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...them saying, We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.' ROBERT BEVELACQUA, retired Green Beret and former Fox News military pundit, describing Pentagon efforts to influence news coverage via sympathetic analysts...
...them saying, We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.' ROBERT BEVELACQUA, retired Green Beret and former Fox News military pundit, describing Pentagon efforts to influence news coverage via sympathetic analysts...
This morning's topic is suicide bombings. Instructor Ron Haskins, a former Green Beret, warns, "We want to get the terrorists when they're recruiting, planning, training, preparing, because once they start, they're going to blow themselves up in some way." The first responders tour a house set up as a suicide-bomb factory. The kitchen is littered with chemicals, including a jar of yellow liquid simulating human urine, which can be distilled into an ingredient for an explosive called urea nitrate (used in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993). Haskins explains the assault to a visiting...
...Line: Chavez, who considers himself the modern heir of South America's 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar, still likes to wear his red army beret. But according to a recent Chavez biography, he once told a U.S. diplomat that for all his bellicose rhetoric, "I know where the red line is. And I'm not going to cross that line - I just go up to that little edge." He demonstrated some sense of the limits on his power by conceding defeat in the referendum last year when critics had widely expected him to reject it and cross...
...uniform?” I would wistfully proclaim. “Yeah of course,” they would reply, slightly annoyed at my impertinence. “The uniform from when I went to school in Paris was adorable too, especially the jumper and the school mandated beret.” At these points I usually felt so terrible about the uniform deprivation—we couldn’t even wear camouflage prints to school, because it reminded the school administrators of war—that I would pick up a stick and whack it against a tree...