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  Instapundit.com: "WHY ZARQAWI IS ALL ALONE:" Plus, why Al Qaeda is retreating from Iraq. Heck, according to this report, even Zarqawi is hiding out in Syria.

[Peace Like A River] Monday Winds of War Briefing: * Mediators from the African Union (AU) agreed in the early hours of Monday to give the warring parties from Sudan's Darfur region an extra 48 hours to strike a peace deal after a midnight deadline expired. International pressure on the government of Sudan and three Darfur rebel factions intensified in the build-up to the deadline, but only the government said it would sign an 85-page settlement drafted by the AU.

 [ROFASIX - CAV Guy!] What Terrorists are Saying: You want this nation divided to more than 50 states so that Israel could find it easy to tame anyone who revolts against the crusader-Zionist policy. You should understand that we are a single nation, who do not recognize the Sykes-Picot Agreement [drawn up in 1916 by British diplomat Mark Sykes and French diplomat Francois Georges-Picot to define the roles of England and France in the Middle East], Percy Cox maps [Sir Percy Cox was the British High Commissioner to Iraq from 1920 to 1923], and Durand lines [In 1893, British diplomat Sir Henry Mortimer Durand fixed the border of Afghanistan along a 1,200-mile line running from Western China to Iran, which had the effect of dividing Pashtun tribes between Afghanistan and Pakistan], whether you like it or not.

[fire-on-the-mountain.com] Kerry Security plan: Retreat!: Then he slandered our troops in Vietnam in front of congress with lies about atrocities, wrote a despicable book called The New Soldier, secretly met with the enemy during war, got elected to the senate so he could gut the military and intelligence field and went on the run for president only to continue to slander our troops in battle by accusing them of terrorizing the civilians n Iraq that they just risked there lives to free and defend. So when you hear the dems call for re-deployment, ask them why they want to retreat while winning?

 [Discussion about 09/11/2001] [imra] Daily digest - Volume: 2 Issue: 1364 (14... : imra Tue Apr 4 02:21:27 2006 Volume 2 : Issue 1364 In this issue of the imra daily Digest: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip is increasing its efforts to infiltrate terrorists into Israel Michael Oren on Israel lobby "working paper" PA FM: "dream to have state on all historic Palestine (including Israel) - This dream will

 [ Global War] The Sheik and the Schmuck (Bush) Both in... : Bush is, without a doubt, taking one of the bigger risks of his presidency in going to Pakistan. Islamic fundamentalism is rife. His host and ally, President Pervez Musharraf, tries to keep an iron military grip on his country, but his hold is shaky. On Thursday, despite heightened security across Pakistan, a suicide bomber was able to kill a

 [Hughhewitt.com] Hugh Hewitt: Espionage is not an "in the eye of the beholder" issue, and Powerline has posted extensively on the subject, including this post, and Powerline's Scott Johnson has written on the subject for the WeeklyStandard.com. Gabriel Schoenfeld has penned "Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?" for Commentary. Andrew McCarthy has a crucial overview that appropriately distinguishes between categories of leaks, and the scrutiny reporters/editors/papers whould be under depending upon the nature of the leak.

 [Freedomstruth.blogspot.com] Freedom's Truth & Liberating Iraq: Some people believe it's part of a conspiracy aimed at isolating Sadr from Sistani and depriving him of any possible support although it's a well known fact that Sistani doesn't support Sadr at all and that Sadr had surrounded Sistani's house soon after the war and asked him to leave Iraq. Other people say that Sadr deputies had visited Sistani lately and had asked him to declare Jihad but Sistani, as expected refuse strongly which lead to those men threatining to kill him!

 [Command-post.org] Command Post - Iraq for PDA: Monsignor Rabban al Qas, Chaldean bishop of Amadiyah and Arbil, was recently asked by a foreign interviewer whether there is any good news coming out of Iraq: “Twenty-three Iraqis are killed every day in Iraq. Nearly two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, there is no security as yet.

[Flapsblog.com] FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Iraq War Watch: Retreat and Defeat: Iraq War Watch: Retreat and Defeat. Michelle Malkin has True Colors. ... Please Vote for FullosseousFlap at the 2005 Weblog Awards. ...

 [Washingtonpost.com] Bush's Second Great Challenge: James Sterngold writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: "President Bush, in perhaps his starkest and most contentious depiction of the stakes in Iraq, characterized the war there as a battle over the fate of democracy, just like World War II, and suggested that the only alternative was a dangerous retreat that would embolden terrorists.

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