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Four hundred and fifty police officers swarmed twenty-three locations in Australia a day ago, disrupting what a spokeperson called, "the final states of a large-scale terrorist attack." Among the sixteen persons arrested: a radical cleric named Abu Bakr, an understudy of Osama Bin Laden. The crew had stockpiled chemicals and materials in preparation for what could have been a massive attack similar to that of London or Madrid. The police commissioner in New South Wales, Ken Maroney, noted that the attack would have been "catastrophic."

It's the dawn of day twelve in the French "intifida," pitting "disaffected" youths in multiple cities against the government. Commentator Steven Plaut suggests that perhaps the French could follow their instructions for Israel: trade land for peace and recognize the legitimacy of demands emanating from the pesky troublemakers.

The rioting appears to have spread to other countries in Europe, including Germany and Belgium. Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn notes:

Ever since 9/11, I've been gloomily predicting the European powder keg's about to go up. ''By 2010 we'll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,'' I wrote in Canada's Western Standard back in February. Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule...

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As Drudge would say: developing.