A plot to blow up planes to the US mid-flight and cause "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard says. Heightened security is causing severe delays at all UK airports.
Joe Lieberman, the three-term U.S. senator whose support for the Iraq war has provoked fury in the base of his own Democratic Party, lost his primary race yesterday to Ned Lamont, a multimillionaire and fierce war opponent. Lieberman vowed to stay in the race and to run as an independent in November, saying he'll build a campaign that will include Republicans and independents. "If you are disappointed with the ugly tone of our politics," Lieberman said in his concession speech, "if you're fed up with the nasty partisanship in Washington, I ask for your help."
The American Bar Association will launch a campaign targeted at curbing the "misuse" of presidential signing statements, including an effort to take the documents to court.
Good news from Cisco Systems Inc. and Walt Disney & Co. perked up the stock market today, after the Federal Reserve decision to halt interest rate rises dampened Tuesday shares. The company results show that the "profitability of the U.S. economy remains fundamentally really strong," said Richard DeKaser, chief economist at National City Bank.
AP - British authorities said Thursday they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in carry-on luggage. Britain's Home Secretary John Reid said 21 people had been arrested in London, its suburbs and in Birmingham, including the alleged "main players" in the plot.
AP - U.S. air travelers poured out liquids, opened their bags for inspection and endured long waits Thursday as airports heightened security and some flights were canceled or delayed after the discovery of a terror plot aimed at airlines traveling from Britain to the United States.
AP - A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq Thursday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 108, an official said.
British police arrest 20 suspects in plot to blow up jets flying between UK and U.S.Intelligence indicates plot has "very strong links to al Qaeda," official tells CNN U.S. threat level raised to red, the highest level, for flights originating in UKPlot was "intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale"
As cease-fire negotiations appeared to stall, Israel lobbed artillery rounds into southern Lebanon early Thursday while troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles moved across the border.
A suicide bomber strapped with explosives detonated himself at a police checkpoint near a holy shrine in Najaf on Thursday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 40 others, a Najaf police official said.
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