Ubelievable...

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I imagine this will bring Andy, Invar and Co. out of their, um, shells...

-- Mr. Anonymous (rather@notsay.com), April 20, 1999

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Hi Mr. A.

actually quite believable - this stuff happens with some regularity, but unless it happens where there is media coverage nobody ever hears about it. In point of fact most large military units have a number of 'training related injuries and deaths' each year.

ever seen someone who made the mistake of trying to sleep behind a tank that had to back out of it's position in the middle of the night?

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), April 20, 1999.

Out of my shell?

Methinks many want me to crawl back in it.

But I digress. This was inevitable.

I find myself yawning at it, saying "yeah, so?" We've been shouting 'bout this since last Summer and the deaf have drowned us out.

So?

Folks are gonna get what's coming to them. This story is just one example. Expect more as time progresses.

We told you so.

Tuesday April 20 6:45 PM ET

Death Leads Puerto Rico To Seek End Of War Games

By John Marino

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's governor asked Washington Tuesday to halt war games immediately on an island off the U.S. territory, a day after a bombing accident killed one civilian and injured several others.

``There must exist a viable alternative to the shelling, bombing and strafing of populated areas,'' Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Rossello wrote in a letter to President Clinton.

Two U.S. Marine jets on training maneuvers mistakenly dropped bombs on an observation tower on Vieques, a 21-mile-long (34-km-long) island off the Puerto Rico's eastern coast, Monday night.

The accident killed one man and injured four others, Robert Nelson, a spokesman for Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Base, said.

``Regretfully but emphatically, I must by this means request that you order the immediate and permanent cessation of United States and allied activities that entail the use of weaponry anywhere in the vicinity of the municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico,'' Rossello wrote in the letter.

``No community of American citizens should have to endure such conditions,'' he said.

The dead man was identified as David Sanes, a 35-year-old civilian contractor and Vieques resident. Three of the injured men were also civilian residents of Vieques, and the fourth was a military observer, Nelson said. The injured were treated at a Navy hospital and released Tuesday.

The two F-18 jets involved in the incident were based on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy.

The U.S. Navy controls the eastern and western ends of the island, which has a civilian population of 9,400 in the middle. The Navy and allied forces have long used the waters surrounding the Caribbean island for target practice.

Nelson said the maneuvers were ``routine,'' but residents said heavy bombing had taken place off Vieques for weeks, with training being conducted by German and Canadian as well as U.S. forces.

``We believe that Kosovo has reached Vieques,'' said Robert Rabin, a Vieques resident and a member of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, which opposes the military use of the island.

``This points up the dangers that Vieques residents live with every day,'' he said.

-- INVAR (gundark@sw.net), April 20, 1999.

what does this have to do with y2k

-- Sharon Schultz (shalom100@aol.com), April 20, 1999.

What does this have to do with Y2K? Isn't Y2K really about preparing to protect yourself and loved ones? Does that not distill, to its most basic essence, to survival? Don't you know that Urban War games are also being carried out all over? Training our military to control civilian populations, search and confiscate house to house, and put people in containment centers sounds like something to be concerned about, but that fact that foreign troops are also involved causes a certain degree of uneasiness on my part. After all, we Americans aren't exactly popular these days...Check out http://www.infowars.com/ouwmar9901.html

-- Mumsie (Lotsakids@home.com), April 21, 1999.