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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Four days after a car bomb attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad killed at least six people, Pakistani authorities said Friday that they had foiled a new onslaught when police intercepted three vehicles laden with a ton of explosives and arrested three alleged suicide bombers.The arrests came during a security alert Thursday following the attack Monday when a car bomb d

But I’ve literally just spent the last 20 minutes on Amazon.com and BN.com looking for the flap copy (if you are talking hardcover). This could also be the back cover copy for a trade pb but sometimes publishers decide to use that space ...

This is a simple thing you can do to save yourself a lot of trouble (and I mean a lot of trouble) and some money. Line the floor of your oven with aluminum foil. The foil will catch all of the apple pie, casserole, and especially pizza drippings, therefore eliminating the need for [...]

This is a simple thing you can do to save yourself a lot of trouble (and I mean a lot of trouble) and some money. Line the floor of your oven with aluminum foil. The foil will catch all of the apple pie, casserole, and especially pizza drippings, therefore eliminating the need for [...]

RUSSIA’S secret service foiled an assassination attempt on President Vladimir Putin in Red Square on March 2, the day of the presidential election, the Tvoi Den daily reported yesterday. The newspaper did not cite any sources, but gave a detailed account about the arrest of a Tajik national with a sniper rifle in a raid on a rented apartment near Red Square just hours before Mr Putin was due to

Remember the old cartoon with Dudley Do-Right the Canadian mountie? He was forever ruining Dastardly Dirks's plots and DD would always say, "Curses! Foiled again!" Well, today's Works for Me tip has to do with common old everyday foil - one of my favorite things. Here's a helpful little list with some of my favorite uses (besides covering tonight's casserole):1. Shine your chrome ~ For sparkling chrome on your appliances, strollers, golf club shafts, and older car bumpers, crumple up a handful of aluminum foil with the shiny side out and apply some elbow grease. If you rub real hard, the foil will even remove rust spots. 2.Keep a paintbrush wet ~ Going to continue painting tomorrow morning? Don't bother to clean the brush -- just squeeze out the excess paint and wrap the brush tightly in a

Now what would those on the left be saying if ANY of these plots had actually been carried out, including the huge plot to blow up several airliners over the Atlantic? Police have foiled 15 terror plots in Britain since the 7/7 London bombings, Ian Blair reveals Fifteen planned terrorist attacks in Britain have been foiled since [...]

Al-Arabiya - Egyptian police clashed with protesters in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla on Sunday, firing tear gas and arresting at least 150 after plans for a strike at the city's textile factory were scrapped under pressure from security forces. Angry residents demanding an end to price hikes and soaring inflation set two schools ablaze and burnt tires along the city's railway.

From Timesonline: “Mark Boyle was a man with a dream. He was so convinced that a world without the evils of money is possible that he set out to walk from Britain to India without spending a penny in order to prove it. But Mr Boyle, who hoped to reach Gandhi’s birthplace within two-and-a-half years, had reckoned [...]

The Princess Royal confronted an armed man trying to kidnap her in 1974, saying his plot was not “bloody likely” to work, declassified papers have said. Ian Ball, a 26-year-old burglar with mental health problems, ambushed Princess Anne’s car in the Mall, London, one night in March 1974. He had asked her to “come with me [...]

Here are four uses for aluminium foil when camping:Clean food stuck on your grill by laying a piece of foil over the grill while it's still hot. Leave it there until your next barbecue, then crumple foil and scrub remnants off before you start up the grill.Soggy ground? Placing a few sheets under your sleeping bag helps keep moisture from seeping in.Wrap your matches in foil to guard against wetness.Fashion foil into a mini frying pang for light cooking by attaching it to a forked stick and moulding it to create a frame and base.

