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Haaretz:
Report: Fierce fighting as IDF commandos launch raid deep in Lebanon — Israel Defense Forces commandos reportedly landed by helicopter late Tuesday night near the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek in what Lebanese security sources described as a major operation against suspected Hezbollah positions.
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CNN:
Israel strikes deep into Lebanon — Peres estimates end of fighting in a matter of weeks — BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon.
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
IDF commandos capture Hizbullah members after battle — After several hours of intense fighting in and around the in the eastern Lebanon town of Baalbek, which was built by Iran for the express purpose of treating Hizbullah operatives, IDF commando forces on Wednesday morning took a number of Hizbullah operatives captive.
Hussein Dakroub / Associated Press:
Israel seizes guerrillas in Lebanon raid — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel poured up to 10,000 armored troops into south Lebanon Tuesday, and separately sent commandos deep into the eastern Bekaa Valley where they raided a Hezbollah-run hospital and captured guerrillas during pitched battles, a major escalation of the three-week-old war.
Michael J. Totten:
Some Small Encouraging Signs — First, a huge caveat: — I don't know what's going to happen in Lebanon and Israel, okay? And I don't claim to know. Just about anything could happen in the next couple of weeks. Every option I can think of is possible short of Lebanon declaring …
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ThreatsWatch:
Hizballah Is On The Ropes — The Clock Ticks for Hizballah as Assad Loves His Palaces More Than Nasrallah — Amid the relentless images of the dead extracted from a building in Qana, amid the fiery anger those images generated - from Lebanon to Europe and from Egypt to Indonesia …
David Bauder / Associated Press:News agencies stand by Lebanon photos
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EU Referendum, The Volokh Conspiracy, Little Green Footballs, Blue Crab Boulevard, Roger Ailes and Israel Matzav
Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog: IDF Commando Raid in Baalbek, Deep in the Bekaa Valley; Hezbollah Members Captured
Nadim Ladki / Reuters:
Hizbollah bombards northern Israel — BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas bombarded northern Israel with rockets and fought up to 6,000 Israeli troops in Lebanon on Wednesday after Israel vowed to pursue the war until a strong international force arrived.
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Blue Crab Boulevard
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Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Israel Launches Deepest Lebanon Strike — BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon (AP) - Israel launched its deepest ground strike into Lebanon on Wednesday, claiming it killed 10 Hezbollah guerrillas and captured five in the northeastern city of Baalbek, while nearby air raids killed at least 15 civilians.
Ynetnews:
Long-range rocket lands near Jenin — Some of long-range rockets fired at Israel Wednesday land across Green Line, in West Bank area - most southern point Hizbullah has managed to hit so far. Police sappers believe rockets made in Syria — Ali waked — Some of the long range rockets …
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Turki Dinner — A REVEALING EVENING WITH THE SAUDI AMBASSADOR. — Saudi Arabian Ambassador Turki al-Faisal's remarks Monday night were as carefully tailored as his gray suit. He called for peace in the Middle East and a face-saving solution for all parties involved in the violence.
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Josh White / Washington Post:
Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit — Congressman Discussed Killings Involving Serviceman's Squad in Haditha, Iraq — A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming …
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Blue Crab Boulevard, Red Hot Cuppa Politics, The Bullwinkle Blog, Flopping Aces and RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Democrats Scrambling To Organize Voter Turnout — Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that they lack an effective plan to turn out voters this fall, creating tension among party leaders and prompting House Democrats to launch a fundraising effort aimed exclusively at mobilizing Democratic partisans.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records — A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday. — The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic …
Jason Apuzzo / LIBERTAS:
Mel Gibson, Conservatives & The Cult of Celebrity — The Gibson mug shot. — Disney has unsurprisingly cancelled Mel Gibson's Holocaust TV series that he had in development. [The Reuters article obnoxiously states: "The actor ... holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views."
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon — Allegations Brought to Inspectors General — Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort …
Aziz P / Dean's World:
game over — What is clear is that Hizbollah is not going to be defeated by airpower alone. Barring the political will in Israel to mount a full-scale invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani river, the presence of Hizbollah in southern Lebanon is unlikely to be dislodged …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Mideast Lessons From 1973 — Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking backward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. — That long-ago war, like the current one in Lebanon, began with an Arab sneak attack …
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