CNN is reporting that the roughly 10 ounces of explosives Reid had in his shoe were PETN-based plastic explosives: PETN is one of the compounds that makes up plastic explosives such as Semtex, the main ingredient in the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. PETN — Pentaerythrite tetranitrate — is a sophisticated explosive compound and not easily obtained, according to experts, and there

UPI is reporting that wannabe shoe bomber Ricky Reid (or whatever his real name is — I

Brian Dance, a 20-year-old UC-Irvine student, was arrested for beating and raping a 15-year-old girl he met in an online chat room, then arranged to meet at a nearby Orange County mall. He forced her into the backseat of his car, covered her eyes with duct tape, and beat her for a coupla hours with his hands and a belt; he then sexually abused her, robbed her, and carved swastikas

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In yet another example of how Big Media swallows up the little guy, Libertarian Samizdata has lured Chris Pellerito away from his intimate and indy-minded Liberty Blog.