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3:20 PM ET, August 13, 2006

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CNN:
Israel, Hezbollah step up attacks as cease-fire deadline nears  —  Israeli Cabinet OKs U.N. resolution  —  TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) — Israel and Hezbollah pounded targets with heavy missile barrages Sunday, looking to inflict maximum damage in the final hours before a cease-fire resolution was to go into effect.
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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.
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
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Israeli cabinet approves UN cease-fire deal 24-0  —  The Israeli cabinet approved the UN cease-fire deal after a stormy debate on Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the monthlong Mideast war, the government said.  —  The 24- vote, with one abstention, came a day after the Lebanese government approved …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel  —  JERUSALEM - Hezbollah fired more than 250 rockets into Israel on Sunday, the fiercest attack against northern Israel since the fighting began more than a month ago, the Israeli army reported.  One Israeli man was killed.
Discussion: All Spin Zone
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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
British AQ Leader Seized?
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:   Britain's Al Qaeda Leader Arrested?
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 …
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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.
Senator Joseph Lieberman / Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Two Days After Primary, Lieberman Ahead by 5  —  Lieberman 46%, Lamont 41%  —  Senator Joe Lieberman's decision to run as an Independent sets up a lively campaign season for Connecticut voters.  In the first General Election poll since Ned Lamont defeated Lieberman in Tuesday's primary …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Connecticut May Be a 2008 Preview
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 …
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 …
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:   An Issue of Fairness  —  mamayaga makes a superb point …
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
WATCHING LEBANON  —  In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive.  "It's a moment of clarification," …
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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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
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.
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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Joshua Muravchik / Washington Post:
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Schneier / Schneier on Security:
Last Week's Terrorism Arrests
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
Right after the Connecticut primary I said that Lieberman …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ahmadinejad starts his own blog (Update: Fake?)
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Syria still transferring supply of rockets, missiles to Hezbollah
Rocky Mountain News:
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BBC:
Full text: Muslim groups' letter
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Tell It Like It Is  —  Russ Feingold was blunt on ABC's This Week …
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Davis urges Rumsfeld's ouster
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Berlin Demonstration: The Islamofascist Far-Left Nexus
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Romney, Kerry spar over fight on terror
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
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