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CENTRAL LAKE, Mich. -- Second Chance Body Armor Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after being hit with lawsuits in Massachusetts and at least nine other states accusing it of selling defective bulletproof vests to police officers. One lawsuit blames the company -- the nation's largest manufacturer of soft, concealable body armor for law enforcement -- in the shooting death of a California police officer. Another, brought by the state of Utah, led to a $210,000 settlement.

Attorney General Abbott Sues Top Manufacturer Of Bullet-proof Vests Alleges potential vest failures pose threat to police officer safetyFARMER’S BRANCH - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today sued a major manufacturer of police protective body armor, alleging a failure to reveal potentially fatal flaws in the material from which many of its protective “bullet-proof” vests have been made. The suit againstSecond Chance Body Armor Inc. of Central Lake, Michigan, which made and sold a protective vest containing the material “Zylon,” follows an investigation the Attorney General launched last December. According to the suit, the company maintained that its “Ultima” and...

EDMONTON -- Corrections Canada won't let guards at maximum-security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational "signal" to prisoners, says a department spokesman. "If you have that kind of presence symbolized by (a stab-proof vest), you're sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person," said Tim Krause. "It interferes with what we call 'dynamic security.' We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they're doing." At Stony Mountain Institution only guards in the emergency response unit are allowed to wear the stab-proof vests, said unit manager Linda Garwood-Filbert. The...

These pictures are very interesting in that the explosives can be easily concealed. Also notice the nails and hardware added to the explosive devices and the cell phone in the brief case. Pictures of bombs currently being used by suicide bombers in Israel. Below are a number of photos released by Israeli Anti-Terrorist personnel at the Worldwide Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. All photos depict the real stuff being used against Israel and through out the mid-east by terrorists.

<p>BAGHDAD — Scores of Iraqi-made suicide bombers' jackets missing since the war that ousted Saddam Hussein have fallen into the hands of the radical extremist group Ansar al-Islam, according to illegal-weapons traders.</p> <p>Although suicide bombers in Iraq so far have relied mainly on explosives packed in trucks or cars, there have been at least two recent uses of suicide jackets in targeted attacks and security officials fear their use will become more pervasive.</p>

BAGHDAD — Scores of Iraqi-made suicide bombers' jackets missing since the war that ousted Saddam Hussein have fallen into the hands of the radical extremist group Ansar al-Islam, according to illegal-weapons traders.

The IDF is to equip all soldiers who need ceramic vests for protection from gunfire by April, IDF officials informed the Knesset Defense Budget Committee on Monday. The number of the protective vests used by the IDF has quadrupled since 2000, according to David Marciano, an IDF weapons officer in the Ground Forces Command. He said that "no soldier who has an operative task would be without a vest." He said some NIS 100 million has been invested in the vest project thus far. Each vest costs come some $5,000. Many vests were provided by donations to certain units, including...

Monday, Jul. 28, 2003. Page 3 6 Suicide Belts Found Near Moscow The Associated Press Authorities said Friday that they found six explosive-packed belts in a house outside Moscow, presumably for use by suicide bombers. Agents of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Federal Security Service stormed the unoccupied house in Tolstopaltsevo, about 25 kilometers southwest of Moscow, on Thursday afternoon, the prosecutor's office said. "Today we have prevented at least five possible terrorist acts," Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov was quoted by Interfax as saying. It was unclear what information prompted the agents to search the house, but the prosecutor's...

''Operation Devil Dog'' aims to cool Marines' canine heroes By CATHERINE KOZAK, The Virginian-Pilot © May 16, 2003 An Outer Banks animal-help group is lending a hand to raise money for loyal four-legged Americans in the Middle East desert that need to chill out. After Patti Bourexis, a volunteer with the Coastal Humane Society, saw pictures of Marine dogs deployed with the U.S. military, she tracked down the nonprofit North Carolina museum that is collecting dollars to buy cooling vests and pads for the hot dogs. ``I really believe that the dogs are troops, just like the humans are troops,''...

Saddam Hussein is likely on the run inside Iraq - armed with suicide vests he obtained from his intelligence agency, an Iraqi exile leader said yesterday. The deposed dictator was trained how to use the bomb-lined vests before the fall of Baghdad and may plan to blow himself up if U.S.-led troops corner him, said Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi. "He has the ability ... to commit suicide or blow people up with him when they come to catch him," Chalabi told CNN. The head of the intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, gave vests to Saddam and his closest aide...

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) -- U.S. forces are trying to determine whether more than $600 million in $100 bills found behind a false wall in Baghdad is counterfeit, but if it's real, it belongs to the Iraqi people, U.S. Central Command officials said Tuesday. Using forklifts to handle the heavy, tightly wrapped packets of new bills, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division hauled the money away for safekeeping, Central Command said. The existence of the money surfaced last week, when the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post reported that troops found at least $656 million in homes...

U.S. Central Command says terrorist devices have been found in Iraq. At a briefing Tuesday morning, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks offered up examples of coffee tables laden with explosives and "suicide vests." Brooks also described the progress in the search for weapons of mass destruction. "The most important part of it frankly, is that with every day that goes by, we get more and more information, we have more pieces of the puzzle being revealed to us and given some of the players we are currently taking into our custody and those we continue to seek. We remain confident that...

80 Iraqi Suicide Vests May Be Missing By NICOLE WINFIELD .c The Associated Press CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - Up to 80 explosive vests - the kind used for suicide attacks - could be in the hands of foreign fighters battling U.S. and British troops in Iraq, a U.S. general said Monday. U.S. forces, which found about 300 explosive vests in a massive Baghdad cache last week, now believe 80 others were taken from the stockpile before it was discovered, U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said at a U.S. Central Command briefing in Doha, Qatar. The vests, filled with...

Apr. 12, 2003 US Marines discover cache of suicide vests in Baghdad school By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq US Marines have discovered an enormous cache of suicide bomb vests hidden in a school in a residential neighborhood of central Baghdad. The black leather vests with wires running along them weighed about 8 kilograms (20 pounds) and were filled with long rectangular blocks of C4 plastic explosive and hundreds of ball bearings. The cache was discovered on Thursday and reporters were shown the site on Saturday. The Marines found the 50 vests, on hangers and sealed in plastic, arranged in...

U.S. marines have found an enormous cache of suicide bomb vests in a school in central Baghdad. On the floor of the science classroom - with a picture of Saddam Hussein on the green chalk board - there lay nearly 50 black leather vests each packed with C4 explosives and ball bearings. In the neighborhood school Friday, less than 20 feet from the nearest home, the vests nearly covered the floor, sealed in plastic and still on hangers. Each powerful bomb weighed at least 20 pounds and was lined with long rectangular blocks of C4 explosives and hundreds of ball...