Bush to terrorists: Here is a map of our troop movements

Using photographs and maps displayed on monitors, President Bush on Friday offered a detailed defense of his strategy to increase the U.S. troop presence in Iraq. The president delved deeper into details of his Iraq strategy than he usually does in such appearances, using the monitors to illustrate troop movements.



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Man kept of flight because of book he was reading

A guy was kept off his flight to Disneyland with his family because of the cover of a book he was reading.



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Tillman killed by friendly fire - Army's immediate response: Cut off phones

Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman's uniform.



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University VP of Information Services Uses Patriot Act Against Students

University of Portland VP of Information Services has used the Patriot Act against several students. One student wrote a program to bypass Cisco Clean Access and distributed it to a select few. The programmer was suspended for a year and essentially told he was a terrorist. The VP of IS wasn't even able to recognize the code used. It was C++.



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