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Infrared video of the Bomber in the Boat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZG1No-Ecojg

I've often watched my 13 and 14 year old sons hoist their bookbags onto their shoulders and head off to school. Didn't think much of it until this morning when I saw my youngest almost fall over backwards when he saddled up. I stopped him and took the bookbag off his shoulders and was surprised by the heft of it. Told him to wait there, and weighed the bag on the scale. 34 pounds.Now my son is a small and wiry guy, metabolism like a hummingbird, and weighs 82 pounds soaking wet. The bag had his textbooks, notebooks, lunch, a...

My step-dad, Wendall, is dying in the hospital tonight. He has lived a good long life, has suffered much over the last two years and is ready to move on. He's had the opportunity to tell each of us in the family good-bye, knows Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, and is as well prepared to pass on as any man I've ever met.Wendall was a Sergeant in the 296th Combat Engineer Battalion, VII US Corps during WWII. He landed at Normandy on D+2 and wound up at Bad Berka, Germany at the end of the war. He had...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities said they had arrested a leading al Qaeda member, Moroccan national Yasir al-Jaziri, in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday. The arrest comes two weeks after the capture of another senior al Qaeda figure, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in the northern city of Rawalpindi. Mohammed is suspected of being a leading figure behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and authorities have said his arrest brought useful leads in their efforts to track down al Qaeda members including the group's leader, Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). "He (al-Jaziri) is less...