israelinsider: Banker takes on guard duties in Jenin

""When the World Trade Center was in flames, I wasn't able to save any lives. But if while I am here, doing reserve duty in the army, I can save even one life, it will be as if I have saved the whole world." Merrill Lynch executive Alan Leventen, who came to Israel to volunteer with the Israel Defense Forces this week in the Jenin area, says he'll keep coming back to Israel to help as long as his knees hold up. "

DEBKAfile: US Builds New Jumping off Base in Eritrea

"The dusty streets of this East African corner have recently filled with white American vans dashing around without license plates but recognizable as military vehicles from their sprouting antennae."

Independent: America rattles Saddam's cage hoping he will lash out in anger

"Amid an almost deafening public indifference, hardly a day goes by without a new report or disclosure suggesting that a US attack, at the end of this year or early next, is a virtual certainty."

 

I don't think he'd be foolish enough to lash out, but you never know.

Yahoo! News - Iraq Says Seven Hurt in U.S., British Attack

""At 10:00 local time warplanes of the evil American and British administrations flew 30 sorties over several southern Iraqi places using air bases in Kuwait," the spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency."

 

I wonder what they were targeting? Could it have been anti aircraft, or command and control?

Yahoo! News - 800 World Trade Victims May Never Be Identified

""As you recall, those fires burned for months afterward," Hirsch said, leaving many bone samples in ashes as if they had been cremated.
So far, 1,229 have been identified, or about 44 percent. Dental X-rays, fingerprints and personal belongings were helpful for many of the positive identifications, but now Hirsch and his staff rely mainly on DNA analysis."