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Captors Release Two FOX News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza Aug. 14 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. — The freeing of FOX correspondent Steve Centanni, 60 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Centanni, Wiig freed (Update: Conversion video added) (Update: A Gilad Shalit connection?) — The boss never sleeps. — "Khaled" celebrates his freedom: — There'll be some sort of video here soon. Stand by for updates. — Update: There are four different video clips in the sidebar of Fox's article on this.
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Kidnapped Fox News Journalists Freed — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Militants freed two Fox News journalists on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, ending a nearly two week hostage drama in which one of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam.
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Tim McGirk / Time:
The High Price of the Fox Kidnapping Release — The Hamas-led government won the freedom of the two journalists, but the deal may make it harder to gain the release of a captured Israeli soldier — Two Fox News journalists were freed on Sunday in Gaza after a complex deal was hammered …
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Hezbollah head didn't foresee such a war — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war. — Hezbollah guerrillas killed three Israeli soldiers …
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Lori Lowenthal Marcus / Weekly Standard:
What did you do in the war, UNIFIL? — DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.
BBC:
Nasrallah sorry for scale of war — Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war. — "Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this …
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The Man Who Said Too Much — A book coauthored by NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff details Richard Armitage's central role in the Valerie Plame leak. — Katsumi Kasahara / AP (l.) ; Lawrence Jackson / AP — According to a new book, the State Department has known for years that Armitage (left) outed Plame
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The 'Hubris' Of Richard Armitage — Newsweek sneak previews an upcoming Isikoff/Corn book confirming the non-news that then-deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was Bob Novak's primary source for the Plame leak. We certainly believe Armitgae was Novak's primary source for the Plame leak …
CBS News:
U.S.: Comair Jet Used Wrong Runway — Pilots Made 'Fatal' Error In Crash That Killed 49, CBS News Learns — (CBS/AP) Pilots of the Comair commuter jet that crashed with 50 people aboard near Lexington, Ky., used the wrong runway, CBS News has learned. — Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard were killed.
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Chuck McCutcheon / Seattle Times:
Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams — WASHINGTON — A pipeline shuts down in Alaska. Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles. Electricity runs short at a spy agency in Maryland. — None of these recent events resulted from a natural disaster or terrorist attack …
Dan Gordon / The American Thinker:
Contrary to what is now the accepted wisdom in the media, Hezb'allah in its recent offensive against Israel neither "badly bloodied the Israel Defense Force," nor "fought it to a standstill" in Southern Lebanon. In fact, the opposite is the case. By any legitimate measure Hezb'allah was handed …
Telegraph:
Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair — Tony Blair's lack of leadership and timid subservience to George W Bush lie behind the ongoing crisis in Iraq and the worldwide threat of terrorism, according to the former American president Jimmy Carter.
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
The Cheney presidency — GEORGE W. BUSH has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers. It doesn't much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney. — When historians look back on the multiple assaults …
Nancy Pelosi / Time:
"Anybody knows not to mess with me" — Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House — Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House, portrays herself as a polite, grandmotherly lady.
David Cracknell / Times of London:
10m want to quit 'over-taxed' UK — ONE in five Britons — nearly 10m adults — is considering leaving the country amid growing disillusionment over the failure of political parties to deliver tax cuts, according to a new poll. — The extensive survey conducted by ICM, the polling company …
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