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11:25 PM ET, August 18, 2006

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Bloomberg:
German Suitcase Bombs Were Primed to Go Off, Kill (Update2)  —  Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) — Two suitcases containing bottles of gasoline, propane gas and a detonating device that were found abandoned in German regional trains last month were bombs primed to go off and kill a ``high number'' of people, police said.
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David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:
Suspects Sought in Near Terror Disaster on German Trains  —  (By Ray D.)  —  According to reports circulating throughout the German media today, two suitcase bombs placed by two unidentified men very nearly went off on regional trains in Dortmund and Koblenz at the end of July.
Deutsche Welle:
German Police Release Bomb Suspect Images, Set Reward  —  The German Criminal Police Office on Friday released images taken from a surveillance camera of the two suspects in the attempted bombing of two trains.  Police believe the plot was an attempted terror attack.
Taylor Marsh:
John Bolton Won't Talk to Me  —  updated— … Okay, so let me get this straight.  —  John Bolton will give several interviews to drunken wingnut blogger of Atlas Shrugged, Pam Geller Oshry.  Her web bio states that "her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took …
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Scott T. Paul / boltonwatch.tpmcafe.com:   Question for Bolton: Is Islam the Enemy?
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Dirk Diggler's Atlas
David D. Perlmutter / Editor and Publisher:
Photojournalism in Crisis  —  The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism.  In twenty years of researching and teaching …
BBC:
Israel alarm at UN force members  —  Israel says it would be "difficult if not inconceivable" to accept nations which do not recognise its right to exist as part of a UN force in Lebanon.  —  Israeli UN envoy Dan Gillerman was speaking after Indonesia and Malaysia, which do not recognise Israel, pledged troops for the UN deployment.
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Associated Press:   France defends sending 200 troops
USA Today:
Officials: U.S. blocked missiles to Hezbollah  —  WASHINGTON — The United States blocked an Iranian cargo plane's flight to Syria last month after intelligence analysts concluded it was carrying sophisticated missiles and launchers to resupply Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, two U.S. intelligence officials say.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Moment to Be Seized in Lebanon
New York Times:
Bush Vows to Fight Wiretapping Ruling  —  President Bush said today that he is confident that a federal court ruling against his administration's electronic surveillance program will be overturned, and he described those who hailed the ruling as naïve.  —  "I would say that those who herald …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Hullabaloo and TPMCafe blogs
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New York Times:
Wal-Mart Image-Builder Resigns  —  The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years …
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Hotline On Call:
Lieberman's New Consultants: 1 R, 1D  —  Joe Lieberman's indie CT SEN campaign sent out a release to announce the hiring of two new consultants: media/direct mail consultant Josh Isay and pollster Neil Newhouse.  Isay mostly works with Dems, with his most prominent former employer being Sen. Chuck Schumer …
Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Supporters Scuffle At Candidate Forum  —  The increasingly contentious race between U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn and his main Democratic primary challenger, Donna Edwards, led to a police call during a forum Wednesday night when a member of Wynn's team allegedly hit a volunteer for Edwards's campaign.
Tbogg / ...a somewhat popular blogger:
Fill the cup  —  One more hour of Headline News and I'll be done  —  Apparently Ace is whining that there are Americans who don't act like seven year-old girls at their first Kiwanis Halloween Haunted House who screech and go,"Omigawdomigawdomigawd" and do the pee-pee dance every time that CNN …
Jim Stratton / grandforks.com:
Katherine Harris sees endorsements fizzle  —  ORLANDO, Fla. - Katherine Harris' attempt to boost her campaign with a series of high-profile endorsements wilted Thursday when none of the officials appeared at her campaign rally and one of them said Harris wrongly included him on her list of supporters.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Jesus' General
White House:
President Bush Meets with Economic Advisors  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming.  We've just finished a really informative meeting with my economic team.  I want to thank them for their service to the country.  I'm really proud to be serving the American people alongside them.
BBC:
Terror police find 'martyr tapes'  —  Police investigating an alleged plot to bring down airliners have found several martyrdom videos in the course of their searches, the BBC has learned.  —  Unofficial police sources said the recordings - discovered on laptop computers …
Daily Mail:
It's art, says the naked woman who'll hug a dead pig on stage  —  After pickled sheep, unmade beds and painting with elephant dung, some questioned where modern art could go next.  —  Kira O'Reilly will provide her own answer today by spending four hours naked, hugging a dead pig - at the taxpayer's expense.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Hotline On Call:
In South Carolina, A Major Endorsement For McCain  —  For John McCain, the road to the '08 nomination has several byways.  One of them is especially critical: identifying, and then mitigating, the roadblocks that kept McCain from winning the nomination last cycle.
Roy Spencer / TCS Daily:
'Cane Mutiny  —  What a difference one year makes.  With the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall (August 29, 2005) rapidly approaching, who would have predicted that we would now be in the middle of a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season?  Weren't the global warming pundits' predictions …
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Flight passengers describe hours of bizarre behavior  —  A self-described peace activist responsible for the diversion of a London-to-Washington flight Wednesday acted bizarrely for hours, made references to al Qaeda and hijack training flights, and was restrained by two passengers after she urinated in the aisle.
 
 
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