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To: E. Charters who wrote (79247)	11/11/2001 10:47:04 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

<< air dropping cases of coca-cola and rice krispies would speed up the process by a good factor. >> Unfortunately this is the wrong time of the year to be dropping coca-cola. The former strongman of Uganda, General Idi Amin, used to order large consignments of coca-cola for his troops' consumption.

To: E. Charters who wrote (79247)	11/11/2001 10:48:52 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116753

Some Major developments in relation to terrorist attacks (Culled from various sources) - U.S. forces have bombed some sites in Afghanistan that could have been involved in producing chemical, biological or radiological weapons, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. Other such sites have been left alone, and others likely have not been found, Rumsfeld said. "If we had good information on a chemical or biological development area, we would do something about it,'' Rumsfeld said on CBS' "Face the Nation.'' "It is not an easy thing to do. We have every desire in the world to prevent the terrorists from using these capabilities.'' Getting information that a site may be producing weapons of mass destruction "faces you with a situation, are you best taking it out or are you best learning more about it,'' Rumsfeld said on the "Fox News Sunday'' television program. - Two retired nuclear scientists, who were recently arrested and questioned have acknowledged that they met terror suspect Osama bin Laden at least twice this year, Pakistani investigators said Sunday. Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid left their senior positions at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission about two years ago and established a relief organization in war-torn Afghanistan. The men met bin Laden at least twice during visits to Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar in connection with the construction of a flour mill, according to a Pakistani official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mehmood heads Tameer-e-Ummah, or the Nation Building, a private group attempting to rehabilitate Afghanistan. Majid also worked for the aid group. The scientists were arrested Oct. 23 and questioned about their work in Afghanistan. They were released after few days in detention, only to be rearrested a couple of days later. - Among the terrorist weapons experts worry about, one device tops the list: the atom bomb. While chances are remote that a terrorist might obtain one of the suitcase-sized nuclear bombs produced by the United States or former Soviet Union, analysts worry that a crude but deadly device might be fashioned from stolen nuclear material and a few sticks of dynamite. Such a radiological bomb wouldn't yield a nuclear explosion but rather a plume of toxic radiation. "Had the terrorists at the World Trade Center used a radiological dispersal device, most parts of lower Manhattan would have been rendered uninhabitable,'' said Tariq Rauf, director of the nonproliferation program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Such a bomb requires neither knowledge of physics nor the rigors of smuggling weapons-grade uranium or plutonium. - White-supremacist groups based in the U.S. Midwest are using the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to recruit new members, according to a study by an anti-racism group. The Center for New Community, a six-year-old faith-based organization in suburban Oak Park, counts 338 "white nationalist'' groups in 10 Midwestern U.S. states. Some of them are using images of the burning World Trade Center towers to advocate closing America's borders, the group says in a report titled "State of Hate: White Nationalism in the Midwest 2000-2001.'' "These organizations have been responsible for several rallies, public events, distribution of literature and even a few crimes in recent months,'' said Devin Burghart, who directs the center's Building Democracy Initiative.

To: E. Charters who wrote (79247)	11/12/2001 7:22:02 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116753

<<In 25 years obesity, divorce, political apathy and low test scores on SATS will be major problems.>> Should it be mentioned the path of exclusive radical only Islam has not been helpful for the overall educational level of Afghanistan with their literacy level dropping since WW-II with current estimates running as low as 15-25%? With such a low literacy rate(even were SAT's translated into Baluchi, Pashai, Turkmen, or one of the many Persian dialects) could they better pass an SAT without first learning to read? Using this as a basis it would seem any US lack of educational ability is almost as much an individual failure as a systemic failure from corrupting influence. I do share your concern of our North American(and all western education to a lesser extant) education, but I instead,place the blame more on teacher's unions, a near monopoly of the liberal arts schools in league with an ever growing government in education delivery and less on overall moral decline. We must return to a greater amount of technical education delivered in grades 8-12! Technical education in these grades can not be only how to play a computer game and how to find an internet porn site. This with a solid return to the "three R's" in the prior grades could make a major difference. No longer can we allow non- technical people to be the sole delivery system of grade 1-10 science education to our children!