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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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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 …
Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah: Contacts underway for possible prisoner swap — Hizbullah's leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed in the first post-war interview on Sunday that contacts were being held to bring about a prisoner swap between Israel and Hizbullah. — Nasrallah, who spoke with Lebanese NTV television …
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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Just A Plame Waste Of Time — Michael Isikoff and David Corn …
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David Corn:HUBRIS: The Armitage Leak and What It Means (Plus More Info on the Book)
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:Something's Missing... Michael Isikoff has an intriguing glimpse …
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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Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press:
Ky. plane crash kills 49 of 50 on board — LEXINGTON, Ky. - A commuter jet crashed during take off early Sunday and burst into flames, killing 49 people and leaving the lone survivor in critical condition. Investigators were trying to determine if the plane was on the wrong runway and ran out of pavement.
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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.
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.
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 …
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman's Run Shadows House Campaigns in Connecticut — As Senator Joseph I. Lieberman begins to mount a vigorous and well-financed re-election campaign as an independent, many Connecticut Democrats say they are worried that his bid could jeopardize their party's ability to win in three hotly contested House races this fall.
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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 …
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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