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Th Jun 29 -

SoFlo Local:
THE SECRET DOCKET -

*Broward secret docket included felony cases. Criminal cases of two felons have been hidden from public view in Broward Circuit Court, and a judge said he suspects that there are others.*

+ Anyone surprised? What they've been doing is dangerous.

:: MHerald ::

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Th Jun 29 -

RESCUE OP PROGRESS:

Leaflets Dropped and
Booby-trapped Donkeys -

The Israeli Air Force dropped leaflets in northern Gaza ahead of the operation, in which it called on residents to abide by IDF instructions and refrain from wandering around any area in which forces are operating in. The leaflets also warned the forces are working to free the kidnapped soldier, and added that anyone who interfered with the operations is exposing himself to danger.

An al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Member, Abu Ahmed, told Ynet that despite the threats being heard, local organizations are preparing for the IDF incursion... "We are preparing suicide bombers, car bombs, tunnels, and booby-trapped donkeys."

:: By Ali Waked - YNet ::

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Before dawn Thursday, IDF troops launched a major arrest operation against Hamas officials, detaining 64 of the ruling militant group's ministers and parliamentarians in the West Bank and 23 military operatives...

After the arrests an Israeli official said of them: "This is not a government. It is a murderous organization."

:: From Haaretz ::

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Alternate Source Report:
:: Deutsche Press Agency ::
-- Via KhaleejTimes --

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We Jun 28 -

AROUND FLORIDA -

# LARGO -- One moment, Shih Tzu dogs Fifi and Cassidy were romping on the shore of a freshwater lake. The next Fifi was gone, dragged into the water in the jaws of an 9-foot alligator, the dog's owner said.

:: AP/SUN-SENT ::


# Bloggers up north in the Jacksonville FL area are developing a New Media Online Community. Some portraits of the bloggers involved are sketched out.

:: Charlie Patton ::
FL Times-Union
Via AP/TBO

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We Jun 28 -

6 DEGREES OF
SOMEONE ELSE -

Gone Missing . . .

A distress message generated in Amsterdam reports that a Cuban Doctor Blog has gone missing.

The doctor's name is Alexis; he has been working in Timor; his blog is in Spanish. Some regular readers claim that the RSS is still working.

Some readers suspect that Cuban authorities may be blocking it. And his readers are concerned about his safety and survival.

:: GONE MISSING ::
-- Scroll Down --

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Tu Jun 27 -

YER BRAIN ON BLOG -

:: Web Monkey at BloggerCon ::

:: NYU Prof Jay Rosen ::
of PRESSTHINK Blog
at BloggerCon.

:: Spokane Review's ::
Local Bloggers Page.

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Tu Jun 27 -

Breaking ~~

RESCUE OP BEGUN -

*Israeli troops and tanks have moved into southern Gaza... The incursion followed air strikes overnight that took out three strategic bridges and hit the main power station, causing a huge fire and plunging Gaza City into darkness.*

:: Aljazeera TV.Net ::

Confirmed at BBC/YNet/JPost.
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Tu Jun 27 -

KNIGHT-RIDDER'S "30" -

:: Commemorative t-shirts ::

And KR's Mike Cassidy
of the Mercury News
shares a reminiscence.

:: Cassidy ::

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Mo Jun 26 -

NEW ERA FOR
MEDIOCRITY -

Do you hear that
Giant Sucking Sound???

Your newspaper may be shrinking in more ways than one:

If newspapers get any smaller, you'll have to read them with a magnifying glass.

Publicly owned newspapers, most of which are handsomely profitable, blame Wall Street for the dinkification, saying the stock market punishes newspaper companies when their publications don't earn the accustomed 20-plus percent profit margin.

:: Jack Shafer ::
-- WaPo, RegReq'd --

Although the John S and James L Knight Foundation ostensibly supports projects such as New Voices, we are not likely to experience any benefits thereof in the forseeable future here in SoFlo.

The new McClatchy Era is just going to give us a website with a more local "flavor."

Both The Miami Herald and the other local newspaper edited by Colonel Blimp still seem to be dragging their feet as far as the Internet is concerned.

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:
S/Mon Jun 26 -

WANNABEES -

Two online newspaper stories on the alleged homegrown prospective terrorists in the Miami FL area. The second one, which is British, is more colorful.


# The Liberty City 7:

At issue is whether al-Qaida can influence U.S.-born extremists seeking a cause to lend credence to their aims...

"There are a lot of wannabes out there, people who want to be terrorists or heroes."

:: By Tal Abbady ::
-- Sun-Sentinel --

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# Or . . . The Moorish
Science Irregulars:

Bizzare cult of
Sears Tower 'plotter'

Paul Thompson and Sarah Baxter sketch out a picaresque portrait of the group and some background on its members.

:: Times of London ::

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S/Mon Jun 26 -

QAEDA MEDIA MACHINE -

"There was just myself and the emir. I used
a small Sony camera."

The emir was Osama bin Laden's deputy,
Ayman al-Zawahri...

Yusuf said As-Sahab puts together its videos in a minivan that was turned into a mobile studio by al-Qaida technicians and blends easily into Pakistani traffic...

+ Great journalistic coup by reporter Kathy Gannon illuminating the production and distribution of the Q Gang's videos and other propaganda material.

Recommended.

:: KGannon/AP via TBO ::

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