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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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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.
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 …
Haaretz:
Rice says time for cease-fire after IAF strike kills 54 people in Qana — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking after the Israel Air Force strike bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana, said it was time for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Chris Tinkler / NEWS.com.au:
These are the pictures that damn Hezbollah — Graphic images smuggled out from Lebanon show how Hezbollah is waging war amid suburban homes. — A stream of images, obtained exclusively by the News Ltd, depicts how the extremists are using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy calibre weapons.
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 …
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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.
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Curt Woodward / Associated Press:
Seattle suspect allegedly ambushed girl — SEATTLE - The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said Saturday.
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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.
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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 …
Ynetnews:
IDF: Qana building fell hours after strike — IDF continuing to check difficult incident at Qana village, and attempting to account for strange gap between time of the strike on the building - midnight - and eight in the morning, when the building collapsed
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.
Nico / Think Progress:
Zakaria: Rumsfeld 'Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged' — Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria ripped into Donald Rumsfeld this morning on ABC's This Week. Watch it: — Transcript: … Zakaria may have been referencing Rumsfeld's "glib" remarks last week when asked whether Iraq was getting "closer to a civil war":
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.
Varifrank:
THINGS ARE NOT QUITE AS THEY APPEAR TO BE — Israeli soldier (later Major General Yossi Ben Hanan) cools off in the Suez Canal in the Six Day War. Note captured AK-47 rifle. Israeli soldiers often traded their unreliable carbines and short-range Uzis for AK-47s taken from captured or killed Arab soldiers.