Hit by tank
The military said the cause of the accident was being investigated, while Viken said the driver told him that he lost control after the vehicle struck an ice patch.
It has not been good week for Norwegian tank drivers.
On Wednesday, a 40-ton Leopard tank ran over a nearly new Mercedes-Benz on a roadway, flattening half the car but causing no injuries.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=10&u=/ap/20050307/ap_on_fe_st/tank_vs_house
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow has been making quiet inroads into the development of Earth orbiting inflatable modules. The privately built and financed habitable structures would be available for research, manufacturing, and other uses, including lodging for future space tourists.
Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada is eying launch early next year of Genesis Pathfinder spacecraft – a shakeout of systems to be used on a full-scale inflatable space structure dubbed the Nautilus, and now referred to as the BA-330.
The original plan scripted by Bigelow Aerospace called for launch late this year of the firm’s inflatable design aboard the Falcon V – a derivative of the behind-schedule Falcon 1 booster being developed by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of El Segundo, California, bankrolled and led by chief rocketeer, Elon Musk. But delays in getting the Falcon 1 airborne have pushed that date back.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050308_bigelow_update.html
China's Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) won clearance from a U.S. national security oversight committee to acquire IBM's (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) personal computer business, the companies said on Wednesday, overcoming resistance from some U.S. lawmakers
http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7851572
Polar bears range well south of the adventurous grizzlies.
The northward-migrating grizzlies are visible examples of climate changes occurring in the Arctic, according to the team of geologists, which includes John England of the University of Alberta.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050309_grizly_north.html
The tendency of some mothers to coddle their sons may be ingrained, at least in species where males compete for mates.
A recent study of Iberian red deer on a research farm has shown that mothers produce more milk of higher growth-potential for a male calf than a female one. The reason appears to be a genetic advantage, seeing as healthier, stronger males will mate more often – spreading the mother’s genes.
The researchers studied 60 female deer, which – over five years – produced 44 male and 47 female offspring. In collecting milk samples, the researchers took account of the weights of mother and fawn in their analysis.
In equal circumstances, sons were not only given more milk, but the milk was also three percent higher in protein concentration than what females were given
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050307_gender_milk.html
The mysterious booms that rocked much of downtown Saturday night may remain forever a mystery.
About 8:20 p.m., 911 dispatchers started getting a wave of calls reporting the booms, said Shawn Cline, the hazardous-materials coordinator for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Office of Emergency Management. The calls covered an area of downtown between Glade and Cherry streets, from Brookstown Avenue to the south and West 24th Street to the north, he said.
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781442169&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099
[In the photo the crocodile is as big as the pickup truck next to it.]
A 16-foot-long (5-meter-long) crocodile said to have eaten more than 80 people has been caught alive in Uganda and transferred to a sanctuary, officials said Tuesday.
advertisement
The giant beast — weighing about a ton — was captured by wildlife experts who spent three nights camping in the bush before locating their target
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7127983/
Two elderly Vietnamese relatives of people who died of bird flu have tested positive for the deadly virus despite showing no symptoms, health officials said Wednesday.
Monkeys can deduce what other monkeys and humans think, want and see based on visual cues, according to a new paper.
The study, in this week's issue of the journal Current Biology, is the first to show that monkeys, like humans, not only react to visual information, they can also use it to reason about the behaviour of others.
The findings suggest that certain human cognition skills are not as rare as once thought.
They also indicate that the ability to reason did not evolve in humans. Instead, the brainy trait probably passed down to us from our ape ancestors.
http://www.rense.com/general63/mindmonk.htm
A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.
Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.
"I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Abou Rabeh said.
"We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed," he said.
He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor.Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to surrender. ...There is no point in resisting."
"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.
Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon.
http://www.rense.com/general63/sad.htm
An inquiry commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday recommended possible prosecution of public officials for helping to spread unauthorized settler outposts in the occupied West Bank.
