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3:00 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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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.
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 …
Discussion: A Blog For All
Townhall:
Mary Katharine Ham: Terror Raids Net 14 in Britain: Restaurant …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Sky News:
Terror Suspects Arrested
Independent:   14 terror suspects arrested in London
Agence France Presse:
British anti-terror police probing 'thousands' of suspects
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
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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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Iraqi Casualties Are Up Sharply, Study Finds  —  A girl checked her parrots Friday in her Baghdad home, which was damaged by rocket attacks.  Attacks on civilians have risen sharply.  —  Iraqi casualties soared by more than 50 percent in recent months, the product of spiraling sectarian clashes …
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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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