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Every two years since 1996--when 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and hundreds injured in the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Defense concluded it needed to acquire better protection for the troops--the Pentagon has invited hundreds of select private-security firms to display their state-of-the-art gear at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. The three-day show, called the Force Protection and Equipment Demonstration (FPED), is unique in that the vendors have to put up or shut up: they have to prove that their products actually work as advertised...
...killing the enemy--is pretty simple," said Karl Alizade, a Navy veteran and president of City-Safe, which makes bombproof containers and rooms. "But playing effective defense is much tougher." Dozens of Defense Department officials stopped at Med-Eng's booth to look at an armored suit designed to protect the soldiers who man the machine guns on top of vehicles and are especially vulnerable to shrapnel from roadside bombs. The Army has ordered more than 2,000 of the suits for Iraq, and the manufacturer hopes the show will help sell more. The company took only three months...
...sight of it was enough to make one outdoorsman cry and Uncle Sam shell out $10 million to protect its habitat. Dubbed the Holy Grail of bird watching, the ivory-billed woodpecker was for decades thought to be extinct, but a team of scientists last week reported seven confirmed sightings within the past 15 months in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers warned, however, that "we cannot rule out the possibility that all of our fleeting encounters involved the same bird." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton urged bird watchers not to flock to the refuge and "love...
...fifth takes the head. The soldiers are supposed to apply pressure to sensitive points on the body if necessary to restrain the inmate, but, Saar reports, it is not unusual for detainees to be beaten. The names of detainees and personnel who worked with Saar were changed to protect their privacy...
...Cablevision’s interest first and foremost was to protect its interest in Madison Square Garden as a sports and entertainment venue,” Krieger says. Cablevision owns a 60 percent controlling stake...