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...network admitted to having atomic bomb construction plans in his own office. Swiss and American authorities, as well as the IAEA, have been trying to discover what other use may have been made of these bomb designs, including the alarming scenario of whether any copies were sold to terrorist groups...
September 11 will be a momentous day in Ethiopia this year. But while the rest of the world will solemnly mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in America, Ethiopians will be partying like it's 1999. That's because in Ethiopia, it really is 1999 - unlike most nations today that use the Gregorian calendar, the East African nation of more than 70 million has stuck to a Julian-inspired one. And according to that calendar, September 11 just happens to be the last day of the 20th century...
...Jewish holiday Passover, April 2, a rebel Hamas cell drove a truck loaded with 220 lbs. of explosives into the center of Tel Aviv. The bomb failed--probably because the driver lost his nerve, according to a military source--but it could have been a mega terrorist attack, killing hundreds of Israelis. Had it succeeded, the attack almost certainly would have induced a massive Israeli retaliation, perhaps triggering a third intifadeh--which Hamas hard-liners openly say is what they intend...
...second time this week, the Iraqi government has announced the death of a top terrorist - only to be greeted with skepticism. The earlier claim that tribal fighters had killed al-Qaeda's Iraq military leader, Abu Ayub al-Masri, has yet to be verified. But Thursday's announcement by Iraq's Interior Ministry of the killing of al-Qaeda's political/spiritual leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was accompanied by claims that the terrorist's body was in the government's possession. But U.S. military spokesman Maj.-Gen. William Caldwell has brushed off the claim that al-Baghdadi had been killed...
...Iraqi state TV showed images of a disfigured body in an open wooden coffin, claiming it was al-Baghdadi. But Caldwell said he was not aware that the top terrorist had been killed. "If that person even exists ... we have nobody in our possession, or know of anybody that does either, alive or dead that is going through any kind of testing or analysis at this point," Caldwell said in a press briefing in Baghdad...