Apparently, the richest man in Asia is named Li Ka-shing... He's worth $18.8 billion, according to Forbes (making him number 10 in the world on the Scrooge McDuck list), and he once reputedly paid a ransom of HK$1 billion for his kidnapped son, Victor Li. Maybe that was the thing that inspired these two blockheads to try robbing the grave of his dead wife (but at least they weren't as dumb as these guys): Two mainland Chinese brothers told a Hong Kong court they tried to plunder the grave of the late wife of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, in a failed bid to blackmail him for her bones, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The brothers, surnamed Lau, told Hong Kong's High Court that they had hatched the plan with six others, the Ming Pao newspaper reported. A spokesperson for the judiciary said the two mainlanders faced several charges, including blackmail and criminal damage to a tomb. The attempted grave robbery took place around midnight on January 29 last year at a Buddhist cem

Thanks to alert people and a alert cop, a disaster was avoided.Hero Cop May Have Saved Scores Of Lives Updated: 17:57, Friday June 29, 2007 Sky News sources say one of the first police officers on the scene of the...

If anyone still doesn’t think were not engaged with a serious terrorist enemy they are just not paying attention. Of course there will always be some moonbats that say the plots are all being planned by the eeeeeeevul Bushco Crime Family ®. Yes that is a common conspiracy theory. If you go to any liberal forum you will see the terms LIHOP & MIHOP which stand for “lit it happen on purpose” and “made it happen on purpose” meaning they either knew or carried out 9/11. Yes I am serious, many Democrats do believe that. It’s a fact that most of the time we never do hear of the plots foiled by the FBI, Secret Service or CIA as it might reveal methods used. But sometimes we do hear about them as in this case. Lets congratulate the agency responsible and send a hearty THANK YOU their way.I have to wonder though if any of the wannabe terrorists are 80 year old grannies or the 6 year old girls we are frisking and strip searching at airports instead if 18-40 year old men of mideastern d

The Smoking Gun story link Fort Dix Terror Plot FoiledFBI: New Jersey jihadists targeted servicemen at Army baseMAY 8--A group of Islamic radicals conspired to kill U.S. servicemen at New Jersey's Fort Dix Army base, but the plot was disrupted when the FBI infiltrated the cell with two paid informants. The terror plan is detailed in the below FBI affidavit, which was filed today in U.S. District Court in Camden, where the six plotters have been charged with planning to kill military members. According to the affidavit, investigators began probing the cell last January, when a video store worker contacted them after a customer brought a DVD to be duplicated. The DVD showed 10 young men "Shooting assault weapons at a firing range in a militia-like style while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic 'Allah Akbar' ('God is Great')." Within six months, the FBI had placed two cooperating witnesses within the terror cell, and both recorded meetings and phone conversations with

A truck laden with nitric acid and explosives overturned before the driver could attack a joint security station operated by U.S. and Iraqi troops north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. The use of nitric acid in bomb attacks could mark another shift in tactics by insurgents, who in recent months have rigged nearly a dozen truck bombs with chlorine gas, mainly in western Anbar province. In a statement, the U.S. military said a security patrol went to assist the driver of the truck after it overturned and found it loaded with eight containers of nitric acid and explosives. It said the driver confessed he had been paid to attack the joint security station in Mushada, which also houses the town's police station, north of Baghdad.

ACID-LADEN TRUCK BOMBING FOILED NORTH OF BAGHDAD Release Date: 4/17/2007 Release Number: 07-01-03P Description: BAGHDAD - A dump truck overturned attempting to deliver its payload of explosives and nitric acid during a foiled attack in Mushada, Iraq April 16. A coalition patrol approached to assist the driver of an overturned dump truck and found the vehicle loaded with nitric acid containers and explosives. The driver was taken into custody and confessed that he was paid to attack the Joint Security Station in Mushada, which also houses the town's Iraqi police station. An explosive ordnance team was called in to assess the contents of the truck and dispose of the material. The team discovered eight containers of nitric acid, eight directional fragmentation explosives devices, and two large rounds of ordnance. The explosives and munitions discovered will be disposed of by EOD once they are carefully removed from the site. The driver is being held for further questio

Encryption alone is no panacea for threats to consumer data, according to specialists who say the technology’s limit can be seen in the problems reported by TJX Cos. of Framingham. The notion of using complex math formulas to scramble electronic information is gaining steam as a way to protect individuals’ privacy, an area [...]

A Russian scientists was arrested trying to sell weapons grade uraium in Georgia (country). Khintsagov was caught trying to sell 100 grams of enriched weapons grade uranium for $1 million. Georgia says it foiled uranium sale By Margarita Antidze TBILISI...

