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...Looking around for an escape route, I noticed a second pile of artillery shells, 300 feet off to my left. I also spotted another, a smaller cluster - mostly mortar shells. The nearest cover was the walled compound of a domed church, along a narrow alleyway some 60 feet behind...
...hour before the first mound fell silent; the second roared intermittently for 15 more minutes. By this point, Mohammed, having convinced a local man to guide him to the explosions by a safer route than mine, had arrived at the church compound by the alleyway. We backed away along the lane, keeping an eye out for shrapnel. Where the alley met the main road, we turned out of sight of the explosions...
...makes three unsuccessful attempts to smuggle Jobbins’ donuts out the door, “strapped like a bomb,” as he puts it, to his chest. Jobbins has a pile of boxes in his room that his roommates affectionately call “the compound,” a reference to Palestinian leader Arafat’s compound, recently destroyed by the Israeli government. “[The Israeli-Palestinian conflict] is serious shit,” Jobbins says, “but we’re lighthearted about it. We’re never seriously...
...terrorists making toxins such as ricin and botulism. The alert, entitled "Improvised Chemical and Biological Agents," and dispatched this morning (April 2) to 18,000 law enforcement agencies via a secure electronic network, was prompted in part by the discovery of homemade biological toxins in a radical Islamist compound in northeastern Iraq that was raided by the U.S. and Kurdish troops late last week...
...Sunday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN that a compound established by the Jihadist group Ansar Al Islam and captured by American and Kurdish forces last week was probably the source of the ricin seized from Algerian extremists in London earlier this year. U.S. intelligence had earlier identified the Ansar group as being especially active in attempting to develop ricin and other chemical and biological agents for use as terror weapons...