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8:35 AM ET, June 6, 2006

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Toronto Star:
The ties that bind 17 suspects?  —  SURYA BHATTACHARYA, NASREEN GULAMHUSEIN AND HEBA ALY  —  In investigators' offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall.
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Rebecca Cook Dube / Christian Science Monitor:
Canada faces 'jihad generation'
Varifrank:
CANADA 17: MORE CONNECTIONS  —  Two of the men arrested in Canada …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls  —  WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on what measures, if any, public school systems may use to maintain racial balance in individual schools.  —  The eventual decision on whether they can take race into account …
Discussion: Althouse
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David Stout / New York Times:
Justices to Rule on Race and Education
Discussion: Big Lizards
Gina Holland / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to hear schools race case
Discussion: joannejacobs.com
Juan Forero / New York Times:
Ex-President Wins in Peru in Stunning Comeback  —  LIMA, Peru, June 4 — Sixteen years after his presidency ended in economic collapse and heightened guerrilla violence, Alan García was elected president again on Sunday, completing one of Latin America's most astonishing political resurrections.
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Creating the Inevitable  —  The CIA visits Iraq in April 2002  —  The Bush Administration continues to claim that war against Iraq was always a last resort, but an overwhelming amount of evidence—such as the Downing Street Memo of July 2002, which said military action was "inevitable"—suggests otherwise.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The 10 Most Dangerous Democratic Candidates In 2008  —  Just for the fun of it, I decided to put together a list of the Democratic candidates who'd have the best chance to beat a GOP nominee in 2008.  This list is based purely on electability, not on the likelihood the candidate will take the nomination.
TalkLeft:
Jose Padilla Alleges Witness Statements Obtained Through Torture  —  Lawyers for Jose Padilla have filed a motion to suppress evidence and statements in his federal terrorism case.  He alleges that the FBI failed to advise the Court in its 2002 affidavit for his arrest as a material witness …
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James M Yoch Jr / JURIST - Paper Chase:
Padilla says FBI evidence against him illegally obtained
Discussion: PrawfsBlawg
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Chill out over global warming  —  You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.  —  Why not give it a whirl?  —  Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a LoDo cocktail party and see what happens.  —  Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Hell of War  —  Why Haditha isn't My Lai.  —  Unjust though the assumption may prove to be, let us imagine that the Marines of Kilo Company did indeed crack up and cut loose in Haditha that day.  Something like this has certainly been waiting to happen.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
House at Stake, Midterm Election Gets Early Start  —  WASHINGTON, June 5 — Congressional campaigns have begun early and with unusual intensity this year in many districts across the country, reflecting a consensus in both parties that Republicans could lose control of the House and perhaps the Senate.
Seth Borenstein / Washington Times:
Apocalypse tomorrow?  666 arrives  —  Is tomorrow's date — 6-6-6 — merely a curious number, or could it mean our number is up?  —  There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Times of London:
The wrong target  —  Terrorism, not America, is a real and present threat to our freedoms  —  Al-Haditha, a town on the Euphrates northwest of Baghdad, is still a place where fighters blend into the populace and literally use civilians as cover.  Coalition forces may shoot only when threatened …
Discussion: Harry's Place and PrairiePundit
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Iraqis Believe Violence Will Abate, New Report Says  —  Pentagon Finds Hope Is Tied to New Government  —  Attacks and casualty levels against civilians and military personnel in Iraq have risen "substantially" since the December elections, but Iraqis have confidence the new Baghdad government …
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Privately Funded Trips Add Up on Capitol Hill  —  Over 5 1/2 years, Republican and Democratic lawmakers accepted nearly $50 million in trips, often to resorts and exclusive locales, from corporations and groups seeking legislative favors, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the subject of congressional travel.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Guardian:
Intelligence behind raid was wrong, officials say  —  Vikram Dodd, Sandra Laville and Richard Norton-Taylor  —  Senior counter-terrorism officials now believe that the intelligence that led to the raid on a family house last Friday in a search for a chemical device about to be used …
Washington Post:
In Brazen Roundup, 56 Vanish From Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, June 5 — "Turn back," a friend told Haji Abu Shamaa as he walked Monday morning toward his money-changing shop in the Karkh neighborhood of central Baghdad, a mile north of the heavily guarded Green Zone.  "The Interior Ministry police are rounding up people."
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Iraqis Accuse Marines in April Killing Of Civilian  —  Disabled Man's Family Disputes Troops' Story  —  BAGHDAD, June 4 — All parties to the case of Hashim Ibrahim Awad al-Zobaie agree that he was shot dead by Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment on April 26 in the small central Iraqi village of Hamdaniyah.
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Lieberman faces showdown over Iraq  —  MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - After years of ardent support for the Iraq war, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record) could become that conflict's first big political casualty in a Democratic primary race fueled by rising anti-war anger.
 
 
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New York Times:
Abbas to Call Palestinian Vote on Two-State Plan
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Conservatives Watching Senate Debate on Gay Marriage
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / Salon:
Was the 2004 election stolen?  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Farhad Manjoo face off.
A.L. / The Anonymous Liberal:
Defining America Down  —  Many years from now, when historians look …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Is Offering Deals on Trade to Entice Iran
Jane Williams / NEWS.com.au:
Devil's date creates infernal jitters
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
GOP convention pushes unity among delegates
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Getting Used to War as Hell
 Earlier Items: 
CBS News:
Another Terrorist Attack Coming Soon?
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
The Skipper / Barking Moonbat Early Warning System:
MARINE'S FATHER SUES WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
An Upbeat Rumsfeld and Vietnam Agree to Broaden Ties
Agence France Presse:
Dutch Evangelicals calls for pray-in against the Devil
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
Edward M. Kennedy / Boston Herald:
GOP says 'I do' to bigotry...  It's no wonder that the American people …
Taylor Marsh / Firedoglake:
STOP THE WAR - Pressure Congress
John / AMERICAblog:
A caller asks: "Has Senator Burns ever had sex with a transvestite prostitute?"
Observer:
US confronts brutal culture among its finest sons