“Did Arabs carry out the 9/11 attacks?” is one of the topics in a relatively recent report from Pew, The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other. H/T to Younghusband of Coming Anarchy. When asked of Muslims, the results are somewhat disturbing.
Disturbing, but perhaps not too surprising. On a visit to […]
Archive for August, 2006
Terrorism and Peroxide Based Explosives
Posted by 11 Aug 2006, 12:15 pm Uncategorizedin . 16 Comments The latest terrorist plot to blowup aircraft involved two explosives that are both powerful and relatively easy to manufacture; Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP) and Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (HMTD). One of the shoe bombs Richard Reid attempted to detonate on a December 2001 flight contained 8-10 ounces of TATP.
The crystal and liquid components of these explosives […]
Pointing to an AP story on the results of a recent poll, Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD, Cathartidae comments that, “In light of what half of all Americans believe, perhaps it’s time to go easy on Koreans for believing the fan death myth.” However I believe that comment is rather unfair […]