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POPSDANISH CARTOONIST: 'I Don't Allow Fanatics to Intimidate Me' SPIEGEL ONLINE: Even after Danish police broke up a plot (more...) to kill you in February? Did that not scare you? Westergaard: Of course, it is scary. But the feeling that I have is anger. Anger is a very positive feeling when you are threatened. Then you feel that you strike back. So my feeling of anger about being threatened just for doing my job is a good thing.
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POPSMd. woman sues state for right to massage horses Equinology, Inc., a Gualala, Calif.-based massage school, says when it began operating about 15 years ago, a couple hundred people took its horse massage therapy courses. Now, almost 900 sign up each year. Company vice president Paul Hougard said there were just a few schools when his company started but estimates there are now about 50 across the country. The National Board of Certification for Animal Acupressure and Massage plans to start an online exam next month to create credential standards. Among other things, it will test massage techniques, anatomy, ethics and animal behavior.
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POPSBritish crime lords rule £40 billion underworld “British gangs are quite unlike the Italian Mafia model or the Turkish groups,” he said. “There are no set ranks, rules and structures. They are more fluid, flexible and opportunist.” Many foreign gangs active in Britain are based overseas and exploit the 11,000-mile coastline and security weaknesses at sea ports to smuggle drugs, guns and counterfeit goods into the country. Much of the media coverage of gangs has concentrated on turf wars and feuds, but serious criminal activity is focused on making money.
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POPSIsrael Considers Military Option for Iran Nukes Estimated that Iran is several years or as much as a decade away from being able to field a bomb, as Israel claims, but are concerned that Iran is working faster than anticipated to add centrifuges, the workhorses of uranium enrichment.
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POPSTaliban threaten suicide bombings in Pakistan Under the pact, militants agreed to recognize the government's authority and halt attacks in return for the release of prisoners and government concessions on implementation of Islamic law. Umar accused the government of violating the accord. He threatened suicide bombings and other attacks targeting the government and senior officials.
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POPS A Video Threat to the Olympics The video begins with Beijing's Olympic logo in flames and with a grainy image of a sports facility superimposed with an animated bomb blast.
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