Violence

It appears that the EU collapse debate has shifted towards accepting the inevitability of a Greek exit with central bankers across the euro zone openly discussing the pros and cons of a Greek departure.  Now the focus seems to be that of the knock-on effect, particularly in Spain,  accelerating the euro crisis into an entirely new dimension.  [...]

The CIA recently thwarted an Al Qaeda attempted suicide bomb attack on a U.S. commercial aircraft.  This terrorist possessed the latest underwear bomb and he would not have been caught by the  TSA’s most conscientious human screeners or its highest-tech full body scanners.  Al Qaeda’s leader, al-Zawahri, is urging Muslims to take revenge for the February burning of Quran Muslim holy books at a U.S. [...]