Archive for the ‘terrorism’ Category

Technologist: Sniffing Bombs With Mobiles

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

The project, known as Distributed Nuclear Detection by Ubiquitous Cell Phone, would help locate dirty bombs or nuclear weapons by "triangulating" the source of radiation when people carrying mobile phones pass by. (The greater the number of equipped cell phones, the greater the precision: phones closest to radioactive material will ...

Report Says Fire, Not Explosion, Felled 7 W.T.C.

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The long-delayed report by engineers here at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in suburban Washington is intended to solve one of still lingering central questions about the 2001 attacks: Why did 7 World Trade Center fall, if it was not hit by an airplane. "Heating of floor ...

Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Friday, August 1st, 2008

A critique of the role that ABC News played in convincing much of the public that Iraq was behind the 2001 anthrax mailings.Read the full story

Anthrax suspect Ivins commits suicide

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in 2001, according to a published report. Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the ...

Deadly blasts rock Istanbul

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

At least 13 people have been killed and about 70 others injured in two explosions on a busy shopping street in Istanbul, according to the city governor.Read the full story

U.S. to Settle Scientist’s Anthrax Lawsuit

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Dumped on the late Friday news cycle ... A former Army scientist who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks will receive $5.8 million to settle his lawsuit against the Justice Department. Yes, remember the Anthrax attacks. The war on terror hasn't caught the anthrax ...

Man Arrested in Las Vegas Ricin Case

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

An unemployed graphic designer who authorities believe was nearly killed by ricin was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that he possessed the deadly toxin as part of an ''exotic idea,'' never carried out, to poison his enemies.Read the full story

US Airways pilot’s gun accidentally goes off on plane

Monday, March 24th, 2008

From the it was only a matter of time department. Guns, pilots and planes don't mix.Read the full story

Bin Laden son: ‘Ambassador of peace’?

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

he 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is a better way to defend Islam than al-Qaida's militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West.Read the full story

Philippine lawmaker killed in blast

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

An explosion Tuesday evening inside the Philippine House of Representatives injured killed two people, one of them a congressman, and injured several others.Read the full story