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6:50 AM ET, August 13, 2006

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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: Israel Matzav
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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...
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 … Now LGF is simply out of control.  —  The guy in question should know.  He's a photographer, posting on a forum for professional photographers, whose work has been published in the New York Times.
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: Backspin
Dan / Riehl World View:   Media Bias Issue Heating Up
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David Leppard / Times of London:
Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized  —  SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week's anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda's leader in this country.  —  Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring …
Telegraph:
University students at centre of terror plots  —  The recruitment of Muslim students at British universities to take part in terrorist attacks is at the heart of the alleged plot to blow up passenger jets, it is feared.  —  A dossier of extremist Islamic literature has been uncovered …
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Hot Air
Zahid Hussain / Times of London:
Airline terror plotters 'linked to 7/7 bombers'
Discussion: Associated Press
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Comment: An unmitigated disaster  —  There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel.  —  The resolution represents a near-total victory …
Discussion: Power Line, Don Surber and Decision '08
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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 …
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Israel to Halt War in Lebanon on Monday
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Say Anything
Jerusalem Post:
Lebanese cabinet accepts UN cease-fire
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 …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Calame: Times Lied About Timing Of NSA Article  —  The New York Times' public editor, Byron Calame, publishes a startling admision from Bill Keller regarding the publication delay of the most explosive story in his short reign as managing editor.  Earlier, when Keller told people …
RightGirl / Girl on the Right:
Hezbollah.  On our streets.  In our cities.  I am NOT making this up.  —  [Scroll for updates]  —  I attended the anti-Hezbollah rally in Toronto today, to counter to pro-Hezbollah rally that was taking place in front of the Israeli Consulate.  It is pretty terrifying to see such support …
Discussion: small dead animals
Bluto / The Jawa Report:
LA Times Article Bashes Media on Reutersgate  —  Cross-posted from The Dread Pundit Bluto  —  In an article that frankly, surprised me, the Los Angeles Times's Tim Rutten comes down hard on fellow journalists for failing to take the Reutersgate scandal seriously enough.
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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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 …
Discussion: Riehl World View, AbbaGav and Wizbang
Brad Bauer / mariettatimes.com:
Racial profiling?  —  Holding up newspaper clippings depicting their clients during their high school football days, defense attorneys of two Michigan men charged with aiding in terrorism called them "All-American kids" who were arrested because of a rush to judgment based on their names and race.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials  —  An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Economist's View
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Romney, Kerry spar over fight on terror  —  Governor raps senator for criticizing Iraq war  —  WASHINGTON — The terrorist attack foiled by British authorities prompted a battle of words yesterday between a pair of presidential contenders from Massachusetts, with Governor Mitt Romney lashing …
Discussion: LamontBlog
Spiegel Online:
"I Was a Member of the SS"  —  Just weeks before the publication of his autobiography, German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass admits that, between 1944-45, he was a member of Hitler's Weapons SS.  The author says the shame of his youthful naivety has long haunted him and that it will now be his "Scarlet Letter."
Discussion: Daimnation!
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