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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (7811)	10/18/2001 1:45:58 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27786

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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (7811)	10/18/2001 5:00:34 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 27786

Larry Ellison has an interesting proposal for an Identification Card... Forbes.com Faces In The News: Oct. 18, 2001 Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: <<The old slogan to demonstrate our society's progress was "a chicken in every pot." Now it's a national ID card for every citizen. Billionaire technology mogul Larry Ellison 's proposal for the government to create an identification card that would contain the holder's basic information is taking wind, according to The Mercury News. The paper reported that the chief executive of Oracle has met with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and CIA and FBI authorities to discuss the issue. "We are in the process of putting a proposal together and analyzing what it would take to get something running in a matter of a small number of months, like three months, 90 days," Ellison said. "We think we could put up this technology very, very quickly." The card would hold a person's Social Security number and would be linked to a federal database containing detailed personal data, including digital records of the person's thumbprint, palm print, face or eyes.>>

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (7811)	10/18/2001 5:08:39 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27786

Want Osama? Watch TV PARITOSH BANSAL TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEW DELHI: Is this art imitating life or life imitating art? In the 1970s, the movie Sky Riders created a stir with a plot that centred on a kidnapping, a hunt, a breakthrough, and a daredevil rescue using hang gliders. But the sleuths get their big clue only when the kidnappers send a ransom demand along with pictures of the victims. In the background is a rock-cut sculpture. A hint, really, to US forces: If you want to find Osama Bin Laden, watch TV. True, the US believes that Laden's messages sent mysteriously to Al Jazeera have more than what meets the eye. On October 7, the day after allied planes began bombing Afghanistan, the Qatari satellite TV channel broadcast an ominous message from Laden; ominous because the terrorist mastermind could have been sending coded messages to the sleeping cells of his al-Qaeda network. Such was the belief that American TV channels were advised to refrain from broadcasting them. And the channels heeded the advice. After all, which private channel would want to seem anti-national in the times of war? But in their haste, the authorities may have done their mission more harm than good. For geologists feel the message was not important. What was important was the rocky backdrop against which Bin Laden could be seen holding a microphone. The sedimentary rock formations shown in the tape are found only in two provinces in Afghanistan's south eastern sector -- Paktia and Paktika -- an area with many caves, 210 km from Kabul, a geologist at the university of Nebraska told Reuters. And he is not the only one to read the writing on the wall. In a letter to The New York Times, a Georgia-based geologist says the character of the cliff is enough to determine where the videotape was made. In "Sky Riders", the sleuths narrow down the target, and then launch a night raid, rescuing the kidnapped. In real-life Afghanistan, the US has launched attacks but not found Bin Laden. The spy planes, satellites and military intelligence haven't helped so far. Too much of an effort, some would say, when they could just watch TV timesofindia.com.