In the first news report, from The Courier-Mail of Queensland, Australia (via IRIS Blog and Dhimmi Watch), we have a report of a Muslim girl who wanted to convert to Christianity who survived her father's attempt to murder her, but whose mother was murdered instead:A RELIGIOUS feud between a Muslim father and his teenage daughter may have sparked a bloody domestic dispute on the Gold Coast which left the man's wife dead and him fighting for life in hospital.Police are investigating suggestions the violence erupted after the 17-year-old girl told her father she wanted to opt out of the Islamic faith and convert to Christianity. The girl's mother is believed to have stepped in to protect her daughter, only to be fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife.Neighbours reported hearing "blood-curdling" screams before the hysterical girl ran half-naked from their Southport home unit covered in scratches.Police later found the body of the girl's mother, 41, inside the blood-smeared unit. Her hus

So, I was going to post a scathing indictment of "reality T.V." and how gullible most of the viewing public is, but then this mystery blogger who calls himself Kanrei beat me to the punch. Check him out, he's an excellent writer, and his blog is a by turns sobering and uproariously funny. He focuses on politics quite a lot, but he's a firm beliver in the "spoonful of humor helps the politics go down" theorem, so give him a read. Just to make it easier on you clicky impaired he'll be taking up residence as a fellow hooligan from now on, so you don't even have to google him. (Geez I just love using google as a verb. I can't wait 'till Websters catches up with that one.)Anyways, the site is called The Kanrei Home for Wayward Lemmings and it's one of the good ones.

Thanks to all those who tried to send me money yesterday but once again I have been prevented from receiving money electronically. Because Steve and I signed up from the same IP and used the same address IKobo suspended our accounts until we could fax ID to them. Since Steve will be moving shortly he declined. His ID wouldn't have proved he lived here anyway. And of course most of you know my

So, the world, mostly in the UK and US was turned upside down once again by a 'Foiled Terrorist Plot". Yesterday's news in the UK caused a lot more panic and disruption than any other recently, which begs a lot of people to question what's actually in the works behind the scenes.The important section of this post comes at the end (Re: Alex Jone's Prediction) but, to help put this into another perspective, I'd like to share some articles of interest. First up is this article by JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL of Time Magazine, which was published on July 7th.http://www.time.com/time/nation/...htmlA snippit:In these perilous days, we must be ready to think the unthinkable. No, I don't mean the possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack. After 9/11, that's all too easy to imagine. No, I'm talking about a thought that even now seldom forces its way into respectable conversation: the quite reasonable suspicion that the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to g

Change in strategy.Nine arrested over alleged kidnap and beheading plotA ninth person has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a member of the public live on the internet, West Midlands Police said this afternoon.The arrest, on a motorway in the Birmingham areas, follows the arrests of eight men this morning. Police suspect the alleged plot would have involved a victim being identified and, in a chilling echo of the British engineer Ken Bigley, forced to plead for his life before being beheaded. The kidnapping could have resembled operations carried out by insurgents in Iraq, according to the sources, who allege that a young soldier with experience serving in Afghanistan had been identified as the target.If the reports are true, this would be a major departure from previous Islamist attacks in the West, which have been characterised by co-ordinated explosions aimed at causing high numbers of casualties.Members of the West Midlands Counter Terrorist Uni

You might think they are angry with the failed terrorists. Not so: the "community" is angry because the arrests have taken place.BBC: Terror arrests anger communityOne day after the nine terror arrests in the Birmingham area, the local communities have been assessing the impact of the police operation.Some claim the arrests and the vast amount of media coverage are likely to cause lasting damage to community relations.Along the same lines, a Muslim leader claims the recent arrests highlight that Britain is a police state in the making.AFP: Muslim chief slams 'police state' Britain, like Nazi GermanyA Muslim leader has warned that Britain is moving towards a "police state," comparing the situation to Nazi Germany after the anti-terror raids in the city of Birmingham this week. But Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque, urged Muslims to show restraint following the raids, in which nine suspects were arrested over allegations of plotting an "Iraq-style" kid