Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has made public a video of Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, identified as the prime suspected in Saturday’s car bombing that killed journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow. The footage published Monday shows Vovk and her teenage daughter entering Russia, inside the building where Dugina lived, and …
Read More »ISIS suicide bomber en route to India intercepted – Russia
A person who allegedly plotted to blow himself up to kill a senior Indian politician was intercepted during transit through Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Monday. The would-be suicide bomber was recruited in Turkey by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), the statement said. The …
Read More »Cold War-era ‘Candy Bomber’ dies
The former US airman known as the ‘Candy Bomber’ for his supply drops during the Berlin airlift passed away on Wednesday at the age of 101, surrounded by his family, according to a statement from the director of the Aviation Education Foundation named after him. Colonel Gail Halvorsen was trained …
Read More »Boston marathon bomber received Covid relief check
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers who perpetrated the deadly Boston Marathon bombing, was told he must give back $1,400 in Covid relief, in addition to other funds sitting in the same prison account. While the government cut a check to the 28-year-old Kyrgyz-American last summer as part of a …
Read More »Israeli fighter jets escort American B1-B bomber is show of ‘continued strategic cooperation’ (VIDEO)
The American bomber was escorted “over Israeli skies towards the Gulf earlier today,” the Israel Defense Forces announced in a brief statement, accompanied by several photos and a brief video of the flyover. The IDF said nothing about the purpose of the joint flight, besides claiming that it “illustrates the …
Read More »MI5 officer admits investigation of Manchester Arena bomber could have prevented attack but required a ‘high-priority operation’
A senior member of the UK counter-terrorism agency MI5, referred-to only as “Witness J,” gave evidence at the inquiry from behind a screen, to conceal their identity. During the hearing, Witness J agreed with a lawyer for the victims’ families that the investigation of bomber Salman Abedi – who had …
Read More »‘I had one arm’: ‘Blonde Bomber’ boxer wins latest fight on razor-thin decision despite breaking her hand in second round (VIDEO)
The ‘Bronze Bomber’, who is known for stripping to her lingerie at weigh-ins, slugged it out with tough French opponent Mailys Gangloff at a stadium in Leeds as she edged a 77-76 points card to make it seven wins out of eight in her professional career. Australian Bridges had support …
Read More »‘I wasn’t doing it to be a meme’, protests boxing boss Hearn before ‘Blonde Bomber’ strips to her lingerie at new weigh-in (VIDEO)
In the build-up to her TKO win over Bec Connolly last month, Ebanie ‘Blonde Bomber’ Bridges tickled fans with a string of memes that caught promoter Eddie Hearn looking up at the ceiling and appearing to do all he could not to check her out in her underwear. Never one to …
Read More »US airstrike hits suicide bomber vehicle posing ‘imminent threat’ to Kabul airport – Pentagon
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced details of the strike on Sunday, shortly after US officials told Reuters that the American military had launched a “military strike” on suspected Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) militants. Mujahid said that the strike targeted a vehicle used by the would-be bombers, and US Central Command …
Read More »Pentagon says only ONE suicide bomber in Kabul airport attack
While previous reports said that there were likely two suicide bombers behind the attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport — one near one of the airport’s gates and another near the Baron Hotel — Army Major General William Taylor told reporters on Friday at a Pentagon press briefing the second explosion at …
Read More »