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An Irondale man was taken into custody Wednesday on a federal indictment accusing him of detonating an explosive device outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, is charged with malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device. Charging documents against him say he also placed stickers on state buildings at the same time of the bombing depicting different graphics advocating for various political ideologies. Some included the phrase “Support your local antifa.” Antifa, short for Anti-Fascist, does not describe a particular group, but rather describes individuals who adhere to what they consider...

First of all, did you even hear about the explosive device planted and detonated outside the Alabama Attorney General's office back in February? The 'news' media offered some perfunctory coverage at the time, but consider the circumstances and context: Just a few days prior, the state's Supreme Court had issued a highly controversial ruling involving frozen embryos, with possible implications for in vitro fertilization. The subsequent uproar garnered national attention, as many journalists were eager to jump all over a story they perceived as politically beneficial to both their preferred political party, and to their unlimited abortion agenda. The GOP-controlled...

UK Police have confirmed a number of fatalities in central Manchester in the North of England after reports of one or more “explosions” during an Ariana Grande concert on Monday evening. Greater Manchester Police said there have been a “number of fatalities and others injured” at the Manchester Arena, where Grammy-nominated pop singer Ariana Grande was performing.

The bomb that injured 29 people in central New York on Saturday and another device found nearby were both shrapnel-filled pressure cookers, US media report, as law enforcement probe for potential terrorist links. Twenty-nine people were injured when a bomb exploded in New York's upmarket Chelsea neighbourhood on Saturday night, damaging buildings, shattering glass and sending shrapnel flying across the street. A second bomb was uncovered by police four blocks away and defused safely, before being sent to the FBI in Virginia for forensic examination. Both bombs were filled with shrapnel and made with pressure cookers, flip phones, Christmas lights...

The FBI on Monday announced terrorism charges against 23-year-old Harlem Suarez of Key West, Florida, who portrayed himself online as a member of ISIS and allegedly wanted to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.Toward this end, law enforcement says Suarez thought he was purchasing an operational backpack bomb for deployment in Florida, but it was actually a dud sold to him by FBI operatives. He was also allegedly trying to get his hands on an AK-47 rifle.According to NBC News, Suarez told informants of a plan to pack the bomb with nails, bury it on the beach, and...

The family of a war hero only discovered the full weight of his bravery after his death when his cremation left behind a huge pile of shrapnel. Ronald Brown stepped on a land mine while on a mission in France in August 1944. The blast peppered his left leg with red-hot fragments and he was forced to crawl two miles to safety. But because of medical conditions of the day it was thought safer to leave shrapnel in his body. He survived the war but only ever told his family the basic story and said the accident had left him...

NEWARK, NJ (CBS SF) — A New Jersey woman headed to San Francisco International Airport was briefly detained Tuesday after Transportation Security Administration screeners found explosive devices inside a suitcase she had checked for the flight, federal authorities told CBS San Francisco. TSA explosives experts said the woman’s luggage contained three small Claymore land mine casings, two of which were “packed with shrapnel.” .. ... TSA and local police confiscated the weapons, but allowed the woman – identified only as a resident of Union, New Jersey – to travel on a later flight to San Francisco.

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND Shrapnel-filled rockets used on civilians Israel documents civilian-targeted weapons from Syria, Iran Posted: August 31, 20065:00 p.m. Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com School-zone sign in northern Israel shows evidence of lethal metal balls from Hezbollah rockets (photo: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Steel balls and other lethal fragments were encased in rockets from Syria and Iran that were used by Hezbollah on Israeli civilian areas during the recent war, the Israeli Ministry of Defense confirmed to WND today. Photographs of the anti-personnel "flying metal" damage done by Syrian-made 220-mm rockets fired by Hezbollah...

See for example this thread first. Adult language in the limerick, this pun was just too good to pass up. OK, you have been warned. How can I get enough verbiage in here so that the limerick will not show up in its entirety in the preview pane? Well, let me try the time honored tactic of space-filling text, like this: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXWARNING, ADULT TOPICS AND LANGUAGEXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX She's nearly scared out of her wits When a bomb almost blew her to bits It seemed like certain doom when she heard the KABOOM But the shrapnel was...

Senator John Kerry, a lean athlete who is the picture of health as he skis, skates, cycles and windsurfs, is in robust condition, he and his doctors said in their first extended interviews discussing his medical history. Mr. Kerry, 60, the Democratic presidential nominee, and his doctors discussed in great detail his health, particularly the surgery to remove his cancerous prostate gland in February 2003. It was one of two operations that disrupted his campaign. The second repaired a painful shoulder injury last March. Mr. Kerry could become the first "cancer survivor" to be elected president, but he rejected the...

IS THER A DOCTOR IN FR? Please refer to this thread of Posted on 08/23/2004 9:14:50 AM PDT by Pikamax. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197480/posts?page=85#85 The question still remains: Kerry's thigh has shrapnel. Can Kerry have and MRI with Shrapnel lodged in his left thigh?

click on purple heart to see my webpage of Kerry's Purple Heart Lie.It's simple, consise, you can send it's URL to email folks, or print it out and post it in public places...

BOSTON -- Seeking to reach the black voter, Sen. John Kerry has called upon one of his Democrat rivals, the Rev. Al Sharpton, to assist his troubled campaign. "I have always been impressed with Al's quick wit and his refreshing spin on the issues," Kerry said. "I also think he offers a real understanding of hip hop, which continues to fascinate me at least as much as it did last month." Kerry said Rev. Sharpton's role in his campaign would be to "provide a bridge" to African Americans who may not yet have heard his message, "I was in Vietnam,...

John Kerry has a piece of shrapnel in his left thigh from an injury he suffered in the Vietnam War, his doctor said Friday during a review of 36 pages of the Democratic presidential candidate's military medical records. The records shown briefly to reporters provided a few more details about the wounds that resulted in Kerry's three Purple Hearts and show that he suffered from respiratory ailments, a skin rash and a minor urinary tract infection during his four years in the Navy. Kerry was wounded three times while commanding a swiftboat in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, an assignment that brought...

FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER - A Scenario She is 25 years old, single, and very pretty. She is Saudi by citizenship and Palestinian by birth. Her father was killed by Israeli troops when she was 12 years old, and the hatred has festered for 13 years. Khadra came to the United States on a student visa in 1998, went to school for two quarters, and then just disappeared from view. When she left her family, she knew, and they probably knew, that they would never see each other in this life again. A mosque about 4 miles from downtown Manhattan has...

LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) is alive and in good health after being wounded in an attack on his base in Afghanistan ( news - web sites) in December, an Arab journalist with close ties to the Saudi-born dissident's associates said Monday.Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London based al-Quds al-Arabi magazine, said that bin Laden's followers informed him that the al Qaeda leader would not appear on video again until his group launches another attack on the United States. "His people said he was wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel. He is in good...