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Bombs rock Kaduna

The second vehicle, which did not explode was loaded with 10 numbers of 20 litre of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), 4 numbers of 30 litres loaded with IEDs, and 2 numbers of large peak milk containers also loaded with IEDs.

08/02/2012 02:31:56 via Vanguard

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JCJC student arrested after alleged bomb threat - WDAM-TV

WDAM-(AP) - A 19-year-old Jones County Junior College student has been arrested for allegedly writing a note claiming there was a bomb on campus. Harold Wayne Hadley Jr. was arrested Tuesday at his home in Seminary after a note was found in a bathroom of ...

08/02/2012 02:21:09 via TV

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Iran's Bomb: Haven't We Been Here Before?

But I have a growing sense that the increasingly ominous reports about Iran's A-bomb aspirations mimic a story I've heard before. It was in 2002 and 2003, when the drumbeats of impending war were being pounded by our political leaders and dutifully ...

08/02/2012 01:54:00 via The Public Record (blog)

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Lockheed Martin Awarded JIEDDO OPS Services Contract

JIEDDO was established as a Deputy Secretary of Defense directed initiative with the mission to rapidly provide solutions to defeat the enemy's IED campaign, thus saving lives of service members fighting against insurgent networks that employ IEDs as a ...

08/02/2012 01:53:13 via Sacramento Bee

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Bomb rocks army barracks in Nigeria's Kaduna

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber disguised in military uniform was killed on Tuesday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a military base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, the army said.

08/02/2012 01:51:52 via Chicago Tribune

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Times Square vendor who thwarted car bomb runs for Congress

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A street vendor who helped thwart a bombing attack in Times Square in May 2010 has announced he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson, a disabled Vietnam veteran, called himself "a real outsider" in a campaign that, if he won, ...

08/02/2012 01:46:12 via Chicago Tribune

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Mohamed Mohamud terrorism trial rescheduled for this fall

US District Judge Garr M. King approved a series of changes to the trial schedule late last week, giving lawyers about five more months to try the case of the accused terrorist. Lawyers have sparred for months in court papers over evidence that the ...

08/02/2012 01:04:26 via OregonLive.com

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Bomb squad investigating box of alleged grenades - 7Online WSVN-TV

7Online WSVN-MIAMI (WSVN) -- The bomb squad is investigating the discovery of a box of alleged grenades near the City of Coral Gables. It remains unknown if these objects are in fact live explosives, but the City of Miami's bomb squad unit is not taking any chances ...

08/02/2012 00:07:09 via TV

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No Bomb Found After Vo-Tech Evacuated

The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School was searched Tuesday morning after it received a bomb threat. No bomb was found. By John Saccenti Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School on Rues Lane was evacuated at just before 10 am ...

07/02/2012 22:44:16 via Patch.com

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Review: Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals

Unlike those who take what terrorists claim at face value and then draw the wrong conclusions, he recognizes that individuals who are willing to slaughter unarmed men, women, and children won't hesitate to lie. And yet, that doesn't reduce the value of ...

07/02/2012 22:23:40 via Huffington Post

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Man arrested after bomb squad called for suspicious briefcase

The bomb squad moved in and determined the briefcase was empty. Police arrested a Marion man after a suspicious package was left in front of the Williamson County Jail and Sheriff's Office Tuesday morning. Joseph S. Thomas, 44, of Marion is charged ...

07/02/2012 21:57:03 via KFVS

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DOD to craft new terrorist-hunting strategy for Afghanistan

By Staff The US military will revisit its terrorist-hunting strategy and make key adjustments to the way it employs Special Operations forces in Afghanistan in the advent of their taking on a larger role as a result of a planned ...

07/02/2012 21:51:27 via Defense Systems

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Bomb squad called as precaution after car smashes into front of downtown ...

AP PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh police bomb squad has closed nearby streets and is checking out a car that smashed into the front of a bank downtown, though a police spokeswoman says there's no indication the incident is terror-related.

07/02/2012 21:10:32 via The Republic

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Bomb threat forced evacuation of Redding Walmart Monday night - Record-Searchlight

Record-By Record staff The Walmart Superstore off Dana Drive in Redding was evacuated for about an hour Monday night after an employee found a note in a women's restroom saying a bomb had been planted somewhere in the store.

07/02/2012 21:09:50 via Searchlight

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Student loans the 'next debt bomb' for US, attorneys warn

“This could very well be the next debt bomb for the US economy,” said William Brewer, president of the association. “Students and workers seeking retraining are borrowing extraordinary amounts of money through federal and private loan programs to help ...

07/02/2012 20:59:17 via InvestmentNews

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MPs attack May over suspected terrorist

By Helen Warrell Theresa May faced relentless questioning from MPs across the political spectrum on Tuesday, as adversaries on both sides of the Commons demanded to know what action she was taking to speed the deportation of a suspected terrorist due ...

07/02/2012 20:45:50 via Financial Times

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Terrorist Thwarter Runs for Congress

The man who alerted police of a smoking vehicle in Times Square and ended up thwarting a potential terrorist attack announced Tuesday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson was selling knockoff handbags in Times Square on May 1, 2010, ...

