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4:40 AM ET, July 31, 2006

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Richard / EU Referendum:
Milking it?  —  Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be.  As this piece tells us: … But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value".  These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers …
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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
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Crisis Could Undercut Bush's Long-Term Goals  —  The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults.  They struck at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and illustrated in heart-breaking images …
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
US: IAF to suspend activity over Lebanon for 48 hours  —  Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon after it bombed a Lebanese village on Sunday and a number of children died, a US official said.  —  The attack marred US Secretary of State Condoleezza …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
JUST WONDERING  —  This AFP photograph shows Beirut demonstrators with a giant poster of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that was used in a rally protesting the accidental killing of civilian human shields, along with terrorists, in Qana:  —  What seems odd about this is that the banner …
Discussion: TigerHawk, Israel Matzav and TBogg
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Days of darkness  —  In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything.  The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying.
Tom Perry / Reuters:
Lebanese crowd breaks into U.N. HQ in Beirut  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed at least 40 people in south Lebanon.
Discussion: WILLisms.com
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Many Arabs Applaud Hezbollah  —  U.S. Credibility Seen as Harmed By Aid to Israel  —  Ever since the seizure of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah sparked an Israeli offensive in Lebanon, Huda Fatani has set her alarm for 3:15 each morning, gotten up to perform her ablutions …
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Israel OKs temporary aerial suspension  —  JERUSALEM - Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon after its bombing of a Lebanese village on Sunday that killed a number of children.  —  The attack marred Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's mission to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:   IDF: 150 rockets fired from Kana
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
War By Tantrum II
Discussion: Rising Hegemon
Paul / THE WAR IN CONTEXT:
Qana strike: civilians in the line of fire
Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHEN DID THE BUILDING COLLAPSE?
Discussion: Solomonia and Haaretz
Seattle Times:
Community responds with sorrow, unity  —  The man accused of barging into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and killing one woman and wounding five others will be prosecuted on state murder and attempted-murder charges rather than federal hate-crime laws, officials said.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Bellevue woman killed in shooting identified
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Associated Press:
Annan Calls Emergency Meeting on Mideast  —  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike on a Lebanese village killed at least 56 people, most of them children.  —  The meeting was called, at the request …
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Slips Imperil Senate Career  —  As Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman flew home from Iraq last November, his wife urged him to sleep.  But an energized Lieberman worked his Blackberry, typing an account of the progress he saw in Iraq.  —  His upbeat article would be published in the Wall Street Journal under …
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:   Connecticut Rallies for Lamont
Craig Howie / Scotsman:
Jewish groups call for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson  —  JEWISH groups have demanded Mel Gibson be investigated for hate crimes after the Hollywood star allegedly made anti-Semitic comments to US police officers when he was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving and speeding.
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Tom Lasseter / theolympian.com:
Officials: There 'aren't enough troops' to fix problems in Iraq  —  Military says 3,700 more troops are headed to Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Bush administration's decision to move thousands of U.S. soldiers into Baghdad to quell sectarian warfare before it explodes into outright civil war underscores …
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Time:   Even Churchill Couldn't Figure Out Iraq
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.
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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.
Damien Cave / New York Times:
As a Tactic, Starving Is Found Wanting  —  SADDAM HUSSEIN ended his 19-day hunger strike last Wednesday with a meal of beef, rice and Coca-Cola, but he had little to show for his starvation.  Iraqis in particular, living day-to-day with brutal sectarian violence, viewed Mr. Hussein's self-sacrifice as an insult.
Discussion: Rantingprofs
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 …
Associated Press:
Youngest son of Sen. John McCain joins Marine Corps  —  18-year-old likely to  —  July 30.  —  he youngest son of Sen. John McCain has joined the Marine Corps and could be deployed to a war zone in a matter of months, according to a magazine report.  —  Jimmy McCain, 18, will begin basic training in September.
 
 
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Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
Officers slam suspension of airstrikes
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
'The Putting of First Things First'  —  The revival of the romance …
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Dan Savage / New York Times:
Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing
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