memeorandum: Middle-class and British: the Muslims in plots to bomb jets (Telegraph)

3:50 PM ET, August 11, 2006

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Middle-class and British: the Muslims in plots to bomb jets — Timeline: five years since September 11 — Twenty-four terrorist suspects being held last night over an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 transatlantic jets include middle-class, well-educated young men born in Britain.

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Daily Mail:

Day of terror strikes was planned for August 16 — Terrorists were planning to unleash a series of deadly mid-air explosions on flights between London and America on August 16, it has been revealed today. — Members of the terror group, who were arrested in a series of raids …

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The Blotter:

FBI Investigates American Connection to London Terror Plot — Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: — U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News the FBI is investigating new leads that involve a possible connection between people in the United States, in major east coast cities, and the London bomb plotters.

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Fox News:

Pakistan: Suspected London Plane Terrorists Have Al Qaeda Connection — LONDON — Police arrested 40 people in cities throughout Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot, the Interior Ministry said Friday …

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The Blotter:

British Penetrate Terror Cell — Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: — Operation Overt, the British called it, though they cracked it using covert means. — They had an undercover operative deep inside the group of at least 30 terrorists who had developed a simple …

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Times of London:

Arrest of duo in Pakistan triggered bomb plot swoop — Two British Muslims arrested eight to ten days ago in Lahore and Karachi gave vital information about the alleged plot to detonate chemical suicide bombs on US-bound passenger jets, officials in Pakistan told The Times today.

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Robert Barr / Associated Press:
U.K. identifies suspects in terror plot

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Juan / Informed Comment:
The Pakistan Connection — Pakistani police on Thursday arrested …

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Opinion Journal:

'Mass Murder' Foiled — A terror plot is exposed by the policies many American liberals oppose. — Americans went to work yesterday to news of another astonishing terror plot against U.S. airlines, only this time the response was grateful relief. British authorities had busted the …

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New York Times:

The London Plot — For almost five years now, we have carried around the legacy of Sept. 11. There is no sunny morning that does not revive its memory. The news of a terrorist plot against America-bound airliners yesterday called up feelings that are never all that far below the surface.

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Philadelphia Daily News:

BUSH AND CHENEY'S REIGN OF ERROR — VEEP SAYS CONN. VOTERS AIDING AL QAEDA. NOW, THAT'S SCARY. — THESE PEOPLE have no shame. Their contempt for democracy is so great they will stop at nothing to undermine it. Their adherence to fundamentalist beliefs that blinds them to reality is frightening.

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Haaretz:

Olmert gives IDF green light to expand ground offensive — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Friday ordered the Israel Defense Forces to implement an expanded ground operation in Lebanon. — The cabinet approved an operation Wednesday calling for a push to the Litani River …

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:

UN-dermined: Olmert orders ground assault to push to the Litani (Update: UN agrees on resolution) — For reasons explained here, I got a sick feeling this morning when I saw this headline. Looks like Olmert did too because he's finally given the order for a massive ground invasion …

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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Up to 40,000 troops could enter s. Lebanon in new push

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Paul Burkhardt / Associated Press:

U.S., France agree on Mideast resolution — UNITED NATIONS - France and the United States reached a deal Friday on a final draft resolution aimed at ending the monthlong conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, and said the U.N. Security Council would vote on the text later in the day.

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CNN:
U.N. vote on Lebanon cease-fire resolution expected

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Lawrence O'Donnell / The Huffington Post:

Joe Lieberman Will Drop Out. — Joe Lieberman will drop out. He probably knows right now that the day will come in late September when he will announce his withdrawal from the race. No one is going to have to talk him into it. By that time, the Democratic Party power structure will be doing …

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Jason Horowitz / The New York Observer Politicker:
A Republican Headache for Lieberman?

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Donna Cassata / Associated Press:

GOP Candidates Facing Troublesome Trend — Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend - growing opposition to President Bush. — An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May.

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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:

President Remains Eager to Cut Entitlement Spending — The Bush administration has begun sounding out lawmakers and other key figures about mounting a new bipartisan effort to rein in the costs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security after the midterm elections, according to officials in the administration and on Capitol Hill.

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Ian / Hot Air:

Video: Brian Williams' liberal math — Oops, he did it again. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, reporting from London's Heathrow Airport, likens jihadi suicide bombers to-well, let's let him speak for himself: … Last year, Brian Williams compared our founding fathers to terrorists:

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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

Terror Arrests Play in Political Arena — Republicans seized on the arrests of terrorism suspects in Britain yesterday to bolster a White House campaign to turn national security issues to their advantage this fall, arguing that the nation needs tough Republican policies to protect Americans from threats from abroad.

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Philip Klein / American Spectator:

Fog of Reuters — Between 2001 and 2004 I worked as a reporter for Reuters, the global news agency that is embroiled in a scandal for running doctored photos of Israeli military operations in Lebanon. — Though I don't have specific knowledge of what went on at the photo desk when Reuters ran …

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Sam Licavoli II / WNEM-TV:

Three Middle Eastern Men Found With 1000 Cell Phones — (TV5) — Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three.

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