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2B Daily News – Monday, December 26, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Christmas Day blasts at Nigerian churches mar pope's appeal for peace VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI issued pleas for peace to reign across the world dur- ing his traditional Christmas address Sunday, a call marred by Muslim extrem- ists who bombed a Catholic church in Nigeria, striking after worshippers celebrated Mass. The assault on the Catholic church left 35 dead in Madalla, near the Niger- ian capital. A failed bomb- ing also occurred near a church in the city of Jos, fol- lowed by a shooting that killed a police officer. The blast came a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombs in Jos claimed by Islamist militants killed 32. Benedict didn't refer explicitly to the Nigerian bombings in his ''Urbi et Orbi'' speech, Latin for ''to the city and to the world'' in which he raises alarm about world hotspots. But in a statement, the Vatican called the attacks a sign of ''cruelty and absurd, blind hatred'' that shows no respect for human life. Elsewhere, Christmas was celebrated with the typ- ical joy of the season: In Cuba, Catholics had plenty to cheer as they prepared for Benedict's March arrival, the first visit by a pontiff to the Communist-run island since John Paul II's historic tour nearly 14 years ago. 'Anonymous' hacking network attacks US think tank LONDON (AP) — The loose-knit hacking movement ''Anony- mous'' claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal infor- mation belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Strat- for. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals' accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims con- firmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards. Anonymous boasted of stealing Stratfor's confidential client list, which includes entities ranging from Apple Inc. to the U.S. Air Force to the Miami Police Department, and mining it for more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses. Austin, Texas-based Stratfor provides politi- cal, economic and mili- tary analysis to help clients reduce risk, according to a descrip- tion on its YouTube page. It charges sub- scribers for its reports and analysis, delivered through the web, emails and videos. The compa- ny's main website was down, with a banner say- ing the ''site is currently undergoing mainte- nance.'' Proprietary informa- tion about the companies and government agen- cies that subscribe to Stratfor's newsletters did not appear to be at any significant risk, howev- er, with the main threat posed to individual employees who had sub- scribed. ''Not so private and secret anymore?'' Anonymous taunted in a message on Twitter, promising that the attack on Stratfor was just the beginning of a Christ- mas-inspired assault on a long list of targets. For the keepers of the Hexagon secret, relief and pride DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal air- port, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the build- ing filled with secrets. They wore protective white jumpsuits, and had to walk through air- shower chambers before entering the sanitized ''cleanroom'' where the equipment was stored. They spoke in code. Few knew the true identity of ''the cus- tomer'' they met in a smoke-filled, wood- paneled conference room where the phone lines were scrambled. When they traveled, they sometimes used false names. At one point in the 1970s there were more than 1,000 people in the Danbury area working on The Secret. 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