A man was taken off a BART train in Oakland on Friday morning after scaring passengers by talking about weapons of mass destruction, an agency spokesman said.BART officers responded at about 9:20 a.m. to the 12th Street Oakland City Center station to a report of a man on a train who was scaring other passengers by saying “you should be aware of weapons of mass destruction,” BART spokesman Linton Johnson said.
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By:
Clifford D. May
04/17/11 10:00 PM
Oil is selling for close to $110 a barrel and gasoline for about $4 a gallon. Bad news for motorists. Marvelous news for jihadis.
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Brooklyn native Vinny Viola seldom strayed from the Big Apple until he left for West Point. After soldiering with the 101st Airborne, he returned home, graduated from law school and went to work at NYMEX, the New York Merchantile Exchange.In 2001, he became the NYMEX chairman. His resolute leadership following 9/11 helped the exchange recover from the turmoil.
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San Franciscans continued to dish leafy greens onto their plates Tuesday amid reports that terrorists could be targeting salad bars with poison.Al-Qaida might launch simultaneous attacks on salad bars in hotels and restaurants using poisons such as ricin and cyanide, according to a CBS News report.
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The Afghan government has likely released dozens of Gitmo detainees, and many more from Bagram, instead of trying them. A cable released by WikiLeaks that is available on the New York Times’ website underscores the difficulties that both the Bush and Obama administrations have had in transferring war on terror detainees to Afghan custody. The cable, which originated at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Aug. 6, 2009, begins:
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“Tell them that this is just the trailer. Just wait till you see the rest of the movie.”“It’s a small example. A preview.”“The rest of the film remains to be seen.”These comments come from one of the last calls made by the terrorists in Mumbai, India, as they butchered innocents in November 2008.
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