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3:45 PM ET, July 12, 2006

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Haaretz:
3 soldiers killed, 2 seized in Hezbollah border strike  —  Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and two others were abducted Wednesday morning in an attack by guerillas from the militant Hezbollah organization.  —  The militants attacked two IDF armored Hummer jeeps patrolling along …
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Jerusalem Post:
PM Olmert declares Hizbullah attack 'act of war' by Lebanon  —  Seventeen days after IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in Gaza, a second front was opened on Israel's northern border Wednesday morning as Hizbullah, under cover of a barrage of Katyusha rockets and mortar shells, kidnapped two more army troops.
Karamallah Daher / Reuters:
Israel calls Hizbollah capture of soldiers act of war  —  MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed up to seven Israelis in violence on either side of the Lebanese border on Wednesday, further inflaming Middle East tensions.
Joseph Panossian / Associated Press:
Hezbollah Captures 2 Israeli Soldiers  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Hezbollah militant group captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes along the Lebanese border on Wednesday, triggering an Israeli assault with warplanes, tanks and gunboats as Israeli troops crossed the frontier to hunt for the captives.
Ynetnews:
Annan condemns Israel attack in Lebanon  —  UN Secretary General says 'I condemn without reservations the attack in southern Lebanon'; Iran nuclear negotiator: When the Zionist entity attacks and slaughters the Palestinian people ... Resistance is necessary  —  News agencies
Washington Post:
Hezbollah Captures 2 Israeli Soldiers  —  7 Troops Killed as Israeli Forces Enter Lebanon to Conduct Search  —  SIDON, Lebanon, July 12 — The militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers along the Israel-Lebanon border Wednesday morning.
Ynetnews:
7 IDF soldiers killed in north
Discussion: The Head Heeb
Joseph Panossian / Associated Press:
2 Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Guardian:   Israelis invade Lebanon after soldiers are seized
Amanda / Think Progress:
Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: 'The President Is Always Right'  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Steven Bradbury, head of the Justice Department's office of legal counsel.  When questioned by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on whether the President's interpretation …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
It's Bush's Way or the Highway on Guantanamo Bay  —  As Congress opened hearings yesterday on the treatment of terrorism detainees, the Bush administration's view was neatly summarized by Steven Bradbury, the Justice Department lawyer serving as lead witness.  "The president," Bradbury said, "is always right."
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
My role in the Plame leak probe  —  WASHINGTON — Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed my attorneys that, after 2-1/2 years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded.  That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that …
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Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Army to End Expansive, Exclusive Halliburton Deal  —  Logistics Contract to Be Open for Bidding  —  The Army is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, a decision that could cut deeply …
Ramola Talwar Badam / Associated Press:
Death toll in Bombay attacks rises to 200  —  BOMBAY, India - The death toll from a series of bombs that struck Bombay's packed commuter trains rose Wednesday to 200, and India demanded that Pakistan dismantle the "infrastructure of terrorism," but leveled no direct accusation at its rival for the attacks.
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Wave of Violence in Baghdad Puts 3-Day Death Toll Past 100  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 11 — More than 50 people were killed in Baghdad on Tuesday in violence that included a double suicide bombing near busy entrances to the fortified Green Zone, scattered shootings, mortar attacks …
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Losing the Next Alito Fight  —  I've been meaning to blog about what we should in the event of a new Supreme Court opening.  I wrote a prescription for what the anti-Alito forces could have done better.  I know it was forwarded around to various leaders, but apparently these leaders have learned very little.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Online Venture Seeks To Elevate the Debate  —  Civility Is In, Rancor Out on Web Site Begun by Democratic, GOP Strategists  —  A group of political strategists who have spent years firing heavy artillery at each other came together at the Hay-Adams Hotel yesterday, put aside their weapons …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?  —  WASHINGTON, July 11 — It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified "Beach at End of a Street."
Erick / RedState:
Disgusting: DCCC Uses Dead Soldiers to Raise Money  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a new fundraising pitch going out.  It uses September 11th and our troops to raise money.  But, instead of using those images to show Democrats would be tougher on terrorists …
Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
Chances of Voting Rights Act renewal dim  —  WASHINGTON - A conservative backlash to the massive street demonstrations over immigration is aggravating Republican leaders' carefully orchestrated plans to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act before the fall elections.
Noel Sheppard / Real Clear Politics:
Is the Daily Kos About to Implode?  —  It appears that the post-Yearly Kos month from hell is continuing for Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the proprietor of the Internet's premier liberal blog Daily Kos.  After receiving some extremely negative press from major publications such as the New York Times …
Jules Crittenden / Real Clear Politics:
Dawn Over Tokyo  —  Sixty-one years after the end of World War II, Japan is on the verge of becoming a mature, responsible democracy.  —  Once Japan's troops raped and murdered their way across China, enslaved women as prostitutes for their soldiers, and starved, beat and worked Allied POWs to death.
Discussion: QandO
 
 
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