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Good Morning
Intersting reading in the Blogs on IED's. Check it out
here....
http://philca
rter.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_philcarter_archive.html#
107599898329697649.
Blackwater now has almost 450 men overseas in
various capacities (all have a gun). We like getting one
page resumes sent to resume@blackwatersecurity.com.
Even if we do not have a position immediately for your
skill set we will get you in the database and your file
will be queried when we are searching.
Remember you can read old copies of the BTW on-line
at http://www.blackwaterusa.com/new/btwarchive.
html.
Gary Jackson
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Difference between winners and losers, winners do
things losers don't want to do.
BUMPER STICKER
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
CARS VS. COMPUTERS (Just for Fun)
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and
affection for the way computers have enhanced our
lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX),
Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry
with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up
with technology like the computer industry has, we
would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to
the gallon".
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued
a press release
stating: If GM had developed technology like!
Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the
following characteristics ( and I just love this
part):
For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash
twice a day.
Every time they repainted the lines in the
road, you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the
freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to
the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off
the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you
could continue. For some reason you would simply
accept this.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as
a left turn would cause your car to shut down and
refuse to restart, in which case you would have to
reinstall the engine.
Macintosh would make a car that was
powered by the sun, way reliable, five times as fast
and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only
five percent of the roads.
The oil, water temperature, and alternator
warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This
Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
The airbag system would ask "Are you
sure?" before deploying.
Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever,
your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in
until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned
the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
Every time a new car was introduced car
buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again
because none of the controls would operate in the
same manner as the old car.
You'd have to press the "Start" button to
turn the engine off.
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BODY GUARD
By Brian Bonfiglio
YOU SAVED MY LIFE. I AM FOREVER IN YOUR BEBT.
HOW CAN I EVER REPAY YOU?
This is what most people think of when they hear the
term "Bodyguard". The term 'bodyguard" has to be one
of the sexiest job titles in the work place today, but in
reality very few understand what this profession is all
about. Every time I hear the word "bodyguard", I think
of Kevin Costner leaping across the stage as an
assassin fires his pistol, which was built into a video
camera, no less, at Whitney Houston. Of course, the
title of this very successful and entertaining major
motion picture was "The Bodyguard". However, it
should be needless to say that life does not imitate
art.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw
2004/articles/0315brian.html
Kojo & Kofi
Unbelievable U.N. stories.
By Claudia Rosett
In the growing scandal over the United Nations Oil-for-
Food program, which from 1996-2003 supervised relief
to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, U.N. Secretary General Kofi
Annan and his staff have excused themselves from any
responsibility for the massive corruption involving
billions in bribes and kickbacks that went on via more
than $100 billion in U.N.-approved contracts for
Saddam to sell oil and buy humanitarian supplies. U.N.
officials have denied that this tidal wave of graft in any
way seeped into their own shop, or that they even had
time to notice it was out there. They were too busy
making the world a better place.
http://www.nationalreview.com/co
mment/rosett200403101819.asp
America, land of the Ashcroft-haters
Michelle Malkin
Those oh-so-compassionate liberals could
hardly contain their glee upon hearing the news that
Attorney General John Ashcroft is suffering from a
severe case of gallstone pancreatitis.
"He has it coming. He is utterly sub-human and evil.
Suffer, bastard," gloated an Internet user on the
DemocraticUnderground.com Web site. "(T)he world
would be better off without him," responded another
writer on the forum. "I hope he is in the most severe
pain a human being can suffer, and after that, I hope
he remains in constant pain with no hope of relief,"
chimed in yet another bleeding-heart Democrat. Out in
Hollywood, comedian Bill Maher echoed these unsparing
sentiments during his HBO talk show monologue,
speculating that Ashcroft contracted his unimaginably
painful and potentially deadly illness from "wiping his
(expletive) with the Bill of Rights." The audience roared
with laughter.
http://www.townhall.com/colu
mnists/michellemalkin/mm20040310.shtml>
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Media Draw Fire for Underage Sex Stings
By JASON STRAZIUSO
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) - The TV news report is
hard to ignore: An unsuspecting man goes to a house
where he allegedly thinks a teenage girl is waiting to
have sex with him, but instead he is met by a TV
reporter with a camera and microphone.
http://www.cnn.com/
2004/WORLD/americas/03/09/colombia.drugs.reut/index.
html
Taken for a Ride
A crack-dealing informant told the FBI he could lead
agents to bin Laden. Guess what happened next?
