Good luck with the match. That tells me you are doing much better to be participating in a IDPA and I expect a full post match report :-). Most curious as to what defensive scenarios they are using these days.
Phoenix police arrested an armed man at the Deer Valley Airport on Friday afternoon. It's unclear at this time how that person was discovered or exactly what his intentions were. An airport spokesperson says that no one was injured and flight operations at the airport were not interrupted.
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/gunatdeervalleyairport03092007-CR.html
Moroccan police arrest suspect in Madrid, Casablanca terrorist attacks
March 9, 2007
RABAT, Morocco: Moroccan officials said Friday that they have arrested an alleged member of a terrorist group believed linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings and 2003 attacks in Casablanca.
Saad Houssaini was arrested Thursday in Casablanca for his alleged role in the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, Interior Ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour said, adding that Moroccan authorities had sought Houssaini since 2002. The group, known by its French acronym GICM, is considered a terrorist group by several governments and has been implicated in the Madrid and Casablanca attacks. Experts say the GICM was started by Moroccans who had traveled to Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Moroccan authorities released few details about Houssaini's suspected wrongdoing, but experts described him as a key figure in the May 2003 attacks on Casablanca, which killed 45 people and woke the North African nation to the threat of Islamic terrorism.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/09/europe/EU-GEN-Morocco-Terrorism.php
Chemicals stockpiled for 'jihad on Sydney' (Australia)
March 07, 2007
NINE suspected terrorists allegedly stockpiled a cache of deadly chemicals as they plotted a "violent jihad" on Sydney. In what is being described as the biggest terror trial in Australia's history, Penrith Local Court yesterday heard for the first time detailed allegations against the nine alleged Muslim extremists.
The men stand accused of plotting a massive terrorist attack on Sydney - with Lucas Heights nuclear plant the possible target. In her opening address, prosecutor Wendy Abraham QC claimed preparations for an attack involved chemical stockpiling, the collation of "extremist" documents and specialised terrorist training.
The court heard documents written in Arabic showed step-by-step instructions on how to make deadly explosives such as TATP and HMTD. The materials were allegedly found during searches of their homes and vehicles, with one found hidden in a children's book called Choice Islamic Stories.
Bradley Umar Sariff Baladjam, Khaled and Moustafa Cheikho, Mohamed Ali Elomar, Abdul Rakib Hasan, Mohammed Omar Jamal, Mirsad Mulahalilovic, Khaled Sharrouf and Mazen Touma faced court together for the first time since their arrest during ASIO raids in November 2005.
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Weeeeelllll I don't expect to do a lot of sprinting from position to position and my friends will watch me carefully. I have some shooting buddies over there that are EMTs. Last time they had to work on me was about 10 years ago when I had heat exhaustion after running a TAC rifle course in a TAC vest and my AR. I'd just managed to clear the weapon at the end when I felt myself going under. They were close and managed to grab me before I hit the ground. One guy caught the weapon, the other caught me as I sagged. I learned that in south Florida, if you've ever been a heat casualty (as I have) then you have a definite "shooting season." For me it lasts from OCT to about the end of May. Anyway they lowered me to the ground and dumped an ice chest's contents on me like a mackeral on Friday. It worked.
I'll be fine tomorrow as long as I take it easy.