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6:40 PM ET, August 14, 2006

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Associated Press:
2 Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza  —  Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two of the journalists inside, according to witnesses and Fox.  "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.
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Reuters:
Two Fox News journalists kidnapped in Gaza: witness  —Text+GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness said.  —  The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them …
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Donors say Lieberman will be well-funded  —  Supporters of Israel from both parties will be crucial to senator's effort  —  Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., campaigning last Thursday in Waterbury, Conn., a city he won with 60 percent of the vote in last week's primary.  —  WASHINGTON -
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Did Cheney Go Too Far?  —  By insinuating that the sizeable majority of American voters who oppose the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy, Vice President Cheney on Wednesday may have crossed the line that separates legitimate political discourse from hysteria.
Washington Post:
Sen. Allen's Remarks Spark Ire  —  Democrat James Webb's Senate campaign accused Sen. George Allen (R) of making demeaning comments Friday to a 20-year-old Webb volunteer of Indian descent.  —  S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera …
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Lebanese return home after cease-fire  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese civilians streamed back to their homes Monday after a U.N.-imposed cease-fire halted fighting in a monthlong conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.  Israel's defense minister said that, barring isolated skirmishes, the cease-fire was holding.
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Michael J. Totten:
The Storm Before the Calm  —  The events in this essay took place on August 11 and 12.  —  METULLA, ISRAEL - Israel scrapped the proposed ceasefire agreement on August 11 and launched a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon.  Presumably the Israeli Defense Forces wanted to rapidly snap …
Yael K / Step-by-Step:
Pres.  Ahmadinejad trying to infect Israelis with web viruses?  —  Information forwarded to me:  —  The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, has opened his very own blog.  You can read the news here.  Wouldn't it be nice to pay him a visit and tell him what you think about his terror-supporting regime?
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William J. Kole / Associated Press:
Plot Shows Rise of Extremism in Europe  —  Britain's struggle to contain Muslim extremism points up a chilling trend across Europe: the rise of radical Islam, and with it, a willingness among a small but dangerous minority of young people to answer the call to jihad.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Arab TV binging on Lebanese death porn to incite Muslims (Update: Ynet busts CNN)  —  It's electrifyin'. … "The Sixth War," as in the sixth Arab-Israeli war.  They've made Hezbollah the standard-bearer of Arab pride.  Quote: … And this despite the fact that Sunni governments like Saudi Arabia …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and USS Neverdock
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BBC:
Step up extremism fight - Kelly
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CBS News:
Poll: Americans Back Air Restrictions  —  CBS Survey: 75% Say Ban On Liquids And Gels Is Necessary  —  (CBS) Americans are signaling strong support for air travel restrictions in the wake of last week's foiled terror plot in Britain, a CBS News poll finds.
Doug Ireland / DIRELAND:
IRAN'S PRES.  AHMADINEJAD LAUNCHES HIS OWN BLOG  —  Not satisfied with the Tehran regime's attacks on websites and bloggers — a number of whom have been jailed — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo left) has now started his own blog.  Reuters reported yesterday that Ahmadinejad …
Michael Gerson / MSNBC:
The View From the Top  —  A former Bush adviser on 9/11, Iraq and the lessons of five tumultuous years-for the president and the public.  —  Five Washington Augusts ago, for me, is not just a different time; it is a distant country.  At the White House, we debated the nuances of stem-cell research.
Spencer Ackerman / American Prospect:
A Hawk for All Seasons  —  When it comes to foreign policy, Joe Lieberman's hawkish consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind.  —  It took all of two days for Joe Lieberman to jettison the high-minded justifications for his post-primary campaign against Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont.
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Ease of Alteration Creates Woes for Picture Editors  —  The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography.
The Blotter:
Raul Castro: Cocaine Connection?  —  Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report:  —  Federal prosecutors in Miami were prepared to indict Raul Castro as the head of a major cocaine smuggling conspiracy in 1993, but the Clinton Administration Justice Department overruled them, current and former Justice Department officials tell ABC News.
Daniel McGrory / The Australian:
Army can't disarm Hezbollah fighters  —  IT was supposed to be the day the maligned Lebanese army took control of the country's borders and policed the UN ceasefire.  —  Instead, the military commanders were left humiliated and troops stranded as Hezbollah told them not to disarm its fighters.
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Conflict of Interest or Legitimate Punditry?  You Decide.  —  A Loop Fan writes: "Please explain to your readers how a government official who is paid by hard-earned taxpayer dollars is allowed to moonlight as a Republican mouthpiece on television."  —  The anonymous inquiry included a photo …
DarkSyde / Daily Kos:
Perspective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get a Grip  —  I know there are millions of brave, decent conservatives.  My apologies to those folks for the following.  But good grief, when did the Republican Party become infested with what sound like so many loud, whining cowardly pundits?
Discussion: Right Wing News and unfutz
Christian Science Monitor:
Part 1: The kidnapping  —  An interview with an Iraqi politician turns deadly.  —  My chief captor had an idea about how to prod the US government into action: another video.  —  He said this one would be different, and left.  —  I turned to the two guards sitting on cushions a few feet away and started to panic.
 
 
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