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10:50 PM ET, August 13, 2006

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BBC:
Lebanon falters over truce detail  —  Crucial Lebanese cabinet talks on disarming Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon under a UN-brokered ceasefire have been put off.  —  A truce between Israel and Hezbollah is due to come into force at 0500 GMT.  —  The postponement, amid reported divisions …
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Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel
Discussion: All Spin Zone
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lamont Decries Lieberman Terror Remarks  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont, the anti-war candidate who toppled Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary, says he was surprised by Lieberman and Vice President Dick Cheney's claims that his victory could embolden terrorists.
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Edward M. Kennedy / Hartford Courant:
Demeaning Democracy  —  Cheney Paints Lamont Victory As Helping Terrorists  —  Vice presidents are notorious for serving as an administration's chief attack dog, and time and again Dick Cheney has been unleashed to accuse anyone who is opposed to the Bush administration of aiding the terrorists.
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Give It Up, Joe  —  Sore loser Lieberman is fighting for his job …
Discussion: Power Line and The Strata-Sphere
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Tell It Like It Is  —  Russ Feingold was blunt on ABC's This Week …
Discussion: Inactivist and Martini Republic
News of the World:
IF YOU'RE A MUSLIM - IT'S YOUR PROBLEM  —  WHEN will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted?  —  When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is WRONG?  —  Most of all, when will the Muslim community …
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Jay Currie
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Nigel Morris / Independent:   Backlash over Muslims' letter to Blair
Sydney Morning Herald:
Face up to your problem, Muslims told
Discussion: Observer and Times of London
MSNBC:
Transcript for Aug. 13  —  MR. DAVID GREGORY: Our issues this Sunday: the threat of terror.  Nearly five years after the September 11 attacks, a chilling new plot: terrorists planning to blow up airplanes bound for the U.S.  —  (Videotape):  —  SEC'Y MICHAEL CHERTOFF …
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David / Crooks and Liars:   Mehlman Won't Support Lieberman's GOP Challenger
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," …
Fiona Hudson / NEWS.com.au:
Bottle and baby used as bomb  —  Font size:  —  A HUSBAND and wife arrested in the British terror raids allegedly planned to take their six-month-old baby on a mid-air suicide mission.  —  Scotland Yard police are quizzing Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his 23-year-old wife Cossor over suspicions …
Discussion: The Asylum
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CharlesR / Age of Hooper:
OK.  Let me start off with kudos where kudos are due.  ANSWER hit a home run with this one.  Brian ... you're the man.  —  Ironically, it took a bunch of hyper-religious Muslims and anti-Semites with a message that they (the anti-Semites) just needed to share to pull their (ANSWER's) …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Pan-Islamism challenges idea of nation state  —  Here's how an early report by Reuters covered the massive terrorism bust in the United Kingdom.  They started out conventionally enough just chugging along with airport closures, arrest details and quotes from bystanders, but then got to the big picture:
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes  —  It killed me to cut the part where Mike Wallace told him how good he looked.  Fair use, as I've often said, is a stern mistress.  —  I also deliberately cut the part that's available in the sidebar at CBS (see update below).
Wall Street Journal:
Polls Shows More Americans Favor Democratic Candidate for Congress  —  A new poll shows an uptick in support for a Democratic candidate in the next Congressional elections.  —  When asked whom they would vote for "if elections for Congress were held today," 45% of U.S. adults said they would vote …
Reuters:
Iranian president lambasts US on new blog  —  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war.
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Rootless Cosmopolitans … Mike's much too nice a guy to come out say it, but I think its obvious that the big problem here is all the liberal doctors.  —  You gotta figure there's some kind of conspiracy behind it.
Discussion: This Modern World
Sean Gleeson:
"Not dead, just dying" says Castro  —  *** scroll down for updates *** The Adidas jacket found!  *** Fidel is not holding a newspaper, he is holding a proof copy.  —  On this 80th birthday of Fidel Castro, Juventud Rebelde, the Cuban periodical for communist youth, published four new photos of the dictator.
 
 
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Discussion: Firedoglake
Little Green Footballs:
Terrorism Supporters in Washington DC
Newdonkey / NewDonkey.com:
Way Over the Line  —  Some days you open up your email …
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Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Terror plot suspects bugged by MI5 'sneak and peak' teams
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Little Green Footballs:
A Fidel Fauxtograph?  —  A lot of people have emailed to ask …
Discussion: Power Line
Joshua Muravchik / Washington Post:
Standing By Bush  —  The Post reported recently on Page 1 that …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ahmadinejad starts his own blog (Update: Fake?)
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