This is potentially significant, due to the highly plausible double meaning of the “ceremony” as an act of jihad, as well as for jihadists’ common habit of referring to an upcoming attack as a “wedding.” At the very least, it would behoove authorities to ask for more details before granting…
“These targeted attacks testify to the ‘ethnic cleansing’ in act against the Christian community throughout Iraq.” “Mosul attacks on two Christian churches, three dead and several injured,” from AsiaNews, December 23 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): Mosul (AsiaNews) – Two separate bombs struck this morning in Mosul, the Chaldean church of…
For the last 200 years, humans have grown taller, stronger and healthier. This progress has been fastest in the countries that gave rise to the Industrial Revolution, yet it has spread throughout the world, sparking a transformation that economists Robert Fogel and Dora Costa call techno-physio evolution, “a synergism between technological and physiological improvements that [...]
Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies date them to [...]
As predicted here many times, as soon as the Surge subsided, violence would resume. “Baghdad blasts kill 101,” by Ammar Karim for AFP, December 8 (thanks to James): Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 101 people, many of them students, and wounding 182 in the…
Whoops. No virgins for you, pal. “One Palestinian killed, three wounded in Gaza explosion,” from Deutsche Presse Agentur, November 30 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): Gaza – One Palestinian militant was killed and three were wounded Monday night in a mysterious explosion in a car that drove west of Gaza city,…
