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...Menezes, a Brazilian killed by police when he was mistaken for a suspected suicide bomber the day after the failed July 21 terror attacks. In line with a shoot-to-kill policy put in place after Sept. 11, Menezes was shot eight times after boarding a London Underground train. Eyewitnesses said Menezes wore a heavy jacket, and that he vaulted over the ticket barrier. These observations seemed to tally with the limited information provided by police, who said that Menezes' clothes and behavior at the station had added to their suspicions. But in documents leaked from an ongoing inquiry...
...Hizballah, the weapon employs "shaped" explosive charges that can punch through a battle tank's armor like a fist through the wall. According to the document, the U.S. believes al-Sheibani's team consists of 280 members, divided into 17 bombmaking teams and death squads. The U.S. believes they train in Lebanon, in Baghdad's predominantly Shi'ite Sadr City district and "in another country" and have detonated at least 37 bombs against U.S. forces this year in Baghdad alone...
...rethink my nativist aesthetic. I found myself furtively exploring bands that I would have written off in my youth. Initially I thought this was all temporary and meaningless. But the night I traded 50 Cent for Jack White, I knew something fundamental had changed, that the Soul Train had pulled into its final stop. When I went home that night, it was all devastatingly clear to me. I'd fallen for white music...
KIDS' CANCER AND POLLUTION Kids living within one-third of a mile from bus and train stations and exposed to excess engine exhaust were 12 times as likely to die of cancer as other kids, according to a British study of 22,458 children claimed by the disease...
...army to house the 10,000 soldiers who'll carry out the evacuation. The rows of tents, separated by bright tarpaulins in blue, green, red to mark the codenames of each unit, look dusty even from the sky. It's quiet down there during the day, as the soldiers train elsewhere in the country. They're readying mainly for verbal abuse from settlers, who are expected to try and create doubt in the minds of the soldiers by equating their mission to the persecution and expulsion of Jews throughout history...