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The Globe and Mail's Simon Houpt looks at the role of amateurs in helping gather news about the London bombings. An excerpt: On Thursday morning in London, only minutes after the fourth terrorist bomb blew the top off a red double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, editors at the Times of London on-line unit called for [...]
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Bob Woodward, one-half of the legendary Watergate reporting duo of Woodward and Bernstein, applauds NYT reporter Judith Miller's decision to go to jail. An excerpt from the Globe and Mail story: “It's about the importance of confidential sources,” Mr. Woodward said in an interview with The Globe and Mail, days after the publication of The [...]
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Authorities in London said this morning the bombs went off within 50 seconds of each other at 8:50 a.m. on 7/7. They confirmed were the explosions were detonated by mechanical timers. Low-grade plastic explosives were apparently used, not stuff like Semtex which would have caused much higher casualties (it's hard to interpret what that means. I read [...]
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An expert on contemporary Islam tells The Globe and Mail that Canada shouldn't sell itself short as an attractive target for al Qaeda or related groups. An excerpt: Akbar Ahmed, a professor of international relations at American University in Washington, who has been described as the world's leading authority on contemporary Islam, said the threat [...]
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The Globe's coverage of the G8 communique and some other stuff: Leaders of the world's richest democracies hailed a deal on aid for Africa yesterday as providing the kind of hope that will defeat the hatred of terrorism. Bomb blasts in London cast a pall over the summit in Scotland, but G8 leaders emerged with a [...]
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