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• Car Bombing And Suicide Bombing in Stockholm (Sweden)
• Typography Faux Pas by Jenny Lam
• "12 Days of Winter"
• Where Are the Female Libertarians? Allison Gibbs on The Ladies of Liberty Alliance
• Metrodome Roof Collapse
• Matthew Elliot on Britain's Burgeoning Tax Revolt
• Naked Body Scanner Defeated by Pancake-Shaped Explosives
• Air Pod - a Car That Runs on Air

Car Bombing And Suicide Bombing in Stockholm (Sweden) Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:07 PM PST Thankfully the only fatality was the suspected terrorist Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly. Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility. This is thought to be the first suicide bombing in Sweden's history. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8198043/Sweden-suicide-bomber-Taimur-Abdulwahab-al-Abdaly-was-living-in-Britain.html "Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly tried to set off a car bomb packed with gas canisters in a busy shopping street in Stockholm. The car caught fire and the bomber fled the scene before blowing himself up 300yd away 15 minutes later, injuring two bystanders. It emerged last night that Abdulwahab, who was due to turn 29 yesterday, is a former physical therapy student at Bedfordshire University in Luton, and that his wife and three young children still live in the town. MI5 is now investigating possible links with extremists in Luton, whether the bomber was radicalised at the university and claims that he was helped by an extremist group in Yemen, the base for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula." http://www.france24.com/en/20101212-swedish-police-probe-suspected-suicide-attack-al-qaeda-claim-militant-responsible "Swedish investigators ruled Sunday that one of Saturday's explosions was suspected to be the country's first ever suicide bombing. Meanwhile, an al Qaeda-linked website claimed that one of its militants was responsible for the attack."

Typography Faux Pas by Jenny Lam Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:41 PM PST Video embedded below.

"12 Days of Winter" Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:32 PM PST Here is a 'war on Christmas' tune; not that there seems to be much of a war thus far. Video embedded below.

Where Are the Female Libertarians? Allison Gibbs on The Ladies of Liberty Alliance Posted: 12 Dec 2010 07:59 PM PST Video embedded below.

Metrodome Roof Collapse Posted: 12 Dec 2010 07:50 PM PST It is a good thing no one was standing under that. As you might have guessed, the football game was both delayed and moved to a new venue. Video embedded below.

Matthew Elliot on Britain's Burgeoning Tax Revolt Posted: 12 Dec 2010 07:46 PM PST Video embedded below.

Naked Body Scanner Defeated by Pancake-Shaped Explosives Posted: 12 Dec 2010 07:39 PM PST These scanners are not effective, and past post have made that point. What makes this different is the type of flaw. The basic problem with the scanning system is that humans are not uniformly shaped. Bodies have certain characteristics, and irregular characteristics are what the screeners are looking for. That means a brick shaped explosive. Thin explosives on the other hand that conformed tightly to the body would be mistaken for the subject; that is, not recognized as their being anything foreign there. The message here to the terrorists is that the larger the explosive they use, the less likely it would be detected. Think about that for a second, our anti-terrorism efforts are actually encouraging the bad guys to use bigger bombs... http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/fulltext.pdf (via) "It is very likely that a large (15-20 cm in diameter), irregularly-shaped, cm-thick pancake with beveled edges, taped to the abdomen, would be invisible to this technology, ironically, because of its large volume, since it is easily confused with normal anatomy. Thus, a third of a kilo of PETN, easily picked up in a competent pat down, would be missed by backscatter "high technology". Forty grams of PETN, a purportedly dangerous amount, would fit in a 1.25 mm-thick pancake of the dimensions simulated here and be virtually invisible. Packed in a compact mode, say, a 1 cm×4 cm×5 cm brick, it would be detected. The images are very sensitive to the presence of large pieces of high Z material, e. g., iron, but unless the spatial resolution is good, thin wires will be missed because of partial volume effects. It is also easy to see that an object such as a wire or a box- cutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible. While there are technical means to mildly increase the conspicuity of a thick object in air, they are ineffective for thin objects such as blades when they are aligned close to the beam direction."

Air Pod - a Car That Runs on Air Posted: 12 Dec 2010 07:31 PM PST Video embedded below.

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