March 10 - In the frantic months after
September 11, Justice Department prosecutors
arranged to release an indicted Detroit crack dealer
after the man claimed he could help the FBI locate a
higher priority target: Osama bin Laden.
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4499817/
U.S. says more soldiers will be
heading to Haiti Troop strength expected to double;
mission aims to curb violence
There are
approximately 1,600 U.S. forces in Haiti as part of a
multinational peacekeeping force, but a Bush
administration official testified Wednesday that their
numbers would be increasing.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4416174/
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Sources: Bin Laden may be eyeing
move
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might be
preparing to move from Pakistan to Afghanistan,
according to sources with access to the latest U.S.
intelligence.
U.S. intelligence found signs of a network of al Qaeda
couriers and safe houses on the Afghan side of the
border, sources said. Such a network could be a sign
bin Laden might be planning to flee Pakistan.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD
/asiapcf/03/09/binladen/index.html
U.S. CHARGES SUSAN LINDAUER,
AMERICAN CITIZEN, WITH WORKING IN NEW YORK AND
ABROAD AS AN AGENT OF IRAQI INTELLIGENCE AND
RELATED TERRORISM OFFENSES
http://newyork.fbi.gov/pressrel/2004/lind031104.ht
m
Doubt over al Qaeda claim
A
group saying it speaks for al Qaeda has claimed
responsibility for the Madrid train bombings in an e-mail
to an Arabic-language newspaper in London.
However, intelligence officials have said the group does
not speak for al Qaeda and has been unreliable in the
past.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/W
ORLD/europe/03/12/spain.blasts.alqaeda/
U.S. military supports Chad forces
U.S.
military cargo planes have been delivering food,
blankets and other supplies to forces in Chad as they
have fought Islamic militants there, and American
surveillance aircraft have helped monitor and track the
militants, officials said Friday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/W
ORLD/africa/03/12/us.chad.ap/index.html
Zimbabwe to charge suspects with plotting coup
Zimbabwe said Friday it will charge dozens of
mercenary suspects with trying to destabilize a
sovereign state and said the suspects were talking
about their purported plot to stage a coup in oil-rich
Equatorial Guinea.
http://edition.cnn.com
/2004/WORLD/africa/03/12/zimbabwe.plane.reut/index.h
tml
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CHAPLAIN CORNER 03/15/04
BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A
THIEF,
AND THEN THE HEAVENS WILL VANISH (PASS AWAY)
WITH A THUNDEROUS CRASH, AND THE [MATERIAL]
ELEMENTS [OF THE UNIVERSE] WILL BE DISSOLVED
WITH FIRE, AND THE EARTH AND THE WORKS UPON
IT WILL BE BURNED UP. 2 PETER 3:10 (AMPLIFIED)
IF YOU HAD BEEN IN THE PENTAGON WHERE THE PLANE
STRUCK...
IF YOU HAD BEEN IN EITHER TOWER WHERE THE
PLANES STRUCK...
IF YOU HAD BEEN IN ANY OF THE HUMVEES WHERE THE
ROADSIDE
BOMB EXPLODED...
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0315chaplain.html »
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Springfield Armory "Loaded" 1911-A1
Those of you who have read the reviews for any length
of time know that I'm a fan of the Government
Model .45ACP. In past reviews I've evaluated
1911-style guns running the gamut from "plain jane"
straight 1911s to full underlug accessory-rail equipped
adjustable sight weapons specifically designed for
special operations - military and law enforcement both.
None of the 1911s I've previously evaluated
impressed me the way my most recent acquisition did.
The gun we're going to discuss this week is a
standard "loaded" 1911 from Springfield Armory.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0315frank.html »
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