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...Suskind reports new details on Delta Force's shipment of a hatbox-sized container to Dulles Airport in Washington's Virginia suburbs in mid-2002. The round metal box, Army green with "US GOVERNMENT" emblazoned in yellow, purportedly contained the severed head of Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy. He supposedly had been killed in December 2001, and buried in an Afghan riverbed. With a $25 million bounty on his head, Afghan tribal chiefs provided the jawless head to the U.S. military. The skull, Suskind reports, still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container...
...Earlier this month, Chavez received his first shipment of 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles from Russia; he also purchased a license to produce Kalashnikovs in Venezuela. In the wake of the recently passed U.S. arms ban against his country, Chavez is looking to acquire Russian helicopters and fighter aircraft - and is set to visit Moscow in late July to discuss arms deals, among other matters. Late last week, after Chavez announced a deal to buy 24 Russian fighter jets, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Venezuela appeared to be in the midst of an "outsized military buildup for a country...
...Returning to Gore, Bush proposed flying down on Air Force One to his ranch. "Got a new shipment of ducks-we can find them and hunt them down, one by one. And bring them to justice, or whatever." The transcript notes that Bush's voice suddenly took on a more pronounced Texan twang. "Whaddya think-just a couple of average Joes from the South, kickin' back on the weekend," said the New Haven-born, Andover-schooled Yalie...
...sure if it’s worth it,” he says. He says he was finally convinced that customers relied on his lids when his supply ran out and he reverted to using the “old-fashioned slap lid” until the new shipment arrived...
...benefits of renewed interest in their design. “Demand has been skyrocketing,” Mowery said. “We can’t keep up with it.” All 250 shirts manufactured last spring have now sold out, and the recently-ordered shipment of 50 more shirts has been claimed already. Interest peaked after an e-mail advertising the shirts was sent out over some house lists on Wednesday, Mowery said. After wearing his T-shirt to Summers’ resignation speech on Tuesday, Mowery said the shirts were featured in the Boston Herald...