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10:55 AM ET, April 4, 2007

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CNN:
Iran president to free UK sailors … TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pardoned 15 British military personnel being held in Iranian custody and vowed to set them free shortly.  —  "I declare that the people of Iran and the government of Iran …
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Sky News:
Iran To Free UK Captives  —  Iran is to free the 15 UK sailors and marines taken captive in the Shatt al Arab waterway as a "gift" to Britain.  —  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the group would be released promptly and handed over to the British embassy in Tehran.
Discussion: Armavirumque and Daimnation!
Fox News:
AHMADINEJAD SAYS BRITISH TROOPS WILL BE FREED  —  TEHRAN, Iran — Fifteen British sailors and marines seized by Iranian naval personnel have been pardoned and will be freed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a press conference Wednesday, but he vowed his country would not tolerate invasions of its borders by any country.
Discussion: Redstate and Balloon Juice
MSNBC:
Iran to free seized British sailors  —  Ahmadinejad says 15 sailors, marines to be released today as a 'gift' to U.K.  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his government would release the detained 15 British sailors and marines Wednesday as an Easter gift to the British people.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iranian leader says he'll free Britons
Associated Press:   Report: Envoy to meet detained Iranians
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Iran 'Pardons' Captured British Sailors, Marines
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Iran's President Will Release 15 UK Sailors Immediately
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Israel seeks to reassure Syria: No summer attack  —  Israel's political and military leadership has been preparing in recent weeks for the possibility of a Syrian attack on the Golan Heights that will start as a result of a "miscalculation" on the part of the Syrians, who may assume that Israel intends to attack them.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and TAPPED
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Maha / The Mahablog:
Pelosi Wears Scarf; Righties Bark at Moon
Discussion: SCSUScholars
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Blames Democrats for Impasse Over Iraq Bills  —  The political brinkmanship over Iraq war spending intensified Tuesday, as President Bush said Congressional Democrats had "undercut the troops" by passing legislation that ties continued war financing to mandated timelines for the withdrawal of American combat units.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
For Bush, Fighting Democrats And Doubts  —  He strode alone into the Rose Garden and complained that "it has now been 57 days" since he asked Congress for more money for the Iraq war and still has not gotten it.  For President Bush, the fight over war-spending legislation has become the only talking point …
Discussion: TAPPED and Prairie Weather
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Chastened McCain Relaunches Campaign  —  Amid growing internal concern about poor fundraising and the direction of his presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain's top advisers bluntly told backers on Tuesday of plans to overhaul the campaign and delay its formal announcement until after a major speech on Iraq.
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Washington Post:
Students Lie in Front of Car, Delay Rove After Speech  —  Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech.  No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove's invitation-only talk.
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NBC4:
Students Pelt Karl Rove In Protest  —  WASHINGTON — White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported.  —  Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students …
Rick Maze / Military Times HOME:
No more GWOT, House committee decrees  —  The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.  —  This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee's Democratic leadership doesn't like the phrase.
Kurt Loder / MTV:
Did Keith Richards Really Snort His Dad's Ashes?  No — It Was A Joke!  —  Comments made in magazine interview were only 'said in jest,' manager tells MTV News.  —  Maybe you saw that Keith Richards item that started popping up all over the place on Tuesday (April 3) …
news-releases.uiowa.edu:
Poll: Iowa Dems Favor Clinton, Edwards; Republicans Like Giuliani, McCain  —  A statewide poll conducted by University of Iowa political scientists shows that former U.S. Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) leads among Iowa's likely Democratic caucus goers, while U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rudy Won't Commit To Playing In Ames Straw Poll
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer defies Justice  —  Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) last week ignored a plea from the Bush administration by demanding that Kyle Sampson name other U.S. attorneys the Justice Department had been planning to fire.  —  Schumer's query to the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Seattle Times:
Too much hot air on global warming  —  We have spent the past decade debating a scientific consensus on global warming instead of taking action to fix it.  The time is now to move from talk to action.  —  For too long, we have allowed our national dialogue on this looming crisis to be distorted …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
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William F. Buckley / Real Clear Politics:
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition
Discussion: QandO and Armavirumque
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
CNN Replaces Anchors on Its Flagging Morning Show  —  John Roberts, Kiran Chetry To Succeed the Two O'Briens  —  CNN is replacing both of its morning show anchors with recent recruits from other networks, sources familiar with the shake-up confirmed last night.
Discussion: PSoTD, NewsBusters.org and Romenesko
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Unrelated Items Part of Iraq Bills Since War Began  —  To President Bush, they are "pork-barrel projects completely unrelated to the war," items in the House and Senate war-spending bills such as peanut storage facilities and aid to spinach farmers that insult the seriousness of the conflict and exist only to buy votes.
Discussion: QandO
 
 
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