Flipping like a pancake and popping like a cork

Analysis, commentary on political, social, economic and media trends. Author Lyle Jenish spent over 13 years in print and electronic media, as a: managing newspaper editor; features editor for a number of British-based business magazines; writer for the National Post, Globe and Mail and Report on Business magazine; television news assignment editor and a finalist for a number of writing awards, including a 2008 finalist in the investigative journalism category, National Magazine Awards.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

These people are not like us

Soldiers thwart plot to turn school into a bomb

U.S. soldiers discovered a girls' school being built north of Baghdad had been turned into an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday. Military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell called it a "premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims." The plot was uncovered when troopers found detonating wire across the street from the school, and followed its trail.

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