Word: weaponed
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...House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern: intelligence reports suggesting that Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had met with a radical Pakistani nuclear scientist around a campfire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Absorbing the possibility that al-Qaeda was trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, Cheney remarked that America had to deal with a new type of threat - what he called a "low-probability, high-impact event" - and the U.S. had to do it "in a way we haven't yet defined," writes author Ron Suskind in his new book, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep...
...Whenever I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens, I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands?" MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV, Russian inventor of the AK-47, on the rifle's transformation into the weapon of choice for terrorists worldwide...
...Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. I think for a weapon like this, even outliers or wannabes among the world's jihadists would probably do a check-in with the al-Qaeda leadership before they used something that would be viewed as a weapon of mass destruction...
...uses the key words hidden in new configurations: word in "neW ORDers" and "cross sWORDs," play in "PLAYa Del Mar" and "toP LAYers." We see Reagle creating the puzzle, then Shortz accepting it and finally Clinton, Stewart, Burns, Okrent and Indigo Girls solving it. The first clue is "Warhead weapon," four letters. Stewart and Burns jump on ICBM, while Clinton, who's been in charge of these things, says, "it's gotta be an ICBM or a MIRV." As the theme becomes clear, he observes, "Not too hard but it's very clever...
...Though details are still emerging, it appears Zarqawi was killed when two Air Force F-16s from Balad Air Base in Iraq were directed to the house where Zarqawi was and dropped precision weapons. At a briefing this morning from Iraq, a senior U.S. officer displayed a large picture of the face of Zarqawi's corpse, part of a high-profile p.r. effort to show that the al-Qaeda military leader, who just weeks ago relased his own video of himself shooting an automatic weapon, was indisputably dead. President George Bush jumped on the rare, high-profile military success...