Israel is meant to remove the outposts under a U.S.-backed peace plan, but the report said officials at the defense and housing ministries and the quasi-governmental World Zionist Organization as well as army administrators had worked to encourage them.
Former state prosecutor Talia Sassoon said her investigation had found "blatant violations of the law that threaten the rule of law in Israel.
http://www.rense.com/general63/issr.htm
[Well thank goodness we went in here and saved Afghanistan and made it safe for drug traffickers. They are truly an oppressed minority worthy of our support.]
The country's illicit opium/heroin production "can be viewed, for all practical purposes, as the rough equivalent of world illicit heroin production," the report said, and "it represents an enormous threat to world stability."
Afghanistan's opium production of 4,950 metric tons dwarfed that of second-place Myanmar by 17 times. Some 40-60 percent of Afghanistan's GDP is attributed to narcotics, the report found.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/afghan.narcotics.ap/index.html
U.S. military officials in Iraq had approved an Italian intelligence officer's mission to free a kidnapped journalist and were expecting their arrival at Baghdad's airport last Friday when U.S. soldiers opened fire on the Italians at a checkpoint, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday.
In a speech, Berlusconi provided new details of how the Italians worked over the past month to free journalist Giuliani Sgrena from her Iraqi kidnappers, only to have the effort end in the death of the Italian intelligence officer who arrived in Baghdad that day to receive her from her captors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20088-2005Mar9?language=printer
The dollar weakened broadly on Wednesday with selling pressure unabated following a technically driven sell-off in the previous session.
Two days ahead of U.S. trade data, concerns about the U.S. current account deficit and the willingness of foreigners to continue funding it are adding to the dollar's woes.
Constant talk of central bank reserve diversification, Middle East tensions and instability were just more reasons to sell cited by investors wary of holding dollars.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7856829
[This is why the dollar is falling. the value of the dollar rests on the economy. A trash economy can only produce trash dollars.]
The US has apparently lost the ability to create high productivity, high value-added jobs in tradable goods and services. The ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled by offshore production for home markets and outsourcing of knowledge jobs.
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/050308_jobs.htm
Exactly 50 years ago a secret, heated debate took place among the leaders of Israel. David Ben-Gurion (then Minister of Defense) and Moshe Dayan (the army Chief-of-Staff) had a brilliant idea: to invade Lebanon, impose on it a "Christian major" as dictator and turn it into an Israeli protectorate. Moshe Sharett, the then Prime Minister, attacked this idea fervently. In a lengthy, closely argued letter, which has been preserved for history, he ridiculed the total ignorance of the proponents of this idea in face of the incredibly fragile complexity of the Lebanese social structure. Any adventure, he warned, would end in disaster.
At the time, Sharett won. But 27 years later, Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon did exactly what Ben-Gurion and Dayan had proposed. The result was exactly as foreseen by Sharett.
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery03072005.html
And for all the worry about Osama bin Laden's sleeper cells or agents in the United States, a secret FBI assessment concludes it knows of none.
The 32-page assessment says flatly, "To date, we have not identified any true 'sleeper' agents in the US," seemingly contradicting the "sleeper cell" description prosecutors assigned to seven men in Lackawanna, N.Y., in 2002.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=566425&page=1
The cure is worse than the disease
In a pattern that's repeated itself in Canada and Australia, violent crime has continued to go up in Great Britain despite a complete ban on handguns, most rifles and many shotguns. The broad ban that went into effect in 1997 was trumpeted by the British government as a cure for violent crime. The cure has proven to be much worse than the disease.
Crime rates in England have skyrocketed since the ban was enacted. According to economist John Lott of the American Enterprise Institute, the violent crime rate has risen 69 percent since 1996, with robbery rising 45 percent and murders rising 54 percent. This is even more alarming when you consider that from 1993 to 1997 armed robberies had fallen by 50 percent. Recent information released by the British Home Office shows that trend is continuing.
