[Txsleuth]

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE4MDA3NDUyYjA0ZGY1MzQ4NjM5NjM1MWY4NDVkZGM=

Here is Michael Ledeen's column from this morning:

[Peach]

Notice, please, that he says Iran “sponsored the meetings of Baathist and radical Islamist militants...” He is talking Sunnis here, the same Sunnis who, according to CIA deep thinkers and scads of academic experts, cannot possibly work closely with Shiites like, ahem, the mullahs of Tehran. Iraq the Model isn’t burdened by this wisdom, and so he just reports what he sees on the ground in his own country.

Mark, you'll want to read this.

Thanks for the ping Txsleuth. Prairie, I think you mentioned that Ledeen ends a lot of columns with "Faster please"; you were right.

[OB1kNOb]

Fuel Tanks Burning at Beirut International Airport

[RDTF]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738364.html

Last update - 23:35 13/07/2006

Dozens of armed men try to forcibly open Gaza-Egypt border crossing

By Avi Issacharoff and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents

A confrontation developed Thursday at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt when a few dozen armed men tried to open the crossing and allow thousands of Palestinians waiting on the Egyptian side through.

The Palestinian Authority's Presidential Guard stopped them.

In the past several days, eight Palestinians have died at the Rafah crossing, waiting for days with no shelter and an inadequate water supply.