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9:00 AM ET, July 22, 2006

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New York Times:
U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis  —  WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Rice Plans Talks on Crisis With Mideast Leaders  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday announced plans for talks with Israeli, Palestinian and Lebanese leaders as part of a new U.S. diplomatic effort in the Middle East conflict, but warned that the United States would not support …
Bloomberg:
Rice Seeks `Robust' Lebanon Force to Oust Hezbollah (Update2)
David Stout / New York Times:
Rice Outlines Strategy for Middle East Trip
Reuters:   Italy to host int'l conference in hopes of reaching ceasefire
Liz Sly / Chicago Tribune:
Humanitarian toll hits southern Lebanon as violence continues  —  BEIRUT — Fears mounted Thursday that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in southern Lebanon as Israel sustained its intense bombardment of the area and U.S. Marines landed on the beaches near Beirut to help speed the evacuation of Americans from the war-zone.
Discussion: Bring it On!
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Sheera Claire Frenkel / Jerusalem Post:
Israelis and Lebanese are still talking - on the Net
Discussion: An Unsealed Room
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
5,000 called up in latest mobilization
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
World Tribune.com:
Israel's military stunned by the failure of its air war
Discussion: A Blog For All
Oliver Poole / Telegraph:
Violence may bring partition of Baghdad  —  Iraq's politicians were reported yesterday to be drawing up provisional plans to divide Baghdad into Sunni and Shia halves after a week of bloodshed that has left the government's security plan to pacify the capital in tatters.
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New York Times:
More troops to be deployed to Baghdad, general says  —  CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Friday that the escalating sectarian violence in Baghdad had become a greater worry than the insurgency and that plans were being drawn up to move additional forces to the Iraqi capital.
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Pajamas Media
Reuters:
Mosques bombed, tense Baghdad under curfew
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Mariam Karouny / Reuters:
Gloom descends on Iraqi leaders as civil war looms
PR Newswire:
Blogger Media at the Forefront of the Middle East Coverage War  —  Pajamas Media's Politics Central Leverages Global Editors for Continuous Stories and Exclusive Podcast Interviews  —  EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Pajamas Media (PJM) is providing special extended coverage …
MSNBC:
Bush vetoes stem cell bill; House can't override  —  President says measure 'crosses a moral boundary' society needs to respect … WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday failed to muster enough votes to override President Bush's veto of a bill to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
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Bob Geiger / The Huffington Post:
Right Wing Should Adopt 400,000 Frozen Embryos
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
Mohamed Olad Hassan / Associated Press:
Somali militant urges holy war on Ethiopia  —  BAIDOA, Somalia - Somalia's top Islamic leader called Friday for a holy war against Ethiopia to drive out troops the largely Christian nation sent to protect the internationally backed Somali government.  —  The radical Islamic forces control …
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general  —  The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan today described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption.
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
NASA's Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet  —  From 2002 until this year, NASA's mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: "To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can."
Discussion: GregsOpinion.com and SIVACRACY.NET
Diana West / Washington Times:
Hezbollah and Main Street  —  A thought-provoking sideshow to Israel's war on Hezbollah — and what a precious gift Israel would bestow on the Free World by destroying the Hezbollah mini-state — is the effort to extract "foreign nationals" from Lebanon, some of whom have had their summer vacations …
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Useless Idiots … Randy Andy still seems to be having trouble figuring out if he's Roy Cohn or Oscar Wilde — persecutor or persecuted.  He's not alone: These days it seems like half of Right Blogistan is busy hurling accusations of betrayal and cowardice at the other half …
Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: The non-neutral press goes into Beirut  —  Alongside Hezbollah terrorists, no less.  It's the BBC, doing what the Beeb does best.  —  Notes: at about 43 sec in, the reporters mentions Israel warning civilians to flee.  Did Hezbollah warn Israelis to flee before raining rockets down on Haifa?
Editor and Publisher:
Congressman 'Admits' Using Cocaine and Prostitutes on Colbert Show — Really?  —  NEW YORK By now, members of Congress ought to know that appearing on Stephen Colbert's "Better Know a District" segment on his nightly Comedy Central program is like walking across a minefield.
 
 
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