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In response to the feature letter next week, lets just say I get it and will be much more aware of what I lead with each week. Thank you for all the feedback.
FEATURE LETTER THIS WEEK....
The Need to Fight Smarter, Not Harder
When it's tough to tell friend from foe, as it is in Iraq, aggressive tactics can win battles, but lose wars
Another day, another violent dustup in Iraq. Iraqis allege that U.S. troops attacked a wedding party that was using small-arms fire to celebrate the occasion. Wherever the truth lies, the precision of guided munitions has limits, so it's inevitable -- and unfortunate -- that collateral civilian casualties will result if soldiers fire on homes. That's true even if the ammo hits just the house targeted, since noncombatants are also likely to be inside.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5030947/
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The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terror
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0524suicide.ppt.html Methamphetamine Information
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Vigo County Drug Task Force
There are two rules that we go by in drug enforcement. First, is that fundamentally speaking when it comes to the science of drugs themselves, the aspects of fact regarding them cannot be disputed. Second, when it comes to the aspects of the drug culture itself, nothing should be assumed. Rules number one and two hold no more truth than when dealing with methamphetamine (meth) and the people who sell, use and recreationally ingest it. We know what meth is and what it does (scientifically) to people. But any street cop or drug enforcement officer will tell you that people under the influence of it are as unpredictable as they come, and we should assume nothing about their behavior when confronted by them.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0524meth.html Oxycontin
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Allan Garcia
With increasing frequency, drug abusers and dealers, often brandishing firearms, are bursting into pharmacies nationwide, demanding that terrified pharmacists hand over all of their Oxycontin. The opioid painkiller that has now become the street drug of choice.
There have been at least 700 Oxycontin (oxycodone HCI, extended-release tablets, Purdue Pharma) thefts during the last two years, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Diversion Control. Florida racked up 82 thefts, Pennsylvania 90, 69 in Kentucky, Ohio had 74, and California had 34 and counting. Massachusetts is another state being hit hard by the rash of violent pharmacy robberies.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0524oxy.html
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Reporters Subpoenaed in CIA Leak
Journalists at Time magazine and NBC News were subpoenaed yesterday to appear before a federal grand jury investigating whether administration officials illegally leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer last summer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46823-2004May21?language=printer
The arrest and abrupt release of an American lawyer who was initially linked by fingerprints to the deadly train bombing in Madrid may reflect the limitations of computerized fingerprint matching, experts say.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5032168/ Federal complaint offers glimpse into Chicago gangland
Soon after her wedding, she was driving a Mercedes Benz, living in a swank apartment and watching her husband pull a pack of heroin out of a teddy bear head he got in the mail.
The former prostitute told investigators her husband and his twin brother hauled garbage bags full of cash into their home -- $3 million on one night alone -- and laundered their money in an Atlanta nightclub and other businesses.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/21/chicago.gangland.ap/index.html
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb containing deadly sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. It was believed to be the first confirmed discovery of any of the banned weapons that the United States cited in making its case for the Iraq war. Two members of a military bomb squad were treated for "minor exposure," but no serious injuries were reported.
The chemicals were inside an artillery shell dating to the Saddam Hussein era that had been rigged as a bomb in Baghdad, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq. It appears two chemical components in the shell, which are designed to combine and create sarin during flight, did not mix properly or completely upon detonation, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Kimmitt, however, said a small amount of the nerve agent was released.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0524sarin.html Agency: Chalabi group was front for Iran
The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress has been used for years by Iranian intelligence to pass disinformation to the United States and to collect highly sensitive American secrets, according to intelligence sources. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the United States through Chalabi by furnishing through his Information Collection Program information to provoke the United States into getting rid of Saddam Hussein," said an intelligence source Friday who was briefed on the Defense Intelligence Agency's conclusions, which were based on a review of thousands of internal documents.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uschal0522,0,7406020,print.story?coll=ny-top-span-headlines Countering prison abuse scandal
Bush administration uses Saddam victims to remind public of prewar atrocities
In the wake of weeks of negative news about abuse of prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers, the Bush administration is seeking to send a strong message about the previous way of life under Saddam Hussein, when many Iraqi men were also victims of torture at Abu Ghraib - Saddam's torture.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5033239/
Two held in Berg beheading case
Coalition forces detained four; released two after questioning
Coalition forces apprehended four people in connection with the beheading of U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, a military coalition official said Friday, but have since released two of them.
The senior official said the two remaining might be released after more questioning. He provided no further details.
An Iraqi security official said the four men who decapitated Berg and videotaped it were members of Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen paramilitary organization, according to The Associated Press.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/21/berg/index.html
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