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Booby Traps of the Vietnam War

Lethal booby traps are often used in warfare, particularly guerilla warfare...

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - A booby trap is a device set up to be triggered by an unsuspecting victim. As the word trap implies, they often have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it.

However, in other cases the device is triggered when the victim performs some type of everyday action e.g. opening a door, picking something up or switching something on.

Above the law

Blowing the whistle over illicit and immoral behavior can be dangerous in Sri Lanka.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Observer) - It’s December 2010, and two young law students are sitting for their exam. The one is in a hall full of students, who are being monitored closely by the examiner to make sure they’re following the rules: no phones, no electronic devices, no cheating.

The other, meanwhile is taken to a private air conditioned room with a computer with internet access, and is allowed to keep his phone.

Creating American Terrorists

If people cannot see what a slippery slope all of this is, they not thinking very clearly.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism.

The NDAA authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter. The White House says it will only use its new power carefully and with due process.

Syria, the myth of Assad`s popularity and the media of disinformation

A flawed survey suggests more than half of the Syrian population want Bashar Assad to stay as president...

(LONDON) - Could it be true that most Syrians are in favour of Basher Assad remaining president of Syria?

If Jonathan Steele of the Guardian newspaper is to be believed, the answer is yes. His counter-intuitive conclusion is based on a recent YouGov Siraj internet survey on Syria commissioned by Al-Jazeera's Doha Debates, which are funded by the Qatar Foundation.

Athletes Against Dow Chemical

If the IOC is going to demand certain ethics from athletes in order to preserve the image and ideal of the Olympic movement, then it is unfair these ethos are not demanded of sponsors.

(LOS ANGELES) - U.S. and Canadian athletes, some of whom swam for UCLA, others that were on the Canadian National Swim Team, are drawing attention to the implications of Dow Chemical's Olympic Sponsorship.

Colorado: Verification of Initiative 30 to require line-by-line review

The Secretary of State’s office has notified the proponents the petition will require a line-by-line review.

(DENVER) - Today Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced that the proposed ballot measure concerning "Use and Regulation of Marijuana" will require a line-by-line review of signatures.

Petitions for proposed initiative #30 were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office on January 4. The office immediately began verifying a random sample of the signatures as set forth in state statute.

Housing Inmates Who Make Death Threats... with their Intended Victims

"I don't want to be in there with that guy"
- Murder Victim Chris Lange

(SALEM) - Why did Oregon officials fail to report the beating death of a prison inmate at the Snake River Correctional Facility last year?

Inmate Clayton Howard, who nearly died in a similar situation, says Chris Lange was murdered and his death consequently blocked from the public, because he was placed with an inmate who had a sworn death threat against him.

Car Washes under Flooded Albany Intersection, at Least One Child Missing

Rescue crews will re initiate their mission to recover victims from the vehicle in the morning.

(ALBANY) - Fire officials in Albany had the sad task of searching for missing children after a vehicle was washed out of a grocery store parking lot, into a creek swollen by heavy rains, and under the intersection of SE Geary St & Queen Ave SE.

Wanda Omdahl with Albany Fire, says rescue crews responded to the scene and one adult and one child were pulled out of the water on the other side of the bridge.

Doctored Photo in Marine Murder Probe (Part 2)

If Colonel Sabow didn’t commit suicide, then who killed him?

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Colonel Sabow was found dead in his quarters at MCAS El Toro on January 22, 1991, after he requested a court martial for alleged charges due to personal misuse of government aircraft.

However, the alleged charges were unsupportable and would have been easily dismissed by a court martial.

Online Piracy Legislation Gets Vote of Confidence From Sen. Harry Reid

Opponents of these two bills, such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, and Twitter, fear the measures as currently drafted will grant the U.S. government power to curb free speech online

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On a recent episode of "Meet the Press," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threw his support behind advancing legislation to curb online piracy.