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6:00 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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Independent:
14 terror suspects arrested in London
Discussion: State of the Day
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
New British Terror Sweep Nabs 14 Suspects
Townhall:
Mary Katharine Ham: Terror Raids Net 14 in Britain: Restaurant …
Discussion: Sky News and Riehl World View
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.
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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.
Discussion: Redstate and Blue Crab Boulevard
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
North Korea Understands The Significance
Discussion: Dean's World
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 …
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.
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Jeffrey Imm / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Al Qaeda Video Seeks Americans to Convert to Islam
Discussion: The Fourth Rail and Pajamas Media
Reuters:
Qaeda urges non-Muslims to convert to Islam: video
Discussion: Wizbang and Assorted Babble
Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Palestinian group to target non-Muslims  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Palestinian militants who held two Fox News journalists hostage for nearly two weeks threatened in a statement posted online Saturday to abduct non-Muslims visiting the Palestinian territories and kill them unless their demands were met.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and RightWinged.com
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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
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush's Shift of Tone on Iraq: The Grim Cost of Losing  —  President Bush's newest effort to rebuild eroding support for the war in Iraq features a distinct shift in approach: Rather than stressing the benefits of eventual victory, he and his top aides are beginning to lay out the grim consequences of failure.
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
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 …
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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Melissa Bailey / New Haven Independent:
Hometown Activists Push Again To Un-Democrat Lieberman
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Blue America: Bill Winter and Jay Fawcett
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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
Discussion: The Reaction
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
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From barroom joke to federal warrants
M. Osman Siddique / Washington Times:
Muslims must come forward
metimes.com:
Kurdish leader bans Iraqi flag
Pajamas Media:
EXCLUSIVE Secret Iraq WMD Report — Partially Unclassified & Available @ PJM
Discussion: Say Anything and Chicago Boyz
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Workers Of The World, Rise Up Against Your (Democratic) Oppressors!
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