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It took me four or five tries to successfully parse the article title Landmine claims dog UK arms firm.   Three words could be nouns or adjectives, one could be a noun or a verb, and two could be nouns, adjectives, or verbs.

On the Israeli siege of the West Bank, Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen, UN Special Co-ordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, writes that the devastation left by Israeli forces is “horrific beyond belief. … [The Jenin camp] is totally destroyed, it looks like an earthquake has hit it. … We have expert people here who have been in war zones and earthquakes and they say they have never seen anything like it. … It is totally unacceptable that the government of Israel for 11 days did not allow search and rescue teams to come.” [emphasis added]

President Bush continues to describe Ariel Sharon as “a man of peace.”

Now is the time to make yourself aware of what is really going on.  Do not just accept the U.S. spin of this being a war against terrorism.  Contact our representatives, tell them that the U.S. cannot stand idly by, let alone fan the flames, as this genocide continues.

Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1937000/1937387.stm

I wonder how this interesting chimera formed?  I have marked the spot that I suspect is the junction.

Gulf Vets Reporting More Problems

Thursday February 21, 2002 9:50 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gulf War soldiers believed to have escaped exposure to a vapor cloud from an Iraqi chemical weapons depot are dying at nearly 10 times the rate of troops the Pentagon says were exposed, a Veterans Administration analysis indicates.

The Pentagon has said about 100,000 soldiers were exposed to deadly gases when the Khamisiyah chemical to defend itself, attacks that result in death and injury to civilians, or on Palestinian security forces “do not contribute to calming the situation or to improving security for Israelis.”

In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke confidently of having U.S. support.  “The United States understands us and the need to protect our citizens,” he said…

New Virus: Badtrans.B

This warning applies if you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.

There is a new Windows virus, called Badtrans.B, spreading rapidly through email (I have been hit three times in the past 24 hours.)  The email subject of the infected message will be simply “Re:”.  The email body will be blank but the message will contain an attachment with a double extension: filenames will resemble Pics.zip.pif and Humor.mp3.scr.  When the message is opened, Outlook will launch the Internet Explorer (IE) parser to render the message.  IE versions 5.01 and 5.5 (but not 5.01SP2) contain an exploitable MIME bug allowing arbitrary code to be executed without prompting the user; this is the route of infection.

The virus has two main effects.  First, it will email infected messages, using its own MAPI code, to email addresses found in cached web pages.  Second (and more seriously) it will install a Trojan horse keystroke logger; the logger will be in effect when the title of the foreground window begins with ‘LOG’, ‘PAS’, ‘REM’, ‘CON’, ‘TER’, or ‘NET’ (for ‘logon’, ‘password’, ‘remote’, ‘connection’, ‘terminal’, ‘network’, etc.) and the keystroke log will be mailed to one of the creator’s (or creators’) email addresses.  The keystroke logging code is contained in %System%\Kdll.dll.

• More info on Badtrans.B from Symantec
• More info on the IE MIME exploit

From The Industry Standard:

Venture Financing

Kodeos Closes $12 Million First Round

Description: Fiber-optic communications optical subsystem maker secures first round funding led by Jerusalem Ventures and Highland Capital.

Zionist Chieftains to the rescue?

I used to live a few miles from Santee, a suburb northeast of San Diego.  The shooting: everything I think to write sounds trite.  “My sympathies go out to them.”  “How senseless.”  “Who could have done such a thing?”

So let me say this: let us hope for, and work to construct, a world in which eulogies for murdered children never get a chance to become trite.