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4:25 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."
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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...
Dan / Riehl World View:   Media Bias Issue Heating Up
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  —  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
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.
Discussion: Riehl World View, AbbaGav and Wizbang
Jerusalem Post:
Lebanese cabinet accepts UN cease-fire
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'
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air, BuzzMachine and TigerHawk
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
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Economist's View
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
 
 
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Bonanza!  —  Speaking of Karl Rove being back in the saddle …
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A Boost for Lamont as Democratic Leaders Shift Support
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
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Marcus Mabry / MSNBC:
The Ripple Effect  —  The foiled airline plot boosts President …
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