memeorandum: Canada Raid Breaks Cell: 3 Tons of Explosives Found (ThreatsWatch.Org)

8:15 PM ET, June 3, 2006

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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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Toronto Star:

Men attended 'training camp': Sources — MICHELLE SHEPHARD, SURYA BHATTACHARYA AND STAN JOSEY — A group of Canadian teenagers and young men in their 20s, accused by police of being members of a suspected homegrown terrorist cell, will appear in court this morning to face accusations …

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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.

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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 …

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Stewart Bell / National Post:
Nevermind foreign terrorists, why is Canada growing its own extremists?

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Ian Austen / New York Times:
17 Are Arrested in Plot to Bomb Sites in Ontario

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cbc.ca: 'Serious' bomb plot in Canada averted: police

Timothy Appleby / Globe and Mail:
Terrorism raids sweep Toronto

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Allahpundit / Hot Air: Terror raid in Canada rolls up 17 jihadis

Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Canadians Used Internet Monitoring To Stop Terror Attack

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Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
MAJOR ANTI-TERROR RAID IN CANADA

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Stephen Taylor:
Canadian Security Forces arrest 17 Terror Suspects (12 Men + 5 Young Offenders)

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Jeffrey Imm / Counterterrorism Blog:
Growing Islamist Terror Threat in Canada

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torontosun.com:
Al-Qaida busts in T.O

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Canada Discovers Terrorist Plot

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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.

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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.

Discussion: Flopping Aces, Ninth State and Blue Crab Boulevard

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.

Discussion: The Grit and The Blogging of the President

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.

Discussion: The Reaction, Needlenose, Bring it On! and BrothersJudd Blog

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.

Discussion: Thomas Joscelyn, Left I on the News and Blue Crab Boulevard

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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Howard W. French / New York Times:

Online Throngs Impose a Stern Morality in China — SHANGHAI, June 2 — It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of the country's most popular Internet bulletin boards from a husband denouncing a college student he suspected of having an affair with his wife. Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack.

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