Tag: terrorism
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uk pilots asked to mull kamikaze missions
from the sun: RAF Top Guns were stunned last night after being asked to think of being Kamikaze pilots in the war on terror. Elite fliers were shocked into silence when a senior RAF chief said they should consider suicide missions as a last resort against terrorist targets. Air Vice Marshal David Walker put forward…
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news on the march
russian journalist dies in suspicious fallfrom abc news: Respected Russian journalist Ivan Safronov, who reported on military affairs, mysteriously plunged to his death from the 5th floor of his apartment building Friday, making him the 14th journalist to die under questionable circumstances in Putin’s Russia, according to statistics compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists.…
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report finds US terrorism statistics inaccurate
from reuters: Nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics reported by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI from the September 11 attacks until early 2005 had some inaccuracies, the department’s inspector general said on Tuesday. The findings drew immediate criticism from U.S. senators, who said it raised serious doubts over how effectively the administration was…
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lieberman: we need ‘terror tax’
from reuters/alertnet: Sen. Joseph Lieberman said on Tuesday that Congress should consider a tax to fund the U.S.-declared war on terrorism and reduce the need to cut domestic programs to pay for security spending. A former Democrat who supports the Iraq war and backs President George W. Bush’s plan to send 21,500 additional troops to…
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‘aqua teen’ bomber scare
from boston herald: A guerilla marketing campaign for a popular adult cartoon thrust Boston into pandemonium today as at least 10 bombs scares turned out to be battery-operated ads strategically place around the city, the Herald has learned. Federal, state and local police swarmed around the city as reports poured in of suspicious devices, closing…
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gloom & doom in 2007?
from ap/yahoo: Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans’ grim predictions for the United States in 2007. Only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea over those countries’ nuclear ambitions. An overwhelming majority of those surveyed…
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industry: protect nuke plants from the air
from playfuls: The nation’s nuclear power industry is asking the U.S. government how to protect new plants from airplane terror attacks. The official request comes weeks after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued initial regulations for new plants that are no tougher than those in effect for decades, The New York Times said. The request is…
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london braces for attack, ‘miracle’ if there isn’t one
from abc news: British intelligence and law enforcement officials have passed on a grim assessment to their U.S. counterparts, “It will be a miracle if there isn’t a terror attack over the holidays in London,” a senior American law enforcement official tells ABCNews.com. British police have been quietly carrying out a series of key arrests…
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news on the march
from int’l herald tribune: Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists… The long arm of ‘offshoring’ reaches into the news industry from earth times: MADD wants alcohol sensors in cars… As a first step in trying to rein in DUI, Mothers Against Drunk Driving will campaign for the introduction of alcohol sensors in every…
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sears tower ‘plotters’ just ‘wannabes’
from raw story: In a BBC news broadcast today, Miami Herald reporter Mani Garcia remarks that the government’s arrest of seven men in connection with a ‘plot’ to blow up the Sears Tower is probably overblown. “They’ve been described to us by sources as ‘wannabes’ — still to be determined if making a connection about…