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BBC:
Lebanon falters over truce detail — Crucial Lebanese cabinet talks on disarming Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon under a UN-brokered ceasefire have been put off. — A truce between Israel and Hezbollah is due to come into force at 0500 GMT. — The postponement, amid reported divisions …
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Pajamas Media:
PJM Exclusive - 'If You Are Men:' Threats and Bluffs Inside the Lebanon Cabinet
PJM Exclusive - 'If You Are Men:' Threats and Bluffs Inside the Lebanon Cabinet
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
On the UN Israel / Hizballah cease fire, cont.
On the UN Israel / Hizballah cease fire, cont.
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News of the World:
IF YOU'RE A MUSLIM - IT'S YOUR PROBLEM — WHEN will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted? — When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is WRONG? — Most of all, when will the Muslim community …
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Nigel Morris / Independent:
Backlash over Muslims' letter to Blair — Muslim leaders will today face Government demands to take tougher steps to root our extremists in their midst. The demand follows a furious reaction by ministers to an open letter signed by Muslim organisations and politicians protesting …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Backlash: Al-Guardian(!) tells British Muslims to get it together …
Backlash: Al-Guardian(!) tells British Muslims to get it together …
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Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lamont Decries Lieberman Terror Remarks — WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont, the anti-war candidate who toppled Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary, says he was surprised by Lieberman and Vice President Dick Cheney's claims that his victory could embolden terrorists.
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Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Give It Up, Joe — Sore loser Lieberman is fighting for his job, not the good of his party. — THE LONGER Sen. Joe Lieberman's reelection campaign in Connecticut goes on, the harder it gets to detect any rationale for his candidacy that's persuasive to anybody who isn't Joe Lieberman.
Edward M. Kennedy / Hartford Courant:
Demeaning Democracy — Cheney Paints Lamont Victory As Helping Terrorists — Vice presidents are notorious for serving as an administration's chief attack dog, and time and again Dick Cheney has been unleashed to accuse anyone who is opposed to the Bush administration of aiding the terrorists.
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Fiona Hudson / NEWS.com.au:
Bottle and baby used as bomb — Font size: — A HUSBAND and wife arrested in the British terror raids allegedly planned to take their six-month-old baby on a mid-air suicide mission. — Scotland Yard police are quizzing Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his 23-year-old wife Cossor over suspicions …
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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," …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In Wake of News, a Plan: Uniting Party and President — President Bush speaking at a factory last week in Green Bay, Wis. — One week ago, President Bush and his political aides were facing the most daunting election-year landscape of his presidency. — Their party was splintered …
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Evan Thomas / MSNBC:
The New Age of Terror — Soldiers in the war on terror have learned much since 9/11.
The New Age of Terror — Soldiers in the war on terror have learned much since 9/11.
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Rachel Sklar / The Huffington Post:
The Difference Between "News" And "Smear"
The Difference Between "News" And "Smear"
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MSNBC:
Transcript for Aug. 13 — MR. DAVID GREGORY: Our issues this Sunday: the threat of terror. Nearly five years after the September 11 attacks, a chilling new plot: terrorists planning to blow up airplanes bound for the U.S. — (Videotape): — SEC'Y MICHAEL CHERTOFF …
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CharlesR / Age of Hooper:
OK. Let me start off with kudos where kudos are due. ANSWER hit a home run with this one. Brian ... you're the man. — Ironically, it took a bunch of hyper-religious Muslims and anti-Semites with a message that they (the anti-Semites) just needed to share to pull their (ANSWER's) …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes — It killed me to cut the part where Mike Wallace told him how good he looked. Fair use, as I've often said, is a stern mistress. — I also deliberately cut the part that's available in the sidebar at CBS (see update below).
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Pan-Islamism challenges idea of nation state — Here's how an early report by Reuters covered the massive terrorism bust in the United Kingdom. They started out conventionally enough just chugging along with airport closures, arrest details and quotes from bystanders, but then got to the big picture:
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Reuters:
Iranian president lambasts US on new blog — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war.
Wall Street Journal:
Polls Shows More Americans Favor Democratic Candidate for Congress — A new poll shows an uptick in support for a Democratic candidate in the next Congressional elections. — When asked whom they would vote for "if elections for Congress were held today," 45% of U.S. adults said they would vote …