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Iranian agents with explosives captured in Baghdad. LATER: Captain's Quarters is checking major media outlets for coverage, and finds that this story isn't getting not attention. Actually, most of these stories aren't gettting any attention, since they don't put Bush and the war in a bad light.

Iraqis want foreign militant out of their country. So much for the theory that regular Iraqis are fighting the U.S.

Marine Corps reservist Eric Johnson served in Iraq, and has harsh words for Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. Johnson met Chandrasekaran in an official capacity, and questions his qualifications and impartiality.

Vladimir Putin says he warned the U.S. after 9/11 that Iraq was preparing attacks on the U.S. Russia and Iraq were essentially allies (or at least trading partners), so Putin had no motivation to impugn Iraq if the intelligence wasn't earnest.

Polish forces in Iraq discovered the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin being offered for sale to terrorists. The weapons dated from the 1980s, but were still effective. Right. No WMDs in Iraq.

The New York Times says CIA held back information that Iraq abandoned WMD development efforts before war started. Hat tip: Clayton Cramer. (Who knows at this point? I'm partial to the theory that Saddam thought he was developing WMDs. The program wasn't really working, but no one wanted to tell the big guy the bad news for fear of getting a 9 mm spanking to the brain.)

Ihsan Karim, the Iraqi official appointed by Paul Bremer to investigate the U.N. Oil for Food scandal, was killed yesterday when a car bomb planted in his carbomb exploded. We have a crime perpetrated by Saddam and our U.N. allies to drain money away from the Oil for Food program, and now there's an attempt to coverup the crime by killing investigators. For more about the so-called UNSCAM scandal, see the Friends of Saddam blog.