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A dirty-bomb attack in a Western or Asian city would kill relatively few people but it would engender panic and likely damage global investor confidence.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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A dirty-bomb attack in a Western or Asian city would kill relatively few people but it would engender panic and likely damage global investor confidence.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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A dirty-bomb attack in a Western or Asian city would kill relatively few people but it would engender panic and likely damage global investor confidence.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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A dirty-bomb attack in a Western or Asian city would kill relatively few people but it would engender panic and likely damage global investor confidence.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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"The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large" is about a child separated from his family by a dirty-bomb attack on Baltimore.
Rapt in Translation; Zombie Zoology Sam Sacks 2011
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The government eventually dropped its dirty-bomb conspiracy charges against American Jose Padilla, the Bush administration's poster boy for the threat.
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Among the reasons: his failure to disclose on his confirmation questionnaire that he had filed an amicus brief on behalf of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen imprisoned for having planned a dirty-bomb attack.
Catching bomb suspect was rare moment for Holder to celebrate 2010
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But Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator who worked closely with Zubaydah, said the FBI "extracted crucial intelligence -- including the identity of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the architect of 9/11 and the dirty-bomb plot of Jose Padilla -- before CIA contractors even began their aggressive tactics."
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Bachmann pointed to reports of dirty-bomb threats allegedly made against NFL stadiums last week.
MN-06: Bachmann Raises Specter Of Terror Plot — Even Though It Was Hoax 2009
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It depends on whether you believe that someone accused of plotting a dirty-bomb attack should have to wear blacked-out goggles and have his legs shackled when he is taken outside solitary confinement for a dentist's appointment.
Howard Kurtz Slaps Fellow Postie George Will For Smearing Webb 2009
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