s latest move with jacob sullum senior editor of reason magazine and reason dot com and the. news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying operation to rule the day. i. did you hear that over the weekend there was another major terrorism arrest here in the u.s. nineteen year old mohamed osman mohamud was arraigned this afternoon on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction of the maximum penalty here is life in prison a mama was arrested friday night in portland after f.b.i. agents say that he tried to detonate what he thought was a massive car bomb at a holiday tree lighting ceremony now the arrest of muhammad was the result of a very long undercover operation by the feds who reportedly alerted to muhammad by his father several months ago and the thirty six page arrest warrant lays out in detail a plan designed to kill or injure thousands of portland residents including women and children they were all attending this annual christmas tree lighting ceremony according to the arrest warrant

sullum of reason magazine on the reaction to this new study next we'll have satirical rapper go remy perform his latest rap saudis without he's live on the show with war recession the endless negativity surrounding tomorrow's elections maybe the only thing to do is to rap and to laugh and earlier we brought you the amazing story of karen o. she's a duke student who made an entire forty two slide power point presentation about all the fine duke men that she took to the sleeping bag and now the duke history department is holding an informal discussion on karen's particular historical context really does being a slutty college student really require an academic form that's going to be a piano tonight's show but now let's move on to tonight's top story. after last week's failed mail bombing attempt suspected to be planted. by militants in yemen rumors of escalated u.s. force there are heating up according to the wall street journal support is growing within both the military and the obama administration to shift more control to the cia including putting in and leads hunter killer teams t

sullum. now while many are waiting for the latest cables from whistle blowing website wiki leaks to drop some countries are still trying to get details from there last week in light of wiki leaks iraq documents that mark has attempted to launch an internal investigation but as our correspondent explains their investigation led to some very bizarre realisations. defense officials seem to be on a quest for the truth of the week you leaks after the whistleblower web site released thousands of iraq war logs showing prisoner abuse in iraq denmark launched its own investigation to find out whether danish soldiers were involved if anything had happened in a wrong way of course we should be open about that at first they turned to nato and the united states for help with no luck get the documents from the americans because the americans of a close ally often mark in these documents are american after being refused access to information by nato and their american counterparts. to turn to wiki leaks iro

sullum from reason magazine on whether or not that will really do any damage control and else we vons today's top story. cyber monday has taken on an entirely new meaning whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has dropped the first batch of two hundred and fifty thousand diplomatic cables that are shedding light on what the u.s. knows about other countries around the world aside as leaked information about not only intentions by the u.s. . yes but from other powerful leaders as well and here are just a few of the cables that were officially released by newspapers yesterday we'll start with pakistan cable explains that the us and london were deeply worried about pakistan's nuclear weapons program and their fears are primarily based on the fact of the government is facing severe economic problems and as government employees are suffering they might be more tempted to smuggle out nuclear materials to get the terrorists to make bombs now the cables also turn to saudi arabia what it's where it's been determined that saudi donors are in fact the biggest fight and series of terrorist groups it'