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Marsha Paxson writes in the Lake Sun (MO) Leader that 19 soldiers in Iraq have gotten the same strange illness, and two of them have died. When bioweapons were used against U.S. troops in the 1991 Gulf War, the symptoms were first blamed on a mystery disease, and this may be happening again.

U.S. Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. James Peake has ordered medical experts to retrace the sick soldiers’ steps from the time they first set foot in the Middle East. Senatir Ike Skelton, ranking Democrat of the House Armed Services Committee, says, “They are investigating everything it could possibly be. I’m confident that with medical science and the technological advances we’ve made, we will get some positive answers.” The surgeon general has ruled out SARS.
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Dominic Casciani writes in bbcnews.com that a rare photo has been discovered depicting slaves on the deck of a ship being transported to European colonies in the Americas that still allowed slavery at that time. The photo was taken by a Royal Navy officer and amateur photographer in 1869, after his patrol ship intercepted a slave ship headed from west Africa to the Americas. This picture is one of only a few photos of slave ships known to exist anywhere in the world.

We still have to fight for freedom.

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Margot Roosevelt writes in Time Magazine that marijuana is being secretly grown in national parks all over the U.S. Rangers wearing camouflage and carrying rifles creep around among the campers, trying to bust the park pot growers. Forest Service investigator Laura Mark says, “We’re good at jungle warfare. We’re the ninjas of the woods.”

A U.S. Park Service ranger in Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was gunned down by a Mexican marijuana smuggler last August. In Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest, 192 methane labs have been dismantled over the past three years. Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest and Alabama’s Talladega National Forest are filled with marijuana farms.
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Anthrax-making equipment found in a pond in Maryland, bioweapons buried at nearby Fort Detrick?the FBI has been on a lot of treasure hunts lately. Now Pierre Thomas and Risa Molitz reveal in an abcnews.com exclusive that the government is digging for 10,000 pages of documents, slides and videos that they think former Air Force intelligence officer Brian Regan, who spied for Saddam Hussein, buried in undisclosed locations in the D.C. area.

Regan was convicted in February of attempted espionage for Iraq and China. He was spared the death penalty after a jury concluded he did not provide Iraq with information about nuclear weapons, military satellites or war plans.
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