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NY Daily News:
Bomb tunnel, flood city — One man is busted in Beirut, others hunted across — globe and terrorists are seen linked to Zarqawi — BY ALLISON GENDAR in New York and JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington — The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
FBI disrupts New York City tunnel plot — WASHINGTON - Authorities have disrupted planning by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels, two law enforcement officials said Friday. — FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms used by extremists learned in recent months …
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CNN:
N.Y. tunnel terror plot uncovered — Plot surfaced via Internet postings — (CNN) — U.S. and Lebanese agents have foiled terrorist plans to attack New York's transportation system, U.S. authorities said Friday. — Counterrorism sources confirmed that a plot to blow up tunnels …
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The Prowler / American Spectator:
What the New York Times Has Wrought — The New York Daily News' report this morning about what appears to have been an al Qaeda supported plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel in New York in order to flood the Wall Street financial district is drawing a lot of attention in the blogosphere …
John O'Neil / New York Times:
N.Y. Plot Is Uncovered in Early Stage — Authorities in Lebanon have arrested a man in connection with a plot to blow up part of the New York transportation system, officials said today. — Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York Representative Peter T. King of Long Island confirmed a report …
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Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:Plotters Plan Mass Suicide on Train on 9/11/06
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush wants clear lines set for N. Korea — CHICAGO - President Bush said Friday he wants to rally world support in confronting North Korea over its missile tests to send an unmistakable message to the leader of the communist regime. — "It's your choice, Kim Jong Il. You've got the choice to make," Bush said.
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David J. Silverman / cjp.org:
Lieberman's Support for Iraq War Creates Dilemma for Jewish Backers — WASHINGTON, July 5 (JTA) — Six years after Joe Lieberman presented Jewish Democrats with an unprecedented triumph, he may pose an intractable dilemma. — If the U.S. senator from Connecticut loses an Aug. 8 primary …
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Los Angeles Times:
Purging antiwar Democrats — Activists are trying to make a smaller party tent by targeting Joe Lieberman, as the Connecticut senator lives down to their expectations. — ANTIWAR ACTIVISTS WHO ARE opposing the renomination of Sen. Joe Lieberman in next month's Connecticut Democratic primary complain that he's not a "real Democrat."
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Hilary Sargent / Senate Majority Project:
Phone Jammer to Argue DC Officials Approved — According to a recent court filing, indicted phone jammer Shaun Hansen may offer an affirmative defense at his upcoming fall trial, arguing that the phone jamming scheme which his company carried out had the seal of approval of both the Republican National Committee and the White House.
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
"Complete" List of Coulter Plagiarism Allegations — Behold, the list. — Since we started covering the plagiarism accusations leveled at Ann Coulter, a number of readers have asked to see the alleged examples firsthand. So we have tried to compile all known examples of plagiarism …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Ruling Keeps DeLay on Ballot — Judge Sides With Democrats, Says Former Lawmaker Can't Quit — A federal judge in Texas threw the political retirement of former House majority leader Tom DeLay into doubt yesterday, ruling that the Texas Republican Party must keep the indicted former congressman …
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Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
George W. Bush Is Dead To Me Nation cringes as the worst president ever continues long, painful slog to the end — It is like some sort of virus. It is like some sort of weird and painful rash on your face that makes you embarrassed to walk out the door and so you sit there day after day …
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
New York Judges Reject Any Right to Gay Marriage — New York's highest court rejected yesterday a broad attempt by gay and lesbian couples across the state to win the right to marry under state law, saying that denying marriage to same-sex couples does not violate the State Constitution.
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Ronald Kessler / NewsMax.com:
McCain's Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President? — WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is considered a front-runner for the 2008 race, but does McCain have the temperament to be president? — As portrayed by the mainstream media, McCain is an engaging war hero …
John Yoo / Los Angeles Times:
The high court's Hamdan power grab — The justices are hampering the president's ability to fight terrorists, says an architect of Bush's legal strategy. — A PRESIDENT responds to an unprecedented war with unprecedented measures that test the limits of his constitutional authority.
Reuters:
'Breast ironing' to stunt girls' growth widespread — 1 in 4 girls in Cameroon suffer this abuse to protect against rape — YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) — Worried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene …
Judy Bachrach / Vanity Fair:
Washington Babylon — California Republican congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham traded military contracts for $2.4 million in antiques, cash, and other booty. He is now in jail, but his case exposed a world of bribery, booze, and broads that reaches into the Pentagon, the C.I.A., and Congress.
Diana West / Washington Times:
Appeasing jihadists — Just in time for the one-year anniversary of 7/7, a poll conducted for The Times of London indicates that 13 percent of British Muslims believe that the four Islamic suicide bombers who murdered 52 people in London last July should be regarded as "martyrs."
splcenter.org:
Racist extremists active in U.S. military SPLC urges Rumsfeld to adopt zero-tolerance policy — July 7, 2006 — Under pressure to meet wartime manpower goals, the U.S. military has relaxed standards designed to weed out racist extremists. Large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis …
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