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This was a disquieting lede in an NYT story: The bombings in London today knocked the summit meeting that had just gotten under way here off of its carefully scripted focus on global warming and African poverty and turned it into a forum for (U.S.) President (George W.) Bush and other world leaders to express their unity [...]
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University of Ottawa professor Mark Salter was on CTV this morning, commenting in the wake of this morning's terrible bombings in London. He made the point that we who live in the West may have to get used to this sort of thing, given the open nature of our societies. Sadly, I suspect he's right. [...]
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London, England's subway system has been hit by at least four blasts. The latest estimate is 38 dead and about 700 wounded. A previously unknown Islamist organization has claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement on a known Islamist website. However, they can't yet be confirmed. ”The organization calls itself the Secret Organization Group of [...]
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NYT reporter Judith Miller is in a U.S. federal prison tonight for refusing to name sources for a story she never published. Robert Novak, who did publish a story naming a CIA agent named Valerie Plame, and who wrote the story based on information from anonymous sources, is walking around a free man. That is enough right [...]