Reports released in October 2004 indicate that during the second quarter of 2004, violent crime rose 11 percent; violence against persons rose 14 percent.
The British experience is further proof that gun bans don't reduce crime and, in fact, may increase it. The gun ban creates ready victims for criminals, denying law-abiding people the opportunity to defend themselves.
http://www.record-bee.com/Stories/0,1413,255~33909~2743079,00.html
Elizabeth school officials believe a teacher wrote racist cards to himself and two other black colleagues.
The school board fired Rondell Taylor after consulting a handwriting expert.
Officials think Taylor may have sent the cards because he wanted a transfer from Peterstown School Number Three.
Taylor has not been charged criminally and police are still investigating the November incident.
Taylor's attorney says he believes his client was fired for reporting the incident.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/3905-racistcards.html
[What could possibly be more reprehensible than turning people’s unborn children into hideously dsifgiured monsters? If there is any such thing as a crime against humanity that is it.]
Information collected for a German project investigating the use of uranium-charged ammunition in Iraq shows that when Iraqi women fear for their children's health, it is with good reason.
After two wars where oil wells were torched, chemical factories bombed and radioactive ammunition fired, the first thing Iraqi women ask when giving birth is not if it is a boy or a girl, but if it is normal or deformed. The number of cancer cases and children born with deformities has skyrocketed after the two Gulf Wars.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1510710,00.html
[On the upside, the rating system only goes down to “F”, so we shouldn’t have to worry about too much more decline.]
The American way of life is taking a hit from a crumbling infrastructure.
A report being released today by the American Society of Civil Engineers gives it a rating of "D," down from a "D-plus" two years ago.
http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=FFC6AF81-55DD-42A6-BAF9-0F94DC9D7773
[The Israeli military knows nothing about clamping down on terrorists. They have assassinated the head of Hamas so many times no one even pays attention anymore.
If the Israelis are so good at stamping out terrorism why do they have more terrorism than any other country on the face of the planet Earth?]
The Israeli military knows a thing or two about clamping down on terrorists. And it has some advice for the Pentagon: “You can’t fight terror [conclusively] in the midst of a counter-insurgency campaign" like Iraq, Lt. Col. Erez Wiener, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) division operations chief for the West Bank region, tells Defense Daily. "It requires continuous presence in the field and operations amongst the entire population."
"Impersonation units," have been key to the Israeli anti-terror fight Erez says.
Of the 2,200 arrests Israelis made in the West Bank last year, about 1,500 were conducted by special operation forces (SOF), including 366 by a special Arab impersonation unit, he explained. These specially selected and trained personnel have demonstrated the ability to completely blend into the opposing population for intelligence and operational purposes.
The unit would be a component of a much wider military and intelligence campaign designed to create an infrastructure for human intelligence gathering and rapid dissemination, he said. “You must be able to get the kind of timely information, like ‘[a terrorist] is planning on detonating a bomb at that intersection right there the next time one of your vehicles passes.’”
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001424.html
An aggression against Venezuela by the United States could lead to an increase in the petroleum market to up to 100 dollars per barrel, warned Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez.
During an interview broadcasted Monday by State-owned television station VTV, Ramirez, who is also President of State-run petroleumcompany PDVSA, warned that a chaos in the petroleum market would occur should an abrupt aggression took place.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/08/content_2665164.htm
[I could easily believe this is true, but it could also be the case that the cops planted a gun on her to discredit her. I don’t tihnk the cops have to look too far to find a gun lying around with the serial numbers filed off.]
THE STATE-JOURNAL REGISTER in Springfield, Ill., reports that the head of the local chapter of the Million Mom March, an anti-gun-violence group, has been arrested for having an illegal firearm.
Annette "Flirty" Stevens got involved in the gun-control movement after her son was killed in 2002. Last week, police executing a search warrant at her home found a gun with an allegedly scratched-off serial number, which is against the law.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/032005/03072005/1691117
It has not been good week for Norwegian tank drivers.
