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...German arms merchant who illegally sold a giant drill to Iraq in 1999 has left a gaping hole in Germany's efforts to restrict the export of sensitive military-use technology. A Mannheim court last week sentenced Bernd Schompeter, 59, to five years and three months in jail after ruling that he had broken an export embargo with the drill, which can be used to manufacture cannon capable of firing chemical or nuclear weapons. It also handed a suspended sentence to Willi Heinz Ribbeck, 53, a sales manager at the machinery company that made the drill. The convictions embarrass Germany...
...masses and her mystery. He is asked if he is a bit overwhelmed by his new life in Shanghai. "I came here to play the game," says the Man Who Would Be Ming. "No matter where you are, basketball comes down to one thing. Put the ball in the hole...
...this week at Camp Swampy, down in the 20s in the morning as the last-minute training picks up and the clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter-inch hole in a soccer ball at 100 yards. They must make sure the right equipment is shipped--from helicopters shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect them from the salt air on the ships heading out of Savannah, to flyswatters (a dozen for every 150 men, same for mousetraps...
...Jewish. On top of that, the Pakistani authorities had just begun rounding up Islamic radicals across the country. "The international events were sufficient for any Islamic militant to become emotional," one investigator says. Pearl may also have enraged his jailers by trying to crawl out of a ventilator hole in the bathroom, the Journal writes...
...Ever since the Kelly fiasco, the North Korean regime has been trying to scramble out of the hole the Dear Leader dug for it. North Korea's nuclear crisis-management team has reverted almost robotically to the playbook that Kim Jong ll's father developed in the 1993-1994 nuclear confrontation: the pullout from the Nuclear Non-Prolifer-ation Treaty, the "sea of fire" threats, the demand for "nonaggression" assurances and the attempted end run around Washington's North Korea policy via a prominent former American official. We've seen this all before, folks...