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When it was introduced on the Senate floor Tuesday, the National Defense Authorization Act for 2002 carried a section that hung like the shadow of a bomber over warbird pilots and other owners of declassified military equipment. The provision, section 1062 of Senate bill 1438, would have made it unlawful for individuals to possess "significant military equipment" and allowed for seizure of the equipment by the attorney general. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) proposed the removal of the section, saying "it would create tens of thousands of lawbreakers overnight." Warbird displays in museums and airshows would have become illegal, and a ...

Editor's note: As the Washington Bulletin reports today, in an important development, the head of Emory University's history department is demanding that historian Michael Bellesiles write a detailed defense of his award-winning book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Melissa Seckora reported on the book and many of its false claims in "Disarming America," below. he power of image and myth repeatedly overwhelms reality in discussions of early American firearms," writes Michael A. Bellesiles, a professor of history at Emory University, in his book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. "America's gun culture is ...

Vast investigation in Bosnia Herzegovina The FBI suspects that one of the terrorists in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon possessed a Bosnian passport      On September 18, 2001, Sarajevo officials received a request from Interpol to investigate the identities of 19 terrorists who participated in the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. It is suspected that these terrorists belonged to Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist organization. After only two days, the BiH Foreign Ministry, stressing that the same request was sent to other countries as well, responded that there was no trace connecting any of ...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hillary and Chelsea Clinton plan to combine business with pleasure during a spring-break tour of North Africa this week.</p> <p>The trip got off to a rough start, though.</p> <p>Mother and daughter were delayed Saturday afternoon from flying to Cairo out of Andrews Air Force Base when the Air Force Boeing 707 jetliner carrying the Clintons, their staff and reporters was found to be overloaded with cargo and luggage.</p>

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Journalists' Jihad Washington Robert Friedman's allegations about me only reinforce his reputation as a delusional conspiratorialist ["One Man's Jihad," May 15]. He accuses me of being somehow responsible for the initial wave of speculative assumptions that Islamic terrorists were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. I would like to take credit but I cannot: Credit goes to the Islamic terrorists who have previously bombed, or attempted to bomb, targets in New York, Buenos Aires, Beirut , Israel, Algeria, Bangkok, Manila and Cairo. In all my interviews, I pointed out the similarities with the earliest Islamic terrorist car bombings. If Friedman ...

Dissident or Don Quixote? Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H. Duesberg all but excommunicated from the scientific orthodoxy. Now he claims that science has got cancer all wrong SENAGO, ITALY--Three centuries ago cardinals seeking refuge from a plague in nearby Milan stayed here at the Villa San Carlo Borromeo, a grand estate surveying the village from its highest hill. The villa and its inhabitants have fallen on harder times since. The cracked plaster and faded paint on its high walls are covered with modern art of dubious quality. Now it is the private museum of Armando Verdiglione, a ...

"What began as a triumphant moment for a 14-year-old prodigy entering college in Alabama evolved into a sordid story of alcohol and drug addiction, turning the young girl into a plaything for football and basketball players, her parents charged Thursday BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) -- What began as a triumphant moment for a 14-year-old prodigy entering college in Alabama evolved into a sordid story of alcohol and drug addiction, turning the young girl into a "plaything" for football and basketball players, her parents charged Thursday. The parents of the girl, identified only as "Jane Doe," filed a $40 million civil suit ...

Czechs Consider Giving Beef to Serb Refugee Camps PRAGUE, Aug 28, 2001 -- (dpa) One week after confirming the country's second case of mad cow disease, the Czech government is discussing a plan to donate beef to refugee camps in Serbia. Ministry of Agriculture spokesman Hugo Roldan said Tuesday a decision on the donation plan is more than two weeks away, and so far Prague has not received a &quot;definitive notice&quot; about whether refugee camp officials would welcome Czech beef. Roldan also said the idea, proposed by Agriculture Minister Jan Fencl, is in step with international practices. &quot;When giving ...

KFOR Online 27 August 2001 Seized weapons Photo: By PFC. Marshall Emerson Arms: SSG Bryan Curtis of the 789th EOD Company, hands up AK-47 assault rifles from a weapons cache in Goden, Kosovo on August 10, 2001. The weapons cache was found during a cordon and search of the town conducted by MNB East. MNB (E) Seizes Personnel, Weapons Cache, Supplies in Donja Stubla and Goden CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo A large cache of weapons and other supplies were seized during an eight-hour cordon and search operation that began early in the morning in the villages of Donja Stubla and ...

Peruvian shoot-down BY JOHN S. YODICE (From AOPA Pilot, August 2001.) It is against the law to shoot at civilian aircraft in flight. It is against international law. It is also against U.S. law. So, how is it that a civilian Cessna 185 was shot down by a Peruvian air force A–37 military jet that had been directed to its target by U.S. government personnel in a U.S. Cessna Citation flying surveillance for the Peruvians, all pursuant to an agreement between the two countries? The shoot-down happened on April 20 of this year. News reports indicate that the missionary pilot ...

