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...Around the corner from the Warren Street station at University College Hospital, three heavily armed police officers wearing flak jackets and two police officers with bomb sniffing dogs stormed into the emergency room soon after the blasts went off. Police sealed off the 16-story building, amidst rumors that someone had left the site of the explosions and had run into the ER. "I've never seen so many police in my life, running around rapidly with their guns," said one woman. "It was very hectic and we weren't told anything." For the police, the search for answers...
After the atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, historians and survivors, alike, have collected information on the bomb's destruction and future impact. The modern city of Hiroshima now honors its victims with museums, annual ceremonies and peace declarations. To learn about Hiroshima's recovery and read eyewitness accounts from survivors, check out these sites...
Homeland security�secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...
...authorities believe that the bombers acted alone. Investigators have focused on the explosives. Contrary to initial reports that said military-style high explosive were used, the authorities concluded that the bombs were made of tatp, a material popular with al-Qaeda because it can be cooked in a bathtub out of common chemicals. The bombs weighed only 2.7 kg each, according to a classified briefing for U.S. Senators last week. British investigators have begun interrogating el-Nashar, who studied at North Carolina State University in 2000 and was awarded his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical enzymology by Leeds University in May. Someone...
...examine my suggestion seriously. And I suppose I couldn't expect her to. Not when Muslim leaders themselves won't go there. Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general for the Muslim Council of Britain, is an example. In the midst of a debate with me, he listed potential incentives to bomb, including "alienation" and "segregation." But Islam? God forbid that the possibility even be entertained...