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Israel, Hezbollah step up attacks as cease-fire deadline nears — Israeli Cabinet OKs U.N. resolution — TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) — Israel and Hezbollah pounded targets with heavy missile barrages Sunday, looking to inflict maximum damage in the final hours before a cease-fire resolution was to go into effect.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Lebanon About To Fall — The cease-fire agreement appears to have created a crisis in Lebanon's government, as a Cabinet meeting of Siniora's government has been abruptly cancelled. The Cabinet was supposed to vote on a plan to deploy their army into southern Lebanon and to displace Hezbollah.
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 …
Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel — JERUSALEM - Hezbollah fired more than 250 rockets into Israel on Sunday, the fiercest attack against northern Israel since the fighting began more than a month ago, the Israeli army reported. One Israeli man was killed.
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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
British AQ Leader Seized? — The Times of London reports that one of the men rounded up in the collapse of the airliner plot this week is the head of al-Qaeda in the UK. The Times does not identify him by name, but apparently MI-5 knows him well: … The capture does more than throw …
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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 …
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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.
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
WATCHING LEBANON — In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive. "It's a moment of clarification," …
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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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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
An Issue of Fairness — mamayaga makes a superb point, in response to Byron Calame's explanation that withholding the NSA domestic spying story was an issue of fairness: … To which mamayaga asks: … Well, Calame doesn't really speak for all the major news media. But let's see how the NYT treated the OBL video:
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Newdonkey / NewDonkey.com:
Way Over the Line — Some days you open up your email and a message just jumps off the screen and flies up your—well, your sensibilities. That happened to me today when I read a toxic little note from self-styled populist avatar David Sirota ripping me apart for a post …
Senator Joseph Lieberman / Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Two Days After Primary, Lieberman Ahead by 5 — Lieberman 46%, Lamont 41% — Senator Joe Lieberman's decision to run as an Independent sets up a lively campaign season for Connecticut voters. In the first General Election poll since Ned Lamont defeated Lieberman in Tuesday's primary …
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil — Do you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned Someone with a sick feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic Someone distraught or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ahmadinejad starts his own blog (Update: Fake?) — Believe it. Al-Reuters has already written it up. — He was even thoughtful enough to provide an English translation. Click the little American/English flag icon on the right and you'll see. — There's an e-mail box where you can send him a message.
Anita Snow / Associated Press:
Paper prints Castro's birthday message — HAVANA - On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautioned Cubans on Sunday that he faced a long recovery from surgery and advised them to prepare for "adverse news," but he urged them to stay optimistic. As the Communist Youth newspaper published …
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