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Thanks to Milford421 for this report:

Redstone Explosion - UPDATE
Posted: May 5, 2010 09:29 AM CDT
Two people are being treated after being critically burned after an explosion at Redstone Arsenal. We’re told that the incident happened at Building 7352 around 8:45am.
Officials with Redstone Arsenal briefed the media on the situation Wednesday morning. The victims names were not released but officials say both men had years of experience. Arsenal officials say no one at the Arsenal is at risk because of the explosion and that the building was made to contain these types of blasts.

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Officials with the Madison County EMA say the building was demolished in the blast. The explosion was described as a “chemical type explosion”. Initial reports of a fatality on the scene are not accurate, according to EMA and HEMSI .
WAAY 31 has several crews on this story.

http://www.waaytv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12429475

[An interesting google group, you will be warned that it contains adult materials, and so far I have not found any sex here, they must be hiding the war news under adult content now days.

It is a Dutch war newsletter, covers a wide range and who knows what is lurking in it.
granny]

http://groups.google.com/group/tadj_nieuwsbrief/browse_thread/thread/971d91cb60726037#

Guest Post: The Story of Eric Breininger
Thomas Hegghammer

May 11th, 2010 | Afghanistan, Germany, Travel Routes, training camps

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Christopher Radler and Behnam
Said, who are intelligence analysts based in Hamburg, Germany. For
links to the original document, see the comments to the preview post.]

On 3 May a message announcing the death of Eric Breininger (b. 3
August 1987) and three of his fellow combatants was posted on several
German jihadist websites. Breininger, who travelled to the border
region between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the winter 2007, was one of
the most infamous German jihadists. From Waziristan Breininger, a.k.a.
“Abdul Ghaffar al-Almani”, sent several videotaped messages to the
jihadist community in Germany, asking them to join the jihad or at
least to support it financially. Since September 2008 the German
Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) searched for Breininger, based on
his assumed affiliation with a foreign terrorist organization.

A day after the announcement of his death, Breininger’s alleged
autobiography, entitled Mein Weg nach Jannah (My Way to Paradise) was
released on jihadi websites. The 108-page document mainly deals with
Breiningers path into violent islamist militancy. It is not clear
however, if Breininger wrote the document himself. In the messages he
delivered from Waziristan, he spoke a very simple and often
grammatically incorrect German. By contrast, the language of the
published book is far more elaborate and correct. On the other hand,
the content and details in the book argue for the authenticity of the
document. Interestingly, the spelling of names differs throughout the
book, which could indicate a collaborative effort. So we can assume
that Breininger either 1) wrote it down by himself and had some help
from his friends, or 2) told his story to some of his fellow jihadists
and they wrote it down, as Spiegel journalist Yassin Musharbash
suggested. Overall, however, we favour the first assumption.

continues.