“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.”
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Columnist Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, 13 April)
“We’re talking 47-foot waves knocking jacuzzis on the 12th floor overboard, and people sleeping in hallways in life-jackets.”
James Fraley, a passenger on a cruise ship hit by a freak wave en route to New York from the Bahamas (AP, 17 April)
“They’ll force women to kill their children…It will be like China. It’s the next logical step.”
Karen Brauer of Pharmacists for Life, which is against a proposed US law to require pharmacists to fill prescriptions for drugs such as the pill, regardless of their beliefs (Reuters, 14 April)
“They are almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing. I will only be happy when what I have is better.”
Aircraft mechanic Michael Harriman of Nuremberg, Germany, who claims to have created the world’s most advanced robot sex dolls (Ananova, 18 April)
