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There's much more brewing now about that latest terror threat...
Yesterday New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said police would be ``slowly winding down'' the intensity of subway patrols, after the target date cited in a federal warning about a possible terrorist attack passed without incident.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ao2qgQmYt8IE&refer=top_world_newsAs Pete Williams said in his report last night, those arrests in Iraq turned up nothing. "Law enforcement officials say today that investigations in the Iraqi city where three men were arrested last week, in response to a tip ... turned up no evidence whatsoever of any plan to attack New York. That includes giving the three men lie detector tests, searching their computers, and checking their phone call records."
Tonight... a postmortem on this latest terror threat, which officials at Homeland Security had said was of doubtful credibility.
And on Wednesday, Keith takes a closer look...
As he said yesterday, "...we spoke of at least thirteen coincidences of timing, between bad political news for the government, and a terror or terror-related event... We will be presenting a special report detailing those coincidences on Wednesday night's edition."
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Trucks of aid arrived in the ruined capital of Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Tuesday, and victims scuffled for badly needed food and blankets three days after a devastating earthquake flattened whole communities, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9626146/President Bush pledged Tuesday that the federal government will not seek to dictate terms for rebuilding the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast but would allow state and local officials to make key decisions. He rejoiced in what he said is a spirit of revival there.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9654536/If the nightmare of an avian flu pandemic emerges from the dark chapters of doomsday scenarios, it will fall to the Department of the Homeland Security, not the medical establishment, to manage the crisis, according to federal documents and interviews with government officials.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9654456/Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, quickly developed a deep and almost gushing admiration for her boss from her earliest days in Texas government. "You are the best governor ever - deserving of great respect!" she wrote in 1997, in a belated birthday note that was typical of the tone she used in her correspondence with then-Gov. Bush. The letter was one of a handful of personal notes included in more than 2,000 pages of documents released yesterday by the Texas State Library.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002553074_miers11.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
Students who attend homecoming dances this weekend will be doing some heavy breathing - into Breathalyzers. At Santa Barbara High School, officials will screen every third or fourth student who arrives and anyone who appears drunk, said Principal Paul Turnbull. But senior Alexander Argyropoulos said alcohol testing encourages students to use drugs that cannot be detected with the Breathalyzers. Drinking, he said, is "better than possibly trying cocaine."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMECOMING_BREATHALYZERS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEWell, Mr. Argyropoulos, I'll give you credit for the frankness of your counter-argument. But I'm not sure it's a winner.
-- Carey Fox
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FEMA grants leave some behind. Many hurricane victims say they were unfairly denied emergency aid.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9655113/Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq's upcoming constitutional referendum killed more than 40 people and wounded dozens in several attacks Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9659209/Voting lines formed at polling stations in this West African nation Tuesday as it held its first presidential elections since the end of a bloody civil war in 2003.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9660102/Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed a police convoy in southern Afghanistan and killed 19 officers, the deadliest attack on police in several months, an official said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9657389/Iran has signaled it may grant access to sites linked to possible work on nuclear weapons and other demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to avoid referral to the Security Council, diplomats said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9661854/An early blast of winter walloped Colorado's mountains with almost 20 inches of snow, killing three people, making driving conditions treacherous and delaying dozens of flights.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9651374/The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Tuesday from a Wiccan priestess angry that local leaders would not let her open their sessions with a prayer. Instead, clergy from more traditional religions were invited to pray at governmental meetings in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of Richmond.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9661790/Martha Stewart offers advice to entrepreneurs and business professionals in her new book, "The Martha Rules."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9653851/A 9-year-old boy swam the precarious waters between Alcatraz island and the San Francisco shoreline Monday, raising $30,000 in donations for Hurricane Katrina victims. Johnny Wilson, a fourth grader from Hillsborough, called the swim in the 53-degree San Francisco Bay "tiring" but said he kept telling himself, "I'm almost there, I'm almost there." His classmates were waiting on shore, cheering as he made it to Aquatic Park. "Go, Johnny! Go, Johnny!" the group chanted.
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