ncwtwx, thanks for the ping and keep up the good work guys. cheers to thread 25.
I have a question, I was away for a few weeks and maybe misunderstood in the postings that another Zawhari videotape had been released? I went through a lot of backposts looking for a translation, but couldn't find a thing. Maybe I'm just wrong and misread somewhere?
I'm very curious to read the text if so, talk toyou later.
-skeggs
New book on terrorism against Cuba to be released in Havana
Russia denies receiving request to lend military training ground to S. Korea
US counter-intelligence adopts new strategy
China tells US and Japan to "lay off Taiwan"
SNIP: Government statistics show that the average Russian man lives 58.6 years, compared with 73 years for the average Russian woman. In 1990, life expectancy for men was 63.4 years.
The reasons sound simple: Russian men drink too much, smoke too much, live with too much stress and go to the doctor too rarely. The consequences are anything but simple, however. Russia's erupting men's health crisis could trigger social or political unrest. At the least, it is making it more difficult for the nation to grow stronger, both economically and militarily.
Already, military leaders complain that most new draftees are so unfit, drug-addled or psychologically damaged that only about 10 percent are capable of withstanding boot camp. Russia one day could even become nearly incapable of patrolling its borders or policing vast expanses of rural emptiness -- raising the possibility that the country, which already has huge stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, could become a haven for smugglers and terrorists.