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...threat leaked to the media, AZF vanished entirely, promising to be back. Even when a plot has been foiled and the planners have been captured, the French favor an official code of silence, reasoning that talking too much can give accomplices who may still be out there some scrap of information they need to continue eluding capture. In 2002, for example, officials withheld information discovered in a sweep of Chechen-trained jihadists planning to bomb the Russian embassy in Paris. Investigators used the undivulged leads to chase down additional members of the plot and uncover details of far greater planned...
When North Korea bought a dozen rusting Russian submarines in 1993, some observers worried that the scrap-metal hulks still carried enough high-tech equipment to help the North learn how to build its own submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Eleven years later, those fears may have been borne out: according to a report last week in Jane's Defense Weekly, North Korea is deploying missiles built with know-how gleaned from the subs and from Russian missile scientists. (Russian officials last week denied the country's scientists were involved.) With an expected range of at least...
...John Kerry is a class-traitor who wants nothing more than to scrap the incredible progress our nation has made over the last four years and return America to the grubby hands of the unwashed middle-class masses,” read a call to arms posted recently on the Billionaires’ website. “It is our sacred duty as guardians of privilege and power to defend the Bush administration from this barbaric electoral challenge. We therefore call upon all loyal People of Wealth to defy the Democratic National Convention and converge on the streets of Boston...
...Together with Marumba and Pastor Rhys, last June the trio helped construct a temporary church shelter from scrap metal on the community common. "We put it up to show the people that there is a church here," says Smith. "Out here in the open, we can preach to anyone." Marumba won't be doing too much of that in the distant future; he'd like to take his wife and two young sons back to Kenya for a holiday. "I'm very tired," he admits. "Much too much." Already he can do some resting on his laurels. Out here...
This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every racetrack and lottery counter and on every riverboat and square foot where...