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WHACKO-TV AFGHAN MAN

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Update: Obama's Remarks On Health Reform's Pending Vote (Video)

Watch President Obama's inspiring remarks on health reform's pending vote. The House... more

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Obama responds to Fort Hood tragedy (Video)

President Barack Obama responded to the tragedy at Fort Hood in his weekly... more

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Sign of the Apocalypse...Government to rent your foreclosed home back to you......

WASHINGTON, DC -- Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE) today announced the establishment of a new... more

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Obama: U.S. Must Reverse Course With Indians

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Celebrity Feet

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Top Scent: Reality Show Promo

Love watching cooking reality shows where you can't taste the food. Then you'll love... more

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Kate Gosselin Interviews Herself

Conor Knighton takes a look at Kate's recent interview special as part of his weekly... more

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The Most Important Elections This Year

The 24-hour news cycle demanded this year's elections be just as intense as last... more

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infoMania: Best clips from the week of 11.05.09

This week on infomania cable news knows its not the quality of election coverage that... more

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Obama's Rubbish Chandelier

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DC Protesters Mocked by Media, Ignored by Politicians

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Highest Unemployment in 26 years.... Stimulation not working...

U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years The United States economy... more

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Obama's Resolve

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_fort_hood "We will make sure... more

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Iraq's bomb detectors are useless?

Getting caught up on this story from yesterday in the NY Times: Apparently security forces in Iraq are using bomb detecting "wands" that the Pentagon thinks are useless. All those checkpoints that are supposed to keep Iraq's cities safe from car bombs might not be having much of an effect at all.

From the NY Times:
"The Iraqis, however, believe passionately in them. “Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives. Dale Murray, head of the National Explosive Engineering Sciences Security Center at Sandia Labs, which does testing for the Department of Defense, said the center had “tested several devices in this category, and none have ever performed better than random chance.”

Iraq is in the middle of a delicate transition period. Things have begun to seem more stable, less violent. US troops have pulled back to their bases, out of the cities. And blast walls in the capital have even come down. But with recent bombings in Baghdad - bomb detection is a really critical part of maintaining security. The New York Times described the wands as working on the "same principle as a Ouija board" - by the power of user suggestion.

From the NY Times:
"On Tuesday, a guard and a driver for The New York Times, both licensed to carry firearms, drove through nine police checkpoints that were using the device. None of the checkpoint guards detected the two AK-47 rifles and ammunition inside the vehicle. During an interview on Tuesday, General Jabiri challenged a Times reporter to test the ADE 651, placing a grenade and a machine pistol in plain view in his office. Despite two attempts, the wand did not detect the weapons when used by the reporter but did so each time it was used by a policeman. “You need more training,” the general said."

On the Current News Blog: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/05/iraqs-bomb-detectors-are-useless/

The story in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html
Image: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/04/world/04sensors_CA1.htmlGetting caught up on this story from yesterday in the NY Times: Apparently security... more