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The Dog That Stood in a Landmine Field, and the Cow With the Saddest Eyes

Rym Tina Ghazal | Posted 12.19.2012 | Green
Read More: Photography, Photos, Veganism, Vegetarian, Lebanon, Animal Rights, Bombs, War, Green, Beliefs, Green Living, Animals, Goat, Cows, Middle East, Camera, Environment, Food, Landmines, Israel, Sheep, Dogs, Green News
Rym Tina Ghazal

Not long ago, there were people who feared the camera, believing it to be 'a tool of the devil.' They feared this 'evil instrument' that captures and ...

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Sheldon Siegel's Latest Bombastic Book

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 12.11.2012 | Books
Read More: Cell Phones, Sheldon Siegel, Bombs, Chicago, The Terrorist Next Door Book Review, The Terrorist Next Door, Book Review, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

This new novel by Siegel is action packed from beginning to end. A "terrorist" is striking fear in the heart of Chicago by placing bombs in cars and then detonating them with cell phones.

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Spending Billions on B-61 Nuclear Bomb Upgrades Doesn't Make Sense

Mia Steinle | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics
Read More: B-61, Department of Defense, Project on Government Oversight, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Bombs, Politics News
Mia Steinle

The B-61 refurbishment could end up being a colossal waste of money, and it shouldn't fall squarely on the shoulders of U.S. taxpayers.

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Nearly 50 Bombs Found In Car During Routine Traffic Stop

Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.23.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Sonoma County, Sebastopol, 49 Explosive Devices in Car, Bombs, Bombs Found in Car, Nearly 50 Explosives, Tamblyn Borton, Robert Vasseur, Homemake Explosives, San Francisco News

There's a pretty standard list of illegal things most police officers expect to find in someone's car when making a routine traffic stop--open contain...

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Bomb Explodes Outside Indian Court

AP | MUNEEZA NAQVI | Posted 11.06.2011 | World
Read More: Terror Attack, India, Terrorism, Bombs, New Delhi-India, New Delhi, Mumbai Attacks, New Delhi Bombing, Mumbai, Indian Mujahedeen, Video, World News

NEW DELHI — A briefcase bomb tore through a crowd of people waiting to enter a New Delhi courthouse, killing 11 people and wounding scores more ...

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Libyan Rebels Battle for Brega

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2011 | World
Read More: Sirte, Loyalists, Al Jazeera, Brega, Income, Nato, Siege, Benghazi, Supply, Attrition, Ajdabiya, Resupply, Stalemate, Money, Qaddafi, Bombs, War, Rebels, Tanks, Frontline, Airstrikes, Misrata, Army, Ras Lanuf, Chris Weigant, Ragtag, Oil, Libya, Air Support, Gadhafi, Tripoli, Ghaddafi, World News
Chris Weigant

Whoever controls Brega will control the oil the town can ship out, which would be a huge source of income for the rebels. In the end, this war may wind up being one of attrition.

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UK Spies Replace Terrorists' Online Bomb Instructions With Cupcake Recipe

AP | By PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Britain Spy Agency, Terrorists, Bombs, Islamic Extremists, Inspire Magazine, Al Qaeda, Gchq, Anwar Al Awlaki, Cupcakes, Cybercrime, Cupcake Recipes, Hacking, Cupcake Bomb Hack, Home News

LONDON -- Britain's spy agencies have a new message for terrorists: make cupcakes, not war. Intelligence agents managed to hack into the extremist ...

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Why America Slept

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.29.2011 | Impact
Read More: Empire, Apocalypse, Save the World, Natural Disasters, Entertainment, Bombs, Militarism, Media, Stream of Conscious, Existential, Culture, Mass Extinctions, Privatizing, Consumerism, Tsunami, Reverend Billy Talen, Humanism, Suburbia, Revolution, Climate Change, White Privilege, Gadget, Ecological Disaster, Technology, Epitaph, Disaster Capitalism, American Dream, Impact News
Reverend Billy

America was sleeping deeply, in a dream whose creators were hiding inside skyscrapers with smoked glass.

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Courthouse Guards Miss Mock Bombs

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: X-Ray Machines, Doj, Usprotect Corp, Courthouse Security, US Marshals, Bombs, Terrorism, Fake Bombs, Home News

A $370 million program run by the U.S. Marshals Service to protect federal courthouses failed to detect mock explosive devices sent to several offices...

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Baghdad Blasts Kill Scores, Over 200 Hundred Wounded

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Baghdad Bombing, Iraq Bombs, Iraq Terrorists, Iraq, War in Iraq, Bombs, Terrorism, World News

BAGHDAD — Rapid-fire bombings and mortar strikes killed 76 people and wounded more than 200 across Baghdad's myriad neighborhoods Tuesday, demon...

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Rats & Land Mines: Colombia Teaches Rodents To Sniff Out Explosives

The Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: South America, Columbia Army, Columbia Farc, Mine Field, Bombs, Columbia, Exterminators, Pests, Rats, Farc, Land Mines, Animals, Service Animals, Land Mine Removal, Rodents, Green News

Early next year, anti-narcotics police will begin deploying squads of rats to sniff out land mines in remote areas of Colombia where leftist rebels an...

