Terrorist Attack at Antonia Concert

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"...Praise the Cardinal, this was far less severe than it could have been. Let this be an example to all, that we should be ever diligent against the Darkness, and not tolerate talk of 'revenge' within our midst. Trouble-makers of this sort must be taken seriously ... and dealt with accordingly."

A unit of Bauhaus Blitzers -- military demolitions specialists -- has removed detonators from tanks of highly explosive chemicals, and is in the process of disassembling and moving the machinery and chemicals away from the premises, under the supervision of the Brotherhood. Feldspar Auditorium has been closed down until cleanup operations can be completed, due to damage sustained in the attack, as well as fears of high levels of radioactivity and airborne contaminants.

The Brotherhood reports that the capture and questioning of several of the terrorists aboard a hijacked zeppelin has led to multiple arrests, in the ongoing crackdown on the so-called "Armageddon Cult".

The Second Directorate has required that the identities of individual agents involved in thwarting the plans of the heretical terrorists not be revealed in the public media at this time, for their personal safety during the course of the crackdown. However, superstar Antonia pledged that one of the agents directly involved in stopping the makeshift bomb would be given, as a token of her gratitude, the vintage Sky Shark Systems KA-67 Great Grey Mk. I jetbike used in the performance.

Hikaru Tanaka, heir apparent of the late head of Tanaka Electric, Hiroshi Tanaka, was executed yesterday, denied the right to commit seppuku, or, that is, to have an honorable death. He was found guilty of patricide (that is, the murder of his father), and of several other lesser charges, in connection with the incident that occurred last month at the Pagoda Garden in the Elles District in the Perimeter, where Hiroshi Tanaka was slain by a booby-trapped table that Hikaru had rigged up at his father's favorite spot. No motive was determined in the case, though sources claim that it was a combination of Hikaru's desire to hasten his father's "retirement" so he could take over the company, and jealousy over a lady "consort" of his father's.

Witnesses attest that Hikaru begged and pleaded for mercy and wept openly, "screaming like a baby", rather than going with dignity.