ALGIERS, July 19 (AFP) - Islamic extremists killed seven people overnight at Boumedfaa, southwest of the Algerian capital, the security services said Thursday.A brief official statement gave no details of the killings in the Ain Defla region, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Algiers."An intensive pursuit and search operation was immediately launched against those who carried out this criminal attack," the statement added, however.Ain Defla lies in an area where guerrillas of the hardline Armed Islamic Group (GIA) led by Antar Zouabri are active.

Man 'with gun' shot dead by Yard police By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent 17 July 2001 A man was shot dead by police on a housing estate in London yesterday afternoon. The black man in his 30s was reported to have been armed with a handgun shortly before being shot by officers from a Scotland Yard armed response team. A neighbour said she heard four shots and later described the heavily bleeding man begging her for help as he lay dying on the pavement. She also reported seeing police recover a metal object, but early last night Scotland Yard was ...

Former President Bill Clinton will receive the Dayton Peace Prize June 20 during ceremonies at the Air Force Museum here. Clinton was awarded the peace prize in November on the fifth anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement signing. He was honored for pursuing lasting peace in the Balkans and ending the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina where more than a quarter of a million people lost their lives. The Dayton Peace Accords Project awards the peace prize annually to an individual or organization that has contributed extraordinarily to peacefully reconstructing a society or societies torn by war anywhere in the world. It ...

Rep. Peterson introduces legislation repealing shoot-down authority May 11 — Representative Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), a pilot and AOPA member, has introduced legislation (H.R.1818) repealing authority for U.S. government employees or contractors to provide information helping foreign countries in forcing or shooting down aircraft suspected of drug-related operations. In 1994 Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) added, over AOPA’s opposition, shoot down authority to the Defense Authorization Act of 1995. Representative (now Senator) Bob Torricelli (D-N.J.) introduced similar legislation in the House. At the time, AOPA warned members of Congress and the State Department that it was much too easy to misidentify an ...

Officer involved in shooting wins praise of all who know him Former UD student Steven Roach&#146;s action triggered violence By Linda Ebbing For the Dayton Daily News OXFORD | Those who know Cincinnati Police Officer Steven Roach find it hard to believe. A grand jury is expected to hear evidence next week in the police shooting of Timothy Thomas, the unarmed 19-year-old black man who was killed by Roach in an alley near downtown Cincinnati. The shooting has triggered rioting, looting, a first-ever citywide curfew and racial tensions between blacks and whites that haven't surfaced to this degree in ...

Macedonians to protest killing of writer; Albanian rebels suspected SKOPJE, April 4 (AFP) - A prominent Macedonian author and mountaineer has been found stabbed to death on a remote peak, with a letter next to his body apparently linking the killing to ethnic Albanian rebels, police said Wednesday. They said the bloodied corpse of 78-year-old Josif Ilkovski was found on Saturday in a lodge on Mount Kipka, south of the capital Skopje, next to a note reading: &quot;The NLA is in the woods.&quot; This was apparently a reference to the National Liberation Army (NLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group ...

By JUDITH KOHLER, Associated Press Writer ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - The pilot of a chartered jet asked the control tower if runway lights were on moments before the plane crashed as it approached one of the nation's trickiest airports, an investigator said Friday night.Al Dickenson, head of the National Transportation Safety Board (news - web sites) team examining the crash, said the taped conversation with controllers showed the pilot was assured the lights were illuminated. Dickenson would not comment on whether the query indicated the pilot couldn't see the lights.The Gulfstream III cockpit voice recorder was found, but the 20-year-old ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Musician Eric Franklin Rosser, a former keyboard player for rock artist John Mellancamp, was named to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. "For the first time, we are adding an individual accused of child pornography," Reno said in her announcement. "Eric Franklin Rosser is wanted for receiving, possessing, transporting and distributing child pornography." Reno said child pornography was recovered from the home of one of Rosser's associates in the United States, including videotapes allegedly produced by Rosser and tapes in which Rosser appeared with young children. Reno said Rosser, who ...

Over one million dollars buy seat in US Congress: FEC WASHINGTON, Dec 26 (AFP) - Candidates running for the US Congress spent a record 674 million dollars this year, or more than 1.2 million dollars on average per each congressional seat, according to preliminary data released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).&nbsp;&nbsp; The figure represents a 35-percent increase compared to spending during the 1998 congressional campaign and is certain to fuel a drive for reforming the way Americans finance their elections. &#34;This system is a gravy train for members of Congress -- and a meal ticket for special interests, ...