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Kelli Kennedy / Associated Press:
Official: 7 arrested in Sears Tower plot — MIAMI - Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.
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CNN:
FBI arrests 7 in domestic terrorism probe — Raids being conducted in Miami area — WASHINGTON (CNN) — FBI agents were raiding sites in Miami, Florida, on Thursday in connection with a domestic terrorism investigation, law enforcement sources said. — Officials said no weapons …
Evan Benn / Miami Herald:
Anti-terror arrests made in Miami raid — FBI agents backed by state and local law enforcement cordoned off an area of Liberty City and made several arrests on Thursday as part of what U.S. officials called a significant terror-related investigation. — There was no immediate threat to Miami, officials said.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: FBI stages terror raid in Miami (Update: ABC says plan was to bomb Sears Tower) (Update: "Jihad") — Just across on CNN. Early reports say the area's flooded with agents. Six to eight suspects are thought to have been arrested, and they're not believed to be Muslim.
MSNBC:
FBI arrests 7 in Miami terrorism-related search — Investigators claim men conspired to attack Sears Tower … MSNBC TV — MIAMI - Federal law-enforcement sources tell NBC News that the FBI has arrested seven men here as part of an ongoing anti-terrorism operation.
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Federal Agents Raid Suspected Terror Cell in Miami — Officials Say Group Planned to Bomb the FBI Building in Miami and Sears Tower in Chicago — June 22, 2006 — ABC News has learned that federal agents, including the FBI, are launching a series of raids tonight targeting a suspected terror cell based in Miami.
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Fox News:
Seven Nabbed in Miami on Terror Charges in Plot to Hit Sears Tower — MIAMI — Seven people were arrested on terrorism conspiracy charges Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the United States, a federal law enforcement official said.
New York Times:
Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror — WASHINGTON, June 22 - Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking …
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Mining Bank Transfer Data in Anti-Terror Effort — WASHINGTON — The U.S. government, without the knowledge of many banks and their customers, has engaged for years in a secret effort to track terrorist financing by reviewing confidential information on transfers of money between banks worldwide.
Michelle Malkin:
NYTIMES BLABBERMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN — ***update: The Los Angeles Times piles on and flaps its mouth, too...The story is the blabbermouth media's refusal to act responsibly and learn when to shut up...*** — Dammit. These people don't know when to stop.
Justin Bachman / Associated Press:
Media Refuses to Hold Surveillance Story — The Bush administration and The New York Times are again at odds over national security, this time with new reports of a broad government effort to track global financial transfers. — The newspaper, which in December broke news of an effort …
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Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
A military draft might awaken us — REINSTATE THE military draft and see how quickly the United States ends its war in Iraq. — Imagine if all our sons and daughters were at risk for deployment to the desert. Imagine if all our children faced the Al Qaeda-style butchery that took the lives …
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Goes It Alone — Senator Breaks With Democrats In Otherwise Partisan Debate On Plans To Pull Troops From Iraq — WASHINGTON — A somber Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman stood alone on the Democratic side of the Senate Wednesday and broke with his colleagues on the Iraq war …
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Times of London:
Peace deal offers Iraq insurgents an amnesty — From Ned Parker in Baghdad and Tom Baldwin — THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war.
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Polls, Pundits and Pols — (June 22, 2006) — The new efforts by Republicans in Congress, and in the media, to use Iraq to their advantage by branding Democrats as favoring a "cut-and-run'" policy, has received wide coverage in the past week. Often pundits, and even reporters …
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Susan Schmidt / Washington Post:
Senate's Abramoff Report Disputes Rep. Ney — Indian Affairs Panel Cites Lobbyist Abuse of Tax Exemptions — In the fall of 2004, Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) told Senate investigators that he was unfamiliar with a Texas Indian tribe represented by lobbyist Jack Abramoff.