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6:05 AM ET, August 11, 2006

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Olivier Knox / Agence France Presse:
Bush seeks political gains from foiled plot  —  CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush seized on a foiled London airline bomb plot to hammer unnamed critics he accused of having all but forgotten the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Time:
Thwarting the Airline Plot: Inside the Investigation  —  Exclusive: U.S. picked up the suspects' chatter and shared it with British authorities; new federal alert warns that peroxide-based explosives could also be employed in future attacks in the U.S.  —  Wednesday night was a long …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Evening update: Ever crazier details about terror plot emerge (Update: Suspects named)  —  Tomorrow's British papers are out and the big A's been doing what he does best: skimming and excerpting.  There's a lot here, but don't gloss over the blockquotes.  They're all worth it, I promise.
New York Times:
Lieberman Seizes on Terror Arrests to Attack Rival  —  Senator Joseph I. Lieberman seized on the terror arrests in Britain today to attack his Democratic rival, Ned Lamont, saying that Mr. Lamont's goals for ending the war in Iraq would constitute a "victory" for the extremists who are accused …
Times of London:
A plan 'to commit unimaginable mass murder'  —  ALARMING intelligence that an attack was imminent was the trigger for police raids which captured 24 terrorist suspects, including two white converts to Islam, The Times has learnt.  —  Counter-terrorist agencies, which had been monitoring …
Discussion: The Asylum
Washington Post:
Tip Followed '05 Attacks on London Transit  —  It all began with a tip: In the aftermath of the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings on London's transit system, British authorities received a call from a worried member of the Muslim community, reporting general suspicions about an acquaintance.
New York Times:
Dry Run Was Planned in Bomb Plot, Officials Say  —  American intelligence officials said today that they and their British counterparts had been tracking terrorists for months before the schemers were rounded up in Britain, and that they could not say positively that all the plotters had yet been caught.
John / AMERICAblog:
White House official gleeful that terrorists wanted to kill thousands of Americans on ten US airlines over the Atlantic … Well that didn't take long.  The Republicans never did meet a threat of mortal injury to thousands of American lives that they didn't welcome as a political windfall.
Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Timeline: A Profile in Politicizing Terror  —  Wednesday: Days after the White House learns that the London terror plot will be uncovered, Cheney says Lamont victory will encourage "al Qaeda types."  —  7:42 a.m., Today: The White House announces that the threat level has been raised to 'Red.'
Zogby:   Democrats Pleased Joe Got Beat in Connecticut
Jill Sherman / Times of London:
Community leaders are braced for a backlash
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Times of London:   At 11pm came the phone call that triggered security swoop
New York Times:
Lieberman, on the Offensive, Links Terror Threat and Iraq
Discussion: TalkLeft
John Whitesides / Reuters:
US Democrats say plot shows Iraq war a diversion
Discussion: Needlenose and SEIXON
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: IDF fumes over denied victory  —  The booms of Katyusha rockets continued; another day of what has become routine in the North.  But the IDF was holding position, waiting for orders that did not come.  After 30 days of fighting, the war with Hizbullah seemed to be nearing its conclusion Thursday.
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Amanda Beck / Reuters:
US Muslims bristle at Bush term "Islamic fascists"  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.
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Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
What retirement?  Mike Wallace gets scoop in Iran  —  NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "60 Minutes" veteran correspondent Mike Wallace may have retired last March but that hasn't stopped him from scoring an exclusive interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Little Green Footballs:
More Death Cult Propaganda  —  This AP photograph from Gaza, published yesterday, claims to show a little Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli airstrike being carried into a hospital, surrounded by armed men (probably Hamas). … Another photo, this one from Reuters, shows the dead girl lying …
Richard Holbrooke / Washington Post:
The Guns Of August  —  Two full-blown crises, in Lebanon and Iraq, are merging into a single emergency.  A chain reaction could spread quickly almost anywhere between Cairo and Bombay.  Turkey is talking openly of invading northern Iraq to deal with Kurdish terrorists based there.
White House:
President Bush Discusses Terror Plot Upon Arrival in Wisconsin  —  THE PRESIDENT: The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.
Discussion: Biased BBC and The Jawa Report
Magpie / Pacific Views:
CHARLES DARWIN REALLY NEEDS A POSSE IN THE US.  —  Read it and weep. … Via LiveScience.
Watertiger / Dependable Renegade:
I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation  —  for the GOP choosing to make Howard Dean look like Hitler on its official website.  —  Atrios posted this screen grab:  —  So I went hunting.  Yes, that "moustache" photo does exist on someone guy's blog under the header "Dean Goes Mad," …
 
 
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