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David Leppard / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda tells British cells to carry out wave of beheadings — ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week.
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MI5, police and SAS practise for a 'Beslan' siege — The intelligence services fear that Britain could be subject to a Beslan-style siege, with multiple hostages forced to plead for their lives on camera. — Whitehall sources have said that the threat is considered so credible that MI5 …
Telegraph:
Muslim unrest as police carry out new raids — Police raided three more addresses in Birmingham yesterday as they continued to question nine men over their involvement in the alleged plot to kidnap and behead a serving British Muslim soldier. — No further arrests were made but West Midlands Police …
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Telegraph:
Top secret army cell breaks terrorists — Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone", the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats Split on How to End the War — Those Who Aren't In Congress Press Clinton and Obama — The war in Iraq is shaping the opening stages of the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, just as it did in the 2004 campaign. — After 10 candidates' speeches over two days …
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Rick Perlstein / New York Times:
The Operator — I was standing there having a casual conversation with King Juan Carlos, my occasional hunting partner, when we were joined by Blair and his charming, outspoken wife, Cherie, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi," Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee …
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
At Least 125 Killed in Blast at Baghdad Market — Toll in Deadliest Single Bombing in Capital Is Expected to Rise After Victims Are Pulled From Rubble — A suicide bomber detonated more than a ton of explosives in a market in central Baghdad late Saturday afternoon, killing at least 125 people …
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Reuters:
U.S. adjusting tactics in Iraq after copters downed — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military is adjusting its tactics in Iraq after four helicopters were shot down over the past two weeks, U.S. military spokesman Major General William Caldwell said on Sunday.
CNN:
Scientists: Humans 'very likely' cause global warming … (CNN) — Global warming is here and humans are "very likely" the blame, an international group of scientists meeting in Paris, France, announced Friday. — "The evidence for warming having happened on the planet is unequivocal," …
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Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:DID AEI SEEK TO BUY CLIMATE SCIENTISTS? The blogosphere is abuzz …
New York Times:
In Washington, Contractors Take on Biggest Role Ever — In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the government's reflexive answer to almost every problem.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
New McCain Team Made Attack Ads He Once Faulted — Senator John McCain, intent on succeeding where his freewheeling presidential campaign of 2000 failed, is assembling a team of political bruisers for 2008. And it includes advisers who once sought to skewer him and whose work he has criticized as stepping over the line in the past.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
War in Iraq Propelling A Massive Migration — Wave Creates Tension Across the Middle East — AMMAN, Jordan — Inside his cold, crumbling apartment, Saad Ali teeters on the fringes of life. Once a popular singer in his native Baghdad, he is now unemployed. To pay his $45 monthly rent, he borrows from friends.
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Iraq's Shadow Widens Sunni-Shiite Split in U.S. — DEARBORN, Mich. — Twice recently, vandals have shattered windows at three mosques and a dozen businesses popular among Shiite Muslims along Warren Avenue, the spine of the Arab community here. — Although the police have arrested no one …
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Dean Calbreath / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Wilkes staves off auction as more ills swirl — With the threat of a federal indictment looming, Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes also is facing mounting personal and financial troubles. — In the past two months, Wilkes' wife has filed for divorce, his company, ADCS Inc. …
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D'Arcy Doran / Associated Press:
Deadly Bird Flu Virus Found in Britain — LONDON — Officials confirmed Saturday that the H5N1 strain of bird flu had been found in turkeys on a commercial farm _ Britain's first mass outbreak of the disease that has ravaged Asia's poultry stocks and killed more than 160 people worldwide.
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Michelle Malkin:
and more wit and wisdom of Amanda Marcotte — · February 03, 2007 10:13 pm — Amanda Marcotte: A bleepin' embarrassment — Last week, far left-wing blogger Amanda Marcotte began her stint as Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards' "blogmaster:"
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