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Haven't done on of these in a while. Thanks to my dude Patrick for calling me out on it! First off, Prison Break!

"Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan, apparently in a push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said." [Click here for more from the NYT]

New US report says al-Qaida gaining strength. [AP article via amNewYork.com]

U.S. has Nelson Mandela on its terrorist list. [USA Today]

WTF?! They still can't even handle their core foreign policy focus competently. Most.incompetent.adm

First, let's go back:

And now look at that seminal turning point in the Iraq war in retrospect 5 years later.

Detail here via The New York Times.

Good grief! I thought this was supposed to be the 'successful' war!

Related:

A list of previous attempts on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's life.

Is this poster on the walls of your local prison?

Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison. [Huffington Post]

Army, Marines give waivers to more felons. [CNN]

Maybe Bush, Cheney, Libby et al. can enlist when they finally get impeached?! Lord knows we'll need the recruits if this war in Iraq goes 100 years like McCain speculates. Who am I kidding? We know neither of those things is gonna happen.

From USA Today:

"In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt."

Click here for t

Iraq Security Improved, but 'Fragile and Reversible.' [Washington Post]

So much for the surge! McCain, keep hangin' your campaign victory hopes on the success of th

Just when things were starting to look good again, Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke throws salt in the game? Actually, not to be a hater, but I think he's right unfor

So the ceasefire and drop in violence is due, not to Iraqi security forces or the intervention of the US, but to a nut-job extremist with a huge militia he can direct at will and an Iranian who is linked to terrorism.

More:

And also:

President Bush: Iraq violence is a 'positive moment.' [The Times of London]

Meanwhile though:

Fresh clashes grip southern Iraq. [BBC News]