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1:55 PM ET, June 4, 2006

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
RCMP Went Undercover For Raid  —  The Toronto Star reports this morning that the RCMP itself sold the Toronto terror cell the three tons of ammonium nitrate it planned to use for devastating attacks on Canada.  The Mounties moved to capture all of the suspects as soon as the deal for the fertilizer concluded:
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Toronto Star:
Had to move quickly against suspects: RCMP
cbc.ca:
Accused 'inspired by al-Qaeda,' say police
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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
Canada Nabs 17 Terror Suspects in Toronto
Discussion: TigerHawk and Texas Rainmaker
Barbara O'Brien / Unclaimed Territory:
Greater Mysteries  —  The natives of the Right are whoopin …
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Colin Freeze / Globe and Mail:
Terror suspects appear in court
Discussion: Cold Fury and The Democratic Daily
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell: National Post links Canadian plot to six other countries …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
In Haditha Killings, Details Came Slowly  —  Official Version Is at Odds With Evidence  —  At 5 p.m. Nov. 19, near the end of one of the most violent days the Marine Corps had experienced in the Upper Euphrates Valley, a call went out for trucks to collect the bodies of 24 Iraqi civilians.
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Don Surber:
A Hard Look at A Haditha Editorial
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Hillary and Bill: A Relationship Too Political to Be Ignored  —  COMPLAINTS about the May 23 Page 1 article on Hillary and Bill Clinton add up to one of the most uniformly negative and partisan reader reactions to a Times article during the past year.  Most decried as tabloid journalism …
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Dana L. / Washington Post:
What Happens When There Is No Plan B?  —  The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want.  Well, not literally, but let me explain.  —  I am a 42-year-old happily married mother of two elementary-schoolers.
Telegraph:
Terror cell 'was planning nerve gas attack on capital'  —  Your view: should police be allowed to shoot terror suspects?  —  Terrorists were planning a chemical attack in London similar to the outrage on the Tokyo underground, according to police and the security services.
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Los Angeles Times:
Harry Truman would have given terrorists hell  —  Democrats know how to fight real wars, not just political ones, says Peter Beinart.  —  IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war — with each other.  The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt's former vice president …
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit.com
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Events at Haditha don't change need for victory  —  Here are a couple of observations from two parents of American heroes fallen in Iraq.  The first is from Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Spec.  Casey Sheehan, a brave man who enlisted in 2000, re-upped for a second tour and died in 2005 …
Melanie Phillips / New York Post:
LONDONISTAN  —  HOW BRITAIN'S HABITUAL APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISM REAPS TERROR  —  June 4, 2006 — AFTER 9/11 plotter Zacarias Mous saoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British.  Their son had had first arrived in London in the 1990s for an MA course …
Discussion: Dinocrat
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Key to Reversal on Iran  —  Expected Failure of International Effort Led to U.S. Turnaround  —  At the end of March, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Europe and had unusual, one-on-one conversations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Was the 2004 election stolen?  —  Well, was it?  There are, to be sure, several major blogs that follow rigged voting machines and purged voter rolls much closer than I do, but the issue is of particular significance this week because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a thorough report …
Associated Press:
Gunmen Kill 21 Commuters Near Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Gunmen dragged passengers off three minibuses northeast of Baghdad early Sunday and killed 21 people, including a dozen students.  Authorities said the attackers spared four Sunni Arabs in one of Iraq's worst sectarian atrocities in recent weeks.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and War and Piece
David Leppard / Times of London:
British brigade of Islamists join Al-Qaeda foreign legion in Iraq  —  UP TO 150 Islamic radicals have travelled from Britain to Iraq to join up with a "British brigade" that has been established by Al-Qaeda leaders to fight coalition forces.  —  Senior security sources say leaders …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Invoking Secrets Privilege Becomes a More Popular Legal Tactic by U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, June 3 — Facing a wave of litigation challenging its eavesdropping at home and its handling of terror suspects abroad, the Bush administration is increasingly turning to a legal tactic that swiftly torpedoes most lawsuits …
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Estate tax debate a chance for Democrats to pounce  —  NEXT WEEK, the Republican leadership in the US Senate will attempt to ram through a permanent repeal of the estate tax.  A companion bill has already passed the House.  —  Under the Bush administration, the estate tax has been cut …
Jesus' General:
Mrs. Malkin's sacrifice  —  Michelle Malkin  —  Anti-Immigrant Activist  —  Dear Mrs. Malkin,  —  I know you've already given a lot for this country.  Your courageous defense of everything from toddlercide to concentration camps has inspired us all.  However, there is one more thing …
 
 
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