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...German operation to arrest Osman Petmezci and Astrid Eyzaguirre in September seemed to go like clockwork. Acting on a tip from America's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), police nabbed the pair on suspicion of plotting to bomb a U.S. military base near Heidelberg. After searching the couple's apartment, investigators found five rudimentary pipe bombs, raw material for 18 kilos of explosive powder, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Petmezci and Eyzaguirre are now in custody, awaiting trial. Another victory for German law enforcement? Not quite. CID's Aug. 29 warning wasn't the first call from...
Maybe it was U.S. homeland Security chief Tom Ridge's visit to London last week. Or maybe it was just more aftershocks from last month's bombing in Bali. But suddenly Europe started feeling a lot like the U.S., where Ridge and Attorney General John Ashcroft issue terror alerts on what seems like a weekly basis. Britons were getting decidedly mixed messages from their government. On Thursday, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas. Maybe they will try to use boats or trains...
...before the manifesto was published. We’re putting twisted-genius political-antihero constructions onto a paranoid schizophrenic who, when an innocent secretary was maimed in one of his explosions, wrote in his journals only: “Frustrated. Can’t seem to make a lethal bomb...
...Officers investigated a bomb threat at the School of Public Health. The Boston Police Bomb Squad deemed the building safe...
...It’s shameful to drop bombs on people who need food and medicine,” said Zinn, who is known for his book, A People’s History of the United States. “You can’t bomb a country into democracy...