Uniforms OK'd for soldiers at gay parade

"Sweden’s Armed Forces have done an about face and decided to now allow soldiers to march in Stockholm’s gay parade while in wearing their uniforms.""“Now we will be able to walk at the head of the line internationally and be a precedent-setting country in the GBT...

U.K. Kids Get RFID Chips In School Uniforms

I think this story is best summed up by 'We're treating schoolchildren like we treat our criminals'.Considering police in Canada don't even have the right to fingerprint you, even if you're arrested, this is shocking to me."Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being...

Mahdi Army lowers its profile, anticipating arrival of U.S. troops

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army militia members have stopped wearing their black uniforms, hidden their weapons and abandoned their checkpoints in an apparent effort to lower their profile in Baghdad in advance of the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. "We have explicit directions...

Phony cops stage mass abduction in Baghdad

"BAGHDAD -- Gunmen in police uniforms and official-looking vehicles stormed the city's central marketplace this morning, kidnapping between at least 21 and as many as 60 storekeepers and buyers amid bursts of automatic weapon-fire and panic, police and witnesses said. The...

Mass Abduction Highlights Iraqi Security Crisis

"Uniformed men traveling in dozens of vehicles snatch more than 100 people from a government ministry . Even by Baghdad standards, it was an incredibly brazen snatch. In broad daylight Tuesday morning, armed men wearing police-commando uniforms kidnapped more than 100 people...

At least 100 kidnapped in raid on Iraqi science institute - Telegraph.co.uk

" By Paul Willis and Agencies Last Updated: 10:32am GMT 14/11/2006 Gunmen wearing police commando uniforms have kidnapped at least 100 men, including scientists, from a research institute in Baghdad. Iraqi police said the kidnappers arrived at the institute in the Karradah...

Inter Press Service [news]

It does what it says in the title.

Israeli Military Attacks A Foreign Country

POLL  ----  Will it happen?

Mexico has 8000 troops in Iraq

More than any other Latin American nation.  <---  They are needed on the Mexican border.