On Wednesday, a 40-ton Leopard tank ran over a nearly new Mercedes-Benz on a roadway, flattening half the car but causing no injuries.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=10&u=/ap/20050307/ap_on_fe_st/tank_vs_house
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow has been making quiet inroads into the development of Earth orbiting inflatable modules. The privately built and financed habitable structures would be available for research, manufacturing, and other uses, including lodging for future space tourists.
Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada is eying launch early next year of Genesis Pathfinder spacecraft – a shakeout of systems to be used on a full-scale inflatable space structure dubbed the Nautilus, and now referred to as the BA-330.
The original plan scripted by Bigelow Aerospace called for launch late this year of the firm’s inflatable design aboard the Falcon V – a derivative of the behind-schedule Falcon 1 booster being developed by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of El Segundo, California, bankrolled and led by chief rocketeer, Elon Musk. But delays in getting the Falcon 1 airborne have pushed that date back.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050308_bigelow_update.html
China's Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) won clearance from a U.S. national security oversight committee to acquire IBM's (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) personal computer business, the companies said on Wednesday, overcoming resistance from some U.S. lawmakers
http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7851572
Polar bears range well south of the adventurous grizzlies.
The northward-migrating grizzlies are visible examples of climate changes occurring in the Arctic, according to the team of geologists, which includes John England of the University of Alberta.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050309_grizly_north.html
The tendency of some mothers to coddle their sons may be ingrained, at least in species where males compete for mates.
A recent study of Iberian red deer on a research farm has shown that mothers produce more milk of higher growth-potential for a male calf than a female one. The reason appears to be a genetic advantage, seeing as healthier, stronger males will mate more often – spreading the mother’s genes.
The researchers studied 60 female deer, which – over five years – produced 44 male and 47 female offspring. In collecting milk samples, the researchers took account of the weights of mother and fawn in their analysis.
In equal circumstances, sons were not only given more milk, but the milk was also three percent higher in protein concentration than what females were given
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050307_gender_milk.html
The mysterious booms that rocked much of downtown Saturday night may remain forever a mystery.
About 8:20 p.m., 911 dispatchers started getting a wave of calls reporting the booms, said Shawn Cline, the hazardous-materials coordinator for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Office of Emergency Management. The calls covered an area of downtown between Glade and Cherry streets, from Brookstown Avenue to the south and West 24th Street to the north, he said.
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781442169&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099
[In the photo the crocodile is as big as the pickup truck next to it.]
A 16-foot-long (5-meter-long) crocodile said to have eaten more than 80 people has been caught alive in Uganda and transferred to a sanctuary, officials said Tuesday.
advertisement
The giant beast — weighing about a ton — was captured by wildlife experts who spent three nights camping in the bush before locating their target
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7127983/
Two elderly Vietnamese relatives of people who died of bird flu have tested positive for the deadly virus despite showing no symptoms, health officials said Wednesday.
Monkeys can deduce what other monkeys and humans think, want and see based on visual cues, according to a new paper.
The study, in this week's issue of the journal Current Biology, is the first to show that monkeys, like humans, not only react to visual information, they can also use it to reason about the behaviour of others.
The findings suggest that certain human cognition skills are not as rare as once thought.
They also indicate that the ability to reason did not evolve in humans. Instead, the brainy trait probably passed down to us from our ape ancestors.
http://www.rense.com/general63/mindmonk.htm
A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.
Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.
"I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Abou Rabeh said.
"We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed," he said.
He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor.Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to surrender. ...There is no point in resisting."
"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.
Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon.
http://www.rense.com/general63/sad.htm
An inquiry commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday recommended possible prosecution of public officials for helping to spread unauthorized settler outposts in the occupied West Bank.
