memeorandum: Toronto terror plot foiled

9:50 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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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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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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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:

"Alleged Canadian terror plot has worldwide links" (UPDATED) — From the National Post: … [My emphasis] — Somehow, I have a feeling someone's civil rights were violated during all this "investigating" and "probing." And if that's the case, well, then the terrorists will have already won.

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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.

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Bombshell: National Post links Canadian plot to six other countries (Update: Attacks were imminent?) — The National Post also broke the phony Iranian yellow-badges story, of course. If this one blows up in their face, they're completely finished as a credible news source.

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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
Canada Nabs 17 Terror Suspects in Toronto

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

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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ: Liberal Blogs Silent On Massive Terrorism Bust

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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

Michelle Malkin:
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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Hindrocket / Power Line:
CANADIAN TERROR SUSPECTS LINKED TO INTERNATIONAL GROUPS

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

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Barbara O'Brien / Unclaimed Territory:

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 …

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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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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 …

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 …

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.