Attorney: Oklahoma City bomb tapes appear edited

Sep 28, 2009 - OKLAHOMA CITY – Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. "The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press. - 2 Comments

11 dead in truck bomb called REVENGE

Jun 09, 2009 - 11 dead in truck bomb blast at Pearl Continental hotel, Peshawar From correspondents in Peshawar Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2009 08:26am -11 dead, 46 hurt in truck bomb blast -Target was five-star hotel used by foreigners -Taliban may have acted out of "revenge" TWO foreigners were among 11 people killed overnight when a suicide truck bomb hit a luxury hotel in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. "There are two foreigners among the dead," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said, but he would not reveal the nationalities. At least another 46 people were wounded. - 14 Comments

Fatal Jakarta Bombing

Jul 17, 2009 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8155084.stm At least nine people have been killed, including two suspected suicide bombers, in two blasts at luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. One explosion hit the Ritz-Carlton, ripping off its facade, and the other the JW Marriott. As many as 50 people were hurt, including many foreigners. - 0 Comments

Bomb Blast at Mosque Kills 40 in Pakistan

Jun 05, 2009 - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed around 40 worshippers attending Friday prayers at a mosque in a restive area of northwest Pakistan, a senior official in the area told Reuters. "The death toll is 40. We have no idea as yet how many have been wounded," said Atif-ur-Rehman, the senior-most government administrator in the Upper Dir district, close to Swat Valley, where the army has been conducting a major offensive against the Taliban. - 5 Comments

A little insight into terrorist bomb plots

Feb 25, 2009 - Public Post * I never seem to see these stories in the US...perhaps the government is just very good at keeping them quiet so that we don't all panic. At any rate, I think we all need to keep in mind how creative these crazies can be, and to what lengths they will go. Excerpts of stories from Metro.co.uk. - 0 Comments

U.S. Fears Iraq Won't Keep Up Rebuilt Projects

Nov 21, 2009 - BAGHDAD — In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges. But there are growing concerns among American officials that Iraq will not be able to adequately maintain the facilities once the Americans have left, potentially wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and jeopardizing Iraq’s ability to provide basic services to its people. The projects run the gamut — from a cutting-edge, $270 million water treatment plant in Nasiriya that works at a fraction of its intended capacity because it is too sophisticated for Iraqi workers to operate, to a farmers’ market that farmers cannot decide how to share, to a large American hospital closed immediately after it was handed over to Iraq because the government was unable to supply it with equipment, a medical staff or electricity. - 11 Comments

Holder's Decision "Reasonable"

Nov 20, 2009 - Jim Comey, a deputy attorney general and U.S. attorney in Manhattan during the Bush administration, is general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corp. Jack Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general during the Bush administration, teaches at Harvard Law School and is on the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law. - 1 Comment