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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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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.
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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.
CNN:
Video provokes questions of Lebanese army — Lebanese forces move southward; Beirut airport reopens — BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A video showing Lebanese soldiers cordially offering Israeli troops glasses of tea during the military offensive earlier this month has hit Israeli and Hezbollah airwaves.
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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.
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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:U.N. Official Warns of Major New Sudanese Offensive in Darfur
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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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Bernard McGhee / Associated Press:
Andrew Young Steps Down From Wal-Mart — ATLANTA — Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he was stepping down from his position as head of an outside support group amid criticism for remarks seen as racially offensive.
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
New Limits Set Over Marketing for Cigarettes — A federal judge ordered strict new limitations on tobacco marketing on Thursday after finding that cigarette makers deserved to be punished for a decades-old conspiracy to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking.
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Would Party Forgive Joe? — Lieberman Says Democrats Can Count On Him If He Wins; Vice Versa Is Iffy — WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman says he'll stick with the Democrats if he wins his third-party re-election bid - but will the Democrats stick with him?
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Post Editorial Board tell us how serious, high-minded people should talk about Presidential law-breaking — For the last four years, the Bush administration has deliberately violated multiple laws because it has adopted radical theories which vest law-breaking powers in the President.
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Washington Post:A Judicial Misfire — THE NATION would benefit from a serious …
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
7 Killed as Full-Scale Sectarian Fighting Rages in Baghdad — A car bombing in the Sadr City district of Baghdad killed at least seven people and wounded more than 20 on Thursday morning, the authorities said. — The blast was the latest of several recent attacks in the district …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
It sounded so good to start with. But where did it all go wrong, George? — "HOW'M I DOIN'?" was the question the quixotic Ed Koch used to ask New York's voters during Hizzoner's eleven turbulent years as the city's mayor. For a man who governed the globe's most neurotic metropolis …
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Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Hagel awaits nation's mood — In the tenth August of his Senate career, this is a time of reflection for Chuck Hagel. Decision time comes later, and it can wait. — Gliding above the green hills of northeastern Nebraska this week in a King Air bound from Norfolk to Sioux City, the shirtsleeved senator embraces the moment.
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Republicans Losing The 'Security Moms' — Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost …
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Julian Sanchez / American Prospect:
My Summer Reading Journal — George W. Bush reads Camus (as told to Julian Sanchez). — August 4: For my summer vacation, I decided to read The Stranger by Albert Camus (in American). I decided this for a couple reasons. For one, there was this other book Terror and Liberalism …
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