Israel is meant to remove the outposts under a U.S.-backed peace plan, but the report said officials at the defense and housing ministries and the quasi-governmental World Zionist Organization as well as army administrators had worked to encourage them.
Former state prosecutor Talia Sassoon said her investigation had found "blatant violations of the law that threaten the rule of law in Israel.
http://www.rense.com/general63/issr.htm
[Well thank goodness we went in here and saved Afghanistan and made it safe for drug traffickers. They are truly an oppressed minority worthy of our support.]
The country's illicit opium/heroin production "can be viewed, for all practical purposes, as the rough equivalent of world illicit heroin production," the report said, and "it represents an enormous threat to world stability."
Afghanistan's opium production of 4,950 metric tons dwarfed that of second-place Myanmar by 17 times. Some 40-60 percent of Afghanistan's GDP is attributed to narcotics, the report found.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/afghan.narcotics.ap/index.html
U.S. military officials in Iraq had approved an Italian intelligence officer's mission to free a kidnapped journalist and were expecting their arrival at Baghdad's airport last Friday when U.S. soldiers opened fire on the Italians at a checkpoint, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday.
In a speech, Berlusconi provided new details of how the Italians worked over the past month to free journalist Giuliani Sgrena from her Iraqi kidnappers, only to have the effort end in the death of the Italian intelligence officer who arrived in Baghdad that day to receive her from her captors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20088-2005Mar9?language=printer
The dollar weakened broadly on Wednesday with selling pressure unabated following a technically driven sell-off in the previous session.
Two days ahead of U.S. trade data, concerns about the U.S. current account deficit and the willingness of foreigners to continue funding it are adding to the dollar's woes.
Constant talk of central bank reserve diversification, Middle East tensions and instability were just more reasons to sell cited by investors wary of holding dollars.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7856829
[This is why the dollar is falling. the value of the dollar rests on the economy. A trash economy can only produce trash dollars.]
The US has apparently lost the ability to create high productivity, high value-added jobs in tradable goods and services. The ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled by offshore production for home markets and outsourcing of knowledge jobs.
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/050308_jobs.htm
Exactly 50 years ago a secret, heated debate took place among the leaders of Israel. David Ben-Gurion (then Minister of Defense) and Moshe Dayan (the army Chief-of-Staff) had a brilliant idea: to invade Lebanon, impose on it a "Christian major" as dictator and turn it into an Israeli protectorate. Moshe Sharett, the then Prime Minister, attacked this idea fervently. In a lengthy, closely argued letter, which has been preserved for history, he ridiculed the total ignorance of the proponents of this idea in face of the incredibly fragile complexity of the Lebanese social structure. Any adventure, he warned, would end in disaster.
At the time, Sharett won. But 27 years later, Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon did exactly what Ben-Gurion and Dayan had proposed. The result was exactly as foreseen by Sharett.
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery03072005.html
And for all the worry about Osama bin Laden's sleeper cells or agents in the United States, a secret FBI assessment concludes it knows of none.
The 32-page assessment says flatly, "To date, we have not identified any true 'sleeper' agents in the US," seemingly contradicting the "sleeper cell" description prosecutors assigned to seven men in Lackawanna, N.Y., in 2002.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=566425&page=1
The cure is worse than the disease
In a pattern that's repeated itself in Canada and Australia, violent crime has continued to go up in Great Britain despite a complete ban on handguns, most rifles and many shotguns. The broad ban that went into effect in 1997 was trumpeted by the British government as a cure for violent crime. The cure has proven to be much worse than the disease.
Crime rates in England have skyrocketed since the ban was enacted. According to economist John Lott of the American Enterprise Institute, the violent crime rate has risen 69 percent since 1996, with robbery rising 45 percent and murders rising 54 percent. This is even more alarming when you consider that from 1993 to 1997 armed robberies had fallen by 50 percent. Recent information released by the British Home Office shows that trend is continuing.
