason Magazine, Big Lizards, The Agitator and First Draft

Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:

Likability poll bad news for Kerry — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry, mulling a second bid for the U.S. presidency, finished dead last in a poll released on Monday on the likability of 20 top American political figures. — Among those placing ahead of Kerry …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

SeeDubya / JunkYardBlog:

Does AP Iraqi writer Qais al-Bashir have super powers? — It's looking like AP Baghdad correspondent Qais al-Bashir is the only one who can see this mysterious, non-existent "Captain Jamil Hussein". Well, it's not for certain yet, but al Bashir is the common element in four stories involving Captain Snuffleupagus.

Discussion: Flopping Aces, Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications, The Belmont Club, NewsBusters.org, A Blog For All, Pajamas Media and Sister Toldjah

Hindrocket / Power Line:
STORY OF SUNNIS BURNED ALIVE GOING UP IN SMOKE

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Townhall.com Blog's …, small dead animals, Wake up America, UNCoRRELATED and Blue Crab Boulevard

Kevin Drum / Political Animal:

CENTRISM....Yes, centrism can be a tic. Yes, it's often favored by DC pundits who automatically assume that bipartisanship is an inherent good regardless of its outcome. Yes, it can sometimes be a substitute for real thought. — That said, I hope the liberal blogosphere doesn't get into the habit …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Sirotablog and TalkLeft

Dan Eggen / Washington Post:

Justice Dept. to Examine Its Use of NSA Wiretaps — Review Won't Address Program's Legality — The Justice Department's inspector general yesterday announced an investigation into the department's connections to the government's controversial warrantless surveillance program …

Discussion: TalkLeft and ACLU

Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:

Rough days... The past four days during which we were under siege were long and rough for Baghdadis. Anxiety and fear haunted us at our homes and a flow of horrible news made the prison feel even tighter...it was a material and psychological siege that will not be easy to forget.

Discussion: Inactivist, Riehl World View and The Belmont Club

Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:

Attack Sparks Fire at Iraq Oil Facility — A mortar attack ignited a huge fire Monday night at an oil facility in northern Iraq, shutting the flow of crude oil to a major refinery, and a U.S. Air Force jet with one pilot aboard crashed in Anbar province, a hotbed of the Sunni-Arab insurgency, officials said.

Discussion: Associated Press, Flopping Aces, Hot Air, Blogs for Bush, Michelle Malkin, Riehl World View and Bill's Bites

legion.org:

American Legion to Congressman Rangel: Apologize Now — The National Commander of The American Legion called on Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) to apologize for suggesting that American troops would not choose to fight in Iraq if they had other employment options.

Discussion: Blogs for Bush, Bill's Bites and Y.A.C.R.W.B

Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:

Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices — A decade into the practice of medicine, still striving to become "a well regarded physician-scientist," Robert H. Glassman concluded that he was not making enough money. So he answered an ad in the New England Journal of Medicine from a business consulting firm hiring doctors.

Discussion: Don Surber, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Greg Mankiw's Blog, Althouse, EconLog and The American Scene