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...Phoenix THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS The Secret Service says it's not alarmed, but plenty of other people are. Protesters outside two of President Obama's recent events, in New Hampshire and Arizona, have arrived carrying guns, including a Phoenix man toting a pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle. Carrying visible weapons is legal in both states, and the protesters were not in the high-security zone around the President. But the head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the incidents "craziness," especially amid the combustible debate over health-care reform...
...decade later, shortly after TWA Flight 847 took off from Athens in 1985, two gun-toting terrorists forced their way into the cockpit, demanding that the plane touch down in Lebanon. Once on the ground, they held passengers captive, threatened them with guns and murdered one hostage, dumping his body onto the tarmac. Nonetheless, after the captives were rescued, one of them reportedly later said of his captors, "They weren't bad people; they let me eat, they let me sleep, they gave me my life...
...same personality traits. He will pull out a gun and kill his own people." -Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, comparing Hakimullah to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. (New York Times...
...memos, which provided the legal rationale for the tactics, Cheney demanded that it also release two CIA memos that, he said, would "show the success of the effort." Those memos, taken together with the unclassified inspector general's report into the CIA's interrogation program, would be the smoking gun that proved, once and for all, that harsh interrogation paid...
...Over the past two days news reports have quoted unnamed officials as saying the IG's findings include instances where CIA interrogators used power drills and even a gun to threaten a detainee; on another occasion, as first reported by Newsweek, they allegedly staged a mock execution. If true, these tactics would go well beyond the coercive techniques permitted by the Bush Administration's legal counsel. (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...