From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Steve
Ewing"  wrote:
>
>In Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", one of the
"weapons" is a device that
>doesn't blow up; it just screams, "I'm a thirty-second bomb!  I'm a
>thirty-second bomb!  29!  28!..."  It's tossed into a church-like place.

One was deployed in Iraq in the last 24 hours, killed almost 1000 people.

(Pilgrims were massed on a bridge in Baghdad, heading for a shrine.
Reportedly, someone yelled that there was a suicide bomber in the crowd.
Panic ensued.)

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