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...novel. Europeans have never had trouble recognizing the legitimacy of regimes in Cairo, Riyadh and Damascus, where there is no participation by anyone. Indeed, many Europeans championed the inviolability of Saddam Hussein's regime, under which election participation was routinely 100%-at the point of a gun...
...years ago, the Federal Flight Deck Officer program began training pilots who wanted to carry guns on flights to protect the cockpit. Aviation sources tell TIME that more than 4,000 pilots are authorized to carry guns, and each day they fly armed on more flights than do air marshals. The gun-toting pilots, who fly unidentified, now constitute the fourth-largest federal law-enforcement group...
...aviation-security community was alarmed recently when the TSA put a pilot on a special watch list for having government-issued ammunition in his bag when he tried to board a plane while off duty. The pilot, who had passed rigorous background checks in order to carry a gun, was subject to being pulled aside for searches and not allowed to work as a pilot. He was taken off the list last week, given a letter of censure and allowed to return to work. Said TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield: "We have a thorough review process, and we came...
...historic election day, none captured the mood of the nation better than the sight of children flying out into the open. There have been times since the fall of Saddam Hussein when Iraq's cities have seemed childless, as parents have tried to shield their kids from kidnappers, gun battles and car bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer in the shadow of U.S. Abrams tanks, chasing other kids...
...According to Baluchistan police inspector general Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqoob, the doctor was awoken in the middle of the night at her residence in the Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. (PPL) compound to find a gun at her head. When she cried for help, says Yaqoob, she was punched in the face. The doctor reported the attack to company managers who, according to Yaqoob, refused to allow her to file a police case. (Three senior PPL officials were arrested and charged on Friday with obstructing justice.) Workers at PPL reported the incident to Akbar Khan Bugti, the Nawab (or ruler) of the powerful...