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Amos Harel / Associated Press:
Four soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah; thousands of IDF troops in Lebanon — Warplanes resumed strikes on targets across Lebanon on Friday as Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to flee the south "immediately," preparing for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone in southern Lebanon.
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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."
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:IDF searching for tunnels in south Lebanon
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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
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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.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Voting Rights Act Extension Passes In Senate, 98 to 0 — The Senate voted 98 to to renew key provisions of the Voting Rights Act yesterday, permitting the federal government to continue its broad oversight of state voting procedures for the next quarter-century, and allowing Republicans …
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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 …
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.
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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.
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Despite Ties to Hamas, Militants Aren't Following Political Leaders — JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, July 20 — Five men in black hoods emerged from a dimly lighted street of stark concrete houses and garbage-strewn lots. With Israeli drones buzzing overhead, they kept the meeting short.
Andrea Shalal-Esa / Reuters:
Pentagon OKs $6 bln in arms sales to Saudi Arabia — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Thursday it approved the sale to Saudi Arabia of 24 UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, radios, armoured vehicles and other military equipment worth more than $6 billion (3.25 billion pounds).
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New Britain DTC Unanimously Endorses Lamont, DeStefano — ...and pledges to support whichever candidate wins the Senatorial and Gubernatorial primary respectively. — What this endorsement means is that DTC resources (headquarters, members, telephone lines, etc.) can be mobilized to help …
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 …
Eric / Classical Values:
WHERE'S GEORGE? AND WHERE'S DOUG? — My previous post about the much-quoted "George Harleigh" (said to be a SIU political science professor who worked for Nixon and Reagan administrations) has received enough attention that I thought it merited a new post.
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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