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Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Iran Launches Production of 30 Hi-Tech Military Devices The Iranian news agency Fars reports that Iran yesterday launched production of 30 important military tools and equipment, including electronic, telecommunication and radar devices. The Fars report quoted Iranian Defense Minister Brig.-Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying, "The exact and coherent planning by the defense industries, specially electronic industries of the defense ministry, in recent years caused the production of more qualitative and varied products by the defense industries of the defense ministry." "These new production lines and products are related to...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Governor Robert Ehrlich has directed the state police to cease using night vision gear to enforce the state's seat belt laws. State police will continue to enforce the laws, but won't use the special goggles that were tested for the first and only time last Wednesday night in Montgomery County. The governor got plenty of complaints about the practice. His spokeswoman, Shareese DeLeaver, says Ehrlich doesn't usually support Big Brother tactics when it comes to law enforcement. State police spokesman Greg Shipley says the night-vision equipment was borrowed from the military and has already been returned....

<p>Rockville, Md. (AP) - Maryland State Police are using a military tool in the battle against seat belt violators.</p> <p>They're using night vision goggles to find people who don't buckle up after dark. Police say 40 percent of drivers don't use their seat belts at night, making the roads much more dangerous after sunset. Police in Maryland are among 13,000 agencies nationwide that are now using the goggles.</p>

MD State Police are using "night vision goggles" to go after seat belt violators.

Police Use New Tool Against Seat Belt Violators Officers Issue 111 Citations At Checkpoint POSTED: 6:46 a.m. EDT June 2, 2005 UPDATED: 7:34 a.m. EDT June 2, 2005 Story by nbc4.com ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A piece of electronic equipment that's often used by military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq is now being used by police in Maryland to catch seat belt violators. Wednesday night at a seat-belt enforcement checkpoint, police from several Maryland agencies started using night-vision goggles to see if motorists were buckled up. After a briefing at the Maryland State Police barracks in Rockville, where strategy was discussed,...

Night-Vision Goggles Help Seatbelt Campaign POSTED: 12:36 pm EDT June 2, 2005 ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The "Click It or Ticket" campaign is getting some high-tech help in suburban Washington. Maryland State Police are using a military tool to make sure drivers buckle up. Officers had night vision goggles on Rockville Pike outside the nation's capital last night to look inside darkened cars. Police said they can see from a distance whether drivers have their seat belts fastened. *snip* Maryland authorities said they issued 111 citations Wednesday night as part of the campaign.