weird shit

[Doug Millison]

...a lot of it, today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011004/aponline121340_000.htm
"MOSCOW -- A Russian chartered airliner heading from Israel to Siberia
exploded Thursday and crashed off the Black Sea coast with at least 76
people on board. U.S. officials said a missile fired during a military
training exercise in Ukraine appears to have accidentally brought down the
plane. Earlier, President Vladimir Putin said terrorism could be the cause.

However, a U.S. Defense Department official in Washington, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said a land-based surface-to-air missile had been
fired from the Crimean region of Ukraine. Ukraine is the only country known
to be conducting military exercises in the Black Sea area, the official
said.

The downing of the airliner appeared to be accidental, U.S. officials said. "

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/wref04.xm
l&sSheet=/news/2001/10/04/ixhome.html
"Ebola-style killer virus sweeps Afghan border
By Tim Butcher in Quetta
(Filed: 04/10/2001)

THE largest outbreak in history of a highly contagious disease that causes
patients to bleed to death from every orifice was confirmed yesterday on
Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan.

At least 75 people have caught the disease so far and eight have died. An
isolation ward screened off by barbed wire has been set up in the Pakistani
city of Quetta, and an international appeal has been launched for help.
[...]