"I was really freaked out," Gelnik recalled. A nearby soldier who was traumatized by the blast now hears whistling noises that aren't there; he won't be returning to Lebanon.
Gelnik, 20, is one of thousands of Israeli soldiers wh
Pro-Beijing lawmakers approved legislation giving broad police authority to conduct covert surveillance, including wiretapping phones, bugging homes and offices and monitoring e-mail. The bill passed after pro-democracy lawmakers walked out of the c
Already the subject of constant debate, President Bush's handling of the war will come under new scrutiny now that Congress has gotten its wish for a new intelligence report on the country's growing sectarian strife
An Iraqi army doctor has told of his horror at coming upon a dead teenager "naked with her legs spread" after the alleged murder of her family by a group of US soldiers. On March 12 five US soldiers left their post and headed to the nearby
The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside along Vietnam's central coast.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the Supreme Court's ruling that accused war criminals must be tried, as the Geneva Convention requires, in "a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispens
The Convention on Cybercrime is a sweeping treaty that has been waiting in the wings of the Sentae for nearly 3 years. Now the adminstration is putting pressure on the Senate to ratify it in the next 2 days. If it does, it would mean the US
Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage vigorously denied a Brazilian newpaper report citing government sources as saying that Fidel Castro had abdominal cancer. The Brazilian daily said that Brazilian President da Silva was notified from Havana about the e
And you thought all the 9/11 WTC wreckage was swept up in 8 months and sent to be smelted in foreign countries or secret places in our own sttrange land, right? And that the rest of the rubbble was buried in Fresh Kill (appropriate name), Staten Isl
To some, the Libertarian Party is a true political party, an organization dedicated to electing libertarians to public office. To others the Libertarian Party is a protest organization.
We are Israelis. We are untouchable. No matter what we do, the international community will not act against us. Oh, there will be talks at the United Nations but we know that the United States will intervene on our behalf.
British troops fighting Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan are on the "brink of exhaustion." Commanders fear that the number of "high tempo" operations being launched against the Taliban is "unsustainable" unless
Tuesday morning August 8th, 2006 at 7am PST - 10am EST, Alex and Charles compare notes (again). Live streaming at www.1100KFNX.com (Link to Internet Streaming at the top right of page)
On July 26th, after a year, the 172nd Stryker Combat Brigade prepared to end their deployment in Iraq. The following day, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld extended the 172nd Brigade's deployment to go fight the insurgency in Baghdad.
The federal government keeps two sets of books. The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005. The set the government doesn't talk about is the auditied financial statement produced b
Iraq's Ministry of Defense on Sunday confirmed the arrival of the first units of the 172nd Stryker Combat Team from the northern city of Mosul after U.S. soldiers were seen patrolling in some of the capital's predominantly Sunni western distr
The Bush administration is threatening to sue if Maine regulators decide to investigate whether Verizon Communications illegally turned over customers information to the NSA. Verizon customers in Maine have asked the state Public Utilities Comm
In spite of claims by Microsoft Corp. that its forthcoming Windows Vista is a secure version, a researcher at the Black Hat hacker conference last week demonstrated how the system can be hacked.
"Several aerial and ground raids began in central Sadr City. We can see several houses on fire." ... could see two houses ablaze and "there's gunfire from all sides. We can hear women and children screaming," he said.
[Unionize] The bullying of British workers has hit the headlines, but victims have tended to sit tight before complaining to bosses and taking legal action that could now net them substantial compensation.
"Talladega Nights" won the weekend derby with a surprisingly strong $47 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It marked a career high for Ferrell and the eighth No. 1 opening this year for Sony Pic
In the nine months Davis and her boyfriend had taught English at the school in rural north China, they had endured extra work hours, unpaid salaries and frigid temperatures without heating and, on many days, electricity.
Electronic US passports have a major vulnerability that allows criminals to clone embedded secret code and enter countries illegally. Personal information stored on the documents could be copied and transferred to another device.
'The whole passport design is totally brain damaged,' Grunwald told wired.com. 'From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of money. They're not increasing security at all.'
"We will actually knock on doors and look for hidden housing units," he says. "We will find converted garages; from the outside, it may not look like anybody lives there." (Just a reminder)
The newly married Magaoay thought a military career would allow him to continue his college education, help his country and set his life on the right path. Less than 2 years later, Magaoay became one of thousands of military deserters who have chosen
Unemployment crept up to a seasonally adjusted 4.8% in July, its highest level in 5 months. That, combined with rising inflation, which clocked in at a 14-year-high annual rate of 4.3% in June, raised fears that energy prices may be slowing the econo