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NYPOST.com: "N.Y. '9/11' CHECK YANKS 300K DRIVER LICENSES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Up to 300,000 New Yorkers will have their driver's licenses yanked because they provided bogus Social Security numbers, Department of Motor Vehicles officials told The Post yesterday. Between 275,000 and 300,000 of the state's 11.2 million drivers will lose their licenses thanks to a post-9/11 check of Social Security numbers listed on driver's license applications, said John Hilliard, DMV deputy commissioner for operations.") (August 19, 2004) (Read More...)

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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04080089.htm

Thursday, August 19, 2004

"NEPALI MISSIONARY ABDUCTED BY MAOISTS"

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEPAL  (ANS) -- Gospel For Asia’s Nepali missionary Besh’s life is in danger as radical insurgency group Maoists forcibly abducted him a week ago for their purposes. (Pictured: missionary Besh).

“This morning we received the urgent news. Though we do not know the details of the kidnapping or where he has been taken, we know our brother’s life is on the line. He is well known in the community as a Christian pastor and evangelist, and authorities in an area where he was ministering a year ago noticed his activity and asked him to leave,” writes GFA‘s president K.P. Yohannan.

In the past, more than 200 people—teachers, students, village officials and commoners—have been abducted by the Maoists and killed without mercy."