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Ali A. Mohamed, a former U.S. Army sergeant who is now in prison, secretly worked for Osama bin Laden?s Al Qaeda network. From 1987 to 1989, he was stationed at Fort Bragg, where he obtained sensitive, top secret documents showing plans of special operations units that are operating in Afghanistan today. The documents described how the units work, and one of them contained detailed plans for a special operations training exercise in Pakistan.
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Four months after refusing to take in migrants from the tiny, sinking Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Australia has asked Tuvalu to take in Middle East emigrants seeking asylum. Australia has turned away about 1,500 asylum seekers since August, sending many to small Pacific nations.

With a total land area of approximately 10 square miles and a population of 11,000 people, Tuvalu is one-tenth the size of Washington D.C., and is spread over nine atolls.
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A small group of people manage to make money at a little-known job: meteorite hunting. They use metal detectors to comb the Southwest in search of bits of meteorite that are more valuable than gold.

?Without a doubt, I have the best job in the galaxy,? says Bob Haag. ?But you don?t have to be a rocket scientist. You do a little research, find where meteorites have fallen, and just go there and look. That?s it. There?s no magic.? He must be doing well, since he wears a meteorite-encrusted wedding ring.
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The eight Western aid workers who were arrested by the Taliban for distributing Christian literature may have been released, according to German newspaper reports. When the Northern Alliance invaded the Afghanistan capitol of Kabul, they were taken by the Taliban to their stronghold of Kandahar

The German ?Rundschau? newspaper reported that foreign intelligence agents claim the members of the Christian charity ?Shelter Now International? are returning to Kabul.

The group is made up of two Americans, two Australians and four Germans. The eight have been named as Australians Peter Bunch and Diana Thomas, Americans Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, and Germans Georg Taubmann, Katrin Jelinek, Margrit Stebner and Silke Durrkopf.

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