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WNBC:
4 Charged In Plot To Blow Up Jet Fuel At JFK — NEW YORK — According to NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, sources said federal investigators have made arrests in an alleged terror plot on Kennedy Airport. — Four people have been charged. One is in custody in New York. Three suspects are thought to be overseas.
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
4 Men Charged in Plot to Bomb Kennedy Airport — Federal law enforcement officials and New York City police said today that four people have been charged with conspiring to bomb Kennedy International Airport. — The plan, which was described by United States Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf as …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Feds bust terror plot at JFK airport in NYC? Update: PDF of complaint added; Update: Suspect wanted Venezuelan visa to visit Iran — Possibly with some inside help. I wonder how similar to last year's UK airline plot it'll turn out to be. — Stand by for updates. — Update: Not too similar.
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Michelle Malkin, CNN Political Ticker, JunkYardBlog, Tammy Bruce, The American Mind, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Macsmind
ABCNEWS:
Feds Claim to Bust N.Y. Airport Terror Plot — Former Airport Cargo Worker Allegedly Plotted to Bomb Fuel Lines at JFK Airport in N.Y. — Authorities have arrested a former member of Guyana's parliament and a former cargo worker at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City who allegedly recruited …
CNN:
Officials: Terror plot targeted JFK airport … NEW YORK (CNN) — Four men have been charged with conspiring to blow up jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport. — Homeland Security sources said there is no current threat at the airport and the attack as planned was "not technically feasible."
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007 — I first started corresponding with Steve Gilliard in January of 2005 when he was embroiled in a battle with Jonah Goldberg over the Armstrong Williams kerfuffle. I don't remember what it was that triggered the conversation (I probably read this and laughed …
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AlterNet.org, State of the Day, TalkLeft, August J. Pollak, The Democratic Daily and Jesus' General
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Kevin Hayden / The American Street:
A HUGE loss : RIP — His ongoing struggle with an ailing heart is now past, as that extraordinary blogger, Steve Gilliard, has died. — He was only 41. — You will find many who will note this with sadness, as do I. They'll speak of his powerful words, his unrelenting moral insistence.
Reuters:
Democracy stuns Polish man 19 years in coma … WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) — A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraq's Curse: A Thirst for Final, Crushing Victory — PERHAPS no fact is more revealing about Iraq's history than this: The Iraqis have a word that means to utterly defeat and humiliate someone by dragging his corpse through the streets. — The word is "sahel," and it helps explain …
Globe and Mail:
Exclusive: Putin threatens to target Europe with missiles — In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to target Europe with missiles, including potentially nuclear weapons, in a dramatic escalation of his Cold War-style showdown with the United States.
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The Reaction
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Class-Action Firms Extend Reach to Global Rights Cases — The plaintiffs are thousands of boys from South Asia and Africa who say they were abducted, enslaved and forced to ride racing camels to entertain the rich in the Middle East. The defendants live in the United Arab Emirates.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Bid to rescue the Claiborne issue — A public defender in St. Louis has urged the Supreme Court to find a way to decide in the current Term a significant issue about federal criminal sentencing law that was at stake in a case involving an individual who died last week. The case is Claiborne v. U.S. (docket 06-5618).
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Execution moratorium extended until fall at least — Judge wants to see death chamber and study procedures — California's 15-month-old moratorium on executions was extended at least until October on Friday to give a federal judge time to visit a planned new death chamber at San Quentin …
Discussion:
The Volokh Conspiracy
New York Times:
Bush's Push on Immigration Tests His Base — President Bush's advocacy of an immigration overhaul and his attacks on critics of the plan are provoking an unusually intense backlash from conservatives who form the bulwark of his remaining support, splintering his base and laying bare divisions within …
National Post:
17 arrests part of bigger plot: investigators — 'The state exploited their rage?: defence — Stewart Bell, National Post, with files from Melissa Leong — The 17 suspects arrested in Toronto one year ago today for allegedly belonging to an al- Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell were part …
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