07/02/2012 20:42:15 via Daily Beast

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The Cable: Former US base opened to Iranian terrorist group

Camp Liberty, which housed US troops in Iraq up until a few months ago, is now open to house members of the State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK). But MEK leaders haven't decided they're ready ...

07/02/2012 20:39:55 via Foreign Policy (blog)

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Debbie Stabenow Launches Money Bomb Off Pete Hoekstra's China Ad

is turning the tables on one of her would-be challengers, launching a money-bomb fundraising pitch in response to an ad that featured negative stereotypes of the Chinese. The ad from former Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra, which ran in Michigan during ...

07/02/2012 20:37:59 via Huffington Post

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Times Square vendor who thwarted car bomb runs for Congress

By Jonathan Allen | NEW YORK () - A street vendor who helped thwart a bombing attack in Times Square in May 2010 has announced he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson, a disabled Vietnam veteran, was working at his handbag stall on May 1, ...

07/02/2012 20:15:39 via Reuters

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Bomb scare causes evacuation at East Brunswick vocational school - The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger - By Tom Haydon/The Star-Ledger Google Maps Students at a vocational and technical high school in East Brunswick, shown here, were out of school for much of today after a bomb scare forced officials and police to evacuate the building.

07/02/2012 19:41:25 via NJ.com

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Russia claims Assad promised 'cessation' of violence in Syria

By Roland Oliphant, Moscow and David Blair But Sergei Lavrov's words were immediately undermined by the Syrian interior ministry, which pledged to press on with the offensive against "armed terrorist gangs" in the city of Homs. "Operations to hunt down ...

07/02/2012 19:41:05 via Telegraph.co.uk

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Bomb attacks strike military bases in Nigeria

Click here Bomb attacks strike military bases in Nigeria Originally published: February 7, 2012 7:59 AM Updated: February 7, 2012 2:10 PM By The Associated Press JON GAMBRELL (Associated Press) (AP) -- Bombs exploded Tuesday at two major military bases ...

07/02/2012 19:27:08 via Newsday

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Lockheed Martin Gets JIEDDO OPS Services Contract - Quick Facts

... one of five Operations Support Services IDIQ contracts from the US General Services Administration Federal Systems Integration and Management Center in support of the Department of Defense'sJoint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

07/02/2012 19:26:46 via NASDAQ

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Ron Paul Glitter Bombed (VIDEO)

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is the latest politician to fall victim to the glitter bomb. Paul was showered with sparkles as he left the stage following a rally at the Minneapolis convention center, according to a press release sent to ...

07/02/2012 19:22:25 via Huffington Post

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Colorado Cities Make Terrorism 'Hot Spot' List

DENVER -- Denver and Boulder counties and Littleton are included in a list of historic terrorism "hot spots" in the United States. Yet, because the study doesn't include foiled terrorism plots, it doesn't list highly publicized arrests of individuals, ...

07/02/2012 19:08:41 via KMGH Denver

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Student Debt Could Be Next 'Bomb,' U.S. Bankruptcy Lawyers Say

Enlarge image Student Debt Could Be Next 'Bomb,' US Bankruptcy Lawyers Student Debt Could Be Next 'Bomb,' US Bankruptcy Lawyers Michael Okoniewski/ Students at a commencement ceremony in New York. Almost half of US bankruptcy attorneys ...

07/02/2012 18:46:24 via Bloomberg

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Wanted: Better crash test dummy for IED blasts

But they aren't much good for analyzing the high-velocity blasts caused by improvised explosive devices under vehicles. The Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command has launched a program called the Warrior Injury Assessment Manakin, or WIAMan, ...

07/02/2012 18:40:10 via NavyTimes.com

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Army confirms suicide attack on barrack

A statement by the Assistant Director of Army Public Relations in the division, Lt. Col Abubakar Edun said that the suicide bombers came to the army complex in two vehicles loaded with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS). The statement entitled “Failed ...

07/02/2012 18:14:21 via The Nation Newspaper

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NBC Can Exhale: Smash Didn't Bomb

By Josef Adalian It's (finally) a good day at NBC: The network's three-month effort to relaunch The Voice and get folks to watch Smash paid off with strong Nielsen returns. The headline on Smash is that it did ... pretty well! Per Nielsen, 11.5 million ...

07/02/2012 18:05:04 via New York Magazine (blog)

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Bomb attacks strike military bases in Nigeria

By JON GAMBRELL AP LAGOS, Nigeria — Bombs exploded Tuesday at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of people.

07/02/2012 17:42:42 via Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Bomb rocks army barracks in Nigeria's Kaduna

By Garba Mohammed | KADUNA, Nigeria () - A suspected suicide bomber disguised in military uniform was killed on Tuesday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a military base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, ...

07/02/2012 17:07:09 via Reuters

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Abu Qatada release: Theresa May in blast at decision to bail terrorist

By Rob Cooper Theresa May today blasted a judge's decision to free Osama Bin Laden's 'ambassador in Europe' and said 'the right place for the foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell'. Notorious hate preacher Abu Qatada will be free to walk the ...

