July 13, 2006

Charlie's Show Prep #134

• Hezbollah kidnaps two Israeli soldiers so Israel bombs the Beirut airport intensifying the Middle East situation. The Lebanese government didn't condemn Hezbollah's kidnapping.

• How will Congress and the Bush administration figure out how to deal with Islamist detainees in the wake of Hamdan? Defense Department lawyer Daniel Dell'Orto had some great words before a Senate committee:
  

  "I don't want a soldier when he kicks down a door in a hut in Afghanistan searching for Osama bin Laden to have to worry about . . . whether he's got to advise them of some rights before he takes a statement," Dell'Orto said. "I don't want him to have to worry about filling out some form that is going to support the chain of custody when he picks up a laptop computer that has the contact information for all manner of cells around the world, while he's still looking over his shoulder to see whether there's not an enemy coming in after him."

• The Russ Feingold for President campaign kisses up to Hurricane Katrina victims at The Huffington Post.

• Ozaukee County Sheriff's Department dispatcher Christian Hill's quick thinking saved a woman from completing a suicide attempt.

• Chicago's Olympic bid proposal has most of the events located in downtown Chicago. There goes the idea of a Midwest Olympics with Milwaukee having a role.

• Zinedine Zidane wants "forgiveness from all the children who watched" his World Cup head butt.