davidl on May 5th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
POTUS owes CIA an apology, from Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post:

Now, it turns out that the very CIA interrogators whose lives Obama turned upside down played a critical role in what the president rightly calls “the most

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davidl on May 5th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Does this sound like a civilian criminal? From the New York Slimes:

A Connecticut man who was arrested as his plane was about to take off from Kennedy Airport admitted on Tuesday that he had tried to explode a

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Eric Florack on November 30th, 2008

The London Daily Mail’s Ian Gallagher:

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last

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Eric Florack on August 12th, 2008

(Fox News)– Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border, a security official told Reuters on Tuesday.

“He was believed to be among

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2008

AJ Strata has been watching with some interest the demise of al-Qaeda.  Today, he remarks:

It is alarming even to me how drastically al-Qaeda’s future as changed recently.  After 9-11 they were the future hope of Islam after they

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Eric Florack on April 9th, 2008

Fox is reporting:

A U.S. official confirmed to FOX News Wednesday that Al Qaeda operative and bomb expert Abu Ubaida al-Masri is dead.

Al-Masri was one of the top 10 Al Qaeda leaders and was responsible for the organization’s external

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2008

I’m not sure what to make of this:

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was her own fault, the country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, said in an interview that aired Sunday on U.S. television.

“For standing

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davidl on December 28th, 2007

One person,  Benazir Bhutto, one death, two Posts, Washington and New York  and two completely different takes.  

David Ignatius, Washington Post, came to laud the late Benazir Bhutto, via RCP:

Try to imagine a young Pakistani woman bounding

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Eric Florack on December 28th, 2007

A crazy day, yesterday. For yours truly, lots of irons in the fire, some web development, my day gig some home duities, but of course, as with all of us, yesterday, before I even started the day came the news

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