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WASHINGTON - Police and other government workers in the U.S. have come in contact with terrorists or people suspected of foreign terror ties more than 6,000 times in the past 28 months, the director of the federal Terrorist Screening Center said Tuesday. The encounters in traffic stops, applications for permits and other situations have resulted in fewer than 60 arrests, said Donna Bucella, whose agency maintains a list of 200,000 people known or suspected to be terrorists. The list contains an additional 150,000 records that have only partial names, Bucella said. The vast majority of people on the list are...

FORT HUACHUCA — Last month, 177 illegal immigrant were detained by post law enforcement and turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol. The number held on the fort last month is about 100 less than February 2005, according to statistics provided by the post public affairs office. Since Oct. 1 through the end of last month 546 illegal immigrants were detained on the fort compared to 940 for the first five months of the previous federal budget year.

PHOENIX ¡ª State election officials are scrambling to interpret a ruling that Arizonans do not need to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote with a federal registration form. Issued Monday by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the ruling amounts to a potential loophole in Proposition 200, the voter-approved initiative that made Arizona the first state in the nation to require proof of citizenship for voter registration. The ruling says "Arizona may not refuse to register individuals to vote in a federal election for failing to provide supplemental proof of citizenship," as required under Prop. 200. In a...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), while offering substantial improvements over the original design. The device, which uses two opposing crystals to generate a powerful electric field, could potentially lead to a portable, battery-operated neutron generator for a variety of applications, from non-destructive testing to detecting explosives and scanning luggage at airports. The new results are described in the Feb. 10 issue of Physical Review Letters. "Our study shows that 'crystal fusion' is a...

ELGIN ¡ª The federal government took to the air to kill 200 coyotes in Southeast Arizona over the past three weeks, in response to ranchers' concerns they were eating calves. Wildlife Services, a federal program formerly known as Animal Damage Control, wrapped up aerial gunning Friday. It hunted on private and public land, including national forest land, used by 10 to 15 ranchers in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the program. A rancher from the Elgin area said every calf lost to a coyote ultimately costs him $500 to...

Unfair Labor Practice On December 22, 2005 NJSCA/FOP 200 Parole Officer State Representative Joseph Martin sent an email to the State Parole Board Chairman John D’Amico regarding three very serious labor related issues. Those issues involved the State Parole Board administration forcing parole officers to become essential status without negotiation, the recent epidemic of involuntary transfers against the negotiated contract, and the grievance procedure (a recent grievance decision in particular). Later that same day, State Parole Board Executive Director Michael Dowling scheduled a meeting with the Parole Officer State Representative for 12/23/05 at 9:00am. The following administration staff were present...

The call to the police came in at 1 a.m. Thursday and sounded like a supermarket tabloid headline. A man in the small Iron Range town of Gilbert was being eaten alive in his home by rats, the caller said. Police needed to do something! Skepticism turned to disbelief when they responded. More than 200 black rats -- a colony originating from one pregnant pet-store type of rat that the mentally disabled man had taken in -- had overrun the small house.

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (August 5, 2005) -- Coming to Iraq, the Marines of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment knew they would be fighting as ‘street cops’ on the roads. The job includes locating hidden bombs before the enemy could use them against the Marines, Iraqi Security Forces and civilians. Their most recent find on a combat patrol brought their total number of bombs found to nearly 200. Over the past six months, they have maintained a ratio of three found to one detonated. “We are successful at this because we are outsmarting them and they’re very predictable,” explained...

/begin my translation N. Korea: 200 Dollar Bounty per Escaped N. Korean Workers in Russia  N. Koreans workers encountered in Khabarovsk     In order to encourage the arrest of N. Korean escapees(N. Korean workers who escaped from N. Korea-operated enterprise inside Russia,) N. Korean Consulate at Khabarovsk, Russia, announced that local Security Dept. of Construction Association is offering a bounty of $200 for catching an escapee, in order to root out this long-running problem.   As a result, N. Korean workers, who can barely earn $300 per month even after back-breaking work, are now abandoning all other efforts to capitalize on the only opportunity for earning large...

