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9:35 PM ET, February 4, 2007

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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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Jules Crittenden:
Battlefield Shifts Westward  —  The war with extremist Islam has just entered a new phase.  Times of London: Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan and Iraq have issued orders for British cells to conduct a "low-tech" campaign of abductions and beheadings. … In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, I was puzzled by the lack of follow-on.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"Battlefield Shifts Westward"?  (UPDATED)  —  From Jules Crittenden: … I think Crittenden is absolutely correct—just as I was convinced by Bernard Lewis before him—that many countries in Europe are on the verge of internal "wars" with Islamic radicals (though many will probably fight …
Dan / Riehl World View:   Westward How?  —  In Battlefield Shifts Westward Jules Crittenden …
Observer:
MI5, police and SAS practise for a 'Beslan' siege
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   AQ To British Cells: Let The Beheadings Begin
Telegraph:   Security forces 'foil terror plot every six weeks'
Larisa Alexandrovna / Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely:
Terra Propaganda in London
Discussion: The American Street
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Good news: UK commandos preparing for British Beslan
Discussion: Telegraph
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Iranian nuclear scientist 'assassinated by Mossad'  —  A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.  —  An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour …
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Telegraph:
Iceland fears bears that go with the floe  —  The oceans may be warming and air temperatures rising, but in recent days Iceland has bucked the global climate trend.  —  Thick pack ice, the like of which has not been seen for decades, stretched into the western fjords as temperatures plummeted and a bitter wind blew in from -Greenland.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice- cap photo.  —  You've all seen it.  This photo atop all the articles about the new report on global warming.  —  (Go to the article to see the larger size.)  —  Here's my question.  How many people look at that picture and think the polar bears were living …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
A Fourth Branch?  —  We have all discussed the unprecedented power of Dick Cheney in this administration ad nauseum, but this post from David Kurtz at TPM introduced a whole new element I hadn't been aware of.  —  I assumed that Cheney believed the power of the Vice President (such as it is) derived from the executive branch.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Majikthise
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Washington Post:
Vice President's Shadow Hangs Over Trial  —  Testimony Points Out Cheney's Role in Trying to Dampen Joseph Wilson's Criticism  —  Vice President Cheney's press officer, Cathie Martin, approached his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Air Force Two on July 12, 2003 …
Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain Flip-Flops In 47 Seconds: Claims Success Is Not Realistic In 'A Few Months,' Then Says It Is  —  On ABC's This Week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it is unrealistic to expect the escalation strategy to change the situation in Iraq in "a few months":
Faiz / Think Progress:
Kristol: Iraq Chaos Shows That Insurgents Are 'Worried,' Recent News Is 'Slightly Optimistic'  —  Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said on Fox News this morning that the recent surge in Iraqi violence is a sign that the extremists are "worried."  Kristol said, "If I were a Sunni extremist and was worried …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:   Kristol:"On the whole over the last two weeks, some of the news …
Daily Kos:
Arkin Was Right - We Do Have a Mercenary Army and They Do Owe Us!  —  All hell has broken loose on the right wing Milblogs concerning an article William Arkin wrote at the Washington Post.  In this article, Arkin dared to cross the line and say that the Military is out of line when it criticizes …
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Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
A BIGGER DUMBASS THAN ARKIN
Mark Steyn / Associated Press:
What's so hot about fickle science?  —  From the "Environmental News Network": "Science Is Solid on Climate Change, Congress Told."  "The science is solid," says Louise Frechette, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations.  —  "The science is solid," says Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
The Glenn and Helen Show: Michael Yon from Camp Victory  —  Michael Yon is back in Iraq, where he's been for over a month now.  We caught up to him via satellite phone this afternoon and got his views on the surge (it will be "unlike anything we've seen before"), the status of Iraqi security forces …
Discussion: Dr. Helen
Matthew Yglesias:
The Trouble With Contracting  —  The trouble with government work, as opposed to the private sector is that there's a lack of efficiency.  It's important to understand, however, that there's nothing intrinsically efficient about private sector work.  No magical "it's the free market" …
Noemie Emery / Weekly Standard:
Irresolution  —  The Congressional Democrats' misstep.  —  Giddy with joy at their sudden good fortune, the Democrats have set out to embarrass the president, pushing resolutions of less-than-no-confidence, clubbing his Iraq surge plan as it lies in its cradle, and declaring defeat in advance.
Robert Schwaneberg / New Jersey Online:
When life without parole is worse than death  —  Analysis finds more than 100 murderers who might one day go free would face certainty of dying in prison  —  When a state commission recommended last month that New Jersey abolish the death penalty in favor of life imprisonment without parole …
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
No I-Told-You-Sos  —  Opponents of the Iraq War Voice Pain, Not Vindication, At Predictions They Could Only Hope Would Be Wrong  —  Sweet vindication.  Who wouldn't want it?  To be right.  To be free of criticism and upheld by evidence, by actual proof, that one's predictions about a controversial war were correct.
 
 
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Tom Lasseter / Real Cities:
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Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates 1,000 killed in one week
Matthew Yglesias:
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
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