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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.
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CNN:
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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Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel
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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:
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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.
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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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 …
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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," …
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Give It Up, Joe — Sore loser Lieberman is fighting for his job, not the good of his party. — THE LONGER Sen. Joe Lieberman's reelection campaign in Connecticut goes on, the harder it gets to detect any rationale for his candidacy that's persuasive to anybody who isn't Joe Lieberman.
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Rachel Sklar / The Huffington Post:The Difference Between "News" And "Smear"
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:Tell It Like It Is — Russ Feingold was blunt on ABC's This Week …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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.
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.
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