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...Bangladesh's increasing combustibility was made apparent on April 1 when the police and coast guard raided a boat in the southern port city of Chittagong, stumbling onto a treasure trove of illegal weapons: 2,090 submachine guns, 150 rocket launchers, 25,000 grenades and more than 1.1 million bullets. The authorities had to transport their catch in 10 trucks. With so much weaponry pouring into Bangladesh, the country's gangsters and Islamic terrorists are well equipped to cause mayhem. Since April, for example, local newspapers have claimed that a gang of Islamic terrorists headed by a man known...
...Many of the spectators were local families, and advertising hoardings, food and souvenir kiosks, signage, broadcasting equipment and Port-O-Johns were all conspicuous by their absence. With no seating stands, no result boards, and only a few ropes to guide folk, the pristine stadium stood as it always has, bordered by grass embankments. The one to the northwest accommodated the spectators, who had secured their tickets free of charge, and the one to the southeast held the small group of media, coaching staff and the few dignitaries lucky enough to be afforded the luxury of temporary chairs...
...commission's recommendations if elected, although some in his party are wary of certain proposals, such as one for national identification cards. The challenger has argued he would protect the homeland better than Bush has, by increasing spending, setting national standards for community responses to terrorist attacks and improving port security...
...Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists. A Western law-enforcement official in Kabul who is tracking Khan says agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan, after a tip-off in May, turned up evidence that Khan is employing a fleet of cargo ships to move Afghan heroin out of the Pakistani port of Karachi. The official says at least three vessels on return trips from the Middle East took arms like plastic explosives and antitank mines, which were secretly unloaded in Karachi and shipped overland to al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Khan is now a marked man. "He's obviously very tightly tied...
...Senate committee investigating 9/11 is just the right mix we need to protect our land, our people and our future. Kerry has some wonderful plans to improve this nation, and Edwards has the speaking ability to get those ideas across. Edwards is one of us. MELANIE A. RUSH Port Chester...