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...case officers must take to learn such skills of the trade as infiltrating hostile countries, communicating in codes, retrieving messages from dead drops and recruiting foreign agents to spy for the U.S. The CIA wants its paramilitary officers to be able to steal secrets as well as blow up bridges. John proudly recalls overhearing an Afghan commander tell a comrade, "Yes, I have these Americans with me, and, yes, they have rifles, but I don't think they're soldiers. They spend all their time with laptops." Says John: "We wrote hundreds and hundreds of intelligence reports...
...SENTENCED. RICHARD REID, 29, would-be shoe bomber and self-proclaimed al-Qaeda member, to life in prison, for trying to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001; in Boston. He pleaded guilty to the charge last year and at his sentencing shouted at the judge, "Your flag will come down and so will your country...
AIRLINES Grounded by War? Would a war in Iraq deal a crippling blow to America's already limping airline industry? According to a new study commissioned by a major airline and obtained by Time, half of America's large airlines could be bankrupt within months if war - even a brief one - breaks out in Iraq. The report's author, Mark Gerchick, a former top official at the Department of Transportation and now a consultant for whom?, notes that during the 1991 Gulf War, airline bookings dropped 10% and drove even perennially profitable Southwest Airlines into the red. But the industry...
...Carmody’s still a memory but Gloger’s back, having transferred back last year. The 6’7 forward leads the team with 17.3 ppg and his presence helped soften the blow of another crushing injury to forward Andre Logan...
...them, it represents another blow to the already tenuous relationship between the University and the city...