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5:00 PM ET, September 2, 2006

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BBC:
14 held in terror police swoop  —  Armed police have arrested 14 men following anti-terror raids in London, including 12 arrests at a restaurant in the Borough area.  —  Two people were held elsewhere in the city in what police said was an intelligence-led operation.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
New British Terror Sweep Nabs 14 Suspects
Independent:
14 terror suspects arrested in London
Discussion: State of the Day
Townhall:
Mary Katharine Ham: Terror Raids Net 14 in Britain: Restaurant …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Sky News:   Terror Suspects Arrested
Ingrid Melander / Reuters:
EU gives Iran two more weeks in nuclear standoff  —  LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Saturday to try to clarify Iran's stance on halting uranium enrichment within two weeks and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks in Tehran to try and settle the standoff.
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New York Times:
Mr. Bush's Nuclear Legacy  —  Unless something changes soon, by the end of President Bush's second term North Korea will have produced enough plutonium for 10 or more nuclear weapons while Iran's scientists will be close to mastering the skills needed to build their own.
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Column One: Setting the conditions for disaster
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Times of London:
Attacks on Jews soar since Lebanon  —  Synagogues and citizens have been targeted  —  BRITISH Jews are facing a wave of anti-Semitic attacks prompted by Israel's conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.  Synagogues have been daubed with graffiti, Jewish leaders have had hate-mail and ordinary people …
Josh White / Washington Post:
Target Intercepted In Anti-Missile Test  —  In First Such Success Since 2002, U.S. Simulates North Korean Attack  —  The U.S. military shot down a target missile using its long-range missile defense system yesterday, the first time such a test has intercepted a mock enemy warhead since 2002, officials said.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
North Korea Understands The Significance
Discussion: Dean's World
Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:
U.S. says Afghan opium out of control  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59 percent this year to produce a record 6,100 tons — nearly a third more than the world's drug users consume, the U.N. said Saturday.
Discussion: PoliBlog and Dohiyi Mir
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Foster Klug / Associated Press:
U.S.: 'bad news' in Afghan drug war
Discussion: NewsHog and The Belmont Club
Eric Reeves / Washington Post:
Accommodating Genocide in Darfur  —  In the face of ongoing genocide in Darfur, the international community's failure to accept the "responsibility to protect" (that's United Nations language, officially adopted) innocent civilian lives has taken its last, abject form.
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Martyrs wanted  —  I was planning to maintain a tasteful silence about the forced conversion of Fox newsmen Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig.  I expressed my gratitude at their release, and was going to let the humiliating subject lie.Others haven't, however, so let's go:
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ABCNEWS:   'I Can't Hate Them for What They Did,' Olaf Wiig Says
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
FBI Role in Terror Probe Questioned  —  Lawyers Point to Fine Line Between Sting and Entrapment  —  Standing in an empty Miami warehouse on May 24 with a man he believed had ties to Osama bin Laden, a dejected Narseal Batiste talked of the setbacks to their terrorist plot and then uttered …
Associated Press:
Al Qaeda No. 2 Releases Tape Inviting Americans to Convert to Islam  —  CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri issued a new videotape Saturday along with a man identified as an American member of the terror network, inviting Americans to convert to Islam.
Confederate Yankee:
Arrogance Unfettered  —  A week ago this morning, I caught "someone" creatively editing a three-year-old editorial written by Greg Mitchell of news industry trade Editor & Publisher.  The lede in Mitchell's editorial was rewritten to cast him in a more favorable light in a story …
Bob Geiger / BobGeiger.com:
I Know This Little Boy In New Orleans  —  I get a lot of e-mail.  Most of it is very nice, some funny and some from right-wingers who — go figure — I seem to have made very angry.  But the most gratifying I've ever received has been over the last week or so when a large number of people …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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.
DownWithTyranny!:
BILL WINTER AND JAY FAWCETT— WHAT'S GOOD FOR COLORADO IS GOOD FOR THE USA  —  Today at 2 PM EST on Firedoglake we're being joined for a live discussion by two Fighting Dems from Colorado, Bill Winter and Jay Fawcett.  And today these two national security experts are fighting …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
Rove's Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel  —  Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, is struggling to steer the Republican Party to victory this fall at a time when he appears to have the least political authority since he came to Washington, party officials said.
Discussion: The Horse's Mouth
Joshua Muravchik / Weekly Standard:
Human Rights Watch vs. Human Rights  —  Just three weeks after Hezbollah invaded Israel, kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and causing the deaths of eight others, Human Rights Watch issued a 49-page report about the war that had been ignited by this attack.  The title of the report was Fatal Strikes …
Discussion: Say Anything
 
 
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NEWS.com.au:
Bombs were meant for World Cup
Jonathan S. Landay / Knight Ridder:
Truces fueling resurgence of Taliban, critics say
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Iraqi Casualties Are Up Sharply, Study Finds
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
ORWELLIAN?....NOT QUITE....Kevin Carey is the author of …
Discussion: Dohiyi Mir
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Boredom in the West Fuels Binge Drinking
Discussion: EU Referendum and TalkLeft
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush's Shift of Tone on Iraq: The Grim Cost of Losing
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Israel's Defense Chief Supports War Inquiry
Pajamas Media:
EXCLUSIVE Secret Iraq WMD Report — Partially Unclassified & Available @ PJM
Discussion: Say Anything and Chicago Boyz
Julie Watson / Associated Press:
Mexican Lawmakers Block Fox's Speech
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Top scientist's fears for climate
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New Questions About Inquiry in C.I.A. Leak
 

 
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