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Booby Traps of the Vietnam War

Lethal booby traps are often used in warfare, particularly guerilla warfare...

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - A booby trap is a device set up to be triggered by an unsuspecting victim. As the word trap implies, they often have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it.

However, in other cases the device is triggered when the victim performs some type of everyday action e.g. opening a door, picking something up or switching something on.

Athletes Against Dow Chemical

If the IOC is going to demand certain ethics from athletes in order to preserve the image and ideal of the Olympic movement, then it is unfair these ethos are not demanded of sponsors.

(LOS ANGELES) - U.S. and Canadian athletes, some of whom swam for UCLA, others that were on the Canadian National Swim Team, are drawing attention to the implications of Dow Chemical's Olympic Sponsorship.

Doctored Photo in Marine Murder Probe (Part 2)

If Colonel Sabow didn’t commit suicide, then who killed him?

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Colonel Sabow was found dead in his quarters at MCAS El Toro on January 22, 1991, after he requested a court martial for alleged charges due to personal misuse of government aircraft.

However, the alleged charges were unsupportable and would have been easily dismissed by a court martial.

Doctored Photo in Murder Probe (Part 1)

Fraudulent autopsy photo supports murder of Marine Corps Colonel and cover-up by DOD. First in a three part series.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The death of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow in his quarters at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, has taken a new twist with the discovery of a fraudulent autopsy photograph in DOD’s death investigation report to the House Armed Service Committee.

These hide the tramline bruise to the back of Colonel Sabow’s head, a tell tale sign of a violent blow by a blunt object like a lead pipe or baseball bat.

Radio Netherlands: Dutch Tamil Tiger Five on appeal

The case could result in a change of EU law.

(THE HAGUE) - Five men convicted of supporting Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers (LTTE) last October began their appeal against conviction Monday in The Hague.

The case marks the first time an EU member state has considered the question of whether the Tamil Tigers is a terrorist organization.

Voter Apathy in America Unprecedented

2012- the year that everything changes...

(SALEM) - Something really did change in America after Barack Obama was elected, it is our simple ability to hope and have faith and believe in our national leaders.

Traveling this road of life, we've seen the final blowout of a tire packed with hot air known as "U.S. politics". People are growing wiser.

My Visit to Sri Lanka - Part 2 (Photos)

Rapid transformation of Kilinochchi...

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - Further to Omanthai checkpoint, one could see housing estates being built with Indian and Australian funding.

Vibrant Kilinochchi is going through a rapid transformation since the end of the war in Sri Lanka. This one time capital of the LTTE that symbolised the group’s activities is no longer there. The shops and various offices of the LTTE reflecting heavy grammatical Tamil names have disappeared.

Alan Dershowitz, an amoral and impotent dwarf

Dershowitz behaves similarly to a whining toddler, unconstrained by facts, reason, or the broader consequences of his untruths in his quest for Mr. Atzmon’s silence.

(LONDON) - I had the good fortune to write arrangements for the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra this Fall for a benefit concert hosted by Manhattan’s Friends Shelter, the charitable arm of the E. 16th street Quaker Meeting House.

The show featured the great British-Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and my arrangements of his tunes.

A.I.P.A.C. Persuading Americans to break the law?

AIPAC has been described by The New York Times as “the most important organization affecting America’s relationship with Israel.” Well, it would wouldn’t it?

(LONDON) - Habituation writes James Austin M.D “means that repeated stimuli yield a decreasing response.” Conversely and importantly.

He goes on, “Sensitization implies that responses increase when stronger stimuli are repeated.”

Sri Lanka: TNA Seeks India`s Help for `Corrective Steps`

Sampanthan said India is keen to ensure that Tamils in Sri Lanka live with "self-respect and dignity"...

(NEW DELHI Outlook India) - Tamil National Alliance has complained to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's about Lankan government's "lethargic" attitude in talks for evolving a political solution to the ethnic crisis and sought India's help for "corrective steps".

A delegation of TNA leaders led by its Parliamentary Party Chief R Sampanthan met Krishna, who arrived here on a four-day visit...