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CNN:
Indictment: Suspects wanted to 'kill all the devils we can' — Terror plot targeted Chicago's Sears Tower — MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan intended to "kill all the devils we can."
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Terror Suspects Sought Ties With al-Qaida — WASHINGTON (AP) - Seven young men arrested in an alleged plot against the Sears Tower were part of a group of "homegrown terrorists" who sought to work with al-Qaida but ended up conspiring with an informant, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday.
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Seven Are Charged With Plot to Blow Up Sears Tower
Seven Are Charged With Plot to Blow Up Sears Tower
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The Heretik
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Substantive Discourse and the loyal opposition
Substantive Discourse and the loyal opposition
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Ace of Spades HQ
Washington Post:
Bank Records Secretly Tapped — Administration Began Using Global Database Shortly After 2001 Attacks — The Bush administration, relying on a presidential declaration of emergency, has secretly been tapping into a vast global database of confidential financial transactions for nearly five years …
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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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Patterico's Pontifications, Michelle Malkin, Associated Press, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, The Reaction, Confederate Yankee, The Heretik, GOP Bloggers, All Things Beautiful, The Strata-Sphere, Los Angeles Times, Hullabaloo, Liberty and Justice, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Pundit, protein wisdom, BizzyBlog.com, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Blue Crab Boulevard, PoliPundit.com, Outside The Beltway, TalkLeft, The American Street and NewsBusters.org
Michelle Malkin:
BACKLASH AGAINST THE BLABBERMOUTHS — ***update: Tony Snow video*** — They can buy ink by the barrel, but we can fight back now with bandwidth by the terrabyte. I'm getting inundated with furious readers' letters to the Times, most of which the editors won't bother to read or publish …
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Power Line, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air, Gay Patriot, Riehl World View, Hugh Hewitt, TBogg, PrairiePundit and PunditGuy
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
NYT Reveals Secret Banking Anti-Terrorist Program
NYT Reveals Secret Banking Anti-Terrorist Program
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Hugh Hewitt, Booman Tribune, The Washington Monthly, Flopping Aces, PartisanTimes.com, Wizbang, INTEL DUMP, Media Needle, PoliBlog, Cold Fury, Yourish.com, Hot Air, The Anchoress, Instapundit.com, The American Thinker, OrinKerr.com, Shakespeare's Sister, The Real Ugly American.com, Squiggler and The Influence Peddler
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy? — This is not funny: Jon Stewart and his hit Comedy Central cable show may be poisoning democracy. — Two political scientists found that young people who watch Stewart's faux news program, "The Daily Show," develop cynical views about politics and politicians …
Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
State of emergency declared in Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Friday after insurgents set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and fired on U.S. and Iraqi troops outside the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Roadblocks, Curfew Imposed in Baghdad
Roadblocks, Curfew Imposed in Baghdad
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democracyarsenal.org
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
Why I Love Australia — WASHINGTON — In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: "I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.'' — For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day.
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From Wake Up Call: St. Pete Times's Rove/Satan Story — According to this St. Petersburg Times story, saved here for posterity, "Karl Rove said that he would be plotting the Republican Party's fall election strategy with his longtime comrade-in-arms, Satan."
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Does The New Republic have a new Stephen Glass in Jason Zengerle? — Over the last few days, Jason Zengerle of The New Republic has been engaged in a bizarre crusade to depict "liberal bloggers" as a bunch of mindless, obedient zombies who take orders about what to write from Markos Moulitsas …
Dan / Riehl World View:
Why The Netroots Movement Will Fail — First off, I've probably dug into the recent Kos controversy as much or more than anyone else. I can't see that Marcos Moulitsas has done anything wrong, other than perhaps a knee jerk response to the criticism. So, he has little to do with this post.
New York Post:
DEMOCRACY RISING — KUWAITIS' VOTE A NEW ARAB MILESTONE — June 23, 2006 — KUWAITIS go to the polls next week to elect a new National Assembly, which will in turn approve a new prime minister and Cabinet. — The Kuwaitis will be making history for a number of reasons.
showmenews.com:
Bandanna banned in Springfield mall — Officials won't explain how headgear is offensive. — SPRINGFIELD (AP) - A southwest Missouri mall defended its dress code after a security guard told a 10-year-old girl her bandanna decorated with peace signs, smiley faces and flowers violated the mall's code of conduct.
Richard Wike / pewglobal.org:
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other — Europe's Muslims More Moderate — Introduction and Summary — After a year marked by riots over cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, a major terrorist attack in London, and continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan …
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Guardian, The RCP Blog, FP Passport, Liberty and Justice, Hot Air, Andrew Sullivan and The American Thinker
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.