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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 …
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Tom Perry / Reuters:
Hizbollah says it will abide by ceasefire — BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah said on Saturday it would abide by any U.N.-backed ceasefire in Lebanon, but would resist Israeli troops expanding their offensive in the south. — Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas …
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah: We will abide by cease-fire
Nasrallah: We will abide by cease-fire
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Ministers vote 24-0 with one abstention
Ministers vote 24-0 with one abstention
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Liberty and Justice
Hindrocket / Power Line:
DESTINED TO FAIL — I don't disagree with the harsh assessments Paul …
DESTINED TO FAIL — I don't disagree with the harsh assessments Paul …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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."
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Byron Calame / New York Times:
Eavesdropping and the Election: An Answer on the Question of Timing — THE NEW YORK TIMES'S Dec. 16 article that disclosed the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping has led to an important public debate about the once-secret program. And the decision to write about the program …
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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 …
Washington Post:
Young Muslim Rage Takes Root in Britain — Unemployment, Foreign Policy Fuel Extremism — Naweed Hussain sat in his little real estate office Friday, trying to focus on spreadsheets instead of the angry clatter outside. — Furious young Muslim men crowded around the local mosque on his street, surrounded by television cameras.
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Times of London:
The enemy within — Few can have failed to shudder at the thought of a plot to blow up nine passenger planes and the intended mass murder of thousands of innocent people over the Atlantic. Whatever the outcome of the police investigation into a conspiracy that seems to have been stopped just in time …
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 …
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Senator Joseph Lieberman / Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Two Days After Primary, Lieberman Ahead by 5
Connecticut Senate: Two Days After Primary, Lieberman Ahead by 5
Michael J. Totten:
Inside Hezbollah's Free Fire Zone — NORTHERN ISRAEL - I teamed up with Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor at Azure Magazine in Jerusalem, and took a rental car through Hezbollah's shooting gallery to the front line on the Lebanese/Israeli border. Famed military historian Michael Oren …
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Little Green Footballs:
Stop the US-Israeli War Rally, San Francisco, August 12, 2006 — Zombie documents the insanity in San Francisco. — There's no other way to describe this. But you won't see any of these images in the mainstream media. — Stop the U.S.-Israeli War rally, San Francisco, August 12, 2006.
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.
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 …
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
The Diplomacy Prize Goes to France This Round — Around the United States and the world, there are high school, community college, and university exercises called "Model United Nations". Basically, students divide themselves into different national and regional clusters.
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