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8:50 PM ET, August 27, 2006

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Fox News:
Captors Release Two FOX News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza Aug. 14  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.  —  The freeing of FOX correspondent Steve Centanni, 60 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Centanni, Wiig freed (Update: Conversion video added) (Update: A Gilad Shalit connection?)  —  The boss never sleeps.  —  "Khaled" celebrates his freedom:  —  There'll be some sort of video here soon.  Stand by for updates.  —  Update: There are four different video clips in the sidebar of Fox's article on this.
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Kidnapped Fox News Journalists Freed  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Militants freed two Fox News journalists on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, ending a nearly two week hostage drama in which one of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam.
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
Tim McGirk / Time:
The High Price of the Fox Kidnapping Release  —  The Hamas-led government won the freedom of the two journalists, but the deal may make it harder to gain the release of a captured Israeli soldier  —  Two Fox News journalists were freed on Sunday in Gaza after a complex deal was hammered …
DEBKAfile:
A Hostage Affair in Gaza is Ended by a Three-Part Ransom
Reuters:
Kidnapped Fox journalists convert to Islam on video
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
The War Tourists  —  My profession is an easy one to kick around …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Hyscience
CNN:
Kidnapped Fox journalists released
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Jawa Report
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Hezbollah head didn't foresee such a war  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.  —  Hezbollah guerrillas killed three Israeli soldiers …
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Lori Lowenthal Marcus / Weekly Standard:
What did you do in the war, UNIFIL?  —  DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.
BBC:
Nasrallah sorry for scale of war  —  Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.  —  "Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this …
Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah: Contacts underway for possible prisoner swap
Discussion: Power Line and Liberty and Justice
Telegraph:
UN will not stop Syria sending weapons to Lebanon
Discussion: Argghhh!
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The Man Who Said Too Much  —  A book coauthored by NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff details Richard Armitage's central role in the Valerie Plame leak.  —  Katsumi Kasahara / AP (l.)  ; Lawrence Jackson / AP  —  According to a new book, the State Department has known for years that Armitage (left) outed Plame
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The 'Hubris' Of Richard Armitage  —  Newsweek sneak previews an upcoming Isikoff/Corn book confirming the non-news that then-deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was Bob Novak's primary source for the Plame leak.  We certainly believe Armitgae was Novak's primary source for the Plame leak …
Greg Tinti / The Political Pit Bull:   VIDEO: "I'm sure he's talking about me."
David Corn:
HUBRIS: The Armitage Leak and What It Means (Plus More Info on the Book)
Discussion: Mia Culpa
CBS News:
U.S.: Comair Jet Used Wrong Runway  —  Pilots Made 'Fatal' Error In Crash That Killed 49, CBS News Learns  —  (CBS/AP) Pilots of the Comair commuter jet that crashed with 50 people aboard near Lexington, Ky., used the wrong runway, CBS News has learned.  —  Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard were killed.
Discussion: BluegrassReport.org
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Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press:
Ky. plane crash kills 49 of 50 on board
Discussion: NewsHog
Holly / The Moderate Voice:   Local Airplane Disaster
Chuck McCutcheon / Seattle Times:
Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams  —  WASHINGTON — A pipeline shuts down in Alaska.  Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles.  Electricity runs short at a spy agency in Maryland.  —  None of these recent events resulted from a natural disaster or terrorist attack …
Dan Gordon / The American Thinker:
Contrary to what is now the accepted wisdom in the media, Hezb'allah in its recent offensive against Israel neither "badly bloodied the Israel Defense Force," nor "fought it to a standstill" in Southern Lebanon.  In fact, the opposite is the case.  By any legitimate measure Hezb'allah was handed …
Telegraph:
Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair  —  Tony Blair's lack of leadership and timid subservience to George W Bush lie behind the ongoing crisis in Iraq and the worldwide threat of terrorism, according to the former American president Jimmy Carter.
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
The Cheney presidency  —  GEORGE W. BUSH has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers.  It doesn't much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney.  —  When historians look back on the multiple assaults …
Nancy Pelosi / Time:
"Anybody knows not to mess with me"  —  Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House  —  Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House, portrays herself as a polite, grandmotherly lady.
Discussion: The Heretik and The New Editor
David Cracknell / Times of London:
10m want to quit 'over-taxed' UK  —  ONE in five Britons — nearly 10m adults — is considering leaving the country amid growing disillusionment over the failure of political parties to deliver tax cuts, according to a new poll.  —  The extensive survey conducted by ICM, the polling company …
 
 
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