A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.
Police are searching premises after 21 people were arrested. Home Secretary John Reid said they believed the "main players" were accounted for.
High security is causing delays at all UK airports.
The threat level to the UK has been raised by MI5 to critical after the...
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Israel shut down south Lebanon with a threat to blast any moving vehicles, as ground fighting intensified near the Israeli border, airstrikes killed at least 19 civilians and Arab governments called for a full Israeli withdrawal as a condition of any cease-fire.
With U.S., French and Arab negotiators meeting into the evening at the United Nations, Israel voiced cautious interest in a Lebanese proposal to deploy 15,000 soldiers to control the ground in south Lebanon where Hezbollah has been firing missiles into Israel. But the warring sides...
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A federal judge has temporarily halted further review of a lawsuit charging that AT&T illegally allowed the U.S. government to monitor phone and e-mail communications.
Earlier this year, privacy rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the telecom giant, saying the U.S. program eavesdrops on phone calls and reads e-mails of millions of Americans without warrants.
Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker rejected a request from the head of U.S. intelligence and other officials to dismiss the suit.
But on Tuesday...
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Stanford University's Joel Beinin is used to criticism for his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but when a conservative commentator put the professor's photo on the cover of a booklet titled "Campus Support for Terrorism," it started a whole new war.
Joe Lieberman's campaign is claiming a DoS attack brought down joe2006.com. The truth? They are paying $15/month for hosting, with a bandwidth limit of 10GB. The server is currently down, along with all their clients.
If you're paying $15 because your $12 million campaign is too cheap to pay for quality hosting, then don't go blaming your opponent when your shitty service goes out...
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A Wheaton man convicted of threatening to kill a federal judge and President Bush was sentenced Monday to 6 years and 5 months in prison.
Michael Disch, 37, was incarcerated in Georgia on traffic offenses in 2004 when he made a series of calls to the federal courthouse in Chicago and threatened to kill a judge who previously had sentenced him in an unrelated case.
Disch also sent a letter to the White House threatening to kill the president.
In addition to the 77 months in prison, which will begin after he finishes serving the state...
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Reuters has removed all the photographs by Adnan Hajj from their news wires:
LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah.
Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of...
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This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image.
Reuters has some explaining to do. The whole MSM has some explaining to do. But they will do no explaining, and ask no questions, and embargo the story, because they cannot admit that they have cut foreign budgets to such a degree that they now rely almost entirely on local stringers of questionable objectivity and integrity for the bulk of their...
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