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This looks like it's going to be well worth watching. Kim Kagan's documentary about the surge in Baghdad. (via Abu Muqawama)

Host of PRI's The World talks with former secretary of state Madeleine Albright about Tito's ring.

Here's an example of the kind of Palestinian incitement Obama might have had in mind when he mentioned it this week at the UN. It's from Al Aksa TV, run by Hamas. And it's grim.

It was a great headline. And as Rachael Maddow highlights in her interview with Tom Ridge, it's a great line on the dust jacket of Ridge's new book. But it turns out that Ridge didn't mean to say - or write - that Bush administration officials pressured him to raise the "terror alert" level on the eve of the 2004 election. This is a hell of an interview.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee boarding plane to leave North Korea with Bill Clinton.

North Korean TV shows Bill Clinton's arrival to the Fatherland.

Great video here from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlement in the West Bank that doesn't fit the stereotypical image of settlers.

BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from Xinjiang.

My homeboy Aaron Schachter is with the Marines in Afghanistan.