The US Almost Nuked North Carolina, Could Militant Mall Takeover Happen Here and Other Web Sightings

Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper

Reuters – Fri, 20 Sep, 2013

Various articles report:

Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people.

260 times more powerful than the device that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a declassified report published Friday in The Guardian.

The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961.

image from:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/asia/pakistan-church-bombing.html?ref=world



Tunisian women 'waging sex jihad in Syria'
The article states:

Tunisian women have travelled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou has told MPs.

"They have sexual relations with 20, 30, 100" militants, the minister told members of the National Constituent Assembly on Thursday.

"After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of 'jihad al-nikah' -- (sexual holy war, in Arabic) -- they come home pregnant," Ben Jeddou told the MPs.

Could It Happen Here?
Could the Seizure of Nairobi mall by al-Shabab militants happen in the USA?

The U.S. suffers from active shooter incidents.  However, could Muslim militants do the same here?  Read and decide for yourself:

Somalis in America fight al-Shabab recruitment


Latest developments on al-Shabab standoff at Kenyan mall in Nairobi

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