Today's Details

-An Israeli air raid on the southern Lebanese town of Qana killed dozens of civilians on Sunday, many of them children, marking the bloodiest day of this conflict and putting enormous pressure on Israel and the United States to move rapidly toward a cease-fire. DETAILS

-A key section of a long-awaited congressional report on prewar intelligence in Iraq, that some Democrats have been counting on to use as a campaign issue, probably won't be released until after the November elections, according to an article in Sunday's edition of The Washington Post. DETAILS

-Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria ripped into Donald Rumsfeld this morning on ABC’s This Week. [If I were running against conservatives,] I would make up a campaign commercial almost entirely of Donald Rumsfeld’s press conferences, because the man is looking — I mean, it’s not just that he seems like a bad Secretary of [Defense]. He seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged. If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he’s living in a different world, not a different country. (Same words I used to describe the right wing here and here.) DETAILS/VIDEO

-Israeli missiles hit several buildings in a southern Lebanon village as people slept Sunday, killing at least 56, most of them children, in the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. DETAILS

-Presidential adviser Karl Rove said Saturday that journalists often criticize political professionals because they want to draw attention away from the "corrosive role" their own coverage plays in politics and government. (I would say that it has been the SILENCE of our neutered press during the tenure of this administration that has had a corrosive effect upon the rights of Americans and the well being of the country. I would argue that it is Karl Rove himself rather than journalists who has proven to be corrosive to the political process - and the way the 'game is played' . Who is he trying to kid other than the same group of people he is always able to kid?) DETAILS

-The controversy over the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open in the Cuban enclave in the next few weeks. DETAILS

-The father of a slain serviceman whose funeral was disrupted is suing the Westboro Baptist Church in an attempt to fight back against what he views as the abuse of military families with a message of hate. DETAILS