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...Samra sank at 4 a.m. in 10-ft. seas, drowning the two sailors and four Iraqis. Sixteen were rescued, including six U.S. sailors. The leaking vessel, owned by a United Arab Emirates shipper, was built to transport grain but secretly carried four large tanks inside its cargo hold for smuggling oil. The Navy's first mistake was to underestimate the amount of oil on board, which made the ship more likely to go down. But it also dispatched a guard crew from the U.S.S. Peterson to the Samra that had never done this kind of work before...
...week inside their boarding school in the country's second-biggest city, Bouake, by heavy fighting between government and rebel troops. French soldiers drove the children to their base at an airport near the capital, Yamoussoukro, 65 km to the south. U.S. special forces in C-130 cargo planes had arrived hours earlier to evacuate the children and other Westerners to neighboring Ghana. MIDDLE EAST Siege of Ramallah Israel defied U.S. criticism and a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate end to its siege of Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah. Israeli officials insisted that Arafat first had to hand...
...been training in Moscow and Houston, completing maneuvers in zero gravity and learning Russian, but his backers, including a production company hoping to film a documentary of the trip, missed several payment deadlines. Bass's seat will not go empty. In his place the Russians are sending a cargo container packed with supplies for astronauts already on the International Space Station--a replacement perhaps less photogenic but probably more useful in orbit...
Customs inspectors are used to seeing Arab-American and Arab-Canadian truck drivers and, Anderson says, don't single them out but rather look for anomalies in their shipping documents, route or cargo. There are unsettling signs, however, that al-Qaeda has been recruiting in the Windsor and Detroit areas. In late July, Canadian authorities handed over to the fbi a 20-year-old Canadian citizen of Kuwaiti heritage. Investigators said Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah admitted traveling to Singapore last October to help mount an aborted plot to blow up the U.S., British, Israeli and Australian embassies there. And last...
...risk companies and carriers," says Anderson, "the more we can concentrate on those we're not familiar with." A few of the highest-risk trucks--the ones that arrive without proper documents, say--are offloaded and searched. But that takes hours and is practical for only the most suspicious cargoes. So in December, Anderson's unit acquired a Star Wars gizmo called the Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System (VACIS), which bombards truck containers with gamma rays to produce an incredibly detailed image of what's inside. The VACIS, which takes 45 seconds to scan one trailer, is ideal for finding...