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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.
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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 …
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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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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Juan / Informed Comment:
The Pakistan Connection — Pakistani police on Thursday arrested a number of UK Muslims within Pakistan who were also suspected of involvement in the "Liquid Bomb Threat." — British authorities say that they have been investigating the group behind the airplane bombing plot for "about a year."
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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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Jerusalem Post:
Lebanon: Cease-fire draft 'unacceptable' — A new obstacle arose over the latest UN draft proposal to stop the fighting between Israel and Hizbullah on Thursday night, when Lebanon refused to allow the French to enforce its mandate as allowed by the UN's chapter VII regulations.
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Up to 40,000 troops could enter s. Lebanon in new push — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered the IDF on Friday to send ground forces into Lebanon and up to the Litani river, some 30 kilometers from Israel. — Olmert's spokesman, Asaf Shariv …
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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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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
08/10/06 FOX News Poll: 2006 Election Anti-Incumbent Fever; Job Ratings
08/10/06 FOX News Poll: 2006 Election Anti-Incumbent Fever; Job Ratings
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The Next Hurrah
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain — With the defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary in Connecticut, antiwar forces are poised for a takeover of the Democratic Party. Tuesday's exhilarating victory, and the elan and electoral legitimacy gained, may carry the newly energized Democratic left …
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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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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 …
Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
GOV'T MAY PROSECUTE RECIPIENTS OF LEAKED INFORMATION: The federal government may prosecute private citizens who illegally receive and retransmit classified information, held federal district court Judge T.S. Ellis III yesterday in United States v. Rosen. Judge Ellis denied a motion to dismiss filed …
New York Times:
Liquid Threat Is Hard to Detect — Despite knowing for years that liquid explosives posed a threat to airline safety, security agencies have made little progress in deploying technology that could help defend against such attacks, security experts say. — Since September 2001 …
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 …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The War and the Democrats — A reader writes: … My only substantive quarrel with this is as follows: the proclaimed Bush policy was not mere deployment of brute force, torture, bombs and swagger as a response to the civil war within Islam. It was ostensibly to create a beach-head for modernity and democracy in Iraq.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
2 Editors Resign at Web Site Linked to Journalism Review — The managing editor of CJRDaily.org, an online adjunct of The Columbia Journalism Review, and his deputy both quit yesterday after the dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism told them he was cutting the site's budget nearly in half.