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...worked at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, allegedly offered to help the group plan attacks in France. Initial news reports focused on Hicheur's work at the high-energy research lab, prompting speculation that al-Qaeda might be attempting to create nuclear or radioactive weapons. But a spokesman for CERN said the lab has been closed since last September and that it doesn't generate enough radioactive material to justify fears that Hicheur was trying to create a dirty bomb...
...attempted arson was the apparent handiwork of the Earth Liberation Front, a designated domestic terrorist group. But trouble at the scene emerged when FBI and ATF explosives experts seemed to believe their own agencies should head the investigation, recalls Sergeant John Urquhart, a spokesman for the King County sheriff's office. "It was clear that there was something going on. There was tension between the groups of ATF agents and FBI agents," Urquhart tells TIME. (See pictures of crime in middle America...
...country they're in, the differences in treatment can be huge. "You can have two people with exactly the same story, and in one country there is less than a 1% chance of getting asylum, and in another country there's a 95% chance," says Gilles van Moortel, a spokesman in Brussels for the U.N. refugee agency. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...
...Virginia Tech shootings, came under scrutiny for failing to deliver messages properly—or at all—during the Harvard shooting. Text messages were cut short and about two percent of the 14,000 subscribers in the program were not reached during the incident, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mailed statement at the time...
...domestic message: the need for more jobs. "President Obama will campaign on behalf of candidates, like Governor Corzine, who share the President's commitment to implementing the Recovery Act, creating jobs and laying a new foundation for America's long-term economic strength," explains Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman...