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...international zone is not safe, it is just safer than the rest of the city.' LIEUT. COLONEL CHRISTOPHER GARVER, U.S. military spokesman, after a suicide bomber infiltrated Baghdad's tightest security cordon and blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament café, killing eight people, including three Members of Parliament
...February 11, 2001: Palm Harbor, Florida A 14 year-old builds a bomb having a kill radius of 15 feet. The parents of another student who had received an e-mail detailing the bomber's plans alert the sheriff's deputies...
USAGE The term clean-skin, once used to describe drug traffickers without a record, morphed in the late 1990s to characterize potential terrorists who weren't on any watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its élite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
...assault apparently aimed at chilling negotiations between the Iraqi government and a faction of the insurgency, the Iraqi Parliament, located in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet...
...trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck, a coffee in the wrong café could spell death by suicide bomber...