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10:20 PM ET, March 29, 2007

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Associated Press:
Blair: Britain Won't Negotiate With Iran  —  LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday that Britain would not negotiate over British sailors and marines held hostage by Iran.  In an interview with ITV News, Blair again called for the unconditional return of the 15 Royal Navy personnel …
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Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Britain takes case against Iran to U.N.  —  UNITED NATIONS - Britain took its case to free its 15 sailors and marines held by Iran to the United Nations on Thursday, asking the Security Council to support a statement that would "deplore" Tehran's action and demand their immediate release.
Dominic Kennedy / Times of London:
How Britons were conned by Iranian gunboat trick  —  The speed and cunning shown by the Revolutionary Guards suggests that their action was premeditated  —  The British sailors and marines being held by Iran were ambushed at their most vulnerable moment, while climbing down the ladder …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hostage update: Blair threatens to bring out the big gun — a UN resolution; Update: Iran airs footage of sailors' arrests; Update: New hostage letter calls for withdrawal from Iraq  —  My, things certainly are getting tense now.  Yawn. … There was a report of some total awesomeness outside …
Sky News:
'Outrageous And Cruel'  —  Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has slammed Iran for releasing a new letter allegedly from a captive British sailor that calls for UK forces to withdraw from Iraq.  —  She said: "We have not seen this letter but we have grave concerns about the circumstances in which it was prepared and issued.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Conservatives shut down Sampson hearing?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
GOP freezes 'Attorneygate' hearing in the middle of Republican's statement
Associated Press:
Giuliani, wife discuss White House roles  —  WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani says if elected, he'd be open to his wife attending Cabinet meetings on issues in which she's interested.  —  In an interview with Barbara Walters to air Friday on ABC News' "20/20," …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Claus Christian Malzahn / Spiegel Online:
Evil Americans, Poor Mullahs  —  Forty-eight percent of Germans think the United States is more dangerous than Iran, a new survey shows, with only 31 percent believing the opposite.  Germans' fundamental hypocrisy about the US suggests that it's high time for a new bout of re-education.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
It's Safer To Hate Us
Discussion: EU Referendum and Dr. Sanity
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
70 Killed in Wave of Revenge in Northern Iraq  —  One of the bloodiest chapters in Iraq's sectarian strife unfolded over the past two days in the northern city of Tal Afar where gunmen, some of them apparently police officers, participated in the revenge killings of scores of Sunnis …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
TAL AFAR....Last year, it seemed as if half the reporters …
Discussion: Think Progress
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: MOST THINK DEMOCRATS WILL WIN WHITE HOUSE IN 2008  —  NEW YORK — The latest FOX News poll finds that Americans think the next person to move into the White House will be a Democrat, and while many voters would be enthusiastic or pleased if any one of the current front-runners were to win …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: "America's Mayor" Top Pick of Iowa Republicans
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Pew Research Center:
Democrats Fail to Impress in First 100 Days  —  Government Faulted on Vets' Care, Military Ratings Slip Post-Walter Reed  —  Summary of Findings  —  Also inside...  Reps see McCain, Giuliani and Romney as more moderate than "self"  —  Hillary and Obama Backers differ little on Iraq
Kelly Thornton / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Chastized head of local FBI office anounces retirement  —  SAN DIEGO - San Diego FBI chief Dan Dzwilewski, who was rebuked by superiors for publicly defending ousted U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, has announced his retirement.  —  Dzwilewski, who has been at the helm of the San Diego office since July 2003 …
Joseph D. Rich / Los Angeles Times:
Bush's long history of tilting Justice  —  The administration began skewing federal law enforcement before the current U.S. attorney scandal, says a former Department of Justice lawyer.  —  THE SCANDAL unfolding around the firing of eight U.S. attorneys compels the conclusion …
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
U.S. Iraq Role Is Called Illegal by Saudi King  —  King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Arab leaders on Wednesday that the American occupation of Iraq was illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settled their differences, foreign powers like the United States would continue to dictate the region's politics.
Discussion: Wake up America
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Sampson Suggested Removing Fitzgerald  —  Here's Kyle Sampson's testimony about suggesting to White House counsel Harriet Miers and deputy White House counsel Bill Kelley that they remove U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.  —  Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asks if Fitzgerald was ever considered for removal?
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE JIM WEBB / PHILLIP THOMPSON GUN ARREST STORY has had the salutary effect of bringing more attention to the District of Columbia's silly gun laws.  The Washington Post headlines its story this way: You Can Bring Gun to Capitol, But Not Through D.C. and observes: … Jeez.
 
 
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