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UK Terror Plot Investigation - News Roundup - July 2 -- Morning

Monday morning news roundup on the ongoing UK terror plot investigations: -- Further Attacks Anticipated - Links to Al-Qaeda-related Groups Per Govt. The London Times is reporting that one of its...

Jihadi suspects on the loose in the U.K.; Blair calls civil liberties absolutists “loopy loo”

Where in the world is Zeeshan Siddiqui? On Friday, I wondered if the Piccadilly Circus car bomb scare might be connected to fugitive terror suspects on the loose in London. […] Read the rest...

Jihadi suspects on the loose in the U.K.

Where in the world is Zeeshan Siddiqui? On Friday, I wondered if the Piccadilly Circus car bomb scare might be connected to fugitive terror suspects on the loose in London. […] Read the rest...

Iranian Techniques Tested in Iraq

The recent upsurge on mortar attacks against key Iraqi and US government facilities in Baghdad could be partly attributed to Iranian training of insurgents, a top coalition commander said late last...

Report: Guantanamo To Close

From the AP via Drudge:WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The...

Throwing Away the Key

Here's an important reminder that Congress clearly never intended the Patriot Act to be a broad sanction for rounding up terror suspects without charges and detaining them indefinitely as a guard...

Kaus and Wright On Torture

Mickey comes out for torturing terror suspects, as part of a third category of detainees that are neither civil not military. He uses the hoary notion that if you concede the ticking time-bomb...

Bush Admin Allows Terror Suspects To Go Loose Thanks To Conservative Legal Theory

Here we go again. The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. "To...

U-turn on Terrorist Legislation in Britain?

Tony Blair's heir apparent as British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has announced his intention to strengthen counter-terrorism measures in the U.K. It’s the third time the Labour Party has...

Terror Suspects Smuggle Partially Hydrogenated Oil into NYC, Bloomberg Craps Pants

‘Cause that stuff will kill you! All that business about buildings, airplanes and bombs? Just GOP chatter released at critical times to get the attention off of the failed Iraq war. While...