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...language, 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...
...really throwing up on the outside corner,” Francis said. “I just waited for a pitch and she threw it right on the outside corner and I just hit it over.”Although Francis’s bomb gave Harvard all the runs it would need for the win, Bock and freshman Caitlin Bowers provided the wiggle-room.Bock hit a two-out solo shot deep to center field in the third inning and Bowers tacked on the final Crimson run with a fence-clearing hit to left field in the seventh. Cornell...
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...
...Brown betraying anxiety over his luggage? According to FBI agent Kelly Boaz's affidavit in federal court, Brown variously told the FBI that he planned to bomb a tree stump back home in Jamaica and that he wanted to show friends how to build explosive devices like the ones he saw while he says he was in the U.S. military in Iraq. Initial record checks by the FBI indicate Brown was in the U.S. legally, but have not yet confirmed that he was a military veteran. Brown has been charged with knowingly and willfully attempting to place or attempt...