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A 16-year-old high school student is in custody after police uncovered a plot that allegedly included plans to kill teachers and students at Marshfield High School and detonate explosives.

A man who idolizes the Unabomber, according to court documents, was charged Wednesday with planning to blow up the Reuss Federal Plaza, a downtown office building where more than 800 government employees work. Steven J. Parr, 39, of Janesville had made several practice bombs, one of which damaged his hearing, according to court documents. He also has "Uni" and a picture of a time bomb tattooed on his right arm. Parr was nearing the end of a state prison term on drug charges when authorities learned of his plans to bomb the federal building, according to the criminal complaint. As...

( Boston Globe Archives, 2004-09-08 ) In February, when the White House made public hundreds of pages of President Bush's military records, White House officials repeatedly insisted that the records prove that Bush fulfilled his military commitment in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

( Boston Globe Archives, 2004-09-10 ) THE GLOBE SPOTLIGHT TEAM HAS SCORED ANOTHER BULL'S-EYE WITH ITS REPORT ON GEORGE W. BUSH'S VIOLATION OF HIS CONTRACT WITH THE GOVERNMENT FOR SERVICE IN THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD, AND HIS STAFF'S SUBSEQUENT EGREGIOUS DENIAL AND MISREPRESENTATION OF THE FACTS (PAGE A1, SEPT. 8).

White House Says CBS Documents Part of DNC PlotBy Jeff GannonTalon NewsSeptember 16, 2004WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Controversy continued to swirl around documents that CBS has used to further its story about gaps in President George W. Bush's National Guard service. On Wednesday, the White House said that while there are questions about the authenticity of the documents, there is no question about the timing of their appearance 50 days before the election.The White House released the documents shortly after receiving them from CBS.White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended the move saying, "We received those documents from a major...

FReepers, with all of the contacts we have across the nation, I am hoping that someone can help. I want to speak with survivors of Senators John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, or John Tower. Nov. 12-15, 1971, leadership of the VVAW met in Kansas City and debated and voted on whether to assassinate seven senators, including those above named. Although John Kerry denied being there, witnesses place him at that meeting and then resigning his leadership position. I hope to contact surviving relatives of the three senators to see if any of them will go on record with a public question...

NEW YORK -- Two Brooklyn men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, sources said early Saturday. At least one of the men may have an affiliation with a terrorist organization, according to two law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The sources said the group in question was not believed to be al-Qaida.

<p>John Kerry mentions his service in Vietnam so frequently that it has become a running joke on the campaign press plane. He seldom if ever mentions his postwar activities as a national coordinator and principal spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a group he says he quit in 1971 because he was concerned about its radical agenda. One reason may be that a credibility gap has started to widen over his antiwar history, and he clearly doesn't want to discuss it at length. His campaign is issuing misleading and evasive statements on his antiwar service in a way that would do the Pentagon spinners of the Johnson and Nixon administrations proud.</p>

I did not come into this world expecting someone to try to erase me. I did not learn in school that America would wrestle against an overwhelming, nihilistic evil. I did not know that even as I would try to defend myself against such an enemy, there would be those in my own government who would help that enemy achieve his goals... It is no matter - we are born to the times in which we live. It is no mistake that you and I are here, facing down the madmen once thought to only inhabit the mythos of our...

August 11, 2004 -- A former college pal of Kobe Bryant's accuser is defending the NBA star on the Internet, where she's posted sordid allegations about his alleged victim's past, including what she claims was a plot to have sex with the rapper Eminem. In a phone interview with The Post, Laie Weatherwax, who has been informed she'll be called to testify for the defense at Bryant's trial, said yesterday: "I am doing this because it is right." Weatherwax, however, has plenty to say, much of which can be seen on the Web site Fratpack.com. She says her former friend...

There are some people, I am told, who don't believe that 35 years ago, American astronauts landed on the moon. At the same time, other members of the public think that a vast conspiracy has covered up the discovery of UFO-type creatures. And still others cling to the notion that the CIA killed John F. Kennedy, while a Jewish subset of this sector similarly thinks that Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by the Mossad. In other words, there are some really dumb people out there, a portion of whom are stark-raving mad. Conspiracies are the lifeblood of mystery novels and thrillers....

