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MSNBC:
Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests — British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says … MSNBC TV — LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot …
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David Leppard / Times of London:
Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized — SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week's anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda's leader in this country. — Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring …
Telegraph:
University students at centre of terror plots — The recruitment of Muslim students at British universities to take part in terrorist attacks is at the heart of the alleged plot to blow up passenger jets, it is feared. — A dossier of extremist Islamic literature has been uncovered …
Zahid Hussain / Times of London:
Airline terror plotters 'linked to 7/7 bombers'
Airline terror plotters 'linked to 7/7 bombers'
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hezbollywood: Photog accuses stringers of digging up bodies? (Update: Photos added) — I'm adding the question mark because we don't know yet if the guy who said it is who he says he is. But if it's true — if — then Ace is right: it's "a serious, meltdown level scandal for the media."
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Little Green Footballs:
Photographer Alleges Unearthing of Bodies — From the international photographer's forum Lightstalkers.org, photojournalist Bryan Denton, in a message from Beirut Lebanon, describes the most vile sort of photo staging imaginable: Lightstalkers :: Staged Shots from Lebanon? Please comment...
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
BANG: Photographer Admits To Seeing Lebanese Pose Bodies And Even Dig Bodies Up From Graves For Presentation To the Media … Now LGF is simply out of control. — The guy in question should know. He's a photographer, posting on a forum for professional photographers, whose work has been published in the New York Times.
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Comment: An unmitigated disaster — There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel. — The resolution represents a near-total victory …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah: We will abide by cease-fire
Nasrallah: We will abide by cease-fire
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Independent:
Target Britain: Wave of attacks planned, say investigators — Terrorists in UK still possess huge arsenal of bombs and weapons. Country remains under 'very severe' threat, security sources warn — Suspected terrorists were planning to unleash a wave of "apocalyptic" attacks on land and air …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Calame: Times Lied About Timing Of NSA Article — The New York Times' public editor, Byron Calame, publishes a startling admision from Bill Keller regarding the publication delay of the most explosive story in his short reign as managing editor. Earlier, when Keller told people …
RightGirl / Girl on the Right:
Hezbollah. On our streets. In our cities. I am NOT making this up. — [Scroll for updates] — I attended the anti-Hezbollah rally in Toronto today, to counter to pro-Hezbollah rally that was taking place in front of the Israeli Consulate. It is pretty terrifying to see such support …
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Bluto / The Jawa Report:
LA Times Article Bashes Media on Reutersgate — Cross-posted from The Dread Pundit Bluto — In an article that frankly, surprised me, the Los Angeles Times's Tim Rutten comes down hard on fellow journalists for failing to take the Reutersgate scandal seriously enough.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador Says Iran Is Inciting Attacks — Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the American ambassador to Iraq said Friday. Iran may foment even more violence as it faces off …
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials — An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse.
Melanie Warner / New York Times:
With Business Leading a Push, Liquor Comes to Dry Bible Belt — While much of America put Prohibition to rest 73 years ago, large parts of the South have remained strictly off-limits to alcohol sales. — But local and national business interests that stand to profit from the sale of alcohol …
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Romney, Kerry spar over fight on terror — Governor raps senator for criticizing Iraq war — WASHINGTON — The terrorist attack foiled by British authorities prompted a battle of words yesterday between a pair of presidential contenders from Massachusetts, with Governor Mitt Romney lashing …
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Laura Lee Donoho / The Wide Awake Cafe:
Rudy Giuliani Gets It — Person of the Year, December 31, 2001 — I'm at a loss to understand why some prominent conservative thinkers are seemingly shrugging their shoulders and jumping onto the McCain-Lieberman 2008 bandwagon. Some are of the opinion that McCain-Lieberman …