From the Semiautonomous Tribal Area Times

13 Year Old Recruit Wins Al Qaeda Junior Chess Championship

North Waziristan, Pakistan - Nami Alzeri accepts his trophy from camp commander Mohammed al-Mohammed after besting a group of 18 young recruits in the annual four round swiss. Nami, who has been training for the past six months for martyrdom operations in the West, was quite pleased with his accomplishment. "God willing," he said, "Osama will be as pleased, when I bring the same destruction upon the infidels that my opponents experienced over the board."

We say, Allah Akbar, to that.

Speaking of bishops...

One of the diagonal movers is terrorizing the US investment management industry:

While full-fledged investigations are under way into the pipe bombs sent to industry shops last month and a string of earlier threatening letters, the key to thwarting future attacks may be in decoding "the Bishop."

Some speculate the culprit could be from the industry, but federal authorities are tight-lipped about their progress in the investigation and their profiling of the person, or persons, responsible. However, observers say there are likely some distinguishing characteristics to be on the lookout for to help unmask the Bishop, the name used by the individual who sent the packages.

Last month packages containing explosive devices and threatening letters were sent via U.S. mail to an American Century facility in Kansas City and Janus in Denver. The Janus package was forwarded to the Chicago office of Perkins Wolf McDonnell, a brokerage and advisory firm with which it does business. Both parcels were defused.

The pipe-bomb packages were the latest in a string of threats by the Bishop sent to financial institutions. Past letters contained references to the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, and D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo as well as demands that firms manipulate stock prices to equal $6.66. They also discussed kidnappings and killing.

From "Who Is the Mysterious Fund-Bombing Bishop?" at Ignites.

Related article

Don't teach terrorists how to play chess

At the American Chronicle, Dale Netherton describes the war on terror as a battle between Chess-masters and Tantrum Throwers.

These two antagonists have reappeared over and over in history and the result of their clashes is overwhelmingly in favor of the chess-master.