Hunt For Osama
Into Thin Air by Evan Thomas is a fun read with the usual special ops suspects.
18 Explosives In Hydrabad
First blast was at a laser show – a form of entertainment that is really taking off given the cheap tech and more money in peoples pockets. Second blast was in an ultra urban retail area with a lot of bookstores – dense buildings with crowded roads.
Initial intel also suggest that Neogel-90 was used, which has been extensively imported from Nepal via the black network but is created in Nagpur in India.
They found 19 more explosives:
After the attacks, the police defused 19 more bombs – all fitted with timers and placed in plastic bags – at bus stops, movie theaters, road intersections and pedestrian bridges. The police said each of the bombs contained ball bearings and ammonium.
Guns + Internet Fiber
Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire.
TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot. “Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,” said Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman.
Travel
Driving 800 miles, getting moved in, all that kind of stuff for a few days.
Gartenstein-Ross On CNN
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the CT Blog is featured in an upcoming CNN series – and currently plastered all over the CNN website.