memeorandum: Hizbullah wants soldiers moved to Iran (Yaakov Katz/Jerusalem Post)

5:20 PM ET, July 13, 2006

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Hezbollah Raid Opens 2nd Front for Israel — Israel Targets Lebanese Military Base, Beirut Airport in Response — BEIRUT, July 13 — Israel bombed Beirut's airport, a Hezbollah television station and other targets in Lebanon Thursday and imposed a blockade on Lebanon's ports and airspace …

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CNN:

Israel strikes Beirut airport, blocks ports — BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Israeli aircraft bombed Beirut International Airport on Thursday before blocking naval traffic in Lebanese waters as Israel expanded its military campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas who kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

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Haaretz:

Israel: Hezbollah plans to move abducted IDF soldiers to Iran — Israel has concrete evidence that Hezbollah plans to transfer the two Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted Wednesday to Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Thursday. — "We have concrete evidence that Hezbollah plans …

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BBC:

Rockets hit Israeli city of Haifa — Two rockets have struck the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, hours after a threat by the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah to attack it. — Hezbollah denied firing any rockets. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

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Fox News:

Israel Wages War on Hezbollah as Jets Strike Airbase — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli warplanes attacked a Lebanese army air base near the Syrian border, the first strike on the Lebanese army in Israel's fight with Hezbollah guerrillas. The attack followed an intense strike on Lebanon's airport …

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Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Israel Claims Hundreds of Hits in Lebanon

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Jerusalem Post:
Hizbullah: Bomb Beirut, we'll hit Haifa

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Is Lebanon The Right Target?

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Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Israel intensifies attacks against Lebanon

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Amos Harel / Haaretz:
One rocket fired from Lebanon hits central Haifa; Katyusha rockets …

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Toni Locy / Associated Press:

Former CIA officer sues Cheney over leak — WASHINGTON - The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career.

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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Now THIS Is Interesting... Look what just got released from the National Press Club:

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Fox News:
Transcript: Robert Novak Breaks His Silence About the CIA Leak Investigation

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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:

Specter touts deal on eavesdropping review — WASHINGTON - The White House has conditionally agreed to a court review of its controversial eavesdropping program, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday. — Specter said President Bush has agreed to sign legislation …

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Breaking: Bush agrees to submit NSA wiretaps to FISA courts (Update: McCain says Gitmo gang will get courts-martial) — Announced by Arlen Specter, reported by CNN and Fox. Hasn't hit the wires yet but I should have a link soon. Specter called the negotiations with the White House "torturous."

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Mike Tolson / Houston Chronicle:

Ken Lay praised and defended by family and friends — Dignitaries are among more than 1,000 attending — In a memorial service that bounced back and forth from loving salute to spirited defense, former Enron Chairman Ken Lay was remembered Wednesday as a kind and generous man …

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Reuters:
Ken Lay's memorial attracts power elite

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Haaretz:

'I'm the man,' Meshal says in first comments since crisis broke — The first speech yesterday by Khaled Meshal, the Damascus-based head of Hamas' political bureau, since the abduction of Corporal Gilad Shalit was intended mainly to reinforce his leadership position vis-a-vis both Palestinians and Israel.

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David Twersky / New York Sun:
War on Iran Has Begun

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:

Anti-Missile Test 'Phenomenal' — The Army had a "phenomenal" success in the latest test of the American anti-ballistic missile defense system. Jason Gibbs reports for the Las Cruces Sun-News that a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile intercepted and destroyed a warhead and its contents:

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Richard Thompson Ford / Slate:

Hate and Marriage — SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SETBACKS MAY NOT BE ALL BAD NEWS FOR GAY RIGHTS. — It's been a bad summer for same-sex marriage. Last week the Georgia Supreme Court upheld a state ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage. The same day New York's highest court rejected …

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Jed Babbin / Real Clear Politics:

Total Dysfunction at the New York Times — The New York Times's publication of two classified anti-terrorist programs and the Times's nose-in-the-air defense of its actions have inflamed conservative anti-media passions to a temperature not reached since Watergate.

David Hirschman / Editor and Publisher:

'WaPo' Online Comments a Hit, Says Editor — Soon on All Stories — NEW YORK Washingtonpost.com, taking a bold step, has enabled user comments on many of its stories for over a month now — and the move has been deemed a success by the site's editors. But soon the feature will be put …

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Judd / Think Progress:

Rep. King Designs Electrified Fence For Southern Border: 'We Do This With Livestock All The Time' — Rep. Steve King (R-IA) went on the House floor on Tuesday to discuss a fence that he "designed" for the southern boarder. (King constructed a model of the fence as he was speaking.)

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