memeorandum: The Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off (Perry Bacon, Jr/Time)

7:30 AM ET, August 10, 2006

RELATED ITEMS:

'Plot to blow up planes' foiled — A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. — It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on aircraft in hand luggage. — Police have arrested about 18 people …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Flopping Aces, Associated Press, protein wisdom, All Things Beautiful, Liberty and Justice, The Jawa Report, The Corner and Secular Blasphemy

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Breaking: Scotland Yard busts "major plot" to blow up airplane (Update: A dozen planes?) — Just across on CNN International. — Al Qaeda, do you think, or our new friends the Shiites? — Or maybe the Presbyterians? — Standby. — Update: Freedom Folks tips me to the news breaking at the Beeb:

Discussion: CNN.com

CNN:

UK airport delay after plot foiled — LONDON (CNN) — Major delays are expected at all UK airports after the nation's threat level was raised to "critical" when police disrupted a plot to blow up planes in mid-flight. — The British Home Office on Thursday raised the country's alert level to …

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House and The Belmont Club

Malkin / Michelle Malkin:

"Imminent," "massive" jihad UK plot foiled; goal: "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" — I went to bed last night after blogging about the Dearbornistan terror arrests and the still missing 8 Egyptians. Twenty minutes after I went to sleep, the news broke about a massive terrorist plot …

Discussion: Stephen Taylor

Guardian:

UK airports on high alert as terrorist plot uncovered — Mark Oliver and agencies — A major terror plot to kill hundreds of people by detonating explosives in the cabins of passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean was disrupted overnight, the home secretary, John Reid, said today.

Discussion: Security Watchtower, PrairiePundit, The Jawa Report and War and Piece

Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:

BRITISH THWART MEGA-TERROR PLOT TO BLOW UP SIX UK-US AIRPLANES — SCOTLAND YARD: "PUT SIMPLY, THIS WAS TO BE MASS-MURDER ON AN UNIMAGINABLE SCALE" … Note: this post was live-blogged as information came in. Not all information below remains accurate at this time.

Discussion: JunkYardBlog and EconoPundit

BBC:
'Airlines terror plot' disrupted

Discussion: Europhobia and Tammy Bruce

Fox News:
London Police Disrupt Terrorist Plot to Blow Up Aircraft in Mid-Flight

Discussion: The Corner

BBC:
Heathrow shut to incoming flights

Discussion: New York Times and Liberty and Justice

Perry Bacon, Jr / Time:

The Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off — With Lieberman's primary loss, the netroots movement has established itself as a power center among Democrats. But will its influence haunt the party in November? — Now that it has played a major role in helping to defeat Joe Lieberman …

Discussion: TalkLeft, The Huffington Post, Captain's Quarters, Blue Crab Boulevard, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, Pardon My English, Andrew Sullivan and Flopping Aces

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Agence France Presse:

September 11 — what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know — WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

Discussion: USS Neverdock, Shakespeare's Sister, Whiskey Bar and Pam's House Blend

Little Green Footballs:

Multi-Use Buildings — Unbelievable. — The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18: … Here's another July 18 photo. (Hat tip: hcq.) — The two later photos with their captions:

Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard, Ace of Spades HQ and USS Neverdock

ohio.com:

2 held on terror charge involving purchase of phones — MARIETTA, Ohio - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.

Discussion: Debbie Schlussel, Riehl World View, Michelle Malkin, The Strata-Sphere, Step-by-Step, Say Anything, Iowa Voice and JunkYardBlog

Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:

At a Makeshift River Crossing in South Lebanon, Guerrillas Come Out in the Open — The wounded men moved slowly across the hot patch of cratered earth. Some limped. One used crutches. Two carried their own intravenous bags. — The secret war being waged by shadow militia fighters …

Discussion: Needlenose and Israel Matzav