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CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait —As Fort Huachuca soldiers wait for their communications equipment to arrive, some are fine-tuning systems that have been in Kuwait for years. A number of tropospheric systems were at Camp Doha were moved to Camp Virginia, where members of the 11th Signal Brigade repaired, checked out and inventoried the four tropos — as called by GIs — that send radio signals into the atmosphere and scatter the signals back to Earth to be used by the Army. Staff Sgt. Jeremy Brown said the systems will eventually head for Iraq, where soldiers of the 40th Signal Battalion will...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Moore's controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" will expand into 286 additional theaters Friday. But if you're an interested moviegoer in Grand Island, Neb., or Marquette, Wis., you'll have to drive to at least the next town to view Moore's critique of the Bush administration. Illinois-based GKC Theaters and Iowa-based Fridley Theaters have decided to not screen the film. Both theater chains, which were not in domestic distributor Lions Gate's original 800-theater release plan, are protesting the content of Moore's film. According to Fridley Theaters' Web site, the theater chain has received a deluge of e-mails, phone...

Heidelberg, Germany (dpa) - A couple go on trial in Germany Friday, accused of conspiring to set off a bomb at a U.S. base on the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.    The Turkish national and his American girlfriend deny any plot, saying chemicals were stockpiled in their apartment to prepare homemade fireworks. But a U.S. woman who was living in Heidelberg insists the girlfriend gave her a veiled tip to stay off the base.    It remained uncertain this week if the crucial witness would show up at the trial. Lawyers said her evidence might possibly be...

September 11 trial near collapse From Roland Watson in Washington WASHINGTON'S hopes of convicting the only man charged with a role in the September 11 attacks in a public trial were close to collapse last night. The District Judge from Alexandria, Virginia, presiding over the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui said that she doubted the Bush Administration's ability to prosecute the case given the "shroud of secrecy" thrown over the details. Judge Leonie Brinkema said that she was disturbed that the Government had classified so many court papers and orders. She agreed with the defendant's scepticism that the case could proceed...

July 20, 2002 Arabic atlas offers unique view of 11th-century world By Hannah Hennessy AN 800-YEAR-OLD Arabic atlas that gives an unusual insight into medieval concepts of the world and has never been seen in public before has been saved for the nation by Oxford University. Costing £400,000, but probably worth more than £1 million, the Book of Strange Arts and Visual Delights may be the most important Islamic scientific manuscript to have come on the market in the past century, university historians say. The two-volume 96-page manuscript contains 17 maps, including two of the world, one of Sicily and...