Daily News For December 13, 2006

13 Dec, 2006 by John Hawkins

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Foreign

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.”

Iraq Suicide Bomber Kills 63, Hurts 200

More Than 30 Prominent Islamic Clerics From Saudi Arabia On Monday Called On Sunni Muslims Around The Middle East To Support Their Brethren In Iraq Against Shiites And Praised The Insurgency

Saudi Arabia Has Told The Bush Administration That It Might Provide Financial Backing To Iraqi Sunnis In Any War Against Iraq’s Shiites If The United States Pulls Its Troops Out Of Iraq (Free New York Times Reg Req)

Iraqis Consider Ways To Reduce Power Of Moktada Al-Sadr (Free New York Times Reg Req)

Domestic

Why Did Clinton Spy On Di? CIA Sez ‘It’s Not Us’ But NSA Admits Vacuuming Up Info

Dems keep Jefferson Off Ways and Means

Rep Walter Jones Asked The Justice Department On Tuesday To Investigate Whether The District Attorney Prosecuting Three Duke University Lacrosse Players Charged With Rape Has Violated The Athletes’ Civil Rights. (Applause)

National Journal Insiders Poll For 2008

Former U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez Defeated Seven-Term Republican Incumbent Henry Bonilla In A Runoff

Columns

Mark Steyn: Losing Every Which Way

M. Zuhdi Jasse: From a Muslim outlook, imams have missed the point on flight behavior

Robert Samuelson: The End Of Pax Americana?

Jack Kelly: Failing To Know The Enemy, And Ourselves

Left-Overs

3 Million Bees Removed From Kitchen Of Couple’s Apartment

Remains Of Horse With Far-Out Past Resurfaces On Ebay. Owner Of Snippy, Who Mysteriously Died Nearly 40 Years Ago, Claimed Space Aliens Killed It.