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Taser enthusiasts argue that even if a few dozen deaths could be attributed to the stun gun, that's a tiny fraction of the 30,000 or so Americans who die from gunshot wounds each year. "What our weapon does is highly unpleasant," concedes Taser CEO Rick Smith, "but it can save lives...
...guests unseen, uninvited - the bad guys that Bush's presidency has been built on fighting. About them, Bush was blunt. He reminded the audience what had been found in the smoked-out holes of Afghanistan - blueprints of U.S. nuclear plants, surveillance maps of major cities, instructions on chemical-weapon manufacture. He pointed to the harboring nations, the future hotspots that the Pentagon already has on simmer - the Phillipines. Bosnia. Somalia. Iran. Iraq. And he pointed to the "tens of thousands of killers, schooled in the methods of murder" are still out there, and still intent on bringing...
INDICTED. RICHARD REID, 28, who packed explosives in his shoes in an apparent attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight; on nine counts, including attempted murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction; in Boston. Reid, who is accused of receiving training from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...
...That's pretty much what we know about John Walker. What we don't know, on the other hand, could fill volumes. Did he fire a weapon against the United States? Was he brainwashed by the Taliban? Does he still want to be an American citizen? Could he have issued a warning before the September 11th attacks...
...since Sept. 11: the ability to identify just who is getting on their planes. "This case lends support to our calls for some kind of government-approved profiling," says Michael Wascom of the Air Transport Association. "If we had more information about this man, who was carrying a weapon, we could have avoided any problems...