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10:10 PM ET, August 12, 2006

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Staged Shots from Lebanon?  Please comment...  This link was provided in another post but I thought it deserved a thread of its own.  It shows an unidentified man apparently staging for the cameras a photo which essentially uses dead children as props......first of all I am appauled …
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Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
Lebanon photos: Take a closer look  —  THE controversy this week over Reuters' distribution of digitally manipulated, falsely labeled and — probably — staged photos of the fighting in Lebanon hasn't been nearly as large as it should have been.  —  Credit for bringing the sordid business …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hezbollywood: Photog accuses stringers of digging up bodies?  (Update: Photos added)  —  I'm adding the question mark because we don't know yet if the guy who said it is who he says he is.  But if it's true — if — then Ace is right: it's "a serious, meltdown level scandal for the media."
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
BANG: Photographer Admits To Seeing Lebanese Pose Bodies And Even Dig Bodies Up From Graves For Presentation To the Media  —  Above The Fold Photo From "Chiah": Another alternate spelling, Donnah tells me.  —  Fresh bodies don't smell, dude.  What's with the surgical mask/makeshift air filter?
Little Green Footballs:
Photographer Alleges Unearthing of Bodies  —  From the international photographer's forum Lightstalkers.org, photojournalist Bryan Denton, in a message from Beirut Lebanon, describes the most vile sort of photo staging imaginable: Lightstalkers ::  Staged Shots from Lebanon?  Please comment...
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah: We will abide by cease-fire  —  Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday that his organization would abide by the United Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire although he was not completely satisfied with its text.  —  Nasrallah's announcement came …
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Israel to Halt War in Lebanon on Monday  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israel will halt its war in Lebanon at 7 a.m. Monday (midnight EDT Sunday night), a senior Israeli government official said Saturday.  —  The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter.
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MSNBC:
Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests  —  British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says … MSNBC TV  —  LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot …
John Solo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Bureaucracy impedes bomb-detection work  —  WASHINGTON — As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new explosives detection technology.  Congressional leaders rejected the idea …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador Says Iran Is Inciting Attacks  —  Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the American ambassador to Iraq said Friday.  Iran may foment even more violence as it faces off …
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Dave Eberhart / NewsMax.com:
Expert: Iran Poised To Be 'Mother of All World Threats'
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
FAQ - Special "Peace In Our Time" Edition!  —  1) What would happen if all the Arab nations and their terrorist proxies like Hezbollah set down their arms and gave up their ambitions to drive Israel into the sea?  —  There would be peace in the Middle East.
Discussion: Kesher Talk
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: IDF reaches Litani; ceasefire set for 7 a.m. Monday …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A DEFEAT FOR ISRAEL  —  In "Sharon's strategy" (February 2005) I wrote: … Making the necessary changes to adjust for the present circumstances, including the intervening election of Prime Minster Olmert on Sharon's platform earlier this year, I can't do much better than that this morning.
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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Olmert faces backlash over Lebanon war
Marcus Mabry / MSNBC:
The Ripple Effect  —  The foiled airline plot boosts President Bush's terror ratings, but the new NEWSWEEK Poll finds a lot for Democrats to cheer as the midterm elections approach.  —  Charles Rex Arbogast / AP  —  Americans awakened to a new day of air travel on Aug. 10.
Greenskeeper / Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  Coverage of Lamont-Lieberman race: a case study in how anti-Dem narratives dominate political media — even as political threat level for Republicans rises to "severe"  —  In the wake of Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont's primary victory …
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Horse's Mouth
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
I was in Hitler's SS, admits Günter Grass  —  Germany was rocked by the revelations last night that Günter Grass, its greatest living author and doyen of the Left, was a member of Hitler's elite Waffen-SS.  —  The Nobel laureate, who has been the country's moral guide for decades …
Marc Gellman / MSNBC:
Joe and the Jews  —  Our columnist is mystified that so many Jewish voters deserted Sen. Joe Lieberman.  —  Joe Lieberman did not lose the Democratic primary because of his support for the war in Iraq.  He lost because of his lack of support from Jews.  Joe got the support of black Baptists …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Joe Lieberman And The Jews
Discussion: The Empire Zone
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Whose Issue Is Terrorism?  —  The Parties Maneuver for Advantage on National Security  —  The aggressive Democratic response to this week's foiled terrorist plot reflects a widely shared view among party strategists that intensified attacks against President Bush represent the best chance …
Associated Press:
3 Texas men arraigned on terror charges  —  CARO, Mich. - Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on terrorism-related charges after police found about 1,000 cell phones in their minivan.  —  Investigators believe the men were targeting the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.
 
 
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