Former NATO Chief Joins Private 'Security' Firm MPRI

Ever wonder where old soldiers go after they've peeled off their military stripes , barked their last order and fired their last bullet?  Why to the ever expanding world of private 'security' with firms like Blackwater, (which is no longer Blackwater, but Xe, more on that later) and MPRI.  We're not only talking about your grunt on the firing line.  Top brass have put themselves at the service of the hired guns.  John Craddock is about as high on the U.S. military ladder as you can reach and he is now the 'president' of MPRI.

Hussein Planned Rocket Attack On RFE Prague HQ

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, bent on ending broadcasts to his country, allegedly planned a rocket attack in 1999 on the Prague headquarters of the U.S. radio station, Radio Free Europe, according to a Czech media report.

Television Nova quotes the Czech counterintelligence service, BIS, as saying the former Iraqi dictator planned to use a RPG-7 anti-tank missile launcher to fire on RFE's former offices at the top of the famed Wenceslaus square in the heart of the Czech capital.