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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet (three metre) high marijuana plants. General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana. "The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't...

STATESBORO, Ga. - Sgt. Jason Kearney sat in his marked patrol car Thursday, waiting for his colleagues to join him for lunch when Ron Stone asked him for a ride. The Bulloch County deputy agreed to take Stone to his car, but first he insisted on searching Stone for weapons, said Sheriff Lynn Anderson. "Stone told Sergeant Kearney to go ahead," Anderson said. But instead of packing a pistol, the 30-year-old Stone was packing pot — two small bags, Anderson said. Stone told the uniformed officer he had spent the night at a friend's house and the marijuana was not...

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EVEN before the opening of the sequel to The Matrix, several killers in the United States had been blaming the first blockbuster film for their unprovoked shootings. Two have escaped trial for the separate killings of their landlords on the grounds of insanity. They claimed that they had ben driven by attempts to escape the fake reality of “the Matrix”. Lawyers for a third, who dressed in a trenchcoat similar to the one worn by Keanu Reeves, the film’s star, before shooting his parents are hoping that his similar claim will help to swing the courts away from a death...

<p>BURBANK, CALIF. -- "Cool breeze off the mountain." Could there possibly be a better description of Keanu Charles Reeves' demeanor than the translation of his Hawaiian first name?</p> <p>Uncorrupted by his massive renown, he keeps the world at arm's length, unlike megaphone-addicted stars who gratuitously expose us to their nightly club-hopping, their affairs, their trips to rehab.</p>