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3:45 PM ET, January 1, 2007

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Sahra Abdi / Reuters:
Somali Islamists flee stronghold  —  KISMAYU, Somalia (Reuters) - Defeated Somali Islamists fled their last stronghold and headed toward the Kenyan border on Monday in what looked like the end of nearly two weeks of war with the Ethiopian-backed government.  —  Several thousand Islamist troops …
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Nasteex Dahir Farah / Associated Press:
Somali troops capture Islamic stronghold  —  KISMAYO, Somalia - Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian tanks and fighter jets captured the last major stronghold of a militant Islamic movement Monday, while hundreds of Islamic fighters — many of them Arabs and South Asians — fled the town.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Islamists Bug Out Of Somalia  —  Radical Islamists have given up their last stronghold in Somalia, chased out by the Ethiopian Army that has spent the last two weeks crushing them.  The Ethiopians and the Somialian transitional government liberated Kismayo as the Islamists beat a hasty retreat towards Kenya:
Nasteex Dahir Farah / Associated Press:
Islamists quit last bastion in Somalia
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:   Islamists Abandon Final Stronghold in Somalia
Associated Press:
SOMALI TROOPS CLOSE IN ON 3 WANTED FOR U.S. EMBASSY BOMBINGS
Discussion: Op For
Hindrocket / Power Line:   MORE GOOD NEWS FROM SOMALIA
See-Dubya / Hot Air:   Somali Islamist Cowards Flee Kismayo
New York Times:
Rush to Hang Hussein Was Questioned  —  BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 — With his plain pine coffin strapped into an American military helicopter for a predawn journey across the desert, Saddam Hussein, the executed dictator who built a legend with his defiance of America, completed a turbulent passage into history on Sunday.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Iraqis learn the art of legal "workarounds"  —  This depressing New York Times article by John Burns and Marc Santora details the frantic, reckless manner in which Saddam Hussein was shoved into the noose in clear violation of Iraqi law.  We can't even get a hanging right.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
For Sunnis, Dictator's Degrading End Signals Ominous Dawn for the New Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 — For Sunni Arabs here, the ugly reality of the new Iraq seemed to crystallize in a two-minute segment of Saddam Hussein's hanging, filmed surreptitiously on a cellphone.
Reuters:
Saddam Hanged but No Let - Up in Iraq Violence
Discussion: Political Animal
Little Green Footballs:
Welcome to 2007: Fact-Checking the New York Times
Discussion: protein wisdom
River / Baghdad Burning:
A Lynching...  It's official.  Maliki and his people are psychopaths.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
GOP Lawmakers Divided About 'Surge' in Troops  —  Republican lawmakers appear uneasy about — and in some cases outright dismissive of — the idea of sending many more troops to Iraq, as President Bush contemplates such a "surge" as part of his new strategy for stabilizing the country.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
A 'Surge' Faces Trouble In the Senate  —  Sen. John McCain, leading a blue-ribbon congressional delegation to Baghdad before Christmas, collected evidence that a "surge" of more U.S. troops is needed in Iraq.  But not all his colleagues who accompanied him were convinced.
Ezra Klein:
Reds Everywhere  —  Ankush points me towards an article in the Business section of The New York Times arguing for single-payer health care.  That's not exactly a common pairing, so seeing such an unexpected marriage of section and socialism does my heart good.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Chief Justice Advocates Higher Pay for Judiciary  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made judicial pay the sole topic of his second annual report, issued on Sunday, declaring that the failure by Congress to raise federal judges' salaries in recent years has become a …
Discussion: Angry Bear
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Dec. 31  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: This is the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, where the remains of the 38th president of the United States lie in state.  What is Gerald Ford's legacy?  What is the story behind the story of his pardon of Richard Nixon?
Discussion: Political Animal and SOTUblog
David Millward / Telegraph:
US 'licence to snoop' on British air travellers  —  Britons flying to America could have their credit card and email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels and Washington.  —  By using a credit card to book a flight, passengers face having …
Margaret Neighbour / Scotsman:
Veil-wearing Muslim women are part of our fight - al-Qaeda chief  —  AL-QAEDA'S deputy leader said yesterday that any Muslim woman who wears the veil in Western countries is a supporter in what he described as a fight between Islam and "Zionist Crusaders".  —  Ayman al-Zawahri issued …
Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
U.S. Toll In Iraq Reaches 3,000  —  The number of U.S. service members killed in Iraq since the war began in 2003 reached 3,000 on Sunday, a symbolic milestone at a time when the Bush administration is rethinking its strategy for the increasingly violent conflict.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Point Of No Return  —  With all of the assaults on free political speech that have come as a result of the McCain-Feingold Act (or the BCRA), one has to wonder how much farther we can go before reversing the damage becomes impossible.  Mark Tapscott shows us just how far this law reaches …
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
AP poll: Americans optimistic for 2007  —  WASHINGTON - The news from Iraq and other national headlines may be grim, but in Greenville, N.C., John Given has a new baby and his first home, and life is good.  —  So, too, for Sandra Trowbridge in tiny Magnet Cove, Ark. The situation in Iraq makes …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:   Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007
 
 
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Jon Henke  —  January 1st, 2007 seems like a good day to announce …
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The Hill:
Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
What we need in New Year is some resolution
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The State of the Jihad  —  A look at the state of the major theaters …
Souhail Karam / Reuters:
Muslim haj pilgrims perform devil-stoning ritual
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Associated Press:
New year rings in multitude of new laws in states
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