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12:40 PM ET, April 12, 2007

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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Bombing at Iraqi parliament kills 2  —  BAGHDAD - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone, killing at least two lawmakers and wounding 10 other people.
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Sky News:
Green Zone Bomb Blast  —  An explosion has rocked the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad killing at least two people and injuring many others.  —  One of the victims is said to be Mohammed Awad, a member of parliament for the Sunni National Dialogue Front.  —  A Shia MP also died in the blast.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Glittering Eye
MSNBC:
Blast rocks Iraq parliament; 2 lawmakers killed  —  Explosion was inside cafeteria; truck bomb blast kills 10 on nearby bridge  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb exploded in the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone on Thursday …
Pajamas Media:
BLAST IN THE GREEN ZONE: EXPLOSION AT IRAQI PARLIAMENT KILLS 3 MPS  —  3rd victim unofficially confirmed.  (Sky News)  —  It was a suicide bomber.  (al-Jazeera)  —  Sunnis targeted? the list of wounded in local media show that most of the wounded were Sunnis, PJM Baghdad editor Mohammed Fadhil reports.
Spencerackerman / toohotfortnr:
STREET BY STREET, BLOCK BY BLOCK, TAKING IT ALL BACK:  —  One of the pleasures of the Green Zone is to walk into the manicured courtyard of the Ocean Cliffs facility, where the press center is located, and linger awhile, free of body armor, on one of the benches next to the fountain.
Washington Post:
Bombing Inside Green Zone Kills Iraqi Lawmakers
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Fester / NewsHog:
Symbolic vs. Systemic Attacks
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:   Suicide Bomb Collapses Baghdad Bridge
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush aides' use of GOP e-mail probed  —  WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.
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USA Today:
Clinton: Attacks won't scare me off  —  FORT DRUM, N.Y. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says the pain and turmoil of her White House years don't discourage her in the least as she wages a campaign she hopes will bring her back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  —  "I've decided this country …
Washington Post:
White House E-Mail Lost in Private Accounts
Discussion: Threat Level
Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Officials' e-mail may be missing, White House says
Dinitia Smith / New York Times:
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84  —  Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan.
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Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
His popular novels blended social criticism, dark humor  —  Kurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died.  He was 84.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Pacific Views
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Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
Leahy: Missing RNC E-mails are like Nixon's 18-minute gap  —  The top Senate Democrat leading investigations into the dismissal of 8 U.S. Attorneys by the Justice Department is comparing e-mails lost by the Republican National Committee to President Richard Nixon's famous "18-minute" gap in White House tape recordings.
Discussion: NewsHog
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Laurie Kellman / 165.1.76.240:
Leahy Says Bush Aides Lied About E-Mails  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud  —  Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Candidates split over appearing with Imus  —  As presidential candidates wrestled with the question of whether to appear on Don Imus' program, MSNBC dropped the controversial talk show host's cable TV show Wednesday, bowing to pressure from advertisers, the public and its own staff over his recent derogatory comments.
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Ana Marie Cox / Time:
An Imus Guest Says No More  —  Every time I've been on Don Imus' show …
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
New York Times:
Civilian Claims on U.S. Suggest the Toll of War  —  In February 2006, nervous American soldiers in Tikrit killed an Iraqi fisherman on the Tigris River after he leaned over to switch off his engine.  A year earlier, a civilian filling his car and an Iraqi Army officer directing traffic …
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USA Today:
Army pays $1B to recruit, retain soldiers
Discussion: Boston Globe
Charles H. Brunie / City Journal:
My Friend, Milton Friedman  —  It was my good fortune to meet Milton Friedman in February 1968, while I was at Oppenheimers.  The stock market was in what looked like the early stages of a bear market, with the S&P 500 down 8 percent in a couple of months.  My partner and good friend …
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
The Barrister / Maggie's Farm:
PoMo Politics at Duke, and the Sin of "The Narrative"  —  Welcome to Maggie's Farm, fellow Instapundit addicts.  While you're here, check us out.  You might enjoy getting to know our always-surprising, eclectic, and educational blog, and our fine fellow Yankee farmer contributors.
 
 
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