Newsletter 7/25/05: Terror Trail

[Patsy Stone]

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Tonight on Countdown
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British police released the names of two of the four men suspected of taking part in the failed July 21 bombings, and confirmed Monday that a fifth device similar to others used in the attacks was found in a west London park. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8687124/

Police investigators said Monday that they were searching for six Pakistani men as the probe into the weekend's terrorist attack at a Red Sea resort widened. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8671549/


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Training for the Worst -- the FDNY: Monica Novotny reports.

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday that he spoke with White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. immediately after learning that the Justice Department had launched a criminal investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. But Gonzales, who was White House counsel at the time, waited 12 hours before officially notifying the rest of the staff of the inquiry. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401058.html

SAN DIEGO -- Candidates bidding to replace Mayor Dick Murphy, who resigned amid a wave of scandal, offer nothing but bitter medicine for the nation's seventh-largest city. Their debates are filled with dark talk about filing for bankruptcy, slashing jobs and turning over the city's beleaguered pension fund to a court-appointed trustee. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072400558.html

Authorities have accused an East Rutherford woman of amassing more than $12,000 in free merchandise by claiming she was an assistant of celebrity Jessica Simpson. http://www.nbc10.com/news/4764518/detail.html

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
Friends say Lance Archibald is a tall, handsome former college basketball player and graduate of Harvard business school. He's also still single at 31, and so they're hoping to speed things up with a billboard and Web site. "I'm Lance, Let's go out!" reads the billboard on an interstate near Lindon, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BACHELOR_BILLBOARD?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
Wow, man, that's desperate.

-- Carey Fox

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For the second time in two weeks, the space shuttle Discovery is ready for launch to the international space station, on the first shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster two and a half years ago. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8699876/

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts declined Monday to say why he was listed in a leadership directory of the Federalist Society and the White House said he has no recollection of belonging to the conservative group. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8701009/

Lance Armstrong: 'It's time to move on' http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8698947/

Organized labor is at war with itself as the Teamsters and a major service employees' union decide to bolt from the AFL-CIO, paving the way for two other groups to sever ties in the labor movement's biggest rift since the 1930s. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8682415/

Skyrocketing temperatures surpassed the 100-degree mark here for the first time in six years, prompting Chicago officials to implement an emergency response plan honed after hundreds of people died in a heat wave a decade ago. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8699446/

Sunni Arab members of a committee drafting Iraq's new constitution ended their boycott Monday, six days after jeopardizing the credibility of the nascent political process by walking out in protest over the assassinations of two fellow Sunni constitution framers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8667975/

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has spent more than 1,800 pounds (US$3,130) of taxpayers' money on makeup and cosmetic artists over the past six years, according to the government. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_BLAIR_MAKEUP?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME