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2:00 PM ET, June 3, 2006

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Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected homegrown terror cell  —  Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen men — with more to come — marks the culmination of Canada's largest ever terrorism investigation into an alleged homegrown cell.
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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
17 Terror Suspects Arrested in Toronto  —  Seventeen Canadian residents were in custody Saturday on terrorism- related charges, including plots to use explosives in attacks on Canadian soil, authorities said.  —  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested 12 male adults and five youth …
Toronto Star:
Most arrested from GTA  —  "This group posed a real and serious threat," says senior RCMP officer  —  A series of terrorist attacks plotted against unspecified targets in southern Ontario were "inspired by Al Qaeda," a CSIS official said today, adding that the ring of suspects arrested posed a "real and serious" threat.
Discussion: Yourish.com
Timothy Appleby / Globe and Mail:
Terrorism raids sweep Toronto  —  Police across the Greater Toronto Area launched counterterrorism raids yesterday, arresting at least eight people in a roundup expected to continue overnight and beyond.  —  "We anticipate more arrests, but not necessarily tonight," an RCMP source said of the arrests …
Stewart Bell / National Post:
Nevermind foreign terrorists, why is Canada growing its own extremists?  —  They are young, militant and Canadian.  And according to senior counterterrorism authorities, they have been plotting large-scale terrorist attacks on Canadian soil.  —  The Canadian Security Intelligence Service acknowledged …
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Stephen Taylor:
Canadian Security Forces arrest 17 Terror Suspects (12 Men + 5 Young Offenders)  —  In a series of police raids last night, over 400 RCMP officers in joint operation with CSIS, arrested up to 12 suspects across Ontario suspected of plotting a series of terrorist attacks in the province including …
Sasha Nagy / Globe and Mail:
Massive terror attack averted: RCMP
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Canada Discovers Terrorist Plot
White House:
President's Radio Address  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  Next week, the United States Senate will begin debate on a constitutional amendment that defines marriage in the United States as the union of a man and woman.  On Monday, I will meet with a coalition of community leaders …
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Times of London:
Police hunt for lethal chemical suicide vest  —  A DESPERATE search is under way for a "chemical vest" that a British suicide bomber was ready to deploy in a terror attack on London.  —  Police fear that the strike, using a home-made chemical device, was imminent after an informant told MI5 …
Discussion: ThreatsWatch.Org
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Agence France Presse:   Two arrested in London raid, police shoot one suspect
Dani Dodge / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Busby on defense, says she misspoke  —  If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: "You don't need papers for voting."  —  On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Opens Door To Dissenters  —  Aversion to Criticism Appears to Be Fading  —  When retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey criticized the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war three years ago, he was lambasted as an armchair general and deemed an adversary by the Pentagon.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:   Bush's Bubble remains very much in tact
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
In a Solidly Conservative State, a Loyal Core of Support for Bush  —  PROVO, Utah — Here in what may be the reddest city in the reddest of states, where Democrats sometimes gather like lost souls at the one Starbucks, most people are standing by President Bush.
Discussion: The Grit
Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  Murtha, Reid, and Hillary Clinton are just the latest progressive leaders to face deeply flawed media coverage — but they won't be the last  —  Last week, we wrote: … The recent media treatment of Sen. John P. Murtha (D-PA), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Attytood
 
 
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White House:
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Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun Times:
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Salon:
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New York Times:
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