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10:40 AM ET, August 10, 2006

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BBC:
'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 …
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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 …
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 …
Danica Kirka / Associated Press:
British Police Thwart Aircraft Bomb Plot  —  British authorities said Thursday they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in carry-on luggage, averting what police described as "mass murder on an unimaginable scale."
Discussion: Attytood
Washington Post:
British Police Thwart Major Terror Plot  —  Britain and the U.S. Raise Security Threat Levels  —  British authorities said today they had disrupted a "major terrorist plot" to blow up passenger flights between the United Kingdom and the United States, prompting a full-scale security clampdown …
Pajamas Media:
Sky Terror in UK: US Security Alert to RED  —  News Items (Blogs & Opinion below)  —  Massachusetts to call up National Guard to help secure Logan airport, Governor Mitch Romney is saying at press conference (all TV news channels) 07:05 PDT  —  Angry travellers stranded in UK airports hit out at plane plotters.
BBC:
'Airlines terror plot' disrupted  —  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 to as many as 10 aircraft in hand luggage.
Times of London:
'We have foiled mass murder on an unimaginable scale'  —  A major terrorist plot to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale by exploding up to nine aircraft in mid-flight between Britain and America has been thwarted, Scotland Yard announced this morning.
Discussion: BBC and Power Line
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.
CNN:
Security chief: Airline terror plot 'close to execution'  —  'We cannot be sure ... plot completely thwarted'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Terrorists were in the final stages of planning to blow up planes heading from the United Kingdom to the United States, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday.
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
BBC:
Heathrow shut to incoming flights
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:   London: The "Shoe Bomber Factory" again?
Brendan Loy / The Irish Trojan's Blog:
RED ALERT!  Massive "imminent" mid-air bomb plot disrupted …
Discussion: Cold Fury and Boing Boing
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:   Aircraft Bomb Plot Thwarted in Britain
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democrats Back Lamont in Race in Show of Unity  —  Ned Lamont in Hartford on Wednesday, a day after his Senate primary victory.  Democrats were quick to line up to support him as the party's nominee.  More Photos >  —  With promises of both money and personal campaign appearances …
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James Poniewozik / Time:
Reuters' Altered Photos: Overhyped?  Dangerous?  Both  —  Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact—even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast—it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well  —  When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph …
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Associated Press:
Mike Wallace Says Iranian President an 'Impressive Fellow'  —  NEW YORK — Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah Khomeini that was one of Mike Wallace's most memorable, the CBS newsman snagged an interview this week with current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
Discussion: CBS News
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Paul J. Gough / Hollywood Reporter:
Wallace out of retirement for interview with Iran's president
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 …
Brenda Goodman / New York Times:
Democrat Says G.O.P. Voters Led to Her Loss  —  Her cheering supporters were clearly surprised by Representative Cynthia McKinney's defeat in Tuesday's Democratic primary runoff, but those who follow this city's changing demographics were not.  —  Over the past few years …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Counterintelligence Officials Resign  —  David A. Burtt II, director of the Counterintelligence Field Activity, the Defense Department's newest intelligence agency whose contracts based on congressional earmarks are under investigation by the Pentagon and federal prosecutors …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Amygdala
Jonathan Ariel / Israel Insider:
Analysis: Government and IDF racked by unprecedented leadership crisis  —  Relations between the country's political and military leadership are at the lowest point in the country's history, on the verge of a crisis.  In addition, there is a growing lack of confidence between Chief of Staff Dan Halutz …
 
 
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