(CBS) When envelopes of routine government paperwork arrived at Huffman Aviation school, the names on the forms immediately stuck out: Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi.
Those men are believed to have been two of the hijackers of the two jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, killing almost 3,000 people.
(not in 2ch yet, apparently) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041123/ts_alt_afp/us_crime_hunting_041123211210
HAYWARD, United States (AFP) - The Loatian-born deer hunter accused of killing six members of a hunting party during a rampage in woodland in northwest Wisconsin at the weekend, has told US authorities that he was fired on first, according to court papers released Tuesday.
Chai Vang told investigators that members of the party verbally abused him, calling him "chink" and "gook," and that one man fired on him as he was preparing to leave the private estate that was the scene of Sunday's deadly shooting spree.
Chai Soua Vang, 36, was surrounded by angry hunters who found him trespassing on their land on Sunday and at least one called him a "gook, chink, fucking Asian," according to a document filed by investigators in Sawyer County Circuit Court.
痛い馬鹿ニュースを2chより早くキャッチ!
ニセ産婦人科医者の男:懲役4年 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2916123
Nov. 23, 2004, 5:15PM
Fake gynecologist sentenced to 4 years in prison
Associated Press
DALLAS -- A storage facility manager who posed as a gynecologist was sentenced to four years in prison today after pleading guilty to practicing medicine without a license. ADVERTISEMENT
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CBS Shooting Suspect Had Army Service Ribbon For Sharpshooting
Nov 23, 2004 6:19 pm US/Central
St. Paul (AP) The man suspected in the shooting deaths of six Wisconsin hunters spent six years in the California National Guard, and earned a
sharpshooter qualification badge, according to military records obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Chai Soua Vang also earned an expert qualification badge for hand grenade during his time in the Guard, from 1989 to 1995.
But his primary role for the Guard in Sacramento was as a "patient administration specialist," a mostly clerical role. After his discharge, he spent two more years in the Individual Ready Reserve.
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Lt. Jonathan Shiroma, a spokesman for the California Guard, said sharpshooter is a middle qualification level for a basic trainee, above marksman but below expert.
The sharpshooter qualification requires hitting 30 to 35 out of 40 targets at distances ranging from 50 to 300 meters, Shiroma said.
Shiroma said trainees have to shoot at least at the marksman level to make it out of basic training. Dov Schwartz, an Army spokesman in Washington, said
the qualification was "not an extraordinarily special thing" for a shooter.
Since moving to Minnesota, Vang appears to have led a quiet life, playing soccer and raising roosters at the St. Paul home he shared with his family. He wasn't widely known in the city's Hmong community.
Acquaintances viewed him as cordial, but his past includes a brush with Minneapolis police after Vang threatened his wife with a gun.
His name is Broadband. He is in "Kids Zone" at the website of an US government agency, FCC (Federal Communications Commission).
And he is Doraemon. Perhaps he is the most beloved Japanese manga/anime character. Its manga series was started in 1969 and is one of the most succeeded series in the Japanese character merchandising market.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/11/28/737807.html
Sun, November 28, 2004
Lesson backfires on dad
NEWARK, N.J. -- A father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led police to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their home. Kevin Winston, 46, called police on Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly. When police arrived, however, the girl told them she feared for her safety because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home.
The girl led officers to a crawl space where they found four semiautomatic guns and more than 600 vials of cocaine.
http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/recycle_stanford.html
Even though Americans account for only 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. consumes 26% of the world's energy and create 25% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions (American Almanac, New Consumers).
It alleges that the CIA investigated alleged sexual and financial improprieties by the agent "for the sole purpose of discrediting him and retaliating against him for questioning the integrity of the WMD reporting ... and for refusing to falsify his intelligence reporting to support the politically mandated conclusion" of matters that were blacked out, according to the Washington daily.
http://www.ksat.com/news/3984041/detail.html
Convicted Sex Offender 'Santa' Accused Of Molesting Child 'Elf'
Accuser Was Playing Santa's Elf
POSTED: 7:46 am EST December 9, 2004
FOREST CITY, N.C. -- A convicted sex offender in North Carolina who was hired to play Santa is accused of taking indecent liberties with an 11-year-old girl who was portraying Santa's elf.
Authorities say 73-year-old Zay Jones was arrested at a highway rest stop after the child told a woman that Jones had touched her inappropriately in his vehicle. The woman called police.
As part of the plea agreement, 42-year-old Brian Shaw, of Wilton, Conn., will be sentenced to six years probation and is required to register as a sex offender. Shaw also surrendered his medical license to the New York State Health Department.
ラムズフェルド語録 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsfeld.troops/
長官は8日、イラクに派遣される米兵から「車両の装甲板が足りない」と質問され、「戦争には将来の望ましい兵力ではなく、今の兵力で向かわなければならない」と回答。この場面が、テレビで繰り返し放送された。
"As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want," Rumsfeld said.
He added, "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can [still] be blown up."
「いくら装甲板を重ねても死ぬ時は死ぬんだからね!」 (意図=ツベコベ言う奴はさっさと死んで来い。)
The unconventional proposals were made by the US Air Force
The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered various non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale.
The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing $7.5m, but they were never pursued.
The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into chemical and biological weapons.
'Who? Me?'
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered.
Another idea was to develop a chemical causing "severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.
However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".
He told the BBC: "It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered fordevelopment or acquisition."