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7:20 AM ET, July 21, 2006

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Haaretz:
IDF searching for tunnels in south Lebanon  —  Two IDF soldiers were killed and six others were wounded in heavy clashes with Hezbollah just inside south Lebanon, close to Moshav Avivim, on Thursday afternoon.  —  Hezbollah fired mortar shells in the area in effort to disrupt the rescue of the wounded.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
To Save a Revolution  —  You could sense the hurt and anger as Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora pleaded this week to the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats in Beirut for a halt to Israeli attacks on Lebanese targets.  "The country has been torn to shreds," he said.  "I hope you will not let us down."
CNN:
Hezbollah leader apologizes for attack's child victims  —  Nasrallah: Militant group not harmed by Israeli attacks  —  (CNN) — Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah apologized for an attack that killed two Israeli Arab children in northern Israel, saying the youngsters were "martyrs for Palestine."
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Amos Harel / Associated Press:
Four soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah; thousands of IDF troops in Lebanon  —  Warplanes resumed strikes on targets across Lebanon on Friday as Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to flee the south "immediately," preparing for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone in southern Lebanon.
Jerusalem Post:
Barrages resume Thursday afternoon
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White House:
President Bush Addresses NAACP Annual Convention  —  Washington, D.C.  —  African American History  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much.  (Applause.)  Thank you very much.  Bruce, thanks for your introduction.  Bruce is a polite guy — I thought what he was going to say, it's about time you showed up.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
STOCHASTIC BLOGGING....I found myself uninspired by the news today and unable to find anything I felt like blogging about, so instead I played hooky for a couple of hours and went to see A Scanner Darkly.  It turned out to be — interesting.  And remarkably faithful to the book, too …
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MSNBC:
Bush to stem cell community: Drop dead  —  President's veto of embryonic research funding reflects incoherent policy  —  Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.  —  Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.  —  President Bush's embryonic stem cell policy began with lies and has now ended with one.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
The Daily Show on Stem Cell Brownback
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David Wooding / The Sun:
Exiled Bakri in SOS plea  —  EXILED preacher of hate Omar Bakri has begged the Royal Navy to rescue him from war-torn Beirut.  —  The Muslim cleric who fled Britain last year, tried to board a ship full of women and children yesterday but was turned away.  —  He also wrote to the British …
Discussion: Hot Air
Don Michak / journalinquirer.com:
Bill Clinton to campaign for Lieberman in Waterbury  —  U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is rolling out the big gun in his increasingly close primary battle with Greenwich Democrat Ned Lamont.  —  Former President Bill Clinton is slated to campaign on behalf of the three-term incumbent Monday in Waterbury …
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace  —  President Bush's unwillingness to pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in Lebanon is rooted in a view of the Middle East conflict that is sharply different from that of his predecessors.  —  When hostilities have broken out in the past …
Reuters:
Iran leader asks Germany for help on Zionism  —  German government official says a letter written by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to German Chancellor Merkel asks her to help solve Palestinian problem, deal with Zionism.  Official says letter 'rather weird'
Andrea Shalal-Esa / Reuters:
Pentagon OKs $6 bln in arms sales to Saudi Arabia  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Thursday it approved the sale to Saudi Arabia of 24 UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters, radios, armoured vehicles and other military equipment worth more than $6 billion (3.25 billion pounds).
Discussion: lgf, Vital Perspective and Old War Dogs
Joyce Wadler / New York Times:
The Allure of the Tool Belt  —  THE evening he made the awkward toast, David Mager was not aware — not consciously, at least — that his longtime girlfriend was involved with the contractor.  As far as he was concerned, it was just a joke, a teasing reference to the amount …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Israeli Journalists Leave IFJ  —  Accusing the International Federation of Journalists of "cowardice", the Israel Association of Journalists suspended its membership in the IFJ after it defended Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel as a "free press" and condemned the IDF attack on their facilities.
Eric / Classical Values:
WHERE'S GEORGE?  AND WHERE'S DOUG?  —  My previous post about the much-quoted "George Harleigh" (said to be a SIU political science professor who worked for Nixon and Reagan administrations) has received enough attention that I thought it merited a new post.
 
 
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