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12:00 PM ET, August 2, 2006

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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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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.
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:   Israel Launches Deepest Lebanon Strike
Washington Post:
Israel Moves Thousands Of Soldiers Into Lebanon
Discussion: New York Times
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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Associated Press:
Source: Haditha evidence implicates Marines  —  Investigators reportedly finish initial review in deaths of 24 civilians  —  WASHINGTON - Evidence collected on the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliberately shot the civilians, including unarmed women and children …
Discussion: A Blog For All
Rosemary Bennett / Times of London:
We must rethink the War on Terror - Blair  —  Read Blair speech in full  —  FIVE years into the War on Terror, Tony Blair called yesterday for a "complete renaissance of our strategy" to defeat militant Islam.  —  Speaking in Los Angeles, the Prime Minister admitted that the use of force alone …
Discussion: NO QUARTER
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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 …
MSNBC:
Evolution's foes lose ground in Kansas  —  Darwin's defenders increase their strength on Board of Education  —  TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Associated Press:
Evolution opponents lose control of Kansas school board
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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Jeremiah Marquez / Associated Press:
Gibson asks Jews for help in healing
Keith Epstein / TBO.com:
Ex-Aide: Harris Hid Subpoena  —  More from this channel:  —  This feature requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin.  Please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/ getflashplayer to download this plugin.  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris received a grand jury subpoena …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and First Draft
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Hill fries free to be French again  —  The fries on Capitol Hill are French again.  —  So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom."  —  Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names …
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 …
Frank J. Gaffney / Opinion Journal:
One War  —  In its war on terror, the U.S. would never accept the limits being pushed on Israel.  —  WASHINGTON—On Sept. 11, 2001, a freedom-loving nation was attacked by a terrorist organization operating from the territory of a sovereign state with the acquiescence, if not the active complicity, of the latter's government.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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.
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 …
Discussion: Yourish.com and Israellycool
Sameer Yacoub / Associated Press:
Iraq vows security takeover this year  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will assume security duties for the whole country by the end of the year, taking over responsibility from U.S. and other foreign troops now policing all but one of the 18 provinces.
Washington Post:
Much Undone In Rebuilding Iraq, Audit Says  —  A flailing Iraq reconstruction effort that has been dominated for more than three years by U.S. dollars and companies is being transferred to Iraqis, leaving them the challenge of completing a long list of projects left unfinished by the Americans.
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The Agonist
 
 
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
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Jerusalem Post:
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White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts
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