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SLATE ON JUDITH MILLER

The bloom is off the rose of the one-time anthrax target, it seems. Nearly every story she generated about Iraqi WMDs turns out to have been wrong. (Makes you wonder if she wasn't targeted with anthrax by someone trying to convince the U.S. they were facing an external bio threat, doesn't it?)

Also in Slate, it turns out there's lots of reason to doubt the Iraqi biotrailer story, after all. Oh, dear.

CURIOUS CHOICE ON SULLY'S PART

Andrew Sullivan approvingly cites an Economist piece on the Congo from nearly a year ago, before Rwanda's pullout of its troops. The piece has got a bit of an anti-Rwanda slant, but it's not inaccurate. It's questionable judgment to laud it now, however, without an addendum or two... most of the current fighting is in the formerly Ugandan-controlled area to start with, and the circumstances have changed considerably on the ground in Congo since Rwanda left. For Sullivan to imply based solely on a year-old piece that this is just the Rwandan genocide with the Tutsis doing the killing now muddies far more than it clarifies at this point.

AUSTRALIA, WE LOVE YA, PART 2

Turns out the aircraft hero who subdued the stake-wielding Australian hijacker was a Canadian. Former PPCLI, in fact. And the only vizmin in the picture was the seriously injured flight attendant, Greg Khan.

Reached for comment, hero Derek Findlay was disappointed to hear this may not be enough to remove Canada from SDB's American enemies' list.

MEMORY HOLE?

The Baghdad bunker which the United States said it bombed on the opening night of the Iraq war in a bid to kill Saddam Hussein never existed, CBS Evening News reported Wednesday.

I'm shocked. Awed, even.