Reports released in October 2004 indicate that during the second quarter of 2004, violent crime rose 11 percent; violence against persons rose 14 percent.
The British experience is further proof that gun bans don't reduce crime and, in fact, may increase it. The gun ban creates ready victims for criminals, denying law-abiding people the opportunity to defend themselves.
http://www.record-bee.com/Stories/0,1413,255~33909~2743079,00.html
Elizabeth school officials believe a teacher wrote racist cards to himself and two other black colleagues.
The school board fired Rondell Taylor after consulting a handwriting expert.
Officials think Taylor may have sent the cards because he wanted a transfer from Peterstown School Number Three.
Taylor has not been charged criminally and police are still investigating the November incident.
Taylor's attorney says he believes his client was fired for reporting the incident.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/3905-racistcards.html
[What could possibly be more reprehensible than turning people’s unborn children into hideously dsifgiured monsters? If there is any such thing as a crime against humanity that is it.]
Information collected for a German project investigating the use of uranium-charged ammunition in Iraq shows that when Iraqi women fear for their children's health, it is with good reason.
After two wars where oil wells were torched, chemical factories bombed and radioactive ammunition fired, the first thing Iraqi women ask when giving birth is not if it is a boy or a girl, but if it is normal or deformed. The number of cancer cases and children born with deformities has skyrocketed after the two Gulf Wars.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1510710,00.html
[On the upside, the rating system only goes down to “F”, so we shouldn’t have to worry about too much more decline.]
The American way of life is taking a hit from a crumbling infrastructure.
A report being released today by the American Society of Civil Engineers gives it a rating of "D," down from a "D-plus" two years ago.
http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=FFC6AF81-55DD-42A6-BAF9-0F94DC9D7773
[The Israeli military knows nothing about clamping down on terrorists. They have assassinated the head of Hamas so many times no one even pays attention anymore.
If the Israelis are so good at stamping out terrorism why do they have more terrorism than any other country on the face of the planet Earth?]
The Israeli military knows a thing or two about clamping down on terrorists. And it has some advice for the Pentagon: “You can’t fight terror [conclusively] in the midst of a counter-insurgency campaign" like Iraq, Lt. Col. Erez Wiener, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) division operations chief for the West Bank region, tells Defense Daily. "It requires continuous presence in the field and operations amongst the entire population."
"Impersonation units," have been key to the Israeli anti-terror fight Erez says.
Of the 2,200 arrests Israelis made in the West Bank last year, about 1,500 were conducted by special operation forces (SOF), including 366 by a special Arab impersonation unit, he explained. These specially selected and trained personnel have demonstrated the ability to completely blend into the opposing population for intelligence and operational purposes.
The unit would be a component of a much wider military and intelligence campaign designed to create an infrastructure for human intelligence gathering and rapid dissemination, he said. “You must be able to get the kind of timely information, like ‘[a terrorist] is planning on detonating a bomb at that intersection right there the next time one of your vehicles passes.’”
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001424.html
An aggression against Venezuela by the United States could lead to an increase in the petroleum market to up to 100 dollars per barrel, warned Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez.
During an interview broadcasted Monday by State-owned television station VTV, Ramirez, who is also President of State-run petroleumcompany PDVSA, warned that a chaos in the petroleum market would occur should an abrupt aggression took place.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/08/content_2665164.htm
[I could easily believe this is true, but it could also be the case that the cops planted a gun on her to discredit her. I don’t tihnk the cops have to look too far to find a gun lying around with the serial numbers filed off.]
THE STATE-JOURNAL REGISTER in Springfield, Ill., reports that the head of the local chapter of the Million Mom March, an anti-gun-violence group, has been arrested for having an illegal firearm.
Annette "Flirty" Stevens got involved in the gun-control movement after her son was killed in 2002. Last week, police executing a search warrant at her home found a gun with an allegedly scratched-off serial number, which is against the law.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/032005/03072005/1691117
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