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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon — Another photo by Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj has been shown to be doctored. The photo, which proports to be of an Israeli F-16 firing missiles on Lebanon has been doctored to make the photo seem more sensational. — Here is the original Reuters photo along with its caption.
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Reuters:
Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image — Source: Reuters — LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Hajj Busted Again - Two Media Busts In One — Update: CHIT! I just clicked back and it dawned on me DOH! That's likely the sand showing through the door. Dammit. — Fortunately, there's enough else there to, I believe, disprove the ambulance theory.
Jerusalem Post:
Reuters admits to doctoring Beirut photo — In the most recent in a series of online controversies to take on the mainstream media, a series of Web sites discredited a Reuters photograph of the fighting in Lebanon, forcing the news agency to issue an apology and remove the image from their archives.
Ynetnews:
Reuters admits altering Beirut photo
Reuters admits altering Beirut photo
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New York Times:
Lieberman Makes Final Push to Fend Off Lamont — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and his Democratic challenger, Ned Lamont, spent the final Sunday of their Connecticut primary race reaching out to voters at church, while Mr. Lieberman also prepared to deliver a major speech this evening on the war in Iraq.
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Media Matters for America:
ABC's Roberts: "Disaster" for party if Democrats nominate candidate who agrees with Americans on Iraq … During a panel discussion on the August 6 broadcast of ABC's This Week, ABC News chief congressional analyst Cokie Roberts asserted that it would be "a disaster for the Democratic Party" …
Ynetnews:
Israeli Arabs: Finish off Nasrallah — Latest barrage on city of Haifa leaves three killed, dozens wounded. Injured recall: We heard sirens, didn't escape in time. Israeli Arabs agree over Israel's failure to 'finish off' Nasrallah once and for all — Vered Luvitch
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Aron Heller / Associated Press:
Israel strikes Qana after rocket barrage — KFAR GILADI, Israel - Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest rocket attack on northern Israel on Sunday, killing 12 reserve soldiers with a single missile at this kibbutz and killing at least three people and wounding dozens more with a barrage against Haifa.
New York Times:
Hezbollah Rocket Kills 12 in Deadliest Blow to Israel — A Hezbollah rocket killed 12 Israeli soldiers today in the deadliest single blow to Israel in nearly a month of fighting, while Israel again pounded Lebanon with airstrikes, killing at least 16 people in another intense …
Inigo Gilmore / Observer:
Israeli pilots 'deliberately miss' targets — Fliers admit aborting raids on civilian targets as concern grows over the reliability of intelligence — At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt.
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Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Unsound Methods — I wrote a few days ago that Israeli political …
Unsound Methods — I wrote a few days ago that Israeli political …
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Associated Press:
Hezbollah rockets strike Israel's third-largest city, killing at least 1 — HAIFA, Israel (AP) — A barrage of Hezbollah rockets crashed into Haifa on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding more than 30, officials said, in the heaviest attack on the port city since fighting …
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DFH / Drinking From Home:
Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition — Either this woman is the unluckiest multiple home-owner in Beirut, or something isn't quite right. … Same clothes, same scar on her left cheek, same mark under her right eye. Two pictures of the same woman, maybe even taken on the same day. — So, what gives?
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New York Times:
A Timetable Isn't an Exit Strategy — As America's military experience in Iraq grows ever more nightmarish, it is becoming clear that President Bush's strategy comes down to this: Keep holding to a failing course for the next 29 months and leave it to the next administration to clean up the mess.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Connecticut Primary Is D-Day For Joe Lieberman And The Democratic Party — Tuesday is truly "D-Day" for Joe Lieberman and the Democratic party. — For Lieberman, will it be the day Democrats defeat his re-nomination bid and send him (and others) a message that he is outside what many anti-war …
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Advocates of 'proportion' are just unbalanced — "Disproportion" is the concept of the moment. Do you know how to play? Let's say 150 missiles are lobbed at northern Israel from the Lebanese village of Qana and the Israelis respond with missiles of their own that kill 28 people.
Wathiq Khuzaie / MSNBC:
Exclusive: Iraq-Plans in Case of a Civil War — A Nation Divided: An Iraqi man is injured in a car bomb explosion — The Bush administration insists Iraq is a long way from civil war, but the contingency planning has already begun inside the White House and the Pentagon.