RCMP Went Undercover For Raid  —  The Toronto Star reports this morning that the RCMP itself sold the Toronto terror cell the three tons of ammonium nitrate it planned to use for devastating attacks on Canada.  The Mounties moved to capture all of the suspects as soon as the deal for the fertilizer concluded:

A Hard Look at Haditha  —  The apparent cold-blooded killing last November of 24 Iraqi civilians by United States marines at Haditha will be hard to dispose of with another Washington damage control operation.  The Iraqi government has made clear that it will not sit still for one, and neither should the American people.

Hillary and Bill: A Relationship Too Political to Be Ignored  —  COMPLAINTS about the May 23 Page 1 article on Hillary and Bill Clinton add up to one of the most uniformly negative and partisan reader reactions to a Times article during the past year.  Most decried as tabloid journalism …

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.

Terror cell 'was planning nerve gas attack on capital'  —  Your view: should police be allowed to shoot terror suspects?  —  Terrorists were planning a chemical attack in London similar to the outrage on the Tokyo underground, according to police and the security services.

LONDONISTAN  —  HOW BRITAIN'S HABITUAL APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISM REAPS TERROR  —  June 4, 2006 — AFTER 9/11 plotter Zacarias Mous saoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British.  Their son had had first arrived in London in the 1990s for an MA course …

Lobbying reform slow despite scandals  —  WASHINGTON - The stench of scandal on Capitol Hill is getting stronger five months after lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to influence-peddling charges, but a lobbying overhaul has yet to see the light of day.  —  The Senate passed its version …

Harry Truman would have given terrorists hell  —  Democrats know how to fight real wars, not just political ones, says Peter Beinart.  —  IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war — with each other.  The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt's former vice president …

Events at Haditha don't change need for victory  —  Here are a couple of observations from two parents of American heroes fallen in Iraq.  The first is from Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Spec.  Casey Sheehan, a brave man who enlisted in 2000, re-upped for a second tour and died in 2005 …

Rice Key to Reversal on Iran  —  Expected Failure of International Effort Led to U.S. Turnaround  —  At the end of March, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Europe and had unusual, one-on-one conversations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Gunmen Kill 21 Commuters Near Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Gunmen dragged passengers off three minibuses northeast of Baghdad early Sunday and killed 21 people, including a dozen students.  Authorities said the attackers spared four Sunni Arabs in one of Iraq's worst sectarian atrocities in recent weeks.

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 …