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Good Morning
As we continue with the new format I am finding small
problems. I have added the address of each link as well
as the link, certain browsers and permissions were not
allowing the readers to link to the article. I have also
reinstituted the archive and you will be able to read
this weeks BTW on-line at http://www.blackwaterusa.com/new/btwarchive.
html.
Incredible feedback on the LA Times cartoon. Thank
you for all your e-mails to the editor of the Times.
Gary Jackson
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
MAIL
Click here to read some of the stuff sent to me in the
previous week.
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mail/0112mail.html.
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In Iraq's Murky Battle, Snipers Offer U.S. a
Precision Weapon
By ERIC SCHMITT
SAMARRA, Iraq, Dec. 28 - The intimate horror of the
guerrilla war here in Iraq seems most vivid when seen
through the sights of a sniper's rifle.
In an age of satellite-guided bombs dropped at
featureless targets from 30,000 feet, Army snipers can
see the expression on a man's face when the bullet
hits.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/bt
w2004/articles
/0112sniper.html
Eulogy For a Fighter Pilot
COLONEL DON CONROY'S EULOGY, by his son Pat
Conroy
The children of fighter pilots tell different stories than
other kids do. None of our fathers can write a will or
sell a life insurance policy or fill out a prescription or
administer a flue shot or explain what a poet meant.
We tell of fathers who land on aircraft carriers at pitch-
black night with the wind howling out of the China Sea.
Our fathers wiped out aircraft batteries in the
Philippines and set Japanese soldiers on fire when they
made the mistake of trying to overwhelm our troops on
the ground..
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw
2004/articles/0112fighter.html
New Technology and Old Police Work
By
James Markey
The Phoenix Police Department implemented a new
initiative based on a multidisciplinary approach to help
solve cold sex crime cases.
In 2001, when the court system convicted a serial
rapist of multiple sexual assaults in both Arizona and
Florida, a new dawn began for his victims. During cross-
examination, victim after victim described how their
lives had been changed forever. The rapist's life
sentence, though, finally gave his victims the chance
to return their lives to normalcy. Many victims had
experienced dramatic life changes, and they had been
waiting months, or even years, for a conviction. The
credit for arriving at this point goes first to the victims
for surviving and never giving up hope and, second, to
the detectives who diligently pursued these cases while
employing new technology to uncover the guilty
suspect.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/bt
w2004/articles/0112newtech.html
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Cough medicine as a high?
Alarming new drug abuse trend among young people
Joel Cahoon, 16-years-old and now in rehab, says his
drug problem turned worse the day he ran out of
marijuana. That's when a friend suggested stealing cold
and cough medication from a grocery store.
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3861592/
Abducted girls safe, suspect wounded
EAST RIDGE, Tennessee (CNN) -- The man sought by
the FBI in the abduction of three girls and the slayings
of four people apparently shot himself while being
pursued Thursday evening, police said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/S
outh/01/08/children.missing/index.html
Are you being watched online?
Spyware programs say they catch cheating lovers,
workers
Here's a sobering thought:
While you're looking at your computer, it may be looking
back at you. There is easy-to-get, even free, software
that lets anybody spy on you, anytime you are on your
computer.
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3475956/
Drugging the Troops
Many U.S. soldiers are being treated with a malaria
drug that can cause psychotic episodes. Is this a good
idea?
Jan. 9 - My bad drug trip
happened back in the mid-1990s. I was on call for the
Department of Defense press-pool rotation. In the
event of pressing military action, this pool of reporters
would be activated and sent somewhere top secret. I
never really expected to be mobilized, but I kept a bag
packed and my pager at my bedside just in case. It
went off one morning about 4:30.
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3918713/
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PENTAGON RESUMING ANTHRAX
SHOTS
The Defense Department said it would resume
vaccinating troops against anthrax after a federal judge
lifted his order limiting the program.
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3900339/
"Military Studies in the Jihad Against
the Tyrants...Terrorism Bible"
"The 180-page volume, seized from
the Manchester, England home of a bin
Laden disciple, offers jihad members guidance on
subjects such as
assassination, forging documents, and preparing
poisons in its 18 chapters.
The terrorism manual was placed into evidence last
year by prosecutors
during the federal trial of four men accused of
involvement in the 1998
bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (the
below English
translation was also placed in evidence). All four
defendants were
convicted and sentenced to life in prison."
You can download the file here. It is a Word document
and 6 megs.
http://blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/downl
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INSPECTOR O'NEILL: THERE WAS NO
EVIDENCE OF WMD
New York - Discussing the case for the Iraq war in an
interview with TIME's White House correspondent John
Dickerson, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who
sat on the National Security Council, says the focus
was on Saddam from the early days of the
Administration. He offers the most skeptical view of the
case for war ever put forward by a top Administration
official. "In the 23 months I was there, I never saw
anything that I would characterize as evidence of
weapons of mass destruction," he told TIME. "There
were allegations and assertions by people. But I've
been around a hell of a long time, and I know the
difference between evidence and assertions and
illusions or allusions and conclusions that one could
draw from a set of assumptions. To me there is a
difference between real evidence and everything else.
And I never saw anything in the intelligence that I
would characterize as real evidence." TIME's new issue
will be on newsstands Monday, Jan. 12th.
http://drudg
ereport.com/flash1.htm
HAMDI
Supreme Court
to decide combatant's detention
Hamdi, a U.S.-born citizen, held indefinitely without
charge since capture in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Friday that it
would decide whether a U.S. citizen seized abroad and
deemed an "enemy combatant" could be kept in a
military jail in this country, a test case for President
Bush's war on terror.
http:/
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OUT OF THE HEART...
...you have what you say you have. Mark 11:23. (IN
RELATION TO YOU
PERSONALLY.)
Above all keep and guard your heart (mind - inner
being) with all
vigilance for out of it flow the springs of life. Prov.
4:23.
As he (a person) thinks in his heart so is he.
[victorious or defeated,
strong & stable or weak and unable] Prov. 23:7
... out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaks. Matthew 12:34.
... WORDS FROM THE OPERATIONS MANUAL OF MY
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
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In the December 29th "Frank's Review" I included a
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two-tone finish of OD Green and Black. The
black parts are plastic or synthetic and the OD Green
color is the receiver, barrel, magazine tube, magazine
extension and front sling swivel. In that article,
for the curious, I let it be known that the OD Green
finish was a custom gun finish available from Rob
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