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6:50 PM ET, July 30, 2006

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Chris Link / NEWS.com.au:
Photos that damn Hezbollah  —  THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah.  It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.  —  The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
A New Enemy Gains on the U.S.  —  POUND for pound and pounding for pounding, the Israeli military is one of the world's finest.  But Hezbollah, with the discipline and ferocity of its fighters and ability to field advanced weaponry, has taken Israel by surprise.
New York Times:
Israeli Strike Is Deadliest in Fighting So Far  —  A series of Israeli airstrikes in this small mountain town today killed dozens of people in the deadliest single attack in the war here so far, prompting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to postpone a trip to Lebanon …
Washington Post:
More Than 50 Killed in Israeli Airstrike  —  Israeli warplanes blasted a group of buildings in this southern Lebanese village Sunday, killing dozens of people, most of them women and children, according to Lebanese officials.  The Israeli military said the airstrike was aimed …
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan and Truthdig
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli attack  —  QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said.  It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.  Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead.
CNN:
Israeli air attack kills 60 civilians, including 19 children  —  Israel: Strike was 'mistake'; Rice returning to Washington  —  QANA, Lebanon (CNN) — Israel said it mistakenly destroyed a four-story building near a Hezbollah rocket-launching site in Qana, Lebanon, on Sunday where officials said 60 people died, including 19 children.
Discussion: The World Wide Rant
Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Lebanese PM thanks Hizbullah for 'sacrifices'
Discussion: Jerusalem Post
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:   The Show Must Go On  —  A few days ago a friend of mine …
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
What Next, Lebanon?  —  Consternation Grips Nation as It Again Looks Up From War's Ruins
Paul / THE WAR IN CONTEXT:
Civilians in the line of fire
Discussion: Whiskey Bar and One Hand Clapping
mfa.gov.il:   Incident in Qana  —  Hizbullah fires rockets from behind buildings
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
L.A. Times Editors: "We Just Can't Solve the Mystery of Why that Muslim Guy Shot All Those Jews"  —  What was the motive of the guy who shot up the Jewish Center in Seattle?  L.A. Times editor Dean Baquet says:  —  You got me!  —  Yes, if you ask the editors of the Los Angeles Times …
Discussion: Bring it On!
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Susan Levine / Washington Post:
Bills Soar As Many Hit Gap in Drug Plan  —  The calls are starting to come in from shocked or angry seniors.  They have just learned that their Medicare drug plans are maxing out on early coverage and that they must now spend $2,850 from their own pockets before coverage will resume.
Discussion: First Draft and BOPnews
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:   The West Wing Characters Become Lobbyists
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Professionalization of war is ghettoization of war  —  The other day National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez went to see Oliver Stone's new movie ''World Trade Center'' and remarked:  —  "It's about our love of family, and the work we'll do for them, and the joy they bring us.
Washington Post:
Mr. Lieberman's Strength  —  IN HIS BATTLE to win Democratic renomination to the U.S. Senate, Joseph I. Lieberman seems to be getting blamed in Connecticut for something that in Washington is an asset — and ought to be understood as such by Democratic voters back home.
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Report on Prewar Intelligence Lagging  —  Information Democrats Want Most Might Not Come Out Until After Election  —  When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid …
Washington Post:
Atlas Group Strives to Map Out Success for Democrats  —  Three of the Democratic Party's top field organizers have formed a group to provide their party's 2008 presidential nominee with road maps to victory in the dozen or so battleground states.  —  The effort is known as the Atlas Project …
Andrew Tilghman / Washington Post:
"I came over here because I wanted to kill people."  —  to kill people.  Over a mess-tent dinner of turkey cutlets, the bony-faced 21-year-old private from West Texas looked right at me as he talked about killing Iraqis with casual indifference.  It was February, and we were at his small patrol base about 20 miles south of Baghdad.
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The News Blog
 
 
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