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12:15 PM ET, July 21, 2006

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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
To Save a Revolution  —  You could sense the hurt and anger as Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora pleaded this week to the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats in Beirut for a halt to Israeli attacks on Lebanese targets.  "The country has been torn to shreds," he said.  "I hope you will not let us down."
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CNN:
Hezbollah leader apologizes for attack's child victims  —  Nasrallah: Militant group not harmed by Israeli attacks  —  (CNN) — Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah apologized for an attack that killed two Israeli Arab children in northern Israel, saying the youngsters were "martyrs for Palestine."
Haaretz:
Lebanese defense minister: Army will fight ground invasion
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Hezbollah Rockets Hit UN Observation Post
Discussion: WILLisms.com
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace  —  President Bush's unwillingness to pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in Lebanon is rooted in a view of the Middle East conflict that is sharply different from that of his predecessors.  —  When hostilities have broken out in the past …
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Josh Manchester / TCS Daily:
Shaken and Stirred  —  The US invasion of Iraq has so shaken and stirred the Middle East that some exceptionally strange things are happening.  More importantly, these things unequivocally favor the US in influencing the outcome of the Israeli-Hezbollah War now taking place in Lebanon.
Discussion: TigerHawk and Outside The Beltway
Hartford Courant:
Two N.J. Casinos Sued Schlesinger Over Debts  —  When Alan Schlesinger gave a fake name while playing blackjack at Foxwoods in the early 1990s, he had already been sued over a gambling debt by one Atlantic City casino and was on the way to racking up an even bigger debt that led to a second lawsuit.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
In Connecticut, Bombshell Hits Schlesinger Campaign  —  The Hartford Courant sent a bunker bomb in to Connecticut Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Alan Schlesinger's flagging campaign today with revelations that the former legislator was successfully sued for thousands of dollars in casino debts he ran up in Atlantic City venues.
David Wooding / The Sun:
Exiled Bakri in SOS plea  —  EXILED preacher of hate Omar Bakri has begged the Royal Navy to rescue him from war-torn Beirut.  —  The Muslim cleric who fled Britain last year, tried to board a ship full of women and children yesterday but was turned away.  —  He also wrote to the British …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Banished Islamofascist Begs For Britain's Protection
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Michael J. Berlin / Washington Post:
A Secret the Media Kept  —  Toward the end of 1979, hundreds of American and Canadian journalists and news organizations got hold of a dynamite news story that would have made personal reputations and careers and sent circulation or broadcast ratings soaring.  The facts were confirmed, unassailably.
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Top-Secret World Loses Blogger  —  CIA Contractor Is Fired When Internal Post Crosses the Line  —  Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it.  —  Only people with top-secret security clearances …
Dana Bash / CNN:
Sen. Reid: Iraq devolves into 'civil war'  —  Democratic leader will try to revive Senate debate on Iraq  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Declaring that he believes the situation in Iraq has devolved into a civil war, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he plans to try to bring the war back up for debate on the Senate floor.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Centrist Democrats Ponder How To Counter Netroots  —  At a time when centrism has become a dirty word in some Democratic Party circles, hundreds of the party's avowed moderates are convening in Denver this weekend to discuss their agenda for this fall's election and the presidential contest in 2008.
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Heeee's Baaack!!!  —  Steve Clemons reports that Richard Lugar will schedule consideration of John Bolton's reappointment as Ambassador to the UN next Thursday.  Already, George Voinovich announced he will vote for Bolton.  Which means unless we can find another Republican to bail on Bolton …
Discussion: The Washington Note and Hot Air
BBC:
First arrests in Mumbai bombings  —  Police in India have arrested three men in connection with a series of bombings that killed more than 180 people in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) last week.  —  The police have detained more than 300 suspects but these are the first arrests in the case.
Media Matters for America:
Third time's not the charm: Sunday-morning talk shows still imbalanced … On February 14, Media Matters for America released a comprehensive study analyzing the guest appearances on ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, and NBC's Meet the Press from 1997 through 2005.
 
 
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The Republican Rift on Iraq
Carsten Lietz / Reuters:
Germany seeks EU ban on stem-cell research funding
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Sources: Negroponte Blocks CIA Analysis of Iraq "Civil War"
Juan / Informed Comment:
Israelis Bomb Beirut, Baalbak Again  —  Tank Incursion in South
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