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4:28 AM ET, August 14, 2006

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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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Haaretz:
Tense calm across Lebanon as UN-brokered truce takes effect  —  A tense calm took the place of more than a month of bitter fighting between Israel and Hezbollah Monday morning, as a UN-brokered cease-fire went into effect.  —  Tension was high before and after the deadline.
Discussion: Political Animal and Israel Matzav
Washington Post:   Israel Accepts U.N. Deal
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF vows tough response to cease-fire violations
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.
Andrew Sullivan / Times of London:
Wanted: a new centre party for lost Americans
Susan Estrich / Fox News:
Voters Must Beware of Republicans' Terrorism Trap
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 …
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Jay Currie
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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 …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Sydney Morning Herald:
Face up to your problem, Muslims told
Discussion: Observer
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 …
Discussion: The Asylum and Ace of Spades HQ
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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).
Discussion: Hashmonean.com
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," …
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:
Sean Gleeson:
"Not dead, just dying" says Castro  —  *** scroll down for updates *** The Adidas jacket found!  *** Fidel is not holding a newspaper, he is holding a proof copy.  —  On this 80th birthday of Fidel Castro, Juventud Rebelde, the Cuban periodical for communist youth, published four new photos of the dictator.
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.
Yoav Stern / Haaretz:
Hezbollah torpedoes Lebanese gov't meeting on disarmament  —  A meeting of the Lebanese government on the disarming of Hezbollah south of the Litani River was canceled on Sunday following an announcement by the Shi'ite organization that it was not willing to discuss the subject.
Discussion: Cox & Forkum and One Hand Clapping
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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