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Israel’s oldest English-language newspaper put it bluntly: “The president of one of the leading universities in the United States last week posed for photographs with a student dressed as a suicide bomber, The Jerusalem Post has learned.” The New York Post put it even more bluntly: “DITZY IVY PREXY’S H’WEEN BALL BOMBS...
DIED. Robert Anderson, 85, automotive engineer turned chairman of Rockwell International, who expanded the firm into an aerospace giant that built space shuttles and the much maligned, hugely expensive B-1 long-range bomber; in Los Angeles. Known for his bluntness--"A bomber is a baby killer; people don't like bombers," he once said--Anderson successfully lobbied Ronald Reagan's aides to resurrect the controversial B-1, which could carry nuclear weapons and had little risk of radar detection, after it had been abandoned during the Carter Administration. He also helped devise the 426 hemi engine with which NASCAR...
...concrete fortress that was built to be the most secure prison in the country: the Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary, or ADX for short. The inmates in ADX Florence include drug kingpins, gang leaders, hit men, snipers and, lately, more and more, international terrorists, including al-Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reid; mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing Ramzi Yousef and at least seven of his accomplices; and four men convicted of involvement in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. There are American terrorists too. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, spent time there before being transferred...
...February 2001 while trying to travel from London to Saudi Arabia on a fake passport. Six months later, the U.S. filed an extradition request after a Federal grand jury indicted Doha as a co-conspirator in the LAX plot, based on evidence and an affidavit signed by would-be bomber Ahmed Ressam that Doha had overseen the attempted attack. "[Doha] actually moved Ressam from Afghanistan back to Canada" to plan and execute the Millennium bombing, explains a senior U.S. intelligence official. But after initially sharing his knowledge of terror networks, Ressam ceased cooperating with prosecutors sometime in 2003 - and even...
...barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later realize the moment offered only a sample of the kind of anxiety whenever you drive around Baghdad...