“A weapon of mass destruction in our world…includes improvised explosive devices.”
US deputy attorney-general James B. Comey after three UK nationals were charged with conspiring to use WMDs (press briefing, 12 April)
“Anyone who has flown on a private jet since 9/11 can tell you that security at private terminals is still so lax that if you showed up in a Saudi headdress with a North Carolina driver’s license under the name of “Billy Bob bin Laden” and ask for flight directions to Manhattan, there’s a good chance no one would stop you.”
Columnist Thomas Friedman (The New York Times…
