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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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31 Mar 2005 09:49:27 AM |
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OT: Melissa Mahle |
My secret life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1448692,00.html
Former CIA spy Melissa Mahle talks to Suzanne Goldenberg about how
close she came to preventing 9/11 and the horror of defusing bombs
while heavily pregnant
Thursday March 31, 2005
The Guardian
There are books full of prohibitions for the pregnant woman: don't
drink alcohol, don't eat sushi, don't take saunas, don't embark on
lengthy air journeys without getting up every hour to revive
circulation. But not many bother with the warning: do not try to
dismantle volatile explosives during the second trimester.
It might have proved helpful to former CIA operative Melissa Mahle. In
1998, Mahle was the CIA station chief in Jerusalem when a call came in
that Palestinian police had seized two bags of explosives at the Church
of the Nativity in Bethlehem. She was five months pregnant - a fact
that she overlooked after arriving at the scene. "At the time I was
focused on mission accomplished - I didn't even think about my baby,"
she says. Over dinner that evening, she learned that the friction of
opening the bags - or wayward cigarette ash - could have detonated an
explosion that would have flattened the police station as well as
Christendom's holiest shrine.
Suzanne Goldenberg
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/8add33a8d17718ad
http://snipurl.com/82n0
http://snipurl.com/82mz
Melissa Mahle
http://www.google.com/search?tab=nw&q=%22Melissa+Mahle%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Melissa+Mahle%22&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%22Melissa+Mahle%22&start=0&scoring=d&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&
http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=%22Melissa%20Mahle%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&
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