AN alleged plot to drive most of Zimbabwe’s 50,000 remaining whites out of the country is being investigated by the Foreign Office. The Sunday Times has obtained a document, apparently drawn up on the orders of a senior official in President Robert Mugabe’s secret police, which calls for the bombing of an economic target in Zimbabwe that could be blamed on “British funded terrorists”. Diplomatic relations with Britain could then be broken off and all British nationals told to leave within 48 hours or risk being interned as suspected terrorists or terrorist sympathisers, says the document. It is dated June...

June 17, 2004 -- A New York man has been jailed secretly since April on suspicions he joined a Pakistani terrorism cell in a plot against targets in London. Mohammed Junaid Babar was detained by the Joint Terrorism Task Force on April 10 as a material witness, two law-enforcement officials said yesterday. One of the officials said Babar aided a plot to "blow up pubs, restaurants and train stations" in London.

This is the page where you can download an outline of the 9/11 Commission's report, also known as Staff Statement No. 16. It's a small document, only 20 pages long and details the meetings and various events that led up to the 9/11 attacks. Go to the 9/11 Commission's website and click on the link for Staff Statement No. 16. http://www.9-11commission.gov/ This is a .pdf document and requires a minimum of the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. You can get the free Acrobat Reader at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Plot to bomb Sharon foiled By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem (Filed: 15/06/2004) Israeli security forces described how they foiled a plan to bomb the Jerusalem office of Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, after a Palestinian resident of the city was arrested. The Shin Bet security services and police uncovered the plan a month ago following the arrest of Hussam Nabulsi, 38, who had access to ministries as a driver for a printing company. A media gag on the story was lifted yesterday. Nabulsi, a resident of Jerusalem's Old City, who holds an Israeli identification card, was apparently recruited by a...

BULAWAYO - A secret and controversial document that calls for the marginalisation of Ndebeles will soon come under the spotlight during the trial of Zapu FP president, Paul Siwela, and another politician, George Mkhwananzi. The two were arrested in December 2002 after addressing a public meeting in Bulawayo and are facing charges of uttering inflammatory statements likely to breach peace. The 14-page document titled: "For the eyes of the Shona Elite Only" which is reportedly a continuation of the "1979 Grand Plan" outlining why Ndebeles should not rule Zimbabwe, forms part of the two politicians' evidence to be presented in...

Officials investigating the devastating North Korean train explosion in April now believe that the blast was an assassination attempt on the country's leader, Kim Jong-il. At the time, the secretive Communist state described the explosion in the border town of Ryongchon as an accident. Electric cables were believed to have ignited a cargo of explosive chemicals and oil. Now, however, officials close to the investigation believe that a mobile telephone was used to detonate the train's deadly cargo of ammonium nitrate and fuel. The remains of a mobile handset, with adhesive tape attached, have been found at the scene of...

While Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was renouncing terrorism and negotiating the lifting of sanctions last year, his intelligence chiefs ordered a covert operation to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia and destabilise the oil-rich kingdom, according to statements by two participants in the alleged conspiracy. Abdurahman Alamoudi, an American Muslim leader now in jail in the United States, and Colonel Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan intelligence officer in Saudi custody, have given separate statements to US and Saudi officials outlining the plot. Alamoudi has told FBI officials and federal prosecutors that Mr Gaddafi approved the plan. But Mr Gaddafi's son,...

British-born man admits bomb plot By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 29/05/2004) A British-born Muslim convert was convicted yesterday of plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra. Convicted: Jack Roche Jack Roche, 50, who discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden at a camp in Afghanistan, had originally pleaded not guilty at Perth district court. But halfway through the trial his lawyers asked for the charge to be read out again and he replied: "Guilty". Roche, who was arrested in November 2002, is the first Australian citizen to be convicted of a terrorist offence and faces a maximum 25...

Italy 'foils Iraq suicide plot' Italy is often used as a logistical base Italian police say they have arrested an Algerian imam and four Tunisians suspected of planning suicide attacks against Western targets in Iraq. The men were seized in a series of raids in Florence and the province of Liguria - which were still ongoing. The raids were part of an investigation into the Islamic militant group, Ansar al-Islam, police said. They say Islamic terrorist groups have used Italy as a logistical base, says the BBC's Frances Kennedy in Rome. Cell 'destroyed'The probe began in Genoa two years ago...