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Haaretz:
IAF bombs Gaza bridge to prevent transport of seized soldier — An Israel Air Force aircraft attacked the main bridge between Gaza City and Khan Yunis on Monday, in an effort to prevent miltants from transporting kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit within Gaza. — IDF officials said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approved a "limited
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Israeli planes attack 3 Gaza bridges — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli planes attacked three bridges in central Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and Israeli tanks were on the move after the government approved a limited operation — a response to a weekend Palestinian attack in which two soldiers were killed and a third captured.
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Jerusalem Post:
IAF aircraft blow up bridge in northern Gaza Strip — IAF aircraft blew up a key strategic bridge in the northern Gaza Strip shortly before midnight on Tuesday. The army said that the operation was intended to keep Hamas from taking kidnapped soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit out of the Gaza Strip.
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Jerusalem Post:
IAF strikes power plant, cuts electricity to part of Gaza — The IDF continued its offensive in the Gaza Strip late Tuesday night when the Air Force struck a power plant in the southern part of the Strip, cutting the power supply from portions of the region.
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Israeli Planes Attack Bridge in Gaza — Israeli planes attacked a bridge in central Gaza late Tuesday, Israel Radio reported, and Israeli tanks were said to be on the move, possibly signaling the start of a military operation. — Palestinian security forces said Israeli tanks were moving near …
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Israeli Troops Move Into Gaza — Captured Soldier Sought; Palestinians Reach Political Pact — GAZA CITY, June 28 — Israeli ground troops pushed into the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in a military operation aimed at freeing a captured soldier whose fate has transfixed much of the country.
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Senate rejects flag desecration amendment — WASHINGTON - A constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration died in a Senate cliffhanger Tuesday, a single vote short of the support needed to send it to the states for ratification a week before Independence Day.
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New York Times:
Amendment on Flag Burning Fails by One Vote in Senate — WASHINGTON, June 27 — The Senate today fell one vote short of approving a constitutional amendment that would have enabled Congress to ban desecration of the American flag. — The vote was 66 to 34. To pass, the measure needed 67 votes.
Marni Goldberg / TwinCities.com:Senate rejects constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Tony Snow Tells E&P: 'NYT' Deserves Special Criticism — NEW YORK White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told E&P today that The New York Times deserves the brunt of criticism for disclosure of a secret bank records monitoring program, even though two other newspapers - The Wall Street Journal …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Bush lynch mob against the nation's free press — (updated below) — Any doubts about whether the Bush administration intends to imprison unfriendly journalists (defined as "journalists who fail to obey the Bush administration's orders about what to publish") were completely dispelled this weekend.
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Nuke the Messenger — In accusing the press — and specifically, the New York Times — of putting American lives at risk, President Bush and his allies have escalated their ongoing battle with the media to nuclear proportions. — Here's what Bush had to say yesterday …
Associated Press:
Viagra threatens Limbaugh plea deal — Prescription was not in Limbaugh's name, authorities say — WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Rush Limbaugh will likely have to wait several days to find out if he violated his deal with prosecutors in a prescription fraud case when authorities found …
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epw.senate.gov:
AP INCORRECTLY CLAIMS SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE'S MOVIE — The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled "Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy" by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP's bias and methodology. — AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists …
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Scientists OK Gore's movie for accuracy — WASHINGTON - The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. — The former vice president's movie — replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City …
Michael Gove / Times of London:
The roots of Islamism — In the second extract from his book Celsius 7/7, Michael Gove claims Islamism is not a campaign to restore piety but a revolutionary attempt to re-make society — The First World War began with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Second with the invasion …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Analyst Says He Warned of Iraqi Resistance — Days after the United States invaded Iraq, senior U.S. officials were warned that Iraqi Sunnis would strongly resist American troops' occupation efforts, according to testimony given yesterday before Senate Democrats.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Terror Alert: Severe Risk of Hype — It is the sheerest luck, I know, that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales looks (to me) a bit like Jerry Mahoney, because he fulfills the same function for the Bush administration that the dummy did for the ventriloquist Paul Winchell.
gqrr.com:
Swing Nation — "This survey reflects the views of the "swingiest" of voters in the country—the voters likely to decide the outcome of the 2006 election cycle—in a mood demanding fundamental change in the direction of the country." — Executive Summary
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
U.S. says Baghdad crackdown moving slowly — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military issued a sober assessment Tuesday of the Baghdad security crackdown, saying violence had decreased slightly but not to "the degree we would like to see" in the two weeks since 75,000 Iraqi and American troops flooded the capital.
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Joe Cannon siding with brother? — Utah Republican Party Chairman Joe Cannon says he's trying to stay neutral in his brother Rep. Chris Cannon's primary battle, but it didn't come across that way in comments he posted online last weekend questioning his brother's challenger.
The Ugly American / The Real Ugly American.com:
Mort and Me: An Interview with Morton Kondracke — I hope he forgives me for the headline. I am a big fan of Mr. Kondracke's work on Special Report, his Beltway Boys program, and Roll Call. — If you are a political news superfreak like me I would highly recomend subscribing to Roll Call.
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