[WorkerbeeCitizen]

"The Kingdom has orchestrated a heavy crackdown on Al-Qaeda since 2003. It has also been building a 35,000-strong rapid reaction force to protect oil installations after a failed Al-Qaeda attack in 2006 on the world’s largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in the Eastern Province."

I wonder who is actually providing the people for this as I didn't know the Saudis performed actual labor.

[Uncle Ike]

I know that South America isn’t technically in our geographical area of interest — but the fact that Hugo spent a great part of last year shuttling between Teheran and Damascus and Moscow keeps preying on my mind...

(And, in my more tinfoil moments, I find the timing of Hugo’s latest Hijinks to be vaguely suspicious....)

Colombia says FARC wanted to make radioactive bomb
Reuters ^

Posted on 03/04/2008 5:56:54 AM CST by maquiladora

Colombia’s FARC guerrilla movement was trying to get hold of radioactive material to make a “dirty bomb,” Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos said on Tuesday.

Santos told the United Nations Conference on Disarmament that materials found on computers of Raul Reyes, the deputy commander of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), showed the group was in negotiations to get hold of radioactive matter for a bomb. (Reuters)

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