Articles Posted by Solson
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Five days before the war began in Iraq, as President Bush prepared to raise the terrorism threat level to orange, a top White House counterterrorism adviser unlocked the steel door to his office, an intelligence vault secured by an electronic keypad, a combination lock and an alarm. He sat down and turned to his inbox. "Things were dicey," said Rand Beers, recalling the stack of classified reports about plots to shoot, bomb, burn and poison Americans. He stared at the color-coded threats for five minutes. Then he called his wife: I'm quitting.
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After looking and looking here, I can't locate the pic of an anti-war protest sign calling for US deaths. Help!
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<p>PFC Joseph DeWitt, 26, from Suffolk County, N.Y., carries to safety an Iraqi boy who was injured during a heavy battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces Tuesday.</p>
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I got this via e-mail and thought it was pretty funny. I'm sure we can do better with our own captions.Link
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Radio Address to the Nation on Foreign Policy October 20, 1984 My fellow Americans: Tomorrow, my opponent and I will debate foreign policy in Kansas City, so I'd like to talk to you about the foreign policy choices for our future as I see it. In speaking about his economic policies, I've said my opponent is a man of the past whose administration's domestic policies failed and made America weak. Well, that goes for foreign policy as well. Mr. Mondale as a Senator, later as understudy to Jimmy Carter, and still today has seemed possessed with one simple but very...
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Security scare puts Pa. power plants on alert NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - Alarms sounded at Pennsylvania power plants this weekend, already on heightened alert after the Sept. 11 attacks, when two "Middle Eastern-looking" men unsuccessfully tried to enter a rural power plant, industry officials said on Tuesday. The two men, who told authorities they were contractors, fled from the Westwood power plant not far from the state capital of Harrisburg when guards asked them for identification before allowing them inside. The guards immediately notified local police, the FBI and PJM, the regional power grid operator. The rural,...
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<p>Now we know what happened to all the magic that was supposed to be in ''Harry Potter.'' It was crated up and shipped to New Zealand, where it was lavished on the superlative "The Lord of the Rings."</p>
<p>"The Fellowship of the Ring," the enthralling first installment of director Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien saga, is fantastic in every sense of the word, a once-in-a-decade entertainment that adults and kids, die-hard fans and newcomers to Middle Earth will surely cheer.</p>
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Majestic is an real life interactive adventure game made by Electronic Arts(EA) and more info can be found at http://www.ea.com/worlds/games/pw_majstc00/hatted_jump_page.jsp. Here is a description of the game:Majestic is an episodic online entertainment experience set against the backdrop of a grand and sinister conspiracy -- an unfolding mystery adventure that uses the Internet as a canvas for its story, weaving you through both real and fictional experiences in real time. Highly personalized and naturally paced, Majestic tailors your experience specifically to you as it dynamically changes the content of Web pages, emails, faxes, voice mails and chat conversations in order to ...
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As work continued into the night on reading the plane's flight data recorder, investigators late Tuesday revealed several new clues about the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, but the information merely deepened the mystery of what caused the accident. With both of the Airbus A300-600's engines and its vertical stabilizer coming down before the rest of the airplane, early accident-related speculation was on a catastrophic engine failure that triggered collateral structural damage. But investigators have found nothing that backs such a scenario, and the near-pristine condition of the tail pieces indicates that something besides debris caused them to ...
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I am seriously considering the purchase of a Braztech/Rossi .357 Revolver for home protection. Ya ya, I know the debate about handgun versus rifle and semi-auto versus revolver. I prefer a revolver and I prefer .357.That said, I am interested in thoughts/opinions on Braztech/Rossi quality and any other recommendations for similar priced models. I have used GalleryofGuns.com to locate and price. The best deal I am currently considering is $265.00. The gun can be found at RossiUsa Guns. This is the pic...Thanks in advance.
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When Terror Strikes, Who Should Respond? AARON WEISS © 2001 Aaron Weiss From Parameters, Autumn 2001, pp. 117-33. Go to Autumn issue Table of Contents. Go to Cumulative Article Index. During the past decade, concerns about possible terrorist acts involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD) led Congress and the President to adopt a comprehensive counterterrorism plan focused on preventing a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack and enhancing domestic preparedness. The agency of choice for domestic consequence management has been the Department of Defense. Of the $1.4 billion appropriated in the FY 2000 budget specifically for WMD response, over half went ...
