memeorandum: Rootless Cosmopolitans … Mike's much too nice a guy to come … (Billmon/Whiskey Bar)

11:35 PM ET, August 13, 2006

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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 …

Discussion: QandO, Liberty Street and Say Anything

Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Lebanon About To Fall — The cease-fire agreement appears …

Discussion: Flopping Aces, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Jay Currie, Jerusalem Post, Politics Central, Say Anything, Liberty and Justice, Right Wing Nut House, The Reaction, All Things Beautiful, Wizbang and Old War Dogs

CNN:
Israel, Hezbollah step up attacks as cease-fire deadline nears

Discussion: Riehl World View and Taylor Marsh

Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
On the UN Israel / Hizballah cease fire, cont.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Captain's Quarters, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Jerusalem Post and Dr. Sanity

Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel

Discussion: All Spin Zone

Nigel Morris / Independent:

Backlash over Muslims' letter to Blair — Muslim leaders will today face Government demands to take tougher steps to root our extremists in their midst. The demand follows a furious reaction by ministers to an open letter signed by Muslim organisations and politicians protesting …

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ

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News of the World:
IF YOU'RE A MUSLIM - IT'S YOUR PROBLEM

Discussion: USS Neverdock and Jay Currie

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Backlash: Al-Guardian(!) tells British Muslims to get it together …

Discussion: Don Surber, The Glittering Eye, Ace of Spades HQ, protein wisdom and AMERICAN FUTURE

Sydney Morning Herald:
Face up to your problem, Muslims told

Discussion: Observer and Times of London

Observer:
These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam

Discussion: Times of London, Outside The Beltway and BuzzMachine

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.

Discussion: ConnecticutBLOG, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and The Strata-Sphere

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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.

Discussion: All Spin Zone, LamontBlog, BlondeSense, Blogs for Bush, The Democratic Daily and Liberal Values

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

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 …

Discussion: Angry Bear, About Liberal Politics and The Reaction

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David / Crooks and Liars: Mehlman Won't Support Lieberman's GOP Challenger

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Connecticut May Be a 2008 Preview

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, The Next Hurrah and Thomas P.M. Barnett

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," …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Whiskey Bar, The Next Hurrah, The Left Coaster, Ezra Klein, NO QUARTER, Liberty Street, Middle Earth Journal, Whatever It Is …, The Sideshow, The News Blog, Bring it On!, Left I on the News and BrothersJudd Blog

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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NEWS.com.au:
Keelty shocked at suicide-baby bomb plot

Discussion: The Road to Surfdom, Gateway Pundit and Jihad Watch

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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Ian / Hot Air:
In Photos: ANSWER's anti-Semitic DC Demonstration

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Sister Toldjah and Euphoric Reality

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:

Discussion: Rantingprofs, Washington Post, The Sundries Shack, Israel Matzav, Cold Fury and Blue Crab Boulevard

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, TalkLeft and Liberal Values

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

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.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Clarity & Resolve

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.

Discussion: Say Anything, IMAO, Blue Crab Boulevard, RightWinged.com and bRight & Early