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...Well even if we don't build it, they?re more likely to put a weapon of mass destruction in a Cessna or on a fishing boat or in a Ryder truck. The Pentagon knows that, but this has ceased to be a debate on the merits of devoting so much of our resources to a missile threat - it has become an article of faith. America has always been undefended against all sorts of threats. We determine our spending based on how imminent or plausible those threats are. We've always accepted some degree of risk because we?ve devoted...
...afraid," he says. "We are ready to handle anything." What he's handling, however, is nothing more dangerous than the outsourced laundry of the Canadian peacekeepers who share Camp Zirouani with the Japanese. Outside, Akamatsu's commanding officer, Major Shinji Furusho stands watch for the laundry truck to return from the Israeli resort town of Tiberias. Two massive, white armored personnel carriers (APC) begin their patrol beyond the gate. Manning the huge vehicles are a dozen Austrians, barking politely in German over the roar of their engines. The Austrians patrol the disengagement line between Israel and Syria. The Japanese deliver...
...soft-spoken single guy who drives a pickup truck with a gun rack, Sullivan comes from a family of Greenville jewelers. A nonvet and nonjournalist, he got his start at Southern Partisan by writing about the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a member and officer. Sullivan is Christian, antiabortion and a supporter of small, decentralized government. His magazine is all those things and also a passionate defender of the Confederate flag. Sullivan says it's fair to call the publication right-wing with a Southern twist. But not racist...
...They hugged endlessly. She slept in the truck with him. Afterward, Colby likened the experience to a "conjugal visit...
...themselves. "It's a certifiable example, the epitome of a narcissist, to believe the American people would be interested in his execution like he's this great hero," says Paul Heath, a Veterans Affairs psychologist who was working on the fifth floor of the building McVeigh destroyed with a truck bomb. He, and others like him, insist that executions should remain a private matter between the killers and the relatives - not public spectacles...