[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

You probably have a COSTCO.

COSCO is Chinese Overseas Shipping Corp. Owned by People's Liberation Army Finance minister, Li Kashing. COSCO is the undercover version of the Chinese navy. They smuggle people an weapons and who knows what in their shipping containers. They also control the Panama canal and have shipping control over the Suez canal and a grip on almost every strategic ocean choke point in the world.

[JustPiper]

Saudis Find Al Qaeda Training Camps

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi authorities have discovered a number of camps outside Saudi cities used for training militants to carry out terror operations, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.
Two key militant figures killed in terror sweeps last year — Turki Nasser al-Dandani and Yosif Salih Fahd Ala'yeeri — commanded the camps, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. More camp leaders are being sought, the official said.

Al-Dandani and Ala'yeeri were on a list of 19 Al Qaeda operatives sought after the May 6 discovery of a Riyadh (search) weapons cache. The group was said to be taking orders directly from Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden and linked to the May 12 bombings in Riyadh that killed 26 victims.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108494,00.html

[JustPiper]

CNN

NORAD: D.C. airways still vulnerable
01/15/04
U.S. and Canadian military aircraft have scrambled nearly 1,700 times to intercept or divert suspicious aircraft since September 11, but routine drills illustrate how terrorists could penetrate the airspace around the nation's capital.


Nepal mayor gunned down
01/15/04
The mayor of Birgunj in southern Nepal was shot and killed by suspected Maoist rebels.


Senate OKs Yucca Mountain nuclear site
01/15/04
The Senate Tuesday rejected Nevada's attempt to block construction of a permanent storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste from power plants at Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.