Month: July 2005
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Get Your Knives Sharpened for the Holidays
Get Your Knives Sharpened for the Holidays, originally uploaded by juggernautco. As the summer family barbeque season is upon us, a friendly business near my house reminds us to get our knives sharpened.
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Rebels Kill Egyptian Diplomat, Adding Pressure on Others in Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said Thursday that it had killed Egypt’s ambassador-designate in Iraq, Ihab al-Sharif, four days after gunmen seized him on a street in a diplomatic quarter in western Baghdad, where he had driven alone to buy…
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Buzzsaw
Funny how the sweep of decades can pulse through a ruined life, and be punctuated so poetically at the end. L. Patrick Gray III, Who Led the F.B.I. During Watergate, died yesterday. Just one month after the exposure of Deep Throat. Just a short time after he broke his years of quiet margin-writing. He was…
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Zarqawi Group Says It Killed Egyptian Envoy
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 7, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said today that it had killed the top diplomat in Egypt’s embassy in Iraq, Ihab el-Sherif, five days after gunmen seized him on a Baghdad street where he had gone unguarded to buy a newspaper. The…
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Thank You, Judith Miller
Judith Miller went to jail today. “If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press,” she read from a statement as she stood before Judge Hogan. “The right of civil disobedience is based on personal conscience, it is fundamental to our system and it is…