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Woman Finds Out Boyfriend of Six Years Is Undercover Cop Spying on Her and Her Friends All divs have been put onto one line because of whitespace issues when rendered inline in browsers BODY The most traumatising time of Lisa Jones’s life began when she agonised for months over the true identity of…
Open Source By ROBERT MACKEY Usually, by the time the public learns the names and biographies of Islamic State militants, or radicals from other groups who attack civilians, they are already dead, and so unable to speak for themselves, except occasionally in the ritualized form of martyrdom videos or manifestoes posted online. This week, however,…
Gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako Friday morning, with some 150 hostages taken. View this image › Malian security forces evacuate two women from near the hotel, Nov. 20. Habibou Kouyate / AFP / Getty Images ID: 7392014 SECURITY MESSSAGE (1/4) The Embassy is aware of an ongoing active shooter…
Sun Tzu, generally considered a reliable source on Good War Ideas, said something along the lines of, “You’ve got to know your enemy in order to beat him, because some dudes hate being kicked in the junk and others seem to enjoy it.” The difficulty we’ve had defeating ISIS suggests that, maybe, we don’t really…
ISIS — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — is one of the least funny organizations on the planet. From child trafficking to attempted genocide, everything they touch turns into a big steaming pile of tragedy. Things seem to be going pretty well for them, too. The West’s new boogeymen captured the city of…
If you’ve been on an airplane in the last few decades, you’ve had a close encounter of the TSA kind. We’re all annoyed about taking our shoes off, throwing out our sweet pocket machetes, and emptying all of our delicious exotic liquids just to please The Man. We sat down with someone who spent most…
Subway Restaurants’ former spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison, three years more than the maximum sought by the government, after pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a deal that imposes lifetime supervision on the fallen sandwich pitchman. His sentencing Thursday in Indianapolis federal court largely ends a scandal…
Three police officials say a woman who blew herself up during a raid on an apartment in suburban Paris was the cousin of the alleged mastermind of last week’s attacks. But details about Hasna Aitboulahcen’s role in the attacks remain murky following a confusing exchange with police officers moments before she is believed to have…
Barack Obama has hit back at Republicans who want to stop the US taking in Syrian refugees – with the president saying some of the language used in the wake of the Paris attacks only serves to strengthen the Islamic State terror group. Obama rounded on Republicans in Congress who are preparing legislation that threatens…
Anonymous, the anarchic online collective of hackers and trolls, has once again declared “war” on the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. As of Tuesday, 129 are confirmed dead and more than 350 are wounded. According to Business Insider, a channel on the messaging app Telegram believed to be affiliated with ISIS sent out…