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The violent reaction to cartoon drawings of the Prophet Muhammad continued
today across the Muslim world, prompting both President Bush and Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice to make remarks. The president, after a meeting with
Jordan's King Abdullah II, said, "I call upon the governments around the world
to stop the violence, to be respectful, to protect property, protect the lives
of innocent diplomats who are serving their countries overseas." Secretary
Rice, in a joint press conference with acting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi
Livni, said, "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments
and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it."
Tonight on Hardball, Chris will get the latest from NBC News' Senior Foreign
Correspondent Keith Miller in London. MSNBC.com has the latest on the protests
and casualties: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11233372/
Plus, NBC News' Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers will have an
exclusive report on an American arrested for working with terrorists in Iraq.
Here's more on that: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11225752/.
For more on the cartoon violence, Hardball's David Shuster will explain just
what set this anger into motion. Chris will discuss it more with Irshad Manji,
a visiting fellow with Yale University's International Security Studies Program
and the author of "The Trouble with Islam Today," and Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, a
Brookings Institution visiting fellow and chair of Islamic Studies at American
University. Find out more about them here: http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/ and
http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/fellows/aahmed.htm.
Chris also will talk with Washington Times Editorial Page Editor Tony Blankley
and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman about the cartoon outrage, the reaction to
the political points made at Coretta Scott King's funeral Tuesday, the
developing dynamics of the 2006 and 2008 elections, and much more! Read
Blankley's column (published today) in which he writes, "Those who argue for
republication of the Danish cartoons are not 'instigating' a clash of
civilization. Nor are they pouring gasoline on a fire. Rather, they are
defending against the already declared and engaged radical Islamist clash
against the Christian, secular, Jewish, Hindu, Chinese world, by expressing
solidarity with the firemen." It's here:
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/tblankley.htm. And check out the headlines on
Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/08/1515254.
Torie Clarke, former Pentagon spokeswoman and author of the new book "Lipstick
on a Pig," will be here to talk about the war in Iraq and the military's
interaction with the media in covering the war. Here's her web site:
http://www.torieclarke.com/.
Also tonight, Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), author of "Quit Digging Your Grave
with a Knife and Fork," and Dr. Sue Bailey, MSNBC analyst and former assistant
secretary of defense for health affairs, will be here to talk about the new
report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that says a low-fat
diet does not reduce the risk of cancer or heart disease for women. Read about
that report here in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/health/08fat.html.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--AP updates on the investigation of the Alabama church fires
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11237241/
--AP finds that a former Boehner and current Rove aide has ties to Abramoff
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11233367/
--Hardblogger (!) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
--NBC's First Read http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/
--Doonesbury http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
--The XX Olympic Winter Games http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html
Brooke Brower compiled the "Hardball Briefing" in Washington, D.C.
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