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8:35 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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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:
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
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.
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
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  —  Nearly 400 rockets were fired at the north over the weekend, killing six people.  This brings to 33 the number of Israeli civilians killed since the fighting in the north began on July 12.  —  Hezbollah fired 170 Katyushas across northern Israel yesterday.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Orde F. Kittrie / Opinion Journal:
A War Crime at Qana?
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Power Line
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
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Ynetnews:
Israeli Arabs: Finish off Nasrallah
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: BOPnews
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Jill Zuckman / Chicago Tribune:
Lieberman trailing badly in polls; turnaround seems unlikely
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 …
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 …
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Coverage of War in the Middle East  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR, RELIABLE SOURCES: War and more war.  As the Israeli/Lebanon conflict heads toward the second month …
Discussion: Vital Perspective and AMERICAblog
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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