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...Patrick Hynes admitted last summer he was surreptitiously paid by the candidate while he was writing critical posts about McCain's Republican rival Romney (Hynes is now officially and publicly on the McCain payroll). In 2004, John Thune, the Republican candidate for Senate in South Dakota, paid bloggers to attack supporters of his opponent, then Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. Clinton's big blog hire for this campaign, the well-known Peter Daou, has caused a kerfuffle of his own by buying advertisements on blogs around the country, including conservative sites, drawing criticism from liberal pundits and from bloggers whose...
...original version of this story incorrectly stated that in 2005, John Thune, a Democratic candidate for Senate in South Dakota, paid bloggers to attack supporters of his opponent, then Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and that a Campaign 2008 straw poll organized by liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas is conducted daily. Thune, a Republican, unseated then-Senate minority leader Tom Daschle in 2004 and Moulitsas' poll is conducted monthly...
...compound in Gaza City, his men were wielding brand-new M-16 rifles and were clearly organizing for future fighting, even as leaders claimed high hopes for the Mecca peace conference. As Dahlan's men pointed out where the mortar and grenade rounds had landed during a recent Hamas attack, they were not in a conciliatory mood...
...Among the victims Mohammed tried to help that day was a family of six, all of whom had been injured in the attack. He loaded them into his ambulance, along with at least one body and several body fragments he gathered up as well. He hoped, of course, he could save each of them - they were, after all, his neighbors; Mohammed and his family live in Sadr City. But at the end of the day five of the family were dead...
...told the Iranians and the Americans, we know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you: Please solve your problems outside Iraq," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki recently told CNN. "We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria." Nor is it only the ruling Shi'ite Alliance that views Iran as friend rather than foe. "If you exclude the Sunnis, the majority of Iraqis think of Iran as a friend," Kurdish legislator Mahmoud Othman told the L.A. Times. In other words, the U.S. claim...