memeorandum: Canada terror suspects may have had US contacts (Reuters)

9:10 AM ET, June 4, 2006

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Had to move quickly against suspects: RCMP — The RCMP said Saturday that after investigating the alleged homegrown terrorist cell for months, they had to move quickly Friday night to arrest 12 men and five youths before the group could launch a bomb attack on Canadian soil.

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Ian Austen / New York Times:

17 Are Arrested in Plot to Bomb Sites in Ontario — OTTAWA, June 3 — Seventeen Canadian residents have been arrested and charged with plotting to destroy targets in Ontario with crude but powerful bombs and other terrorism-related offensives, the Canadian authorities announced Saturday.

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CNN:

Toronto terror plot foiled — Canada — FBI: Suspects may have had 'limited contact' with Georgia men — TORONTO, Ontario (CNN) — Canadian police said on Saturday they had halted a "real and serious" terror threat in and around Toronto. — Twelve men and five youths said to have been inspired …

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Colin Freeze / Globe and Mail:

Terror suspects appear in court — Brampton, Ont. — Members of an alleged homegrown terror cell appeared in a Brampton courtroom Saturday to face chargers they plotted to attack Canadian targets in Southern Ontario. — In a series of raids Friday, police arrested 12 adults and five young offenders.

Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:

Canadians Used Internet Monitoring To Stop Terror Attack — The Canadian intelligence service monitored Internet communications to identify and track the homegrown jihadists rounded up in last night's raids, according to the Toronto Star. The investigation began two years ago …

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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:

Canada Nabs 17 Terror Suspects in Toronto — TORONTO (AP) - Canadian police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects, apparently inspired by al-Qaida, who obtained three times the amount of an explosive ingredient used in the Oklahoma City bombing, officials said Saturday.

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell: National Post links Canadian plot to six other countries …

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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"Alleged Canadian terror plot has worldwide links" (UPDATED)

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cbc.ca:
Accused 'inspired by al-Qaeda,' say police

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Barry Brown / Voice of America:
Canadian Police Arrest 17 Suspected Terrorists

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Reuters: Canada terror suspects may have had US contacts

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EUPHEMISM O' THE DAY: "BROAD STRATA"

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

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Dan / Riehl World View:
Canadian Arrests Linked To Arrests In Atlanta

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Barbara O'Brien / Unclaimed Territory:

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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:

In Haditha Killings, Details Came Slowly — Official Version Is at Odds With Evidence — At 5 p.m. Nov. 19, near the end of one of the most violent days the Marine Corps had experienced in the Upper Euphrates Valley, a call went out for trucks to collect the bodies of 24 Iraqi civilians.

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Scott Shane / New York Times:

Invoking Secrets Privilege Becomes a More Popular Legal Tactic by U.S. — WASHINGTON, June 3 — Facing a wave of litigation challenging its eavesdropping at home and its handling of terror suspects abroad, the Bush administration is increasingly turning to a legal tactic that swiftly torpedoes most lawsuits …

MSNBC:

N.Y., D.C. shortchanged on terror funding? — More cities sharing fewer antiterror dollars as feds retool funding criteria … NEW YORK - Officials in New York and Washington, the two cities targeted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, were anything but happy after learning that Homeland Security …

Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:

Estate tax debate a chance for Democrats to pounce — NEXT WEEK, the Republican leadership in the US Senate will attempt to ram through a permanent repeal of the estate tax. A companion bill has already passed the House. — Under the Bush administration, the estate tax has been cut …

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David Leppard / Times of London:

British brigade of Islamists join Al-Qaeda foreign legion in Iraq — UP TO 150 Islamic radicals have travelled from Britain to Iraq to join up with a "British brigade" that has been established by Al-Qaeda leaders to fight coalition forces. — Senior security sources say leaders …

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Dana L. / Washington Post:

What Happens When There Is No Plan B? — The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want. Well, not literally, but let me explain. — I am a 42-year-old happily married mother of two elementary-schoolers.