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17 Suspected Terrorists Arrested in Canada

TORONTO, June 3 — Canadian police and intelligence agents say they foiled a “series of terrorist attacks” by a group that had obtained three tons of explosive fertilizer — more than the amount used in the Oklahoma City bombings — to attack targets in Ontario.

Twelve men — described as “mainly Canadian citizens” — and five juveniles were arrested in a series of raids Friday night at locations in the outlying suburbs of Toronto in enclaves for immigrant groups in Canada. The men, all with Arabic names, were mostly in their 20s.

Police say they seized weapons, walkie-talkies, and a large quantity of ammonium nitrate, the same chemical used to make a fertilizer bomb that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 persons…

Canadian reports said the raids were the consequence of the arrests by the FBI of two Georgia men in April. At the time, the FBI announced the two men had met with others in Toronto to plan attacks.

We’re sending the National Guard down south to patrol our border with Mexico. Could it be that maybe we need to be sending them in the other direction?

Jack Cafferty, CNN anchor:

Guess what Monday is? Monday is the day President Bush will speak about an issue near and dear to his heart and the hearts of many conservatives. It’s also the day before the Senate votes on the very same thing. Is it the war? Deficits? Health insurance? Immigration? Iran? North Korea?

Not even close. No, the president is going to talk about amending the Constitution in order to ban gay marriage. This is something that absolutely, positively has no chance of happening, nada, zippo, none. But that doesn’t matter. Mr. Bush will take time to make a speech. The Senate will take time to talk and vote on it, because it’s something that matters to the Republican base.

This is pure politics. If has nothing to do with whether or not you believe in gay marriage. It’s blatant posturing by Republicans, who are increasingly desperate as the midterm elections approach. There’s not a lot else to get people interested in voting on them, based on their record of the last five years.

But if you can appeal to the hatred, bigotry, or discrimination in some people, you might move them to the polls to vote against that big, bad gay married couple that one day might [move] in down the street.

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“We figure the 29 percent who are still Bush supporters didn’t like us to begin with. So it doesn’t matter.” - Dixie Chick Natalie Maines

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