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11:40 PM ET, August 12, 2006

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Recent Posts at Lightstalkers:
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 …
Discussion: EU Referendum
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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."
Discussion: Riehl World View
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?
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 …
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...
Discussion: TownHall Main Blog
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.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Say Anything
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 …
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
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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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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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
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
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.
Independent:
Target Britain: Wave of attacks planned, say investigators  —  Terrorists in UK still possess huge arsenal of bombs and weapons.  Country remains under 'very severe' threat, security sources warn  —  Suspected terrorists were planning to unleash a wave of "apocalyptic" attacks on land and air …
Discussion: Hot Air and TigerHawk
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 …
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 …
 
 
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