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8:40 AM ET, July 28, 2006

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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Tide of Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah  —  DAMASCUS, Syria, July 27 — At the onset of the Lebanese crisis, Arab governments, starting with Saudi Arabia, slammed Hezbollah for recklessly provoking a war, providing what the United States and Israel took as a wink and a nod to continue the fight.
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canada.com:
Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield'  —  Canadian wrote of militia's presence, 'necessity' of bombing  —  Joel Kom, with files from Steven Edwards, CanWest News Service, The Ottawa Citizen  —  The words of a Canadian United Nations observer written just days before he was killed …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Making Enemies  —  Hamas and Hizbullah should not be confused with Al Qaeda.  Bush's insistence on doing so shows his failure to understand his foes.  —  July 26, 2006 - Reading "Fiasco," Thomas Ricks's devastating new book about the Iraq war, brought back memories for me.
Discussion: Firedoglake, Hullabaloo and The Agonist
Haaretz:
IAF knocks out Hezbollah missile command in Tyre  —  The Israel Air Force on Thursday scored a successful direct hit against Hezbollah's missile command center deployed in Tyre, which has been primarily responsible for targeting Haifa and its surroundings.  The regional command center …
Lin Noueihed / Reuters:   Oil spill adds ecological crisis to Lebanon's agony
Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
Israel OKs call-up of 30,000 reservists
Murray Brewster / canada.com:
Clinton calls on western leaders to broker Lebanese ceasefire
Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
Pander and Run  —  After years of struggling to define their own approach to post-Sept. 11 foreign policy, Democrats seem finally to have hit on one.  It's called pandering.  In those rare cases when George W. Bush shows genuine sensitivity to America's allies and propounds a broader …
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CNN:
Democrats launch 'Six for '06' agenda  —  Party unveils campaign themes, says elections will be about Bush  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Senate's top Democrat says 1994's "Contract with America," the Republican campaign agenda the year the GOP regained control of Congress — was an "urban myth."
Discussion: Associated Press
Sen. Harry Reid / The Huffington Post:   A New Direction  —  In my home state of Nevada, in Reno …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Detainee Abuse Charges Feared  —  An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts.
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
The Bush Administration Draft Hamdan Response Bill
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Andrew Sullivan
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Near a Vote to Increase U.S. Wage  —  WASHINGTON, July 27 — Under intense pressure from their moderate wing, House Republican leaders moved on Thursday toward allowing a vote Friday on an increase in the minimum wage before sending anxious lawmakers home for a month of campaigning in the battle for control of Congress.
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Warren Christopher / Washington Post:
A Time To Act  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's just-concluded trip to Lebanon, Israel and Rome was an exercise in grace, bravery and, to my regret, wrongly focused diplomacy.  Especially disappointing is the fact that she resisted all suggestions that the first order of business …
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Stephen Collinson / Agence France Presse:
Rice has Mideast on her mind at Asian summit
Discussion: All Spin Zone
Associated Press:
Cindy Sheehan Buys Property in Crawford  —  War protester Cindy Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre plot in Crawford with some of the insurance money she received after her son was killed in Iraq.  —  The group she helps lead, Gold Star Families for Peace, says on its Web site that it will return next month …
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BBC:
Execution of a teenage girl  —  A television documentary team has pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years ago in Iran.  —  On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka.
Radioblogger.com:
How critical is the Los Angeles Times' condition?  —  A picture, or better yet, a graph, is worth a thousand words.  —  As you can see, in 1970, nearly 1 out of 6 people living in the L.A. basin subscribed to the Los Angeles Times everyday.  While the population has multiplied almost 70% in the 35 years …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Christians Fleeing Lebanon Denounce Hezbollah  —  TYRE, Lebanon, July 27 — The refugees from southern Lebanon spilled out of packed cars into the dark street here Thursday evening, gulping bottles of water and squinting in the glare of the headlights to find family members and friends.
Enrique Krauze / Washington Post:
Kidnapping Mexican Democracy  —  MEXICO CITY — To illustrate the "ad terrorem" method by which truth was imposed in totalitarian societies, Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski told a story: Two girls race each other in a park, the one who is behind repeatedly proclaiming at the top of her lungs, "I'm winning!
Guardian:
Blair to tell Bush: we need a ceasefire  —  Drawn out Lebanon crisis will boost militants across Arab world, PM fears  —  Tony Blair will press George Bush today to support "as a matter of urgency" a ceasefire in Lebanon as part of a UN security council resolution next week, according to Downing Street sources.
Discussion: Political Animal
 
 
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