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Plane Terror Plot Thwarted — Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage. — Sky News has been told the plan was to hit around a dozen planes over UK and US cities. — Police are said to have arrested 20 people …
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BBC:
'Plot to blow up planes' foiled — A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. — It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on aircraft in hand luggage. — Police have arrested about 18 people …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Scotland Yard busts "major plot" to blow up airplane (Update: A dozen planes?) — Just across on CNN International. — Al Qaeda, do you think, or our new friends the Shiites? — Or maybe the Presbyterians? — Standby. — Update: Freedom Folks tips me to the news breaking at the Beeb:
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CNN:
UK airport delay after plot foiled — LONDON (CNN) — Major delays are expected at all UK airports after the nation's threat level was raised to "critical" when police disrupted a plot to blow up planes in mid-flight. — The British Home Office on Thursday raised the country's alert level to …
Malkin / Michelle Malkin:
"Imminent," "massive" jihad UK plot foiled; goal: "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" — I went to bed last night after blogging about the Dearbornistan terror arrests and the still missing 8 Egyptians. Twenty minutes after I went to sleep, the news broke about a massive terrorist plot …
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Guardian:
UK airports on high alert as terrorist plot uncovered — Mark Oliver and agencies — A major terror plot to kill hundreds of people by detonating explosives in the cabins of passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean was disrupted overnight, the home secretary, John Reid, said today.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
BRITISH THWART MEGA-TERROR PLOT TO BLOW UP SIX UK-US AIRPLANES — SCOTLAND YARD: "PUT SIMPLY, THIS WAS TO BE MASS-MURDER ON AN UNIMAGINABLE SCALE" … Note: this post was live-blogged as information came in. Not all information below remains accurate at this time.
Perry Bacon, Jr / Time:
The Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off — With Lieberman's primary loss, the netroots movement has established itself as a power center among Democrats. But will its influence haunt the party in November? — Now that it has played a major role in helping to defeat Joe Lieberman …
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Stephanie Reitz / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Lieberman files to run as independent — HARTFORD, Conn. — Sen. Joe Lieberman filed to run for re-election in November as an independent, saying Wednesday it would be "irresponsible and inconsistent with my principles" to quit. But Democratic leaders in Washington rallied around the man who beat him for the nomination, Ned Lamont.
Mike Allen / Time:
Why the Republicans Are Loving the Lieberman Loss — At a time when the GOP should be back on its heels, Connecticut voters' rejection of a centrist Senator gives the party a potentially powerful new weapon to use against the Democrats this fall — From Washington State to Missouri to Pennsylvania …
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Talking Points Memo, Boston Globe, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, AMERICAblog and Daily Pundit
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democrats Back Lamont in Race in Show of Unity — Ned Lamont in Hartford on Wednesday, a day after his Senate primary victory. Democrats were quick to line up to support him as the party's nominee. More Photos > — With promises of both money and personal campaign appearances …
Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Dead With Ned — WHY LAMONT'S VICTORY SPELLS DEMOCRATIC DISASTER. — Listen to the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes. — Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.
James Poniewozik / Time:
Reuters' Altered Photos: Overhyped? Dangerous? Both — Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact—even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast—it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well — When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph …
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Brendan Bernhard / laweekly.com:REUTERS' IMAGE PROBLEM
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New Sisyphus - PDX, Blue Crab Boulevard, Cathy's World, Ace of Spades HQ and Tristram Shandy
Agence France Presse:
September 11 — what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know — WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
Little Green Footballs:
Multi-Use Buildings — Unbelievable. — The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18: … Here's another July 18 photo. (Hat tip: hcq.) — The two later photos with their captions:
ohio.com:
2 held on terror charge involving purchase of phones — MARIETTA, Ohio - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.
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Debbie Schlussel, Riehl World View, Michelle Malkin, The Strata-Sphere, Step-by-Step, Say Anything, Iowa Voice and JunkYardBlog
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
At a Makeshift River Crossing in South Lebanon, Guerrillas Come Out in the Open — The wounded men moved slowly across the hot patch of cratered earth. Some limped. One used crutches. Two carried their own intravenous bags. — The secret war being waged by shadow militia fighters …
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