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...Uighurs over religious issues were reported by rights groups in late March. The Chinese press meanwhile has reported several recent clashes with separatist rebels in the province; in early March, the press reported that a Uighur woman had attempted to bring down a domestic passenger jet with a homemade bomb. Add to that widespread discontent throughout China over issues such as corruption and rapidly worsening inflation (prices of pork have gone up by two-thirds in the past year) and you have what Bequelin calls the makings of a perfect storm...
This morning's topic is suicide bombings. Instructor Ron Haskins, a former Green Beret, warns, "We want to get the terrorists when they're recruiting, planning, training, preparing, because once they start, they're going to blow themselves up in some way." The first responders tour a house set up as a suicide-bomb factory. The kitchen is littered with chemicals, including a jar of yellow liquid simulating human urine, which can be distilled into an ingredient for an explosive called urea nitrate (used in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993). Haskins explains the assault to a visiting...
...Tuesday, something about 32-year-old Kevin Brown caught the attention of an Orlando International Airport security officer, who tagged the Jamaican national's checked luggage for a full inspection. As it turned out, Brown's bag was stuffed with what the FBI is calling bomb-making material and instructions for making a bomb out of such materials...
...pursued his investigation, the faceless assassins stalking Lebanon claimed the lives of three more anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmakers as well as a Lebanese army general and Lebanon's top police investigator. Some Lebanese maintained that the Belgian prosecutor's reticent approach was creating a climate conducive to more murders, bomb attacks and an escalating political crisis...
...asked a former IRA soldier, a bomb maker, if Marion was right. "You can't know for sure," he said. "They wrongly called an end to the conflict in 1962." He agreed that no one was satisfied with the power-sharing agreement that technically gives the province's Catholics as much say in government as the Protestants. And one of the biggest problems for Northern Irish Catholics is unemployment; much of the lost generation only knows how to fight...