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Gun Found Hidden In Teddy Bear
Jul 17, 2003 
A loaded handgun has been found hidden in a child's teddy bear at a US
airport.

[Rumsfeld = Bald faced liar.  Examples just keep coming. Ed.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A689-2003Jul16.html
U.S. General Says Iraq Has Become a Guerrilla War
Reuters

This time when we checked in we were told to remove our luggage locks, cause
somewhere down the line they may need to check our luggage.  On the way back
sure enough the luggages were opened and checked, and they put those little
plastic locks on afterwards.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,973195,00.html
Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs'
Saddam's trucks were for balloons, not germs
Peter Beaumont and Antony Barnett

[Up - Up and away - In my beautiful Balloon.]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,977915,00.html
Iraqi mobile labs nothing to do with germ warfare, report finds
Peter Beaumont, Antony Barnett and Gaby Hinsliff

Revealed: the cluster bombs that litter Iraq
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,968181,00.html
Click here to view the map
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Observer/documents/2003/05/31/landmines2.pdf

[Still waiting for Bush's second security council vote authorizing the
invasion.  - Ed.]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

Please help! I haven't read/posted here in a long
time but I know you guys are the best at finding good
airfares.
My little sister is getting married August 9, and wants

A friend is taking a Zoom charter flight (http://www.flyzoom.com) from
YVR-LGW, leaving July 17. Any comments on the quality of this service?
Traveler

The Newspeak Dictionary has just issued a revised definition.
It's use is compulsory with immediate effect.
A Communist is somebody who opposes the invasion of North Korea

http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/19062003/Comment/Comment190620036.html
Daily Nation, Kenya - 18 Jun 2003
(...)
[And Saddam Hussein is a bloodthirsty murderer?  No, not our friends

A Star alliance rtw business class ticket entitles you to travel in
first class on US domestic flights that don't have a business class.
From what I can deduce this has to be booked in A class on United, and
can not be in F (on international flights it is in D and not C class).

Flying RTW with BA / QF.
BA s website says a total of 32kg of checked luggage in Biz class
However, my itinerary flies through the states which has a 2 baggage limit
of 32kg each.

 Thoughts on what would be the most comfortable airline to go from
the mainland US to Hawaii with some opinion on the least expensive
business class options please.  
Thanks.

Ofcourse it is not allowed in hand baggage you take on the plane, but are
you allowed to have it in your 'main' baggage (what's the proper word for
that?!) ?
I'm flying to NY(JFK) from Paris in a week, and would hate to have it