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Quakes Jolt City Northeast of Tehran IRIB News 2004/02/22 08:57:53 Þ.Ù Tehran, Feb 22 - As many as 23 tremors jolted on Saturday vicinity of Damavand in the northeast of the capital city of Tehran. Tehran University Geophysics Institute affiliated to the National Geophysics Organization said the tremors measured 1.2-4.4 degrees on the Richter scale. It also registered the time of their occurrences from 10:00-21:00 hours local time (5:30 GMT-16:30 GMT). There are no reports on possible injuries or damage. It added earthquakes are frequent occurrences in Iran, a country sitting in major fault lines. Iran is situated on some...

UFO seen in Bahrain skies People from around the country have reported seeing an Unidentified Flying Object in the skies of Bahrain emitting strange lights for about a minute at around 11pm on Friday. Bahraini Mohammed Jaffer Al Hajer was sitting with six of his friends outside his home in Qurrayah village near Budaiya when they noticed the UFO in the distant skies. Al Hajer ‘caught’ the strange object on his digital video camera as the lights appeared twice – once when the UFO emitted a bright yellow light and the second time when it split into two before disappearing....

SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. -- In what may well be the largest expansion of covert action by the armed forces since the Vietnam era, the Bush administration has turned to what the Pentagon calls the "black world" to press the war on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The Defense Department is building up an elite secret army with resources stretching across the full spectrum of covert capabilities. New organizations are being created. The missions of existing units are being revised. Spy planes and ships are being assigned new missions in anti-terror and monitoring the "axis of evil."