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12:40 PM ET, August 13, 2006

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David Leppard / Times of London:
Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized  —  SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week's anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda's leader in this country.  —  Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring …
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Telegraph:
University students at centre of terror plots  —  The recruitment of Muslim students at British universities to take part in terrorist attacks is at the heart of the alleged plot to blow up passenger jets, it is feared.  —  A dossier of extremist Islamic literature has been uncovered …
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:   Britain's Al Qaeda Leader Arrested?
Tom Perry / Reuters:
Hizbollah says it will abide by ceasefire  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah said on Saturday it would abide by any U.N.-backed ceasefire in Lebanon, but would resist Israeli troops expanding their offensive in the south.  —  Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Liberty and Justice
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Lebanon About To Fall  —  The cease-fire agreement appears to have created a crisis in Lebanon's government, as a Cabinet meeting of Siniora's government has been abruptly cancelled.  The Cabinet was supposed to vote on a plan to deploy their army into southern Lebanon and to displace Hezbollah.
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Ministers vote 24-0 with one abstention
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
Jerusalem Post:
Lebanese cabinet accepts UN cease-fire
Casey / rain falls on everyone:
Toronto's Pro-Hezbollah, Anti-Israel Rally  —  Today in Toronto, in front of the Israeli consulate, there was an Anti-Israel rally, with a distinct pro-Hezbollah theme.  The pictures below tell the story.  Disclosure: a couple are photoshopped, only to blur the faces of children in the crowd.
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Washington Post:
Young Muslim Rage Takes Root in Britain  —  Unemployment, Foreign Policy Fuel Extremism  —  Naweed Hussain sat in his little real estate office Friday, trying to focus on spreadsheets instead of the angry clatter outside.  —  Furious young Muslim men crowded around the local mosque on his street, surrounded by television cameras.
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Times of London:
The enemy within  —  Few can have failed to shudder at the thought of a plot to blow up nine passenger planes and the intended mass murder of thousands of innocent people over the Atlantic.  Whatever the outcome of the police investigation into a conspiracy that seems to have been stopped just in time …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Michael J. Totten:
Inside Hezbollah's Free Fire Zone  —  NORTHERN ISRAEL - I teamed up with Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor at Azure Magazine in Jerusalem, and took a rental car through Hezbollah's shooting gallery to the front line on the Lebanese/Israeli border.  Famed military historian Michael Oren …
Discussion: Althouse and Power Line
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Eavesdropping and the Election: An Answer on the Question of Timing  —  THE NEW YORK TIMES'S Dec. 16 article that disclosed the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping has led to an important public debate about the once-secret program.  And the decision to write about the program …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and The Next Hurrah
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Anita Snow / Associated Press:
Paper prints Castro's birthday message  —  HAVANA - On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautioned Cubans on Sunday that he faced a long recovery from surgery and advised them to prepare for "adverse news," but he urged them to stay optimistic.  As the Communist Youth newspaper published …
Discussion: Babalu Blog
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Connecticut May Be a 2008 Preview  —  Polarization Over War, Bush, Parties Confronts Voters  —  American politics this year has been running on two divergent tracks.  The first is intensified partisan combat in advance of a critical midterm election.  The second is growing disaffection among …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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Senator Joseph Lieberman / Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Two Days After Primary, Lieberman Ahead by 5
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials  —  An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse.
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Comment: An unmitigated disaster  —  There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel.  —  The resolution represents a near-total victory …
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil  —  Do you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned Someone with a sick feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic Someone distraught or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days 
Discussion: Power Line
David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:
Berlin Demonstration: The Islamofascist Far-Left Nexus  —  (Article and photos by Ray D.)  —  It was just another summer day in Berlin.  A perfect day for a carefree stroll.  But these are hardly carefree times.  And the rows of police vehicles and officers blocking a section …
 
 
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