Illegal aliens are invading our country and an army of some 20 million now occupy it. 150,000 are known dead in South Asia and up to 1 million are homeless due to the tsunamis. The 109th U.S. Congress is convening. But, don't worry. I've got some good news for you. And, no, I didn't just save a boatload of money on my car insurance. There's a movie sweeping the nation right now, capturing the imaginations of young Americans, making them laugh and entertaining them – and doing all that without sex, violence, obscenity or profanity. There's nothing politically correct about...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. Health officials said more than 200 people died, the Interfax news agency reported. Ninety-five victims were identified - many of them children whose shattered, bloodied bodies were placed on lines of stretchers - and Interfax quoted unnamed sources in the regional Health Ministry as saying more than 200 people were killed by fire from the militants or died from their wounds. Hundreds of hostages...

<p>Republicans yesterday piled on Democrat John Kerry after the revelation that his wife drives a pricey German Audi import while he's preaching the importance of buying American cars to save U.S. jobs.</p> <p>"I don't care what car someone drives, but Kerry is a total hypocrite," said Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who drives a Mercury.</p>

French historians end 200 years of debate on the heart pickled in a doctor's library Jon Henley in Paris Monday December 8, 2003 After years of painstaking research, French historians say they have solved one of the country's most enduring mysteries. They claim a pickled and shrunken heart that has roamed Europe for more than two centuries belonged to Louis XVII, the Boy King, son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. The culture minister, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, said yesterday the experts' verdict, based on historical analysis and DNA tests, meant the remains could be buried in France's royal crypt at Saint-Denis, north...

200 held in Yemen 'to placate US' Brian Whitaker Wednesday September 24, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The US-led "war on terror" has caused a worsening of human rights in Yemen, with the authorities there holding almost 200 people without trial in an effort to placate the Americans, says a report published today. In the months following the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Yemen embarked upon mass arrests, detentions, and the secret deportation of foreign nationals, Amnesty International reports. In the 1990s, Yemen, a poor, mountainous country with porous borders, became a popular refuge for Islamists, many with...

Miller Brewing Co. - faced with declining revenue and market share - is eliminating about 200 jobs, mainly at its Milwaukee corporate headquarters, the company announced Monday. The layoffs, which had been expected, will take place by September, said company spokesman Michael Hennick. Along with the job reduction, some positions will be given new roles, he said. The idea is to create a smaller, more focused corporate structure, Hennick said. Miller has 950 employees in its corporate headquarters and 825 at its Milwaukee brewery. The company has 6,000 employees nationwide. The majority of the jobs to be eliminated are at...

I sent this letter to Andew Sullivan a while ago. If anyone out there has any (strong)anecdotal evidence, or actual evidence, about Living History book sales (or lack thereof), please get the word in here. I'm convinced these numbers are cooked, that someone is trying to manipulate the public, and if we can figure it out and get it revealed...well, that would be a good thing, wouldn't it? 200,000 BOOKS SOLD IN ONE DAY? Dear Mr. Sullivan: I have my doubts. I really, really do. Maybe it's the venues I'm surveying (suburban Pittsburgh), but my fast check of the Barnes...

Korean Reds Hold 200,000 Congress To Hear Testimony Today By ADAM DAIFALLAH Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON — North Korea is holding more than 200,000 innocent people in 12 secret concentration camps that are the sites of "the worst crimes against humanity in the 21 st century," a survivor of one such camp will tell Congress today. Soon Ok Lee, who defected from North Korean in 1994, was held prisoner in the Kaechon prison camp from 1987 to 1992. In testimony scheduled for delivery today before the House Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights, she will lay...

Death toll tops 200 as countries struggle to stem spread of diseaseSars Outbreak The cost to the global economy may reach £19bn, says WHO as a sense of crisis increases in China By Paul Peachey 21 April 2003 The worldwide death toll from the Sars virus yesterday topped 200 as a sharp rise in casualties revealed that a hardcore of stricken countries was failing to stem the outbreak. Among the 26 nations affected so far, a clear split has emerged. The majority, which has its relatively small number of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) under control, and others...

200 Iraqis Storm Their Embassy in Iran TEHRAN, Iran - About 200 Iraqis stormed their embassy in the Iranian capital Friday morning, smashing photographs of Saddam Hussein and shouting against both the missing Iraqi leader and the possibility the United States would run the government that replaces him. About 60 people were arrested. Police said no Iraqi diplomats had been in the building in central Tehran since Thursday. About a dozen police were guarding the embassy Friday, too few to hold back the angry crowd. "No Saddam! No U.S. puppet regime! We want freedom!" the crowd chanted as it smashed...