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5:30 PM ET, June 23, 2006

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CNN:
Indictment: Suspects wanted to 'kill all the devils we can'  —  Terror plot targeted Chicago's Sears Tower  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan intended to "kill all the devils we can."
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Terror Suspects Sought Ties With al-Qaida  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Seven young men arrested in an alleged plot against the Sears Tower were part of a group of "homegrown terrorists" who sought to work with al-Qaida but ended up conspiring with an informant, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday.
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Seven Are Charged With Plot to Blow Up Sears Tower  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation's deputy director said today that a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago by seven Miami men now facing federal conspiracy charges was "more aspirational than operational," but illustrated …
Discussion: The Heretik
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Substantive Discourse and the loyal opposition
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
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Washington Post:
Bank Records Secretly Tapped  —  Administration Began Using Global Database Shortly After 2001 Attacks  —  The Bush administration, relying on a presidential declaration of emergency, has secretly been tapping into a vast global database of confidential financial transactions for nearly five years …
Michelle Malkin:
BACKLASH AGAINST THE BLABBERMOUTHS  —  ***update: Tony Snow video***  —  They can buy ink by the barrel, but we can fight back now with bandwidth by the terrabyte.  I'm getting inundated with furious readers' letters to the Times, most of which the editors won't bother to read or publish …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
NYT Reveals Secret Banking Anti-Terrorist Program
Dennis Lormel / Counterterrorism Blog:
U.S. Government Terrorist Financing Initiative Involving SWIFT (updated)
Discussion: Hyscience
Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
State of emergency declared in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Friday after insurgents set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and fired on U.S. and Iraqi troops outside the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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CNN:
Bombing at Iraq mosque kills 9  —  U.S. military: Top al Qaeda operative captured  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A bomb detonated Friday outside a Sunni mosque near Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing nine civilians and wounding 15 others, police said.  —  The explosion took place in Hibhib …
Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Roadblocks, Curfew Imposed in Baghdad
Discussion: democracyarsenal.org
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy?  —  This is not funny: Jon Stewart and his hit Comedy Central cable show may be poisoning democracy.  —  Two political scientists found that young people who watch Stewart's faux news program, "The Daily Show," develop cynical views about politics and politicians …
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Senate Report Lists Lobbyist's Payments to Ex-Leader of Christian Coalition  —  WASHINGTON, June 22 — A bipartisan Senate report released on Thursday documented more than $5.3 million in payments to Ralph Reed, the former director of the Christian Coalition and a leading Republican Party strategist …
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Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Report wraps up over Reed, tribes
Richard Wike / pewglobal.org:
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other  —  Europe's Muslims More Moderate  —  Introduction and Summary  —  After a year marked by riots over cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, a major terrorist attack in London, and continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan …
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Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
Why I Love Australia  —  WASHINGTON — In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: "I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.''  —  For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day.
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From Wake Up Call: St. Pete Times's Rove/Satan Story  — According to this St. Petersburg Times story, saved here for posterity, "Karl Rove said that he would be plotting the Republican Party's fall election strategy with his longtime comrade-in-arms, Satan."
Discussion: Wonkette and Outside The Beltway
showmenews.com:
Bandanna banned in Springfield mall  —  Officials won't explain how headgear is offensive.  —  SPRINGFIELD (AP) - A southwest Missouri mall defended its dress code after a security guard told a 10-year-old girl her bandanna decorated with peace signs, smiley faces and flowers violated the mall's code of conduct.
New York Post:
DEMOCRACY RISING  —  KUWAITIS' VOTE A NEW ARAB MILESTONE  —  June 23, 2006 — KUWAITIS go to the polls next week to elect a new National Assembly, which will in turn approve a new prime minister and Cabinet.  —  The Kuwaitis will be making history for a number of reasons.
Times of London:
Peace deal offers Iraq insurgents an amnesty  —  From Ned Parker in Baghdad and Tom Baldwin  —  THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Besieged Kentucky Governor Draws Fire From a New Quarter  —  As if there were not already enough problems for Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky, who has been indicted in a political patronage case, he now has political bloggers and First Amendment lawyers after him too.
 
 
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