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New York Times:
U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis — WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
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Associated Press:
Israeli Forces Push Through Lebanon Border — ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER — Hundreds of Israeli troops moved into southern Lebanon on Saturday, taking control of a village and engaging Hezbollah militants by land, sea and air as part of the country's limited ground campaign.
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
UNITED NATIONS AN ACCOMPLICE IN HEZBOLLAH KIDNAPPING: After Hezbollah's kidnapping of a pair of Israeli soldiers spurred an Israeli counter-attack, many critics of Israel actions have suggested that the United Nations can serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah.
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New York Post:
CAN ISRAEL WIN? — NOT THE WAY IT'S FIGHTING — July 22, 2006 — ISRAEL is losing this war. For a lifelong Israel supporter, that's a painful thing to write. But it's true. And the situation's worsening each day. — A U.S. government official put it to me this way: "Israel's got the clock, but Hezbollah's got the time."
Sheera Claire Frenkel / Jerusalem Post:Israelis and Lebanese are still talking - on the Net
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:Rice Plans Talks on Crisis With Mideast Leaders
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Walid Choucair / Lebanon Daily Star:
Help Lebanon. Send a letter to your government representative. Download a sample letter — Nasrallah's speech gave 5 key insights into Hizbullah's position — Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's interview with Al-Jazeera late Thursday night must have reassured his constituents that his leadership continues to function.
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
NASRALLAH BELIEVES HE'S IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT — In an interview with Al-Jazeera late Thursday night, Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made it absolutely clear who was calling the shots in Lebanon - and it isn't the Lebanese government. — Speaking more like a head of state …
New York Times:
More troops to be deployed to Baghdad, general says — CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Friday that the escalating sectarian violence in Baghdad had become a greater worry than the insurgency and that plans were being drawn up to move additional forces to the Iraqi capital.
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Mariam Karouny / Reuters:Gloom descends on Iraqi leaders as civil war looms
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PR Newswire:
Blogger Media at the Forefront of the Middle East Coverage War — Pajamas Media's Politics Central Leverages Global Editors for Continuous Stories and Exclusive Podcast Interviews — EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Pajamas Media (PJM) is providing special extended coverage …
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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
NASA's Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet — From 2002 until this year, NASA's mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: "To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can."
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Ellensburg Said Greenwald Said — Here's an example of Ellensburg arguing on behalf of Greenwald at RWNH contrasted with Greenwald's actual post. It was hours later. Do Greenwald fanatics tatoo his posts on their arms? Even the logic flow is all but the same. Not to mention some wording.
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Mohamed Olad Hassan / Associated Press:
Somali militant urges holy war on Ethiopia — BAIDOA, Somalia - Somalia's top Islamic leader called Friday for a holy war against Ethiopia to drive out troops the largely Christian nation sent to protect the internationally backed Somali government. — The radical Islamic forces control …
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Allan Lengel / Washington Post:
Nigerian Entangled In Jefferson Investigation — The corruption investigation of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) has taken many strange twists: an FBI sting that caught the lawmaker on videotape accepting a large payoff; a subsequent raid that turned up $90,000 of that cash in his apartment freezer …
Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Marcy Kaptur Endorse Ned! [6] — Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Marcy Kaptur Endorse Ned! — The festivities begin with a press conference this morning at 11 A.M. in Hartford. Marcy Kaptur is, of course, the Dean of Ohio's Democratic congressional delegation.
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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general — The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan today described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption.
MSNBC:
Bush vetoes stem cell bill; House can't override — President says measure 'crosses a moral boundary' society needs to respect … WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday failed to muster enough votes to override President Bush's veto of a bill to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
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