Inside the Ring

The Washington Times ^ | 09/24/04 | By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough

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Mushroom cloud: U.S. intelligence officials tell us there is no evidence indicating North Korea conducted a nuclear test earlier this month.

Gay debate: Based on his past comments, it seems certain that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry will move to lift the military's ban on open homosexuals, if he becomes commander in chief.

Beslan lessons: A special-operations source has provided us with a quick appraisal of what went wrong, militarywise, in the Beslan, Russia, school hostage bloodbath. For one, Russian's premiere counterterrorism unit, Alfa, did not arrive on the scene until less than a hour before an explosion touched off the carnage.

Physical: Air Force veterans say one of the many flaws in the bogus anti-Bush memos that appeared on CBS is the idea that a squadron commander would write an order to a pilot to obtain a flight physical.

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Lots of little threads, all good.

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Later read