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10:05 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:
Men attended 'training camp': Sources  —  MICHELLE SHEPHARD, SURYA BHATTACHARYA AND STAN JOSEY  —  A group of Canadian teenagers and young men in their 20s, accused by police of being members of a suspected homegrown terrorist cell, will appear in court this morning to face accusations …
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.
National Post:
Alleged Canadian terror plot has worldwide links  —  TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned.
Discussion: Hot Air and Ace of Spades HQ
Ian Austen / New York Times:
17 Are Arrested in Plot to Bomb Sites in Ontario
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
Stewart Bell / National Post:
Nevermind foreign terrorists, why is Canada growing its own extremists?
Discussion: Solomonia
cbc.ca:   'Serious' bomb plot in Canada averted: police
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Terror raid in Canada rolls up 17 jihadis
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
MAJOR ANTI-TERROR RAID IN CANADA
Discussion: PunditGuy
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
A Man of the People's Needs and Wants  —  Ahmadinejad Praised in Iran as a Caring Leader  —  ARAK, Iran — The ordinary Iranians who poured into the local soccer stadium to hear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad one day last month arrived carrying high hopes and handwritten letters.  They left with just the hopes.
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Gateway Pundit:
Despite Martial Law, 10,000 Protest in Tabriz, Iran
Discussion: Ninth State and Ace of Spades HQ
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
KARL'S WET KISSES
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: Atlas Shrugs
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Daniel McGrory / Times of London:
Nervous informant who gave details of new terrorist device
Washington Post:
A Latin Backlash  —  FOR YEARS Hugo Chavez's steady dismantlement of Venezuela's democracy and his embrace of dictators and terrorists around the world — from Fidel Castro to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — prompted next to no reaction from Latin America's democratic governments.
Michelle Malkin:
UK TIMES SMEARS OUR MARINES (UPDATED WITH RESPONSE)  —  ***keeping this post on top...click here for full Canadian terror bust coverage...update: photo removed...***  —  Look very carefully at the photo featured in the UK Times's report from June 1, 2006 titled "Massacre Marines blinded by hate:" (big hat tip - Joe G.)
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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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.
New York Times:
A Talk at Lunch That Shifted the Stance on Iran  —  WASHINGTON, June 3 — On a Tuesday afternoon two months ago, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat down to a small lunch in President Bush's private dining room behind the Oval Office and delivered grim news to her boss: Their coalition against Iran was at risk of falling apart.
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 Agonist and The Grit
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Here's the latest word from Geno's … The customer is always right?  Not at Geno's Steaks in South Philadelphia.  —  Belly up to its counter and order a cheesesteak in a language other than English, and you'll walk away hungry.  Fromage-avec?  Fugheddaboudit.
Discussion: damnum absque injuria
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Politics For the Disengaged  —  In a wonderful example of life imitating art, a group of serious political pros has taken the plot line of "The West Wing" and turned it into the most intriguing gambit yet seen for the 2008 election.  —  As fans of the now-canceled NBC drama know …
Discussion: Busy, Busy, Busy
Frank Schaeffer / Washington Post:
What's Lost in the Hue and Cry Over Haditha  —  Even in "good wars" things go horribly wrong.  The following quotations from "Naples '44," by the late Norman Lewis (perhaps the greatest English travel writer of the past century), are instructive.  Lewis was stationed in Naples following Italy's liberation …
 
 
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