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Troops at risk: IEDs in Iraq
USA Today looked at how the Pentagon responded to the threat of improvised explosive devices to U.S. troops. They found that has done little to prepare or protect the troops from IEDs.
Tags: military; Iraq; IEDs; improvised explosive devices; training; bomb; bombing; Pentagon; government;
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Dirty Bombs
"Radioactive devices are stolen from cars, disappear from construction sites, fall off trucks and generally go astray at a startling pace. A computer database compiled by The Canadian Press showed how dozens of these tools - from a darkroom truck in northern British Columbia to a device used for molecular separation in Montreal - have gone missing in the last five years. The items vanished despite federal disaster planning reports that warn terrorists could wreak multimillion-dollar havoc if a nuclear gauge was used to build a crude 'dirty bomb.'"
Tags: radioactive; dirty bomb; bioterrorism; terrorism
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Nuclear Threat Made in U.S.
This story revealed how the U.S. government scattered tons of highly enriched uranium around the globe and then failed to get the material back. The Tribune documented how a misguided Cold War program called Atoms for Peace provided bomb0grade uranium fuel to dozens of nations in an attempt to win allies and curry favor. Today, 40 tons of this same uranium remain outside of U.S. control.
Tags: nuclear weapons; federal government; international relations; nuclear smuggling; open records
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Ill Rocky Flats nuclear workers
The reporters found that the federal government was limiting compensation for sick and dying nuclear weapons workers. The story focused on workers from Rocky Flats nuclear site near Denver, where hundreds of workers were denied medical and financial compensation. The reporters also revealed the full known human cost of the nation's nuclear weapons complex: radiation sickened 36,500 and killed at least 4,000 of those who built bombs, mined uranium, and breathed test fallout.
Tags: nuclear weapons; uranium; radiation; OSHA; federal government; insurance; illness
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Michigan's Education Time Bomb
This story examines the loopholes and cost of the state's school retirement system. The system is forcing program cuts and layoffs.
Tags: FOIA; school system; retirement; pension; school district; education; Michigan; public education; health care benefits
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In The Pursuit Of Truth: Remembering Don Bolles
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the murder of investigative reporter Don Bolles, students in the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication put together a package to remember who Bolles was and what his place is in the history of journalism. In addition, there are stories about the investigation that followed Bolles' death from a car bomb, and a feature about the fact his damaged car will be displayed in Washington D.C.'s Newseum. Bolles' death also led to the Arizona Project, in which journalists from across the nation came to Arizona to investigate organized crime.
Tags: Don Bolles; John Harvey Adamson; Arizona Project; organized crime
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The Red Team
"Nearly six years after 9/11, classified test results leaked to 9NEWs show Transportation Security Administration screeners at Denver International Airport failed to find about 80% of weapons, like bombs and liquid explosives, carried by federal undercover agents called the Red Team. Denver is just one of many airports nationwide that are failing the tests, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security's OIG and US Government Accountability Office."
Tags: airports; security; homeland security; transport security association; TSA; bombs; weapons; flight safety
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Why Aren't We Safer?
Five years later, ABC News examines the question of how much safer we are after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The report mentioned how easy it remains to acquire ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which is used in explosive devices. The investigation found that customers paying cash can get the substance at local agricultural supply stores and "move it to a storage warehouse a few miles from the White House, undetected."
Tags: September 11, 2001; terrorism; ammonium nitrate; fertilizer bombs; improvised explosive devices
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Terror Informant
Egyptian immigrant Osama Eldawoody speaks to CBS Evening News about his two years "infiltrating and informing on a small group of Pakistani-Americans who planned to bomb a major New York City subway station at Manhattan's Herald Square." While his efforts helped lead to "one of the few post-9/11 terror trial convictions in New York," he found himself in grave danger. His anonymity was not sustained, and he said there were fatwas - threats - against his life in the NY/NJ Muslim community. Eldawoody felt the government failed him, as his identity was revealed when he testified in court, and he has not received help in finding a new job.
Tags: Terrorism; fatwa; Osama Eldawoody; government informants; undercover investigation
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Twilight of The Assassins
"The first act of airline terrorism in the Americas was not 9/11 but thrity years ago, when seventy-three people died in the mid air bombing of a Cuban passengers plane. Now, one of the alleged masterminds lives freely in Miami, while another awaits trialon other charges in Texas. For decades, Fidel Castro (and later jaoined by Hugo Chavez) insisted that the CIA was ehind the bombing. However, the Bush administration has been loathe to release its 30 years of CIA and FBI files to finally resolve enduring suspicions.
Tags: bombing; airlines; airplanes; Fidel Castro; Cuba; CIA; FBI