Alleged Canadian terror plot has worldwide links  —  TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned.

Liberal Jesus  —  I want to thank Glenn for inviting me to blog at you while he's away.  I also hope I am not imposing on this generosity by plunging in with a post on religion.  I promise this will be a request for tolerance, not conversion.  I am not a Christian, but I am religious …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Nervous informant who gave details of new terrorist device  —  THE informant told MI5 that they did not have much time to stop another lethal terrorist attack on London.  —  The details he passed on were so precise and so terrifying that intelligence agents had to drop some of their other investigations …

What's Lost in the Hue and Cry Over Haditha  —  Even in "good wars" things go horribly wrong.  The following quotations from "Naples '44," by the late Norman Lewis (perhaps the greatest English travel writer of the past century), are instructive.  Lewis was stationed in Naples following Italy's liberation …

Belief in spud silencer puts man in hot water  —  Police have arrested a man who they say mistakenly believed he could muffle the sound of a gunshot with a potato attached to the end of the barrel.  —  dovalle@MiamiHerald.com  —  Experts say using a spud as a silencer is urban myth — but that didn't deter Shane Thompson.