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Christmas Underwear Bomb Plot Entices New Batches of 419 Scammers

As always, scam artists are just waiting to take advantage of the latest scare and tragedy. Swine flu, the economic crisis, rising gas prices, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and most recently, the Haitian earthquake, have all been exploited by con men for financial gain. So no one should be surprised that 419 scammers are twisting fear and anger over the failed bombing of Northwest Airlines flight ...

Attempted Bomber's Story Comes to Light via Online Forum Posts

The cover of the book that is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has "terrorist" written nowhere on it. The clean-cut, boyish face and the soft, timid eyes in the photograph above would seem more at home on the neck of a college classmate or fellow commuter than it would the shoulders of an Al Qaeda operative and attempted airplane bomber. If there is such a thing as a "typical" terrorist (and it's hard ...