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1:20 PM ET, August 18, 2006

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USA Today:
Officials: U.S. blocked missiles to Hezbollah  —  WASHINGTON — The United States blocked an Iranian cargo plane's flight to Syria last month after intelligence analysts concluded it was carrying sophisticated missiles and launchers to resupply Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, two U.S. intelligence officials say.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
U.N. Official Warns of Major New Sudanese Offensive in Darfur
Discussion: Daimnation!
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Moment to Be Seized in Lebanon
Washington Post:
A Judicial Misfire  —  THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency's program of warrantless surveillance.  The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; it is at least in considerable tension with federal law and the Bill of Rights.
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Would Party Forgive Joe?  —  Lieberman Says Democrats Can Count On Him If He Wins; Vice Versa Is Iffy  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman says he'll stick with the Democrats if he wins his third-party re-election bid - but will the Democrats stick with him?
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Bob Geiger / BobGeiger.com:
Democratic Senators on Lamont: The Last Tally
Discussion: Firedoglake
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:   Prove It  —  (Photo from the WH website, at the signing …
New York Times:
Wal-Mart Image-Builder Resigns  —  The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years …
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Bernard McGhee / Associated Press:
Andrew Young Steps Down From Wal-Mart  —  ATLANTA — Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he was stepping down from his position as head of an outside support group amid criticism for remarks seen as racially offensive.
Discussion: The Corner and Facing South
CNN:
Video provokes questions of Lebanese army  —  Lebanese forces move southward; Beirut airport reopens  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A video showing Lebanese soldiers cordially offering Israeli troops glasses of tea during the military offensive earlier this month has hit Israeli and Hezbollah airwaves.
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Republicans Losing The 'Security Moms'  —  Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
7 Killed as Full-Scale Sectarian Fighting Rages in Baghdad  —  A car bombing in the Sadr City district of Baghdad killed at least seven people and wounded more than 20 on Thursday morning, the authorities said.  —  The blast was the latest of several recent attacks in the district …
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BBC:
Israel alarm at UN force members  —  Israel says it would be "difficult if not inconceivable" to accept nations which do not recognise its right to exist as part of a UN force in Lebanon.  —  Israeli UN envoy Dan Gillerman was speaking after Indonesia and Malaysia, which do not recognise Israel, pledged troops for the UN deployment.
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
It sounded so good to start with.  But where did it all go wrong, George?  —  "HOW'M I DOIN'?" was the question the quixotic Ed Koch used to ask New York's voters during Hizzoner's eleven turbulent years as the city's mayor.  For a man who governed the globe's most neurotic metropolis …
Julian Sanchez / American Prospect:
My Summer Reading Journal  —  George W. Bush reads Camus (as told to Julian Sanchez).  —  August 4: For my summer vacation, I decided to read The Stranger by Albert Camus (in American).  I decided this for a couple reasons.  For one, there was this other book Terror and Liberalism …
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Hagel awaits nation's mood  —  In the tenth August of his Senate career, this is a time of reflection for Chuck Hagel.  Decision time comes later, and it can wait.  —  Gliding above the green hills of northeastern Nebraska this week in a King Air bound from Norfolk to Sioux City, the shirtsleeved senator embraces the moment.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
abclocal.go.com:
Attorney: Woman Arrested In Disturbance 'Barely Lucid'  —  A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday.
Tbogg / ...a somewhat popular blogger:
Fill the cup  —  One more hour of Headline News and I'll be done  —  Apparently Ace is whining that there are Americans who don't act like seven year-old girls at their first Kiwanis Halloween Haunted House who screech and go,"Omigawdomigawdomigawd" and do the pee-pee dance every time that CNN …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Breaking the law has consequences  —  My overall analysis of today's extraordinary federal court decision on the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program is in the post below, here.  I also have an article up at Salon summarizing the importance of this ruling, here.
Washington Post:
The FBI's Upgrade That Wasn't  —  $170 Million Bought an Unusable Computer System  —  As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI's technological revolution was only weeks away.  —  It was late 2003, and a contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) …
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings  —  A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense Department officials briefed on the case.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yet more on the Martyrdom of Joe.  —  TPM Readers from St. Louis …
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Iraq doubles funding for oil imports
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Arab Nationalism Run Rampant at Middlebury
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An Open Letter to Günter Grass
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Qaeda No. 2 Behind U.K. Terror Plot?
BBC:
Terror detectives 'find bomb kit'
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Cafferty on the NSA Ruling: Bush is breaking the Law!
Pew Research Center:
American Attitudes Hold Steady in Face of Foreign Crises