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9:10 PM ET, September 6, 2007

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Website: Soon, The Blessed Invasion of Manhattan— "Special Gift" for 9/11 — UPDATE 5:00: New bin Laden video coming soon! Perhaps this is the "special gift"? — I promised myself that I wouldn't give my 'friend' Inshallahshaheed from the Wordpress hosted al Qaeda support website …

Discussion: Comments From Left Field, The Anchoress and Infidels Are Cool

Fox News:

Counterterrorism Officials Analyzing Islamic Web Post Warning of 'Special Gift' — DEVELOPING STORY: Federal counterterrorism officials are analyzing a posting on an Islamic forum Web site that warns of "a special gift" to be given on the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, FOX News has learned.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Wake up America, The Detroit Times, A Blog For All and Take Our Country Back

Lee Keath / Associated Press:

Groups: Bin Laden plans video on 9/11 — CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden will release a new video in the coming days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in what would be the first new images of the terror mastermind in nearly three years, al-Qaida's media arm announced Thursday.

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister, All Spin Zone and Blue Crab Boulevard

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

SITE Institute: New Bin Laden video coming on 9/11; Update: Majority now think Osama will never be captured — I guess we know now what the "special gift" is. — Wherever he's hiding, they're obviously well stocked with Grecian formula. 2004: — And coming soon: — Update: Quite a scoop for SITE.

Discussion: protein wisdom, Wake up America, Stop The ACLU, CNN Political Ticker, Outside The Beltway, michellemalkin.com, The American Pundit and Jihad Watch

Rusty / The Jawa Report:

New bin Laden Video on 9/11 — Holy schneike, new bin Laden video! Could this be the 9/11 gift to Manhattan? Maybe so. — I had heard that a new bin Laden video was coming out, but frankly I thought it was just wishful thinking on the jihadis part. — Breitbart:

Discussion: Associated Press, Weasel Zippers and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:

Al Qaeda Announces New Bin Laden Video — Brian Ross Reports: — Osama bin Laden will soon send a video message to America, according to a Web site regularly used by al Qaeda. — A posting late this afternoon said, "Soon, with the permission of God, a new visual tape, the Sheikh, the Lion, Osama bin Laden.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Blogs of War

Fox News:
Report: Bin Laden to Address Americans on Sept. 11

Discussion: QandO

Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:

Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act — NEW YORK - A federal judge struck down a key part of the USA Patriot Act on Thursday in a ruling that defended the need for judicial oversight of laws and bashed Congress for passing a law that makes possible "far-reaching invasions of liberty."

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The BLT and Corrente

Dan Eggen / Washington Post:

Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional — A federal judge today struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional, ordering the FBI to stop issuing "national security letters" that secretly demand customer information from Internet service providers and other businesses.

Discussion: ACLU, TIME, AMERICAblog and Shakespeare's Sister

Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:

Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act — NEW YORK - — A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.

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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:

Dems already dismissing Iraq war report — Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, talked with reporters yesterday in Washington. "We know what is going to be in it," he said of the Iraq war report next week. "I expect the Bush report to say, 'The surge is working.

Edward / Heading Right:
How To Become A Scoundrel In Eight Months

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Captain's Quarters, The Belgravia Dispatch and Comments From Left Field

Satyam / Think Progress:

O'Hanlon Rips GAO Report: It Is 'Flat-Out Sloppy' — Last week, Gen. David Petraeus alleged a 75 percent reduction in "sectarian violence" in Iraq and is expected to say the same before Congress. In contrast, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office recently reported that daily attacks in Iraq have …

Discussion: The Gavel, The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars, The Carpetbagger Report and WTF Is It Now?!?

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Zogby poll: 42% of Democrats think Bush either caused 9/11 or let it happen — I guess we should be grateful it's not a clear majority, eh? You can thank the turds at 9/11 Truth for commissioning the poll; SLC spotted it earlier and has since been digesting the numbers.

Discussion: protein wisdom

James B. / Screw Loose Change:
So Much For 84% — 911truth.org is all excited over a poll …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Associated Press:

US Democratic hopeful Kucinich meets Assad, blasts Bush — US Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, on a Mideast visit that included a stop in Syria, said the country lambasted by the Bush administration deserves credit for taking in more than a million Iraqi refugees.

Discussion: Power Line, Let Freedom Ring, Wizbang, Burkean Reflections and Don Surber

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:

"Muslim Student Association Harasses Women and Jews at University of Texas-San Antonio" — Happily, they shot their own video to document the occasion. — I'm interested to hear what the diversity czars and the risk-averse university bureaucrats have to say about this kind …

Little Green Footballs:
Video: Muslim Student Association Harasses Women and Jews at UTSA

Discussion: Infidels Are Cool and Hot Air

WNBC:

FBI Makes 11 Corruption Arrests In N.J. — NEW YORK — Eleven public officials were charged Thursday in a widespread FBI corruption investigation in New Jersey, officials said. — Among those charged were Passaic Mayor Sammy Rivera and Orange Mayor Mims Hackett, investigators said.

Discussion: Associated Press, A Blog For All, New York Times, michellemalkin.com, CNN, Wake up America, JammieWearingFool, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and Macsmind

Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Clinton Supporter Arrested in N.J. Corruption Sting

Discussion: New Jersey Online

L. Paul Bremer III / New York Times:

How I Didn't Dismantle Iraq's Army — "The Iraqi Army of the future cannot be an extension of the present army, which has been made into a tool of dictatorship." — Report by the Department of State's Future of Iraq Project, May 2002 — IT has become conventional wisdom that the decision …

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Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction — Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq. — (Clockwise from top left) Naji Sabri, George W. Bush, Colin Powell and George Tenet.

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St. Petersburg Times:

USF students' box of bullets adds intrigue … TAMPA — Bullets were among the items investigators found in the car of two University of South Florida students. — The deputy who pulled over Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, found a box of bullets near the seat …

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