Police in Egypt have arrested 25 Muslim extremists suspected of having planned a terrorist attack against Jewish pilgrims who visited the grave of the Kabbalist rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira near Alexandria several weeks ago. The suspects reportedly belong to a militant Islamist group and were arrested over the past few weeks in the Nile Delta. According to an Egyptian official, they were in possession of explosives and rudimentary rocket warheads and confessed to having plotted to bomb the tomb of a 19th century Jewish rabbi, to which hundreds of Israeli pilgrims come every year in January. The attack was to have coincided with the 2010 pilgrimage.

The decision to advise the accused Christmas Day attacker of his right to remain silent was made after teleconferences involving at least four government agencies —and only after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had stopped talking to authorities, according to knowledgeable law enforcement officials.

A spat between organizers of the national Tea Party convention, which starts Thursday in Nashville and will feature Sarah Palin as its keynote speaker, has largely centered on fees, speakers and profits.

Though due to worldwide protests one particular export was stopped and canceled at the end of 2009, the President of Madagascar then did two things: He ordered Delmas to transport logs in the future or be banned from the country, and issued a proclamation that rosewood could be exported from National Parks.

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