NewsCloud.com Terrorism News http://www.newscloud.com/section/terrorism Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:00:52 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us Technologist: Sniffing Bombs With Mobiles http://www.newscloud.com/read/Technologist_Sniffing_Bombs_With_Mobiles 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 register stronger signals.) The Purdue project and others like it represent a "major shift" in combating radiation terrorism, says Rita Colwell, a former director of the National Science Foundation and now a professor at the University of Maryland.

]]> Report Says Fire, Not Explosion, Felled 7 W.T.C. http://www.newscloud.com/read/Report_Says_Fire_Not_Explosion_Felled_7_WTC 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 beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail," said Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator. "Video and photographic evidence combined with detailed computer simulations show that neither explosives nor fuel oils played a role in the collapse that brought the building down."

]]> Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com http://www.newscloud.com/read/Vital_unresolved_anthrax_questions_and_ABC_News_Glenn_Greenwald_Saloncom A critique of the role that ABC News played in convincing much of the public that Iraq was behind the 2001 anthrax mailings.

]]> Anthrax suspect Ivins commits suicide http://www.newscloud.com/read/Anthrax_suspect_Ivins_commits_suicide 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 government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland, had been told about the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions.

]]> Deadly blasts rock Istanbul http://www.newscloud.com/read/Deadly_blasts_rock_Istanbul 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.

]]> Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk http://www.newscloud.com/read/Ransom_claim_in_Ingrid_Betancourt_release_World_news_guardiancouk Ingrid Betancourt arrived in France today after being held captive for six years in the Colombian jungle, amid claims that a ransom was paid to free her.

The Colombian government said that she was freed in an audacious operation after the military tricked Farc into handing the French-Colombian politician over without a shot being fired.

]]> Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Three killed in Jerusalem bulldozer attack http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_Three_killed_in_Jerusalem_bulldozer_attack A Palestinian rammed a bulldozer into an Israeli commuter bus, cars and pedestrians on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets today, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead.

]]> U.S. to Settle Scientist’s Anthrax Lawsuit http://www.newscloud.com/read/US_to_Settle_Scientists_Anthrax_Lawsuit 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 perpetrator(s) yet either.


]]> t r u t h o u t | US General Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes http://www.newscloud.com/read/t_r_u_t_h_o_u_t_US_General_Accuses_Bush_Administration_of_War_Crimes Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (now retired) served as the deputy commanding general for support for the Third Army for ten months in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq occupation. In a statement released today, he bluntly accuses the Bush administration of war crimes and lays down a challenge for prosecution.

]]> Mr. Bush v. the Bill of Rights - Editorial - NYTimes.com http://www.newscloud.com/read/Mr_Bush_v_the_Bill_of_Rights_Editorial_NYTimescom In the waning months of his tenure, President Bush and his allies are once again trying to scare Congress into expanding the president's powers to spy on Americans without a court order.

]]> Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret http://www.newscloud.com/read/Easing_of_laws_that_led_to_detainee_abuse_hatched_in_secret WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.

]]> Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Communists http://www.newscloud.com/read/Elian_Gonzalez_Joins_Cuba_s_Communists The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.

]]> Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will (AUDIO) http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_McCain_Backer_Hagee_Said_Hitler_Was_Fulfilling_God_s_Will_AUDIO John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.

]]> Luis Posada Carriles, Terrorist Enjoys A ‘Coming-Out’ in Miami http://www.newscloud.com/read/Luis_Posada_Carriles_Terrorist_Enjoys_A_ComingOut_in_Miami the man being honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out gala was Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the United States three years ago.

]]> Man Arrested in Las Vegas Ricin Case http://www.newscloud.com/read/Man_Arrested_in_Las_Vegas_Ricin_Case 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.

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