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On the Radar: Korean fire, pat-downs, terror arrests
Battling Koreas - North Korea and South Korea exchanged fire for about an hour Tuesday as the South's military conducted routine drills in the Yellow Sea off Yeonpyeong Island, about six miles from the North.
"Our revolutionary forces will continue to mount merciless military strikes without hesitation if the puppets in the South trespass even 0.0001 millimeters into our waters," North Korea's military command said, according to South Korea's Yonap news agency. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called on his military forces to use "action" and not talk to punish North Korea for the attacks.
Two South Korean marines were killed, and 15 soldiers and civilians were wounded, South Korean authorities said. The U.S. is strongly condemning North Korea's action and said it is committed to helping its South Korean allies.
To pat or not to pat - Do you support those airport pat-downs and full-body scanners? A Washington Post/ABC News poll shows 64 percent think the full-body scanners are acceptable but 50 percent don't think the pat-downs are justified.Â
Amid these findings, are the body scanners even effective? CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a look.Â
Meanwhile, Charlotte Bryan, a former Transportation Security Administration official, says outrage over the machine and pat-downs is overblown because few air travelers will experience them.Â
Such assurances may be too little, too late for a traveling cancer survivor who received an apology from the TSA for his embarrassing pat-down experience. He says he may meet with TSA officials to advise them on how to treat travelers with health problems better. The real question is whether those who oppose the security measures will do as some of them have vowed and refuse a pat-down if asked this week.
Terror arrests - With all the talk about preventing terror in the sky, authorities have arrested 10 people in two separate terrorism investigations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, Belgian officials said. The 10 will face a judge Tuesday. Some are suspected of links to terror suspect Bassam Ayachi, a French citizen charged in 2009 with preparing terrorist attacks. The suspects were using a jihadi website to plan an attack on an unspecified target in Belgium, police said.
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I think US and UN were too late to discover that enriched Uranium. North Korea now had already made enough nuke against them.
They should grow up.
Oh, Baby mummy make your milk already. Please stop crying now, here finish it and go to sleep. "rock a bye baby on the tree top"
dr.bad u sound sick.. u need divine intervention.. we will pray for u...
Please do..my poor baby has just turn his head 360 and started crawling up the ceiling while spewing slime.
I doubt your a man or just a toddler that lost his pacifier.
Dr Bad...why do you keep saying the same thing over and over. can't you talk about something different?
Please understand my baby he's just starting to learn some words.
Here baby I found your pacifier on top of your pooppoooh. Put it in your mouth and go to sleep. I need to rest, your duddy bonning me the whole day.
Here baby I found your pacifier on top of your pooppoooh. Put it in your mouth and go to sleep. I need to rest, your duddy bonning my "C.U.N.T." the whole day it's getting ugly and it looks like you already.
Great our gov giving millions to africa to try a president,the CIA could have killed him.millions to defend and rebuild south korea.waste,high debt,people usa struggling,high taxes
Great our gov giving millions to africa to try a president,the CIA could have done the job. More usa millions to defend and rebuild south korea.waste,high debt,usa people struggling,high taxes
Usa taxpayer wake up obama needs to vote out and politicans was usa taxpayers other country meanwhile katrina area look the same.waste,high taxes
Pretty sure North Korea = China in the different names of one country, or a military branch & a lapdog.