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10:25 AM ET, December 28, 2009

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Wall Street Journal:
The Terror This Time  —  Janet Napolitano says the system worked.  No, we were brave and lucky.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  A U.S. government that has barred the phrase “war on terror” has nonetheless acknowledged that a failed Christmas day bomb attack on an airliner was a terrorist attempt.
Discussion: Commentary and Israel Matzav
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Washington Post:
Uninvestigated terrorism warning about Detroit suspect called not unusual  —  When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father in Nigeria reported concern over his son's “radicalization” to the U.S. Embassy there last month, intelligence officials in the United States deemed the information insufficient to pursue.
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Explosive on Flight 253 Is Among Most Powerful  —  Sewn into the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a powerful plastic explosive, the authorities say.  —  Had Mr. Abdulmutallab, sitting in seat 19A of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Friday from Amsterdam to Detroit …
Washington Wire:
Napolitano Reverses Course, Says Air Security Did NOT Work  —  A day after saying “the system worked” — and being pressed by CNN's Candy Crowley about how exactly that was the case — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano changed tack Monday and said that the U.S. air-travel security net …
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Detroit terror attack: second Nigerian arrested on Amsterdam flight
Donald Sensing / Sense of Events:   Flight 253 hero Schuringa to be prosecuted
Martin Fletcher / Times of London:
At least eight dead in Tehran street battles  —  At least eight anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran's opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the regime and the so-called Green Movement finally erupted.
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FRONTLINE:
The start of an Iranian intifada  —  [ analysis ]  —  An Iranian-style intifada seems to be in the making.  —  At the beginning of the current period of opposition, which started soon after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial reelection, quiet periods of seeming normalcy occurred between what were less frequent demonstrations.
The Daily NiteOwl:
Ashura Says: Iranians Aren't Punching Bags  —  The Ashura (December 27) protests across Iran are over.  Tens of thousands marched across the country as in the past to show their discontent with dictatorship and human rights violations.  They yet again proved that the Iranian struggle is far from over.
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Iranian protesters are dying for freedom - where is Barack Obama?
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
BBC:
Iran protesters in fresh clashes
Discussion: Informed Comment and Gawker
New York Times:
Police Are Said to Have Killed 10 in Iran Protests
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Marc Lynch:
Whether it's AQ or not, nobody in Arab media cares
Discussion: sify.com, TalkLeft and RADAMISTO
Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
Analysis: Detroit terror attack is a major intelligence and security failure
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Zero  —  Maybe we knew, at some unconscious, instinctive level, that it would be an era best forgotten.  Whatever the reason, we got through the first decade of the new millennium without ever agreeing on what to call it.  The aughts?  The naughties?  Whatever.
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Mary Matalin claims President Bush ‘inherited’ the September 11th terror attacks.  —  On CNN today, GOP strategist and former Dick Cheney adviser Mary Matalin argued that President Obama is speaking too much about the severe debt, deficits, and economic recession he inherited from the previous administration.
Discussion: BlogHer
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Winners and Losers: Political toll of 2009  —  Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor:  —  “Winners.”  —  So say a majority of Americans asked to assess the political  —  winners of 2009 - with the first lady leading the list.  —  Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed …
Discussion: The Politico
Steve Campbell / Washington Post:
Cowboy hats, secret files and more headed to Bush library  —  LEWISVILLE, TEX. — Eight years of “still-evolving” American history is meticulously catalogued, wrapped, stored and guarded in the climate-controlled warehouse.  —  Included here are 68 million pages of documents, a surfboard …
Discussion: The Page
CNN:
New Detroit scare declared ‘non-serious’  —  (CNN) — The security alert aboard a Northwest Airlines jet Sunday was the result of a “non-serious” incident, and the man questioned in connection with the scare does not appear to be a threat, a law enforcement source said Sunday.
Discussion: The Reaction and Mashable!
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Odds of Airborne Terror
Discussion: QandO and Stop The ACLU
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They still don't love us
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Pawlenty Pushes Spending Caps
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