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14 held in terror police swoop — Armed police have arrested 14 men overnight following anti-terror raids in London, which included 12 arrests at a restaurant in the Borough area. — Two people were held elsewhere in the city, in what Scotland Yard described at a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: British police raid restaurant, arrest 14 on terror suspicions — Unrelated to the airplane plot, say authorities. 14 down, several thousand to go. — Threatwatch begins now. — Update: More from the Press Association: … Update: Here's a photo of the Bridge Hotel and restaurant.
Agence France Presse:
British anti-terror police probing 'thousands' of suspects — LONDON (AFP) - British police are currently trying to monitor "thousands" of potential security suspects, the head of the anti-terrorism unit at London's Metropolitan Police said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday.
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Liberty and Justice
Sky News:
Terror Suspects Arrested — Police have arrested 14 men following anti-terror raids in south and east London. — The men were arrested late last night and in the early hours of today on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
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Liberty and Justice
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
New British Terror Sweep Nabs 14 Suspects — British security forces arrested 14 people in a terror sweep they say is unrelated to the foiled sky-terror plot, the BBC reports. The arrests appear to focus on a madrassa in East Sussex: … The school only had nine students at its last inspection …
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Ezra Klein:
Coda on Siegel — We all owe Lee Siegel a moment of grateful silence. His blog may be gone, his reputation wrecked — but "blogofascism" is a term that will endure, bringing great joy and happiness to generations who'll never know the first thing about its originator. Three cheers for you, Lee Siegel.
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David Johnston / New York Times:
New Questions About Inquiry in C.I.A. Leak — An enduring mystery of the C.I.A. leak case has been solved in recent days, but with a new twist: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, knew the identity of the leaker from his very first day in the special counsel's chair …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon Cites Spike In Violence in Iraq — Rising sectarian bloodshed has pushed violence in Iraq to its highest level in more than two years, and preventing civil war is now the most urgent mission of the growing contingent of 140,000 U.S. troops in the country, according to a new Pentagon report released yesterday.
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Pentagon Releases Grim Report on Iraq
Pentagon Releases Grim Report on Iraq
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Liberty Street, The Next Hurrah, Big Lizards, Liberty and Justice, The Heretik, TalkLeft, AMERICAblog and Truthdig
Yahoo! News:
Number of Republicans declines to 32-month low — The number of Americans calling themselves Republican has fallen to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years. Just 31.9% of American adults now say they're affiliated with the GOP. That's down from 37.2% in October 2004 and 34.5% at the beginning of 2006.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Workers Of The World, Rise Up Against Your (Democratic) Oppressors! — With the Democrats demanding a raise in the federal minimum wage and campaigning on the issue to highlight their sympathy for American workers. That sympathy, as Power Line noted earlier this evening, doesn't even extend beyond their own payroll.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Israel's Defense Chief Supports War Inquiry — Bowing to rebels in his own Labor Party, Defense Minister Amir Peretz of Israel called today for a full independent inquiry into the recent war in Lebanon, changing his previous position and putting him publicly at odds with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Julie Watson / Associated Press:
Mexican Lawmakers Block Fox's Speech — MEXICO CITY (AP) — Vicente Fox was forced to forego the last state-of-the-nation address of his presidency Friday after leftist lawmakers stormed the stage of Congress to protest disputed July 2 elections. — It was the first time in modern Mexican history …
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Rumsfeld reaches out to Democrats — WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reached out to Democrats late Friday, opening up the door for them to retract their stinging indictment of him as Pentagon chief. — In a letter to Congress's top Democrats, Rumsfeld said recent remarks …
Roger Harrabin / BBC:
Top scientist's fears for climate — One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change. — In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC …
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