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    terror suspect held in uk after found with bullets at airport

    mwehehe, nothing much more embarassing for her than having to fish that out of her handbag :D
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    terror suspect held in uk after found with bullets at airport

    a sudanese man is being held in london after being arrested on terrorism charges following his discovery with bullets in his coat. he was awaiting a flight to dubai before he was picked up during routine airport checks. he had previously that day flown into heathrow from washington without...
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    *shivers at the thought*

    and any skin on internal organs too, according to the bbc article i read. one lucky lass.
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    an idea...

    my start up is a sample from a talvin singh track that says 'this one's gonna be kinda anthemic' and my shutdown is from spiritualized and says 'ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space'. i did have a cool futurama one which said 'this is my first visit to the galaxy of terror and i'd...
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    Nuclear weapons are GOOD

    if they are so good at preventing war why is it we get so miffed when everyone wants one?
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    Work hard for your money.....

    i'm a not-fully-qualified architect working for a medium sized archi firm in the southwest of england. i enjoy my job and am happy to be paid what i am.
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    Gadhafi armed al-Qaida with bio-chem weapons

    speaking of which, this story still appears to have been ignored by major news networks. ;)
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    the bedroom

    we havea little radio/cd player that is moved from bedroom to office depending on who is around. we hardly use the cd function. there is also a 30 year old b&w tv int he bedrooom with dodgy sound and bearable terrestrial reception. other than the bedside light and 2 alarm clocks there is pretty...
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    So...where'd you pick up your Post-Name?

    it's a shortening of boris.
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    libya to give up wmd

    bbc more it seems libya and gaddafi are continuing to try to rehabilitate themselves into the international community, following as this does from deals made with the families of those killed in lockerbie and other state sponsored terrorist attacks. looks like great news :)
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    Freedom Tower

    looks like he got his way after all then ;)
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    Freedom Tower

    if my memory is correct the height planned by libeskind's winning design was quite specific at 1776 ft. i'd be surprised if he was willing to be budged on that too much.
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    Oh, no. Not again.

    shit, even i know what the name 'enola gay' means when it comes to planes, and i'm just a slack foreigner. begs the question how did the museum curators think that such a famously known plane would get ignored as 'just another b-29'. they must have known that putting it on show would get it...
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    Freedom Tower

    as i heard it there was a complex set of cable stays that would reduce the possibility of catastrophic failure of the building in the event of a major incident. it would seem that the stays are there to redistribute loads if primary structures fail. the bbc article mentions other safety...
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    Saddam in custody!

    paul bremmer making announcement now, apparently hussein was picked up at 8.35pm local time yesterday in a town about 15km south of tikrit.
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    Saddam in custody!

    they're trying to find him a spare aircraft carrier to fly onto so he can declare major hostilities are over again. ;) :D
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    Saddam in custody!

    put him in a santa outfit and make him take presents to the little kiddies :shrug: while i'm here, tony blair welcomes saddam capture press conference in baghdad set for 12noon bst. i'd have thought dubya dubya dubya dot bush would have made an early morning effort for this, i guess he...
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    Happy Birthday Ris!

    the office bollywood themed party was quite a good laugh, although the lamb vindaloo or whatever it was we had is giving me evil farts :D
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    Saddam in custody!

    bbc version of same story
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    Gun Laws do Not Reduce Criminal Violence According to New Study

    by the way, i did notice that gun use in crime overall up 35% to a little under 10,000. this is against a general reduction of crime to its lowest in over 20 years. regardless of how you dress the figures up the uk still has a phenomenally low gun crime rate and the main problem with that is...
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