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Reuters’s Helpful Home Cooking Tips
An explosive chemical called triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, can be put together with sulfuric acid, found in some drain cleaners, hydrogen peroxide, a medical disinfectant and hair bleach, and acetone, found in nail polish...
Cookie O’Puss
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya.
Private Enterprise
The Bush Administration has paid Blackwater more than $320 million since June 2004 to provide “diplomatic security” services globally … Six years ago the government paid Blackwater less than $250,000 … According to the...
Blame Canada? No, Blame Bedroom Furniture Direct and CSN Stores
Over a month ago I ordered this “Maple Sonoma Platform Captain’s Bed” from Bedroom Furniture Direct, a front company for CSN Stores, a low-end online “niche” retailer run by Niraj Shah. BFD was cheaper...
A River Runs Through It
Israeli bombing has knocked out irrigation canals supplying Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland and 23 villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley … The damaged or broken facilities...
Back Once Again, the Renegade Sadr
More people in Baghdad are being killed by Shiite death squads than by al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgents … “The conflict here is transitioning from an insurgency against us to a struggle for a division...
Post-Colonial Partition Playbook
Leaders of Iraq’s powerful Shiite Muslim political bloc have begun aggressively promoting a radical plan to partition the country as a way of separating the warring sects. Some Iraqis are even talking about dividing...
Diplomatic Impotence
Since U.S. forces captured Baghdad without a serious fight in spring 2003, fear of America’s military might has melted away as its soldiers and Marines have been unable to control the insurgency or stem...
We Are All Hizbollahi Now
A female neighbour who had supported the rival Shia Amal movement until her house was destroyed by the Israelis [said] ‘We are all Hizbollahi now’,” And I recall that less than three years ago,...