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4:00 PM ET, August 12, 2006

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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Israel nearly triples troops in Lebanon  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel staged wide-ranging airstrikes and sent commandos into the Hezbollah heartland Saturday as the United Nations raced to begin enforcing its new cease-fire blueprint and stop the heavy fighting still raging in southern Lebanon.
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un.org:
New York, 11 August 2006 - Secretary-General's statement to the Security Council on the adoption of a resolution on Lebanon  —  I welcome wholeheartedly the resolution you are about to adopt, and I am greatly relieved that it provides for a full and immediate cessation of hostilities.
Discussion: Redstate and Power Line
New York Times:
U.N. Council Backs Measure to Halt War in Lebanon  —  The Security Council agreed unanimously on Friday on a measure calling for a full cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, deploying 30,000 Lebanese and United Nations forces in southern Lebanon and calling upon Israel to withdraw its forces "in parallel."
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Now It's Time To Play Beat The Clock
Discussion: NewsHog and Blue Crab Boulevard
John Solomon / Associated Press:
Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved  —  WASHINGTON - While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology.
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New York Times:
Focused on 9/11, U.S. Is Seen to Lag on New Threats  —  The Department of Homeland Security has taken significant steps since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to make it much harder to turn a plane into a flying weapon.  But a nearly obsessive focus on the previous attacks may have prevented …
Donald Sensing / Winds of Change.NET:
SHALOM, EHUD, AND GOODBYE  —  Crystal ball on:  —  Ehud Olmert's days are numbered as prime minister.  The slapdash, haphazard and wholly indecisive way he has handled the Hezbollah war has doomed his chances of remaining in office past the end of this year, probably before then and maybe very soon.
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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Olmert faces backlash over Lebanon war
Discussion: Dinocrat
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks  —  (updated below)  —  As I noted on Thursday, Bush supporters have been attempting to exploit the U.K. terrorist plot to bolster support for an array of extremist and lawless Bush policies …
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Airliner Plot Had Support In Pakistan, Officials Say
Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:
Pakistan nabs 17 in airplane terror plot
Discussion: Associated Press and Hot Air
Associated Press:
Conservative group sets sights on Chafee  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fresh off their first victory over a Republican incumbent, GOP conservatives seeking party purity on taxes and spending are focused on ousting moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
Discussion: The Reaction and Seeing the Forest
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Chafee Is Targeted By GOP Conservative Group
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Joe Lieberman And The Jews  —  Rabbi Marc Gellman, writing in Newsweek, expresses puzzlement about why Joe Lieberman did so poorly among Connecticut's Jews.  Here's part of it: … There's a lot more in his impassioned essay but the answer may be a bit simple:  —  Few groups are totally monolithic anymore.
Discussion: The Empire Zone
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Marc Gellman / MSNBC:
Joe and the Jews
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: Dave Mejias, NY-03  —  (Dave Mejias joins us live in the comments to chat with you about his candidacy.  Please stop by the comments and give Dave a great FDL welcome.  Thanks!  — CHS)  —  When I spoke with Dave Mejias on the phone a couple days ago I mentioned that I grew …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Increasingly, Bush Escapes the Media Pack  —  GREEN BAY, Wis. — On one of the scariest days yet in the five-year battle with terrorists, President Bush prepared to make a speech to reassure the American people.  But the White House press corps was 1,000 miles away in Texas.
Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
Lebanon photos: Take a closer look  —  THE controversy this week over Reuters' distribution of digitally manipulated, falsely labeled and — probably — staged photos of the fighting in Lebanon hasn't been nearly as large as it should have been.  —  Credit for bringing the sordid business …
Julie Burchill / Haaretz:
Bleeding-heart ignoramuses  —  A few weeks back it was my birthday, and my equally non-Jewish journalist friend Chas Newkey-Burden took his life in his hands and presented me with a cuddly toy.  Now, normally I feel that people who bother with cuddly toys over the age of eight are either mad …
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
I was in Hitler's SS, admits Günter Grass  —  Germany was rocked by the revelations last night that Günter Grass, its greatest living author and doyen of the Left, was a member of Hitler's elite Waffen-SS.  —  The Nobel laureate, who has been the country's moral guide for decades …
Marcus Mabry / MSNBC:
The Ripple Effect  —  The foiled airline plot boosts President Bush's terror ratings, but the new NEWSWEEK Poll finds a lot for Democrats to cheer as the midterm elections approach.  —  Charles Rex Arbogast / AP  —  Americans awakened to a new day of air travel on Aug. 10.
TigerHawk:
Question for your discussion: What will it take to militarize the West?  —  I'm going "down the shore" today, so I'm asking you to answer a couple of questions in the comments while I'm lounging on Risden's Beach in Point Pleasant: What will it take to militarize the United States?
 
 
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Santorum: Intelligence leakers "traitors;" urges strong pursuit
Telegraph:
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