07/02/2012 16:50:59 via Daily Mail

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Four dead in bomb blast at military formations in Kaduna

Kaduna ( Newsonline)-- Four people including a suicide bomber were believed to have died in a multiple bomb blasts that simultaneously rocked military formations in Kaduna on Tuesday. Areas bombed included the One Mechanized Division of the ...

07/02/2012 16:47:40 via WorldStage

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Critical injury possible result of bomb making

Bomb technicians discovered, through a search warrant, several items inside the home that are commonly used in the manufacture of bombs or explosive devices. This incident remains under investigation with the City of Fort Wayne Police Department, ...

07/02/2012 16:46:44 via Frost Illustrated

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Somalia is training ground for British would-be terrorists, report warns

Fifty Britons in Somalia are among an increasing number of overseas fighters who could herald a new wave of international terrorism, a leading British security thinktank has warned. They reflect the growing appeal to potential jihadists of ungoverned ...

07/02/2012 16:40:13 via The Guardian

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Abu Qatada ruling 'not the end of the road' says Downing St

"The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain," Mrs May said. The radical Islamic preacher will be back on the streets within days after he was granted bail, ...

07/02/2012 16:38:40 via Telegraph.co.uk

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Times Square vendor whose suspicions alerted police to bomb-laden SUV is ...

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson said his brush with terrorism and celebrity taught him that it made sense to get ...

07/02/2012 16:09:14 via Washington Post

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Vendor who stopped NYC bombing seeks office

WHITE PLAINS, NY (AP) – A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress. By Seth Wenig, AP Duane Jackson sets up his sales stand while talking to reporters in Times Square ...

07/02/2012 15:45:27 via USA TODAY

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The Morning Leverage: Legislative 'Time Bomb' Ticking Away In Europe

Our Private Equity News colleague Kiel Porter takes a look at the challenges PE firms face as new and revised legislation in Europe and the US comes under consideration, including one piece of regulation some experts are calling “a time bomb.

07/02/2012 15:24:35 via Wall Street Journal (blog)

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Somali-American admits aiding Al Qaeda terrorists

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 27, of Westerville, Ohio, pleaded guilty Monday in US District Court in Minneapolis to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Mahamud, who lived in Eden Prairie before moving to ...

07/02/2012 14:57:50 via Fox News

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Duane Jackson, Vendor Who Alerted Police To Times Square Bomb, Is Running For ...

JIM FITZGERALD 02/ 7/12 09:29 AM ET AP WHITE PLAINS, NY — A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson said his brush with terrorism and celebrity ...

07/02/2012 14:35:26 via Huffington Post

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NYC vendor who alerted police to bomb seeks office

WHITE PLAINS, NY (AP) — A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson said his brush with terrorism and celebrity taught him that it made sense to get ...

07/02/2012 14:30:00 via The Associated Press

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NYC vendor who alerted police to bomb seeks office

AP WHITE PLAINS, NY — A New York City vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in Times Square is running for Congress. Duane Jackson said Tuesday that his brush with terrorism in 2010 taught him that it made sense to get involved.

07/02/2012 14:18:38 via Wall Street Journal

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What happens when troops - and money - leave Afghanistan?

By Tom A. Peter, Correspondent / February 7, 2012 A US soldier keeps watch near the site of a car bomb blast that killed at least seven people on Sunday in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan. After three decades of conflict, Afghanistan has a ...

07/02/2012 14:09:55 via Christian Science Monitor

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Army Barracks Bombed In Kaduna

Bomb explosions rocked the 1st Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria at about 11.15 am today. The bombs were suspected to have been planted by members of Boko Haram sect. Residents of the Kaduna – Zaria road close to the ...

07/02/2012 13:42:08 via P.M. News

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Patek spent weeks preparing Bali bombs

UMAR Patek, the last major terrorist figure to be tried over the 2002 Bali bombings, spent three weeks preparing the explosives and making the bombs that destroyed 202 lives, Indonesian prosecutors will allege this month. The 45-year-old veteran of two ...

07/02/2012 13:16:25 via The Australian

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Syria`s Interior Ministry: Terrorists escalated aggressions against Citizens

DAMASCUS- Syria`s Interior Ministry stated Monday “Armed terrorist groups in Homs have escalated their aggressions and criminal acts during the latest weeks, perpetrating heinous crimes that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, booby-trapping ...

07/02/2012 13:14:13 via Day Press News

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Syrian forces bomb city of Homs

Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad launch fresh attacks on the Syrian city of Homs. A photo taken out of context sparks lively debate on social networks. And an American professor documenting his cancer battle in online videos. By Electron Libre Syrian ...

07/02/2012 12:41:41 via FRANCE 24

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Chris Terrill Exclusive Interview

Nade e Ali is regarded as one of the most dangerous square miles in the world as the Marines face not only the Taliban but the IED's that they leave behind. I caught up with Chris to talk about Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan and the time that he ...

07/02/2012 12:33:52 via FemaleFirst.co.uk