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...worst atrocity of the Irish Troubles: three bombs exploding within 90 seconds during rush hour in Dublin in May 1974, killing 27 and maiming hundreds. Ninety minutes later, another bomb went off outside a pub in Monaghan, killing seven. No one was ever charged with the crimes. Last week a four-year judicial inquiry concluded that it was probable, though not proven, that the loyalist paramilitaries who planted the bombs had help from low-level members of the British security forces. Justice Henry Barron, the report's author, tried to probe whether senior British intelligence figures were involved...
...world,” Sachs said. “We think we’re fighting terrorism by terrorizing the world...We have a lot of ability to bomb places; we have no capacity to turn on the lights in Baghdad, and we have no capacity to run places...
...with the city’s politicians. Ultimately, it was not the strident opposition of locals—like the fool who said of Harvard’s proposed modern art museum in the Riverside neighborhood, “if you build it, we’re going to bomb it”—that drove the University from pursuing further expansion in Cambridge; it was the unwillingness of many city council members to reign in those radical elements and work to help find meaningful solutions to Harvard’s space crunch on this side...
...accident. The camp was run by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian who acted as al-Qaeda's chief recruiter and puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also used London-based clerics as intermediaries. Similarly, jailed Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal, another Khalden trainee, told interrogators that Zubaydah personally sent him from Afghanistan in July 2001 to organize a kamikaze bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, a plot undone...
...much suffering, in which so many Palestinians died…It’s like the USA saying ‘Let’s party like it’s Aug. 6, 1945,’” he says, referring to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. “You don’t celebrate the suffering of other people...