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10.11.01 SUMMARY • Thousands of Muslim activists took to the streets of Indonesia in the fourth day of protests against American military action in Afghanistan. The demonstrators burned and hanged President George W. Bush in effigy while his Secret Service agents, also in effigy, looked on. • At an FBI briefing, President Bush revealed the first-ever list of most-wanted terrorists. The White House plans to work in conjunction with "America's Most Wanted" to produce a special on the group, and to collaborate with AOL Time Warner to publish a special issue of Teen People highlighting the 15 hottest Taliban ...
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Thursday September 27 11:04 AM ET Bush: Use Guard to Protect Airports Bush: Use Guard to Protect Airports By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - President Bush urged governors Thursday to call up National Guard units to protect U.S. airports while he implements a long-term plan to secure airlines from terrorist attack. The package includes putting the federal government in charge of airport security. Hoping to reassure jittery travelers, Bush also proposed spending $500 million on aircraft modifications that would deny or delay access to cockpits. Terrorists hijacked four airplanes Sept. 11, crashing two into the World ...
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The President’s Second Front Marina Volkova Vladimir Putin has made a very difficult decision. Neither the Kursk tragedy, nor Chechnya stands anywhere near the enormity of the issues the Russian president has had to tackle this September.No matter how cautious Vladimir Putin was in formulating his televised address, one thing is abundantly clear: Russia stands the enormous chance of being drawn into an armed conflict between the United States and countries Washington sees as deserving punishment for the September 11 terrorist acts. Russia stands the enormous chance of being drawn into an armed conflict between the United States and countries Washington ...
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Russia's MiG corporation has signed a $300 million contract to deliver 15 MiG-29 fighters to Yemen. Vedomosti reports that the contract may hold great political risks for Russia. The U.S. media actively discussed the possibility of military strikes against Yemen in the first days after the terrorist attacks in the United States. The thing is that Osama bin Laden's family comes from Yemen. In addition, this country has plenty of Islamic radicals. However, it seems that the threat of military strikes against Yemen has passed. Washington launched preparations for a war against the Taliban while Yemen behaved as if ...
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NASA Specialists Leaves Baikonur NASA has decided to recall its specialists working at the Baikonur cosmodrome in the former Soviet republic of Kazakstan, Central Asia, Interfax news agency reported, quoting a source in Russia's space agency Rosaviakosmos. According to the source, there are no Americans at Baikonur at the moment. The agency says NASA is studying now measures to assure safety of its specialists in the future. The launch of the U.S. satellite DirecTV, made by Space Systems Loral (SSL), scheduled for October 19, was postponed to November. The source also said that if NASA decided to cancel contracts with ...
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Make no mistake: America far from innocent Scott Laderman, Columnist Scott Laderman - Staff Reporter I suspect 10 days ago, if George W. Bush had soberly observed the United States was engaged in a “monumental struggle of good versus evil,” the comment would have elicited howls of laughter from a wide spectrum of Americans. After all, this esteemed President had only recently withdrawn U.S. support for the Kyoto Protocol — admittedly a flawed document, though for its limitations, not its excesses — essentially telling the international community the fate of the planet is of no concern to the United ...
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America's War Song: The Star-Spangled Banner By Robert W. Tracinski (September 17, 2001) [CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] It was September 14. Washington, D.C., had been attacked, and one of its most prominent monuments had been burned by the enemy. A Washington lawyer sat in the early morning gloom and fretted over the fate of his country. The year was 1814, the burned monument was the White House, the man was Francis Scott Key, and his worry was centered on Fort McHenry, off in the distance, where he looked for any sign that his nation's flag still flew after a fierce night-long bombardment. He ...
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Monday July 30 12:26 PM ET Police Officer Shot Near Los Angeles High School Police Officer Shot Near Los Angeles High School LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A police officer guarding a Los Angeles area high school was shot in the chest on Monday morning, a Los Angeles police spokesman said, adding a bullet-proof vest may have saved his life.The police officer, whose name was not released, was hospitalized in stable condition after the 7:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. EDT) shooting in the parking garage at Belmont High School, Los Angeles Police spokesman Officer Guillermo Campos said. No other injuries were reported.The ...
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By Kathleen Murphy, Staff Writer Stateline.org Friday, July 27, 2001 On average, a U.S. citizen turned over $1,921 in total taxes to state government last year. Nationally, state taxes totaled nearly 7 percent of Americans' personal income in 2000, according to Census data released Friday. The biggest state tax burdens were in Hawaii, New Mexico, Vermont, Delaware, and Minnesota, when state taxes are figured in proportion to personal income. Hawaii ranked No. 1 because education, a governmental service covered by local government in other states, is a state service. Because so many state services are often passed on to ...
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