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...commandos are routinely dispatched to the agency on a temporary basis to provide special military skills that the CIA needs for specific missions. If a soldier is assigned highly clandestine work, his records are changed to make it appear as if he resigned from the military or was given civilian status; the process is called sheep dipping, after the practice of bathing sheep before they are sheared...
KUWAIT While the Kuwaiti government still seethes over Saddam's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait and is worried about a repeat takeover, it says it will not take part in the "war drum-beating" because it is concerned about Iraqi civilian losses in an invasion. Still, it hosts a variety of U.S. military installations and has given the U.S. virtual carte blanche to use its territory...
RUSSIA Coming Out Fighting Grigory Pasko, sentenced in December 2001 to four years in a work camp on charges of spying, was released on parole by a civilian court. The former navy captain was arrested in 1997, after he exposed the navy's dumping of nuclear waste in the Pacific. Having spent 20 months in prison awaiting trial, Pasko was cleared of treason, but convicted of exceeding his authority. Though released, Pasko was brought back to military court on charges of treason in 2000. Last March, President Vladimir Putin offered Pasko a pardon, which he refused. Now the former captain...
...boasts glitzy shopping malls, Starbucks cafes and a bowling alley. Radio Kuwait takes regular requests for the Backstreet Boys and Christine Aguilera. But America - and Americans - are not embraced by all. A deadly reminder of that came at 9.15am Tuesday when an unknown gunman shot dead an American civilian and critically wounded a second at an intersection close to a McDonald's restaurant a few miles southeast of Camp Doha, the main American army base in Kuwait...
THEN THERE'S THE FINANCING. Even minor stars, unlike civilian participants, expect to be paid real money. Celebrity Mole permits its winner to keep the grand prize (up to $250,000), while most celebrity game-show contestants must give their loot to charity. "In all fairness," says Mole executive producer Scott Stone, "we couldn't afford to hire them to do the entire taping"--though he insists that some of the stars played for charity anyway. Not so Griffin: "F___ that! The level of celebrity that will do this show, we need this money!" Butch Patrick (that's Eddie Munster...