Monday, May 11, 2009

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514557,00.html

A Delta Airline pilot accidently hit the terrorist hijacking signal on a flight from New York to Tel Aviv. This triggered the Israeli military to send out two jets to escort the plane to its landing. Nobody was hurt. This shows the increased security is effective at preventing mishaps from happening, although the communication problem that prevented the pilot from telling air control that it was an accident. These kind of mishaps are unfortunate, but it is a good thing that the Israelis were prepared to take care of the situation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514924,00.html

With the recent pirate attacks in Somalia, the United States, among other nations, have the need to figure out a way to prevent future attacks. One of the strategies is to attack the pirate bases that are on land. They have a plan that will be proposed to President Obama to create a Somali Coast Guard which will aim to prevent this. It will be funded by the United States. Analysts believe that the pirates need to be disrupted from their land base in order to effectively take them out. The Somali people would be required to help this movement, which is usually not well taken from non-Somalis.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,515115,00.html

The Serbian government is attempting to extradite Peter Egner from his retirement home in Bellevue, Washington. Egner is claimed to have been a part of the Nazi-run Einsatzgruppe which is a Serbian police force that rounded up Jews and supposedly killed 17,000 of them. The Serbs have requested that he be extradited once his citizenship has been revoked. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against him for witholding information on his citizenship application. Egner is trying to fight it currently, but the future looks grim for the 87 year old man.

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