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A British man pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to bomb high-profile targets in the United States including the Internationa
stanley uk l Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington and the New York Stock Exchange.Judge Neil Butterfield deferred sentencing of Dhiran Barot, 32, but did not announce a date. Among the charges he faced was conspiracy to commit murder; the maximum sentence is life in prison. I plead guilty, Barot said in a clear voice at Woolwich Crown Court.Prosecutors said the plot, foiled by Barot s arrest in 2004, involved targets in both Britain and the United States. Other alleged targets included the World Bank headquarters in Washington, the Citigroup building in New York and the Prudential building in Newark, New Jersey.Seven other men are due to face trial next year. Prosecutor Edward Lawson said Barot planned to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning. They were plainly designed to kill as many people as possible. In Britain, Barot planned to pack gas cylinders into three limousines and detonate
stanley cup them in underground parking garages, Law said.This plan, found on a computer, was described by Mr. Barot as the main cornerstone of attacks planned to take place in the U.K., Lawson said. The gas limos project was supplemented by three other projects which were presented for consid
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It sounds poetic, but it apparently true: in the Amazon, bees and, more often, butterflies, flap around the heads of turtles to drink their salty, salty tears. It truly a sight to behold. Really, I would recommend heading over to LiveScience to see some of the photographs of butterflies crowding the faces of turtles. The butterflies sometimes blind the turtles, sometimes making them oblivious to photographers and easier to capture on camera. Phil Torres, a researcher at the Tambopata Research Center in Peru, told
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