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Good news: UK Bombs didn't go off because of faulty design.
Bad news: The designer designed parts for Boeing...

Good news: Near death experience found in 18% of very sick cardiac patients.
Bad news: Scientists trying to explain it with pseudoscientific "quantum consciousness" theory...

Good News: Thailand finally found where the terrorists are hiding: in mosques and religious schools. Who wudda thought?
Bad news: multi ethnic Malaysia being taken over by radical Islam? Who needs terrorists when the government will tear down churches for you.

Good news: Anti terrorism law is worrying our left wing bishops.
Like all good liberation theology Catholics, they hate Gloria more than they worry about churches being destroyed by terrorists;
Bad news: the Italians keep pressuring the government to pay for Father Bossi's release, in effect saying a European priest's life is worth more than the Pinoys who might be killed if his kidnappers get money for bombs.
worst News: J.I. is recruiting women to be suicide bombers.

Terrorists prefer easy targets: Glasgow airport didn't even have an armed guard, and people there never thought they'd be a target.
Similarly, the NYTimes admits terrorists prefer killing civilians in small towns without armed Americans.
It is rare for insurgents to mount such large attacks in remote villages like Amerli, often preferring to strike in crowded city centers and at religious sites and Iraqi security forces. But since the start of the Baghdad security plan in February, they have frequently struck outside the capital within major cities or targets that are less well defended.

In other words, they're losing...the bad news is that the NYTimes and Congress hasn't noticed it.
That's why the cowards prefer "soft targets" like moms shopping with their kids.
I knew this in Africa, where they preferred killing unarmed nuns than trying to attack a farmer or shopkeeper who had an Uzzi.

But of course the World Council of churches and all the good people in the world backed the "freedom fighters, and as a result starvation and economic ruin stalk Zimbabwe.