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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Lieberman Assails Lamont Over Supporter's Blog Post — The bitter Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut erupted in fresh controversy Wednesday over a doctored photo of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) in blackface that was posted by a blogger who has been an influential promoter of challenger Ned Lamont.
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Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
New poll shows Lieberman losing ground — HARTFORD, Conn. - Millionaire businessman Ned Lamont opened a double-digit lead over veteran Sen. Joe Lieberman less than a week before Connecticut's Democratic primary, according to a poll released Thursday. — Lamont, a political novice …
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Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Lieberman rips W's war plan — Embattled Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman - facing a possible primary defeat Tuesday because of his strong backing for the Iraq war - yesterday launched a Hail Mary attack on the Bush administration's handling of the war. — "I supported our war in Iraq …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Tom Delay hearts Joe Lieberman
Tom Delay hearts Joe Lieberman
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Washington Times:
Senate votes to fund the fence — The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending.
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Haaretz:
Lebanese hospital: Number of casualties from Qana air strike is 28, not 52 — A Tyre hospital on Thursday revised the number of casualties resulting from Israel's air strike on the south Lebanese village of Qana from 52 down to 28. — On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch questioned the death toll in the Qana attack.
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Israel/Lebanon: End Indiscriminate Strikes on Civilians — Some Israeli Attacks Amount to War Crimes — Israeli forces have systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in their military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said in report released today.
BBC:
Iraq civil war warning for Blair — Civil war is a more likely outcome in Iraq than democracy, Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad has warned Tony Blair in a confidential memo. — William Patey, who left the Iraqi capital last week, also predicted the break-up of Iraq along ethnic lines.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Harry Reid May Ask Senator Clinton to Preempt Presidential Ambitions to Succeed Him as Senate Majority/Minority Leader — Some high level Democratic Party political insiders have shared with TWN details of a potential shift in vectors for several of the major political stars in that party.
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Reuters:
Iran frees bin Laden son -German newspaper —Text+BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday. — Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border.
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
No Más — Castro may be dead. It's time to kill Castroism. — It has long been my bitter hunch that the man I can't help think of as the last monster of the 20th century, Fidel Castro, creator and warden of the floating prison to our south, would die of old age in a big brass bed …
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Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Hezbollah: No Cease-Fire Without Pullout — Hezbollah's chief spokesman said Thursday that his group will not agree to a cease-fire until all Israeli troops leave Lebanon. "Declaring a cease-fire is not the concern of the people of Lebanon as long as there is one Israeli soldier …
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Ohio Man Claims Right To Have Sex With Boys — Admitted Pedophile Says Children Can Consent — CLEVELAND — It was probably not a defense the court had heard before. — A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment …
Robert Pape / New York Times:
Ground to a Halt — ISRAEL has finally conceded that air power alone will not defeat Hezbollah. Over the coming weeks, it will learn that ground power won't work either. The problem is not that the Israelis have insufficient military might, but that they misunderstand the nature of the enemy.
Damien Cave / New York Times:
In Iraq, It's Hard to Trust Anyone in Uniform — A Baghdad tailor worked on military and police uniforms. The government plans to introduce new uniforms that will be difficult to copy. — The camouflaged Iraqi commandos who kidnapped 20 people from a pair of central Baghdad offices …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Doubling Two Bad Bets? — If you think there is an echo in the air when officials discuss the twin crises in Iraq and Lebanon, you're not hearing things. In both cases the argument for carrying on the destructive current policy comes down to a claim that "we can't afford to let the other guy win."
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David Stout / New York Times:
Grief and Sacrifice Reach Into the Halls of Congress — "We loved him dearly, and we'll miss him more than words can ever express," said a man from Montana on Tuesday upon learning that his nephew had been killed in Iraq. — Words like those have been uttered thousands of times in big cities …
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Tony Karon / Time:
Who Is Winning the Peace in Lebanon? — Analysis: The question being fought out on the battlefield and in the diplomatic chambers boils down to this: Can Hizballah be allowed to emerge with its head held high? — Even as Israel extends its military's reach deeper into Lebanon …
Agence France Presse:
Rare snowfall across South Africa — JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Snow fell on South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg for the first time in 25 years as icy temperatures gripped vast swathes of the country, the weather office said. — "It (the snow) is by no means freakish but I would certainly classify …
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