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6:15 AM ET, August 14, 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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Haaretz:
Tense calm across Lebanon as UN-brokered truce takes effect  —  A tense calm took the place of more than a month of bitter fighting between Israel and Hezbollah Monday morning, as a UN-brokered cease-fire went into effect.  —  Tension was high before and after the deadline.
Discussion: Political Animal and Israel Matzav
Agence France Presse:   Truce will be Israel's last, Lebanon envoy declares
Washington Post:   Israel Accepts U.N. Deal
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF vows tough response to cease-fire violations
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:   Hizbullah 'victory' boosts extremists
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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Susan Estrich / Fox News:
Voters Must Beware of Republicans' Terrorism Trap
Michael Barone / Opinion Journal:
Primary Colors  —  What sets Lieberman apart from fellow Democrats …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
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  —  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 …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Face up to your problem, Muslims told
Discussion: Observer
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 and Ace of Spades HQ
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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) …
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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).
Discussion: Hashmonean.com
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.
Yoav Stern / Haaretz:
Hezbollah torpedoes Lebanese gov't meeting on disarmament  —  A meeting of the Lebanese government on the disarming of Hezbollah south of the Litani River was canceled on Sunday following an announcement by the Shi'ite organization that it was not willing to discuss the subject.
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:
New York Times:
5 Bombs Kill at Least 57 in Baghdad  —  As American forces conducted a new security sweep in western Baghdad on Sunday, five apparently coordinated bombings in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood on the city's south side killed at least 57 people and wounded 148, an Iraqi government official said.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Did Hezbollah Do The Unthinkable?  —  I think we generally underestimate the horrible acts of which the most committed Islamo-fascists are capable.  I don't know why, given that we know they are capable of mass murder of innocents on airplanes or in buildings, but we do still underestimate them.
Pamela / Atlas Shrugs:
ATLAS INTERVIEWS JOHN BOLTON  —  **TOP THREAD** SCROLL FOR UPDATES AND NEW POSTS**  —  I had the enormous priviledge to sit down with John Bolton today and discuss at length the UNSC ceasefire, Israel, Hezb'Allah, the War on Islamofascism, Iran, August 22nd, the puppet government of Lebanon …
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  How Much Coverage of Terror Plots is Too Much?  ; Is Coverage of Mideast Conflict Fair?  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Thwarting terror.  The media are confronted with a potential 9/11 …
 
 
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