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Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected homegrown terror cell — Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen men — with more to come — marks the culmination of Canada's largest ever terrorism investigation into an alleged homegrown cell.
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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
17 Terror Suspects Arrested in Toronto — Seventeen Canadian residents were in custody Saturday on terrorism- related charges, including plots to use explosives in attacks on Canadian soil, authorities said. — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested 12 male adults and five youth …
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Secular Blasphemy, Security Watchtower, Cold Fury, Wizbang, Hit and Run and Midwest Conservative Journal
Toronto Star:
Most arrested from GTA — "This group posed a real and serious threat," says senior RCMP officer — A series of terrorist attacks plotted against unspecified targets in southern Ontario were "inspired by Al Qaeda," a CSIS official said today, adding that the ring of suspects arrested posed a "real and serious" threat.
Sasha Nagy / Globe and Mail:
Massive terror attack averted: RCMP — A terror attack potentially three times more devastating than the Oklahoma City bombing has been averted, the RCMP alleged Saturday. — A counterterrorism sweep Friday resulted in the largest arrest ever made by the nation's anti-terrorism forces and raised …
Stewart Bell / National Post:
Nevermind foreign terrorists, why is Canada growing its own extremists? — They are young, militant and Canadian. And according to senior counterterrorism authorities, they have been plotting large-scale terrorist attacks on Canadian soil. — The Canadian Security Intelligence Service acknowledged …
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Solomonia
Stephen Taylor:Canadian Security Forces arrest 17 Terror Suspects (12 Men + 5 Young Offenders)
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Blue Crab Boulevard
White House:
President's Radio Address — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Next week, the United States Senate will begin debate on a constitutional amendment that defines marriage in the United States as the union of a man and woman. On Monday, I will meet with a coalition of community leaders …
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Michelle Malkin:
UK TIMES SMEARS OUR MARINES (UPDATED WITH RESPONSE) — ***keeping this post on top...click here for full Canadian terror bust coverage...update: photo removed...*** — Look very carefully at the photo featured in the UK Times's report from June 1, 2006 titled "Massacre Marines blinded by hate:" (big hat tip - Joe G.)
Times of London:
Police hunt for lethal chemical suicide vest — A DESPERATE search is under way for a "chemical vest" that a British suicide bomber was ready to deploy in a terror attack on London. — Police fear that the strike, using a home-made chemical device, was imminent after an informant told MI5 …
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Dani Dodge / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Busby on defense, says she misspoke — If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: "You don't need papers for voting." — On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words.
Josh White / Washington Post:
Military Cleared in Raid on Iraq House — U.S. commanders used appropriate force in taking down a safe house in Iraq during a March 15 military raid that led to the deaths of as many as a dozen civilians, according to the results of an investigation announced in Baghdad yesterday.
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
In a Solidly Conservative State, a Loyal Core of Support for Bush — PROVO, Utah — Here in what may be the reddest city in the reddest of states, where Democrats sometimes gather like lost souls at the one Starbucks, most people are standing by President Bush.
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The Blogging of the President
Washington Post:
A Latin Backlash — FOR YEARS Hugo Chavez's steady dismantlement of Venezuela's democracy and his embrace of dictators and terrorists around the world — from Fidel Castro to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — prompted next to no reaction from Latin America's democratic governments.
New York Times:
A Talk at Lunch That Shifted the Stance on Iran — WASHINGTON, June 3 — On a Tuesday afternoon two months ago, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat down to a small lunch in President Bush's private dining room behind the Oval Office and delivered grim news to her boss: Their coalition against Iran was at risk of falling apart.
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
A Man of the People's Needs and Wants — Ahmadinejad Praised in Iran as a Caring Leader — ARAK, Iran — The ordinary Iranians who poured into the local soccer stadium to hear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad one day last month arrived carrying high hopes and handwritten letters. They left with just the hopes.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Politics For the Disengaged — In a wonderful example of life imitating art, a group of serious political pros has taken the plot line of "The West Wing" and turned it into the most intriguing gambit yet seen for the 2008 election. — As fans of the now-canceled NBC drama know …
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