We have just won a battle in the war on terrorism and the NY Times barely acknowledges it.

9 Held in NATO Bomb Plot

This is the entire article:

ANKARA, Turkey, May 3 -- A court on Monday charged nine suspected members of a militant Islamic group who were accused of plotting to set off a bomb next month at a NATO summit meeting in Istanbul that President Bush is scheduled to attend.

Authorities detained 16 suspected members of the group, Ansar al-Islam, in the northwestern province of Bursa last Thursday, Gov. Oguz Kagan Koksal said. Seven were released after questioning.

The arrests came amid heightened security in preparation for the June 28-29 meeting of NATO leaders

Not that big a deal, right? Not if you read the NY Post, who put the story on the front page. BUSH BOMB PLOT

A terrorist bomb plot to kill President Bush was thwarted yesterday when Turkish police nabbed 25 members of an al Qaeda-linked cell who planned to assassinate world leaders in Istanbul next month - then flee to Iraq.

Investigators yesterday announced that they seized 16 of the men in the Turkish town of Bursa last Thursday, along with guns, explosives, forged ID documents, bomb-making booklets - and 4,000 CDs featuring training instructions from Osama bin Laden.

Turkish TV said three of the suspects had been planning for as long as a year to blow themselves up with a bomb that would also kill Bush and other Western leaders.

The plot had reached a very advanced stage and terrorists had begun testing explosives, The Times of London reported.

In the war on terrorism, this is the definition of the perfect victory - prevent a terrorist act, apprehend the suspects and their materials and hopefully get information out of the suspects - nobody hurt. Yet the Times practically ignores it. And the headline????? They could have been talking about any old anti-globalization protestors from the way it sounds.

Ho-hum. Just another simple arrest. Let's hope they're not being mistreated in any way.

I guess the Times wants to make sure that President Bush's post 9/11 predictions are absolutely accurate- that we will have victories in this war that are "secret, even in success".