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9:55 AM ET, August 7, 2006

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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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Assaf Uni / Haaretz:
Reuters admits image of Beirut after IAF strike was doctored  —  The Reuters news agency admitted Sunday that it had published a doctored photograph of Beirut after an Israel Air Force strike on Saturday morning.  —  In the original image, thin smoke can be seen rising over the Lebanese capital …
Discussion: BAGnewsNotes and Rising Hegemon
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REUTERS CALLS THE DOCTOR, TAKE 2  —  Rusty Shackleford discovers "Another fake Reuters photo from Lebanon."  Rusty writes that "What is a passed as a photo showing an Israeli bombing raid against a 'village' is actually of an F-16 taking defensive measures."  And reader Robert Opalecky writes:
Dan / Riehl World View:
Hajj Busted Again - Two Media Busts In One
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Jeff Harrell / The Shape of Days:   Another faked photo by Adnan Hajj
Associated Press:
Lieberman shows signs cutting into Lamont lead, poll shows  —  HARTFORD, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, fighting for his political survival, appears to be cutting into challenger Ned Lamont's lead the day before Connecticut's Democratic primary election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.
Discussion: The RCP Blog and My Left Nutmeg
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New York Times:
Lieberman Explains His Stance on Iraq  —  Senator Joseph I. Lieberman directly confronted the anger roiling the Democratic Party over Iraq yesterday, making a last-ditch attempt to explain his support for the war and to win back doubting voters in Connecticut before the state primary election tomorrow.
Discussion: Wonkette, LamontBlog and BOPnews
Jill Zuckman / Chicago Tribune:
Lieberman trailing badly in polls; turnaround seems unlikely
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
14 Hezbollah fighters killed in heavy exchanges of fire with IDF ground troops  —  Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed 14 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon combat early on Monday.  —  Infantry troops from the Nahal Brigade encountered a Hezbollah cell in the village of Houla and a fierce gun battle broke out.
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Haaretz:
Six killed as 400 rockets pound North
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Orde F. Kittrie / Opinion Journal:
A War Crime at Qana?
Discussion: Power Line and Blue Crab Boulevard
Washington Post:
Air Attacks Intensify In Lebanon, Israel
Discussion: Whiskey Bar and The Heretik
Reuters:
IAF destroys home believed to store weapons in northern Gaza
Discussion: Ynetnews
Martin Peretz / Opinion Journal:
Lieberman  —  The "peace" Democrats are back.  It's a dream come true for Karl Rove.  —  We have been here before.  Left-wing Democrats are once again fielding single-issue "peace candidates," and the one in Connecticut, like several in the 1970s, is a middle-aged patrician …
Eric Heyl / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Ney drops out of fall race  —  TRIBUNE-REVIEW  —  Entangled in the scandals involving former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, embattled U.S. Rep. Robert Ney is ending his re-election bid.  —  Although Ney had vowed to stay in the race even if he is indicted, the Ohio Republican decided last week to bow out.
Discussion: On Deadline
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:   Rep. Bob Ney Will Not Seek Reelection
Joe Danborn / Associated Press:   Rep. Bob Ney won't seek re-election
Mary Pemberton / Associated Press:
Major Alaskan oil field shutting down  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In a sudden blow to the nation's oil supply, half the production on Alaska's North Slope was being shut down Sunday after BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. discovered severe corrosion in a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line.
Scott Michels / US News:
For Gays, New Math  —  Rethinking tactics after a series of setbacks nationwide  —  After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized gay marriage in 2003, and gay and lesbian couples began to wed in San Francisco and Portland, Ore., soon after, it seemed to Lisa Stone that a new era was sweeping the country.
Aparisim Ghosh / Time:
Baghdad Diary  —  A knot begins to form in my stomach exactly at 8 a.m., when I step into the small Fokker F-28 jet that will take me and 50 other passengers from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad.  I know what lies ahead: an hour's uneventful flying over unchanging desert, followed by the world's scariest landing …
Kirstin Downey / Washington Post:
Feeling Unwelcome, Some Gays Vacate Virginia  —  November Ballot Ban Helps Fuel Migration  —  Edel Quinones lived in Virginia for 10 years, but early this year, he sold his Arlington townhouse to move to the District.  —  "It felt like I wasn't welcome anymore," he said.
Bill Blakemore / Black Voices:
Super Computers Make Global Warming Visible  —  Machine Predicts Rising Temperatures as Escaping Gas Bubbles Up Through the Sea  —  Whatever climate scientists may currently disagree about (and good scientists are always disagreeing about something) virtually all of them have long since agreed …
Siobhan Gorman / Baltimore Sun:
NSA risking electrical overload … WASHINGTON // The National Security Agency is running out of juice.  —  The demand for electricity to operate its expanding intelligence systems has left the high-tech eavesdropping agency on the verge of exceeding its power supply, the lifeblood …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and The Next Hurrah
 
 
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