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...SIBERIA Airborne Icebreakers Target River Lena Four Sukhoi-24 aircraft were ordered into the air by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to bomb ice floes in the River Lena, which had overflowed its banks and flooded large areas of eastern Siberia. The aircraft used 80 bombs to break up the packed ice over an 80-km stretch of the river. Backed up floodwaters had inundated the town of Lensk, above, in the Yakutia region, where 400 houses were washed away and another 1,700 damaged. Nearly 30,000 people were evacuated...
Maybe he's better off that way. If he were given to emoting, the Attorney General might be sounding low, if only because his 15 weeks in office have seen two colossal FBI embarrassments: the revelation that accused Russian spy Robert Hanssen operated inside the bureau for 15 years; and the discovery of thousands of pages of undisclosed documents in the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, which rescued the convict at the brink of execution, at least for now. Neither mess was Ashcroft's fault, of course, but he has to clean both...
...communists (secretly in cahoots with the dictator's amazonian wife) plan their own insurgency. Meanwhile, Harry has become a pilot smuggling arms to the communists, not for political reasons, but just for the thrill. Throw in some homosexual ex-pats, a whore named Carlita, a transvestite named Pinky, Russian secret agents and a sleazy representative of the "U.S. Fruit Company," and you pretty much have the definition of a modern pulp...
...girls. We could have done this years ago, they said, if the FBI had just handed over their secret tapes that proved his guilt. That conviction came after months of criticism that the FBI had dismissed warnings of a mole in its ranks right up until they tripped over Russian spy Robert Hanssen, an agent for 25 years. Last month the bureau announced a mediation agreement with African-American agents in a long-running class action charging bias in promotions. Last year there was the relentless pursuit of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who spent nine months...
...bureau--and the bureau still couldn't get it right. It is easy to blame FBI officials for all this, but there are reasons that stretch well beyond their control. For years they have been chasing a moving target. First the mission was to catch bank robbers, kidnappers and Russian spies; then came the war on drugs, then on racketeers, then on Islamic terrorists. Then came campaign contributions from Chinese nationals, and meanwhile those Russian spies were back. The bureau lurched and lunged from task to task but had trouble keeping up, while open borders, open markets and open computer...