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From this shop, say police, came a phonecard that was discovered in the one bomb that did not explode. The bombers had apparently forgotten to make a call to the number to activate the pay-as-you-go mobile.
Zougam's neighbours expressed astonishment yesterday at the lack of police activity in their cobbled street, saying nobody had yet questioned them about the shopkeeper's recent activities.

A BULLETPROOF LandCruiser at high speed bursting out of a tribal compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan region was just the latest infuriating setback in the US's quest to bring down the top of the al-Qa'ida tree.
The car, followed by two armoured vehicles and a phalanx of heavily armed militants able to wipe out dozens of crack troops sent to blast the terrorists from their nest, is believed to have contained Ayman al-Zawahiri, right-hand man to Osama bin Laden.

The Federal Communications Commission admonished U2 frontman Bono and hit radio personality Howard Stern with the maximum penalty allowed in a handful of rulings issued on Thursday.
The commission targeted a portion of Stern's broadcast that referenced sex and excretory functions. The FCC ruled that the content was "lewd and vulgar, and that it appeared to have been used to pander, titillate and shock."

Stern has accounted for half the $3.95 million in broadcast indecency fines levied by the FCC since 1990, the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan political watchdog group, reported yesterday.


The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it will order airlines to turn over passengers' personal records in the next couple of months to test a computerized passenger screening program that could keep dangerous people off airlines.

And she said, "I mean in June in Dublin. Can you imagine? They're bringing Bush over. That's when we start stamping our feet something fierce in front of the world. He'll have the whole country up from the ground protesting."
The Irish Herald newspaper printed that Bush will have 700 people with him, and the American security people have asked for immunity for anybody who shoots and kills a protester. This could be a standard request, but it looks like hell to see it in print in Ireland.