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April 21, 2012 | | SWING STATE? 1. John McCain Heats Up Nov. Battle for ArizonaMitt Romney is bringing out the big guns in Arizona: John McCain. Just one day after Vice President Biden’s visit, the senator praised his former foe at a lunch for Romney on Friday—turning it into a let’s-all-rally-behind-Mitt strategy huddle in Scottsdale. The Daily Beast’s Terry Greene Sterling looks at the widening battle for Arizona and its Latino voters. PLOT Afghan officials said Saturday that security forces have taken five militants into custody who brought explosives into the country from Pakistan and planned to use them in an attack on Kabul. Eleven tons of explosives were seized along with the alleged conspirators. The arrests come a week after a series of attack by the Taliban-centered on Kabul that was squashed by Afghan security forces. Three other militants were arrested separately for plotting to assassinate the vice president, officials said. CALM A British-based human-rights organization and activists said on Saturday that the battered Syrian city of Homs suddenly has the appearance of peace about it as United Nations observers are expected Saturday. According to one activist, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have holed up, hiding their tanks in a police station in preparation for the visit. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it’s the first calm the city, which has been devastated by regime attacks, has experienced in over a week. MISSING Othniel Miller, 75, who said he has cooperated with authorities for more than 30 years as they searched for the missing Etan Patz, reiterated his lack of involvement in the disappearance Friday through his lawyer. Interest in Patz’s 1979 disappearance was reignited this week as the FBI and New York police began searching a SoHo basement near where the 6-year-old disappeared, and where the carpenter had a workshop. Law-enforcement officials said they were tearing up the floor and sections of drywall to look for evidence, and that they would sift the dirt beneath the concrete floor for human remains. DISASTER The head of Bhoja Air was grounded Saturday as Pakistan investigates its second air disaster in two years. The man was blocked from leaving the country after a jet from the small domestic carrier went down outside Islamabad on Friday, killing all 127 passengers. Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters that Bhoja Air “seems to be at fault as it had acquired a very old aircraft.” The plane’s black box was recovered from the crash site, which should yield insight into what happened on board before the crash. | | 
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