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Sterling, Va. (AP) - Loudoun County investigators are trying to find a bank robber - but this guy doesn't fit any typical description. The sheriff's office says the thief stood six-foot-three and was wearing a flowery dress, a dark wig and white gloves. He was also carrying a purse when he walked into the Washington First Bank in Sterling Tuesday. But the purse was empty on the way out, because despite passing a note to the teller and implying he had a weapon, the robber left without taking any cash. Anyone with information is asked to call the Loudoun County...

Cheney lampoons Kerry's goose hunting outing SYLVANIA, Ohio Not even John Kerry's goose hunt today is escaping Republican political barbs. Kerry told reporters this morning he had bagged a goose while hunting in Ohio. Campaigning later in the Buckeye State, Vice President Dick Cheney laughed about Kerry's hunting trip, saying it clashed with the senator's voting record on gun rights. Cheney likened Kerry's camouflage jacket to "an October disguise." He told supporters that "the Second Amendment is more than just a photo opportunity." Kerry continues to deny claims by the Bush-Cheney campaign and the National Rifle Association that he wants...

The Kerry Fog Report week of May 24, 2004The Great Convention Flip Flop Fog He'll actually be the nominee before he'll be the nominee! Will he wear a disguise for the five weeks???   

Immigration police on Sunday arrested an illegal migrant from Moldova, who disguised herself as an ultra-Orthodox woman, Ynet reported. The woman said she had been staying in Israel for a number of years during which she worked as a housecleaner in Jerusalem's haredi neighborhoods. In her interrogation she told immigration officers that disguising as an ultra-Orthodox woman helped her blend in the community and avoid being caught by the police.

<p>This summer, Dave Hill got a refreshing break from the run-of-the-mill spam that routinely invades his e-mail inbox. Instead of hawking mortgages, penis-enlargement pills or weight-loss products, a message arrived that seemed straight out of a science-fiction novel.</p> <p>The anonymous e-mail offered $5,000 to any vendor capable of promptly delivering a collection of far-fetched gadgets for conducting time travel. Among the mysterious devices sought by the message's author were an "Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor with built-in temporal displacement" and an "AMD Dimensional Warp Generator module containing the GRC79 induction motor."</p>

“Some of the biggest losses we have taken are due to Iraqis committing serious violations of the law of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions, by dressing as civilians and luring us into surrender situations and opening fire on our troops,” General Richard Myers, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters days into the invasion of Iraq. Since then similar claims have been repeated by US-led forces, particularly in the aftermath of two successful Iraqi human bomb attacks against military checkpoints. The latest came from Pentagon spokesman, General Stanley McChrystal on 5 April in a briefing to reporters....

LANDSTUHL, Germany When combat finally came for three American soldiers wounded in southern Iraq, it erupted with bewildering swiftness and it wore a civilian's guise. The soldiers, a Marine corporal and two army sergeants, told harrowing stories of their experiences Thursday at a military hospital here, where they are being treated for bullet and shrapnel wounds. They are among 24 soldiers who have been flown here from field hospitals in and near Iraq. These men were injured during two ambushes last weekend by...

The NAFTA Scam It is now three years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became law. The results are in: NAFTA is a disaster for workers in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The U.S. and Canada have lost thousands of jobs because of NAFTA. Mexico is trapped in a severe economic crisis in which workers bear the largest burden as their working conditions worsen. The U.S.- Mexico border was a health and environmental disaster when the NAFTA agreement was signed in 1994. Today, the border area is worse because of additional health and environmental problems caused by...

Palestinians Dressed As Israeli Troops Kill 4 House-to-house W. Bank attacks sap peace plan By TRACY CONNOR Daily News Staff Writer Palestinians disguised as Israeli soldiers machine-gunned Israeli settlers in their homes yesterday — killing four people, including a 5-year-old girl shot dead in front of her mother and brothers. The attack, the bloodiest in the West Bank since the Israel offensive began last month, started when the assailants cut fences to the Adora settlement near Hebron and slipped inside. Armed with M-16 and Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, the attackers were dressed in olive-green uniforms and flak jackets and were clean-shaven...