September 26, 2004

Four men have been arrested on terrorism charges apparently after they were induced to attempted to buy so-called “red mercury” from a man who turned out to be Mahzer Mahmood, the News of the World‘s “investigations editor”. The NOTW broke this story today under the headline “Dirty Bomb Foiled by News of the World“. BBC…

….and unsurprisingly, they show it’s not very good. Allawi told Washington Post reporters and editors on Friday that “for now the only place which is not really that safe is Fallujah, downtown Fallujah. The rest, there are varying degrees. Some — most — of the provinces are really quite safe.” The Kroll reports are based…

Which Nigerian spammer are You? Taken it several times, but can’t get Viktor out of it yet…mind you, the code for the result doesn’t work but still pushes my sidebar out. So fuckem.

One little-publicised problem for the investigation of hostage-takings in Iraq may have been created by a lack of Internet security awareness among Western businesses operating in Baghdad. Although videos issued by the al-Zarqawi group tend to be uploaded to the websites they appear on at round about the same time of day – a regularity…