Stewart Purvis
Monday November 20, 2006 Guardian |
mcclatchy-tribune
Originally published November 25, 2006 SACRAMENTO, Calif. Dogs have long been used to sniff out things that humans have a hard time smelling, such as drugs, cadavers and bombs.
But an Israeli nonprofit believes that it has perfected the art of training dogs to detect explosives. Those highly trained dogs will soon be patrolling the streets of California cities. The state homeland security office is paying $411,000 to an organization called Pups for Peace so that eight handlers from California law enforcement agencies can travel to Israel to learn the bomb-sniffing training techniques. Comment from Jeff Blankfort: This is what happens when the head of Homeland Security is an Israeli-American, just like giving the Israeli Elbit Co a contract to build the border fence with Mexico. It's called the Israelization of America, folks, and don't count on the Democrats to say a word about it. They were "Israelized" long ago.
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Associated Press
November 25, 2006 BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A U.N. agency said Saturday that Israel laid mines in Lebanon during this summer's war between the Jewish state and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group -- the first time Israel has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.
The report by the U.N. Mine Action Coordination Center follows its investigation of a land mine explosion Friday that wounded two European disposal experts and a Lebanese medic. Later Saturday, the agency reported that a British demining expert was injured in a separate blast while trying to clear mines from the same area where Friday's explosion occurred. The deminer, who worked for the British-based land mine clearing company BACTEC, had to have his foot amputated. |
Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service
Friday, November 24, 2006 (11-24) 04:00 PST Jerusalem -- Ishmael Khaldi lived in a Bedouin tent until he was 8 years old, walked 4 miles round trip to school each day and still goes home on weekends to what he calls the "Middle Ages" to tend to flocks of sheep.
But next Saturday, Khaldi will leave his tiny village of Khawalid -- population 450 -- in the northern Galilee region and fly to San Francisco to become Israel's first Bedouin diplomat and the nation's first Muslim to rise through the ranks of the Israeli foreign service. |
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