Word: guardsman
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...threat of war with Iraq has raised tensions in Kuwait. Last week Kuwaiti police arrested a Kuwaiti National Guardsman on charges of spying for Iraq. Police say the man, Mohammed Hamad Fahd al-Juwai'ed, had provided the Iraqis with security and military information, monitored movements of Senior Kuwaiti officials and planned to carry out terrorist acts...
...Another incident involved a well-endowed woman, her push-up bra and a totally clueless National Guardsman who, hearing the shrill wail of his metal detector wand each time it passed over this woman's chest, stood there for at least five minutes, his brow knitted, waving the wand back and forth, over and over again, never realizing what he faced was not a security threat but an extremely sturdy brassiere. Finally, his female colleague noticed what was going on and stepped over and whispered something in his ear. He blushed and waved the poor woman through the entrance...
...recent afternoon, National Guard officer Hector Maisonet, who mans an entrance to the site on Church Street, showed visitors his emergency vest, signed by Tyra Banks and Jamie Lee Curtis. "People ask us if we get tired standing here all day," says Guardsman Miguel Latorre, 42. "I say, 'Yo, it's my job.'" With the last ruins of the Twin Towers removed for possible display in a future memorial, the dozens of camouflaged Guard members and police officers stationed there now serve as the attraction itself, like the guards at Buckingham Palace. Tourists take pictures with them, chat them...
...what scenario could a National Guardsman with an automatic rifle better handle a terrorist threat than law enforcement or well-trained civilian security? Neither the Taliban nor anyone else is going to storm into an airport and open fire—at least, unless they have a penchant for airports, a public shooting there is no more likely than anywhere else. And with or without military personnel around every corner, even the most dim-witted terrorist would never try to hijack a plane by rushing through metal detectors, ready for a footrace or a firefight...
...invaders, George Dasch, sprinted up to the officer, explaining that they were lost fisherman - and offering a bribe not to say anything, which of course made the Guardsman all the more suspicious. The officer went back to his station and reported the incident, but by then the team of four had made it into town and hopped a train to New York City. There they split into pairs, got apartments, bought clothes and had some nice dinners. Then Dasch did what he had apparently always intended to do: called the FBI to turn them all in. He told the local...