Yes, do take it easy. More than once I've passed out from too much heat. Guess that's why I love snowy winters and hate the heat of summer.
BEIRUT: Security forces in south Lebanon arrested a weapons dealer and his son in possession of three shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles, an internal security forces statement said yesterday.
It said the man also confessed he had once acquired two of the same surface-to-air missiles - Soviet-made SAM 7s - from a base for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command south of Beirut and later sold them. The dealer, a Lebanese man, admitted he belonged to the PFLP-GC. He and his son were stopped in the southern town of Nabatiyeh last week.
Lebanese security forces have recently uncovered several caches of hand grenades and small explosive devices around Lebanon but it is unusual to discover sophisticated weaponry in the hands of arms dealers. A political crisis in Lebanon, which pits the Sunni Muslim-led government against the Shia-led opposition, has already resulted in sporadic lethal clashes and spurred fears of citizens rearming themselves. Weapons dealers have said increased demand has pushed up gun prices recently.
China says terrorism in Xinjiang is backed by Taliban, Qaeda
Beijing, March 9, 2007
China on Friday said it has crushed a major terrorist network in the restive region of Xinjiang, killing 18 militants and arresting 17 others from the banned East Turkistan Islamic Movement, which has close links with terrorist forces, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda. "We have crushed the ETIM terrorist training camp in Xinjiang. The ETIM is a terrorist organisation banned by the United Nations," a senior official from Xinjiang government said.
"There is a lot of evidence that the terrorist forces of ETIM are connected with international terrorist forces to plan and conduct some terrorist activities," a senior police official from the northwest Chinese region told reporters here.
The January five action against ETIM militants training camp in the Pamir Plateau is China's largest counter-terrorism campaign which killed 18 terrorists and led to the arrest of 17 others. Police also seized 22 hand grenades and over 1,500 incomplete weapons. One Chinese policeman was killed and another wounded in the gun battle, the official said.
The training camp was run by the ETIM with assistance from Taliban and al-Qaeda. It is believed that more than 1,000 ETIM members have been trained by al-Qaeda. ETIM was listed by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation on September 11, 2002, and was included in a list of "East Turkistan" terrorist organisations issued by the MPS in 2003.