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Misunderstanding Terrorism, Misrepresenting Islam

Louis Klarevas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Islam, Homegrown Terrorists, Ieds, Bombs, Terrorism, Sami Samir Hassoun, Chicago, Muslims, Fbi, Politics News
Louis Klarevas

This weekend, the FBI arrested a man for planting what he thought was an improvised explosive device outside Wrigley Field in Chicago. Sami Samir Hass...

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The F Word: Time to Declare Global War on Flooding

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Robert Naiman, Floods, Gwynne Dyer, F Word, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Flood, Bombs, War, Katrina, Flooding, Grit Tv, Drones, Climate Change, The F Word, Laura Flanders, Grittv, Climate Bill, Global Warming, Senate, Politics News
Laura Flanders

The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster o...

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Power Plant Attacked In Russia, 2 Killed

AP | SERGEI VENYAVSKY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Killing, Russia, Baksanskaya Power Station, Caucasus, World News, Hyrdoelectric Dam, Bombs, Terrorism, Russia Terrorism, Terrorist Attacks, World News

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Two carloads of assailants attacked a hydroelectric station in southern Russia early Wednesday, killing two workers and ...

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Bombing on the Analysis of the Times Square Bomb Plot

Louis Klarevas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Improvised Explosive Device, Counterterrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Terrorism, Bombs, Homeland Security, Times Square Bomb, Nidal Malik Hasan, Najibullah Zazi, Ieds, Richard Reid, Faisal Shahzad, New York City, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Louis Klarevas

The failure of Shahzad's plot serves as a reminder that the capabilities available to terrorists seeking to harm us are drastically limited. This lesson seems to have been lost on the plethora of terrorism "experts" that took to the airwaves this week.

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Australian House Booby-Trapped With 50 Fake Bombs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: False Alarm, Bomb Squad, New South Wales, Australia, Australia Booby Trap, Fake Bomb, Sydney, Australia Bomb, Bombs, World News

SYDNEY — A Sydney bomb squad evacuated neighbors and sent in robots to clear dozens of suspected explosives strewn about the house of a man who ...

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Pune Bakery Blast Kills 8 In India

AP | ASHOK SHARMA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: India, Pune India Bomb, Bombs, Pune Bakery, Pune Bakery Blast, Pune Baker Bomb, Pune, Pune India, World News

NEW DELHI — A bomb detonated in a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India killing nine people and wounding 57, officials said Su...

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15-Year-Old Accused Of Planning Columbine-Style School Massacre

AP | Posted 06.08.2012 | New York
Read More: Columbine, Monroe New York, Teenager, Gasoline, Crime, 15 Year Old, Bullying, Bombs, Monroe-Woodbury High School, Propane, New York News

MONROE, N.Y. -- A 15-year-old boy accused of stockpiling gasoline, propane and a machete for a planned school attack on the anniversary of the Columbi...

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Najibullah Zazi: Terror Suspect Was 'The Donut Guy'

nytimes.com | MICHAEL WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: NYC Terror Probe, Hydrogen Peroxide Bombs, Queens, Terror Probe, Terrorism, Bombs, 9/11, Najibullah Zazi, New York News, September 11th, New York, Denver, New York News

For years, he was a fixture in Lower Manhattan, as regular as the sunrise. Every morning, Najibullah Zazi would be there on Stone Street with his past...

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Terror Attack Was Planned For 9/11

AP | IVAN MORENO and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: NYC Terror Probe, Hydrogen Peroxide Bombs, Queens, Terror Probe, Bombs, 9/11, Najibullah Zazi, Terrorism, September 11th, New York, Denver, New York News

DENVER — An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off a...

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Bombs will kill women in Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Women, Humanitarian, Afghan Women’'s Mission, Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, Rethink Afghanistan, Bombs, Rawa, Women's Rights, Brave New Foundation, Brave New Films, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

Self immolation is a method of suicide by lighting oneself on fire and has reached epidemic levels amongst women in Afghanistan.

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Possible ETA Bomb Factory, Hundreds Of Kilos Of Explosives Found In France

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: France, Eta Bombs, Basque Eta, Explosives, France Eta, Bombs, Basque, Eta, Europe, Basque Separatists, Grenoble, World News

French police have found hundreds of kilos of bomb-making ingredients in a garage in the south-eastern city of Grenoble, officials say....

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Obama's Inauguration and the Israel-American Paradox

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bill Clinton, Suicide Bombers, Jerusalem, Bombs, Terrorism, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Obama, President Obama Inauguration, America, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Foreign Affairs, Obama Administration, Obama George Mitchell, Obama Foreign Policy, Gaza, Obama Israel, George MItchell, Middle East, George Mitchell Israel, Northern Ireland Peace Process, 100 Days, Foreign Policy, Obama Middle East, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

It doesn't make a difference if the U.S. president is "good for Israel". What would be "good for Israel," would be an entirely new government in Israel.

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In the Shadow of Airstrikes in Jerusalem

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Gaza, Bombs, Terrorism, Gaza Rockets, Sderot, Israel, Hamas, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Ilana Teitelbaum, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

With the coming war and intifada on my mind, I realize that thousands of rockets have been fired into Israel in recent years, yet because we in Jerusalem don't get hit by them, it has always seemed removed.

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Baghdad Blasts Kill At Least 18, Wound 53

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Gordon Brown, Bombs, War Wire, Baghdad, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, World News

BAGHDAD, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Twin bomb blasts killed 18 people and wounded 53 in central Baghdad on Wednesday as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ma...

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