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Green Grapes And Red Underwear: A Spanish New Year’s Eve

December 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment

As a clock tower rings out 12 chimes, people all over the country will scoff a dozen grapes, hoping for good luck. With several seeds per grape and only a couple of seconds to swallow each one, the task is harder than it sounds. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us News

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Agent, Double Agent Or Mole? Which Was The Underwear Bomb Character?

May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Many stories have called him a double agent. That’s doesn’t seem to be correct. He was, at least, an agent. But mole might be the best word for what he was. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us News

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Form-fitting underwear bomb built to foil security

May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida designed a bomb to slip inside form-fitting, brief-style underwear in hopes it would go undetected even if the bomber received an airport pat-down, officials said Wednesday, describing a plot they said was directly overseen by a high-level al-Qaida leader in Yemen. Top Headlines

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CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb

May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane. Top Headlines

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CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb

May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the FBI’s explosives lab in Virginia, experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane, U.S. officials said. Top Headlines

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US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot

May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned. Top Headlines

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Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

DETROIT (AP) — Defiantly declaring “a day of victory,” a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for more than two years. Top [...]

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