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Associated Press:
Israeli Forces Push Through Lebanon Border — ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER — Hundreds of Israeli troops moved into southern Lebanon on Saturday, taking control of a village and engaging Hezbollah militants by land, sea and air as part of the country's limited ground campaign.
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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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David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
UNITED NATIONS AN ACCOMPLICE IN HEZBOLLAH KIDNAPPING: After Hezbollah's kidnapping of a pair of Israeli soldiers spurred an Israeli counter-attack, many critics of Israel actions have suggested that the United Nations can serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah.
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New York Post:
CAN ISRAEL WIN? — NOT THE WAY IT'S FIGHTING — July 22, 2006 — ISRAEL is losing this war. For a lifelong Israel supporter, that's a painful thing to write. But it's true. And the situation's worsening each day. — A U.S. government official put it to me this way: "Israel's got the clock, but Hezbollah's got the time."
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Sheera Claire Frenkel / Jerusalem Post:Israelis and Lebanese are still talking - on the Net
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Walid Choucair / Lebanon Daily Star:
Help Lebanon. Send a letter to your government representative. Download a sample letter — Nasrallah's speech gave 5 key insights into Hizbullah's position — Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's interview with Al-Jazeera late Thursday night must have reassured his constituents that his leadership continues to function.
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
NASRALLAH BELIEVES HE'S IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT — In an interview with Al-Jazeera late Thursday night, Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made it absolutely clear who was calling the shots in Lebanon - and it isn't the Lebanese government. — Speaking more like a head of state …
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.
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Mariam Karouny / Reuters:Gloom descends on Iraqi leaders as civil war looms
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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 …
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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."
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Gaza groups agree to stop firing at Israel — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Senior Palestinian officials said militant groups in the Gaza Strip agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight Saturday, if Israel launches no new raids into Gaza. But two main guerrilla groups denied that any agreement had been reached.
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Nail. Coffin. Some Hammering Required. (But not muuuch...) — This is it. This is the Rosetta Stone. — Dan Riehl sent me this link, in which he demonstrates "Rick Ellensburg" making the same points as Glenn Greenwald, using much the same language, only hours after Greenwald posted.
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Live From The DNC's RBC Meeting... The Envelope Please — At the end, it wasn't even close: NV's the Caucus state and SC's the primary state. Here's the vote breakdown: it's worth noting that Harold Ickes and Donna Brazile both were pro-AL and AL still lost. Whodathunkthat... The vote totals:
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Associated Press:
Teacher under fire for his Cheney-9/11 theory — State legislators demand college bar him from teaching Islam course — MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — More than 60 state lawmakers are urging the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire an instructor who has argued that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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 …
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Allan Lengel / Washington Post:
Nigerian Entangled In Jefferson Investigation — The corruption investigation of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) has taken many strange twists: an FBI sting that caught the lawmaker on videotape accepting a large payoff; a subsequent raid that turned up $90,000 of that cash in his apartment freezer …
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