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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."
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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 …
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.
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...
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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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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: IDF reaches Litani; ceasefire set for 7 a.m. Monday (Update: Withdrawal in "a week or two") — IDF officials said yesterday, before the ceasefire, that it would take them a week to get to the river. Less than 24 hours later, with time now of the essence, some units are already there.
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 …
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Zahid Hussain / Times of London:
Airline terror plotters 'linked to 7/7 bombers'
Airline terror plotters 'linked to 7/7 bombers'
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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.
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 …