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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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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 …
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:
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.
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Think Progress:
Cheney: Lieberman Loss 'Disturbing' Because al Qaeda Is 'Betting They Can Break The Will of The American People' — As the Mideast sits on the brink of regional war, Vice President Dick Cheney spent his time yesterday holding a teleconference to discuss the outcome of the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut.
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 …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
'Red' alert on British flights to U.S. — WASHINGTON - The United States issued its highest terrorism alert for commercial flights from Britain and raised security on all domestic and international flights after a major terror plot was foiled in London. The Bush administration said the scheme was "suggestive of an al-Qaida plot."
John / AMERICAblog:White House official gleeful that terrorists wanted to kill thousands …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Breaking: Jihadis planned dry run two days from now
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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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Haaretz:
Peretz: Israel will exhaust diplomatic options before expanding war — Defense Minister Amir Peretz stated Thursday that Israel will exhaust diplomatic options before expanding the military operation in Lebanon. — "We are responsible for considering all options," Peretz said while visiting …
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:PM: New UN draft proposal could end Lebanon fighting
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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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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 …
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Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:
Recipients of "Leaks" May Be Prosecuted, Court Rules — In a momentous expansion of the government's authority to regulate public disclosure of national security information, a federal court ruled that even private citizens who do not hold security clearances can be prosecuted for unauthorized receipt …
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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.
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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Andy Mosher / Washington Post:
Baghdad Morgue Tallies 1,815 Bodies in July — As Violence Spikes, U.S. Puts Onus on Iraqis in Second Phase of Crackdown — Figures compiled by the city morgue indicated Wednesday that the number of killings in the Iraqi capital reached a new high last month, and the U.S. military …
Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
The enemy is winning the propaganda war — A German TV news show segment on YouTube is racing around the blogosphere. Why? Because it is absolute proof that Hezbullah manipulates the media for their benefit. — Watch it, and be horrified, as you see "Green Helmet Guy" direct the taking of pictures of the victims of Qana.
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