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To: Ilaine who wrote (90252)	12/11/2004 8:38:01 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 793838

One more example of kerry's stupidity. [From Warren Gray begin] In December 1988 an imagery analyst in the Washington, DC area notified the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) POW/MIA Office that she had discovered a U-S-A symbol in the rice fields of northeastern Laos. A DIA analyst determined that the imagery that contained the symbol was actually dated in January 1988, almost 11 months earlier, and asked that DIA imagery analysts review the imagery. It was determined that the letters U-S-A were actually 12 feet tall and 36 feet across, and that they appeared to have been dug into the rice field. Further analysis identified what appeared to be a smaller symbol beneath the larger U-S-A and that the indistinct symbol may have contained “feet” which are normally used in military evader symbols, such as a “walking K.” The rice field that contained the symbol was located just south of the city of Sam Neua in Houa Phan Province. DIA imagery analysts also determined that the symbol was not present in imagery dated December 1988. The DIA POW/MIA Office proceeded under the assumption that the symbol had been made by Americans held in captivity, and that it was a valid evader symbol. An extensive search was conducted of available imagery of northeastern Laos in an effort to identify other possible evader symbols and for several months it appeared that there might be literally hundreds of symbols throughout the northeast, however, intense analysis was conducted of each possible symbol and all were discounted as shadows or depressions. A review of Human Intelligence reporting indicated that there were a number of reports of live Americans being held in various parts of northeastern Laos. In one instance a source reported that he could bring a small number of live Americans from northeastern Laos to Thailand for a reward. He was challenged to prove his claim and members of the DIA Stony Beach Team in Bangkok actually traveled to the Thai – Lao border crossing point identified by the source and camped out, waiting for the source to deliver on his promise…to no avail. Intelligence efforts continued in a search of northeastern Laos for any indication of live American POWs. By 1990 it was determined that a US team should travel to Houa Phan Province, Laos, to conduct further research on the ground, and the Lao Government was asked officially to allow a US team to travel to the northeast. The Lao Government was not willing to allow a research team from outside the country to travel anywhere within Laos, especially since the U.S. Government already had a small team located in Vientiane, Laos, from the Joint Task Force – Full Accounting (JTF-FA) in Hawaii, which was assigned POW/MIA investigations. Periodic requests continued to be made to the Lao Government to allow a team to travel to the northeast and not until late 1992 did the Lao approve the research mission. In the meantime, the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs was conducting hearings into the POW issue, and Senator Kerry, Chairman, and Senator Smith, Co-Chairman, decided to visit Laos to look into the POW issue, during which they traveled by helicopter to an area near Sam Neua City. Upon leaving the site the Senators directed that the helicopter pilot land in a rice field south of Sam Neua where they thought the U-S-A symbol had been seen years before. They took this side trip without approval of the Lao Government, so naturally it caused quite a furor on the part of the Lao. Unfortunately, the Senators directed the pilot to a rice field on the other side of a mountain from the original rice field with the symbol, so their trip was in vain and almost caused an international incident.

To: Ilaine who wrote (90252)	12/11/2004 8:59:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793838

I'd like to be able to make that little window wider, because I typically use a lot of words for a google search, so that's why I keep opening new google windows. You can. There's an extension for that you can download. Works fine. update.mozilla.org I have the adblock extension, too, which I love. The best thing about Firefox for me is that you can change font size on a dime as much as you like.