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Willa Thayer / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida calls for holy war against Israel — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq." — In the message broadcast …
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Jerusalem Post:
Report: Nasrallah is in Damascus — A top Iranian envoy was in Syria on Thursday for talks on the Israeli-Hizbullah conflict in a meeting that brought together the guerrilla organization's two key sponsors, according to Iranian news reports. A Kuwaiti newspaper reported …
Uri Dan / New York Post:
GRIM DAY FOR ISRAEL IN LEB — NINE SOLDIERS KILLED IN CLASHES WITH HEZ — July 27, 2006 — JERUSALEM - Israel suffered its darkest day of the two-week Lebanese war yesterday, when nine soldiers were killed, including eight in a well-planned ambush that turned into fierce six-hour, house-to-house battle inside a Hezbollah stronghold.
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Benny Avni / New York Sun:
Annan's Claims On Casualties May Unravel — UNITED NATIONS — An apparent discrepancy in the portrayal of events surrounding the deaths of four unarmed U.N. observers in Lebanon threatens to unravel Secretary-General Annan's initial accusation that Israel "deliberately" targeted the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
Sandra Jones / Chicago Tribune:
Wal-Mart focus on close-in suburbs — Passage of city bill requiring big-box stores to pay `living wage' likely to cause retail giant to turn to strategy of ringing city with Supercenters — The world's largest retailer suffered a blow on Wednesday when Chicago aldermen passed a bill …
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Deanna Bellandi / Associated Press:Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — War on Words — Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki spoke this morning to a joint meeting of Congress, and some Democrats seized an opportunity to burnish their credentials as supporters of Israel, CNN reports: … Well, what exactly did al-Maliki say? Here are some quotes:
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New York Times:
World Powers Fail to Agree on Plan to End Fighting, Underscoring U.S. Influence on Israel — ROME, July 26 — World powers failed to agree Wednesday on a plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, underscoring the power of the United States to prevail when it comes to dealing with Israel.
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
A Few Questions — Why does the president call the secretary of state "Condi"? And what exactly is his philosophy? — Why does President Bush refer in public to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "Condi"? Did Dwight Eisenhower call his Secretary of State "Johnny"?
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
'Waiting to Get Blown Up' — Some Troops in Baghdad Express Frustration With the War and Their Mission — BAGHDAD, July 26 Army Staff Sgt. Jose Sixtos considered the simple question about morale for more than an hour. But not until his convoy of armored Humvees had finally rumbled …
Associated Press:
Tour de France winner failed drug test in race — Team to dismiss Landis if excessive level of testosterone confirmed — Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site.
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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Reynolds airs his ads early — Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), who is in charge of keeping Congress in GOP hands this fall, surprised the political establishment yesterday by airing an early television advertisement that made no mention of his party affiliation.
Rolling Stone:
Iran: The Next War — Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country. Their covert campaign once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies. But this time, the target was Iran. BY JAMES BAMFORD
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Overseas Tensions Force Bush to Change Direction — The latest crisis in the Middle East has disrupted President Bush's plans domestically and internationally at a sensitive juncture, reopening divisions with allies abroad and jeopardizing attempts to restore public confidence at home, according to officials, analysts and diplomats.
New York Times:
Poll Shows Skepticism in U.S. Over Peace in Mideast — Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about the state of affairs in the Middle East, with majorities doubtful there will ever be peace between Israel and its neighbors, or that American troops will be able to leave Iraq anytime soon …
Tim Starks / CQ.com:
House Panel Faults Pace of U.S. Intelligence Overhaul — A House subcommittee has concluded that the Bush administration has been slow to implement major changes in information sharing and other key provisions of the 2004 law that overhauled the U.S. intelligence community.
Media Matters for America:
CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "[A]re we living in the last days?" … For the second time in three days, CNN featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East. The July 26 edition of CNN's Live From …
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
A Winning Strategy for the Democrats: Barter for Free Trade — To understand why Democrats can't win elections, all you had to do was attend yesterday's symposium at the Brookings Institution put on by the Hamilton Project, an effort by the (Bill) Clinton economic braintrust to generate new ideas and a Democratic election agenda.
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Derrick Z. Jackson / Boston Globe:
A message for Democrats — WASHINGTONNANCY PELOSI bared fangs to show that the Democratic Party no longer has toothless gums. On national security, she said, ``When you think of women and defense and security, think of a lioness. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead.
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
For Some Jews, Israel and Iraq Cloud View on Lieberman — HARTFORD, July 26 — Lesley Korzennik walked into a diner in Norwalk recently hoping to vent her frustrations with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman — over his continued support for the war, among a litany of other things. "I'm furious at him," she said.
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