People are always asking, why do we give so much foreign (especially military) aid to Israel?  What do we ever get in return?  How about the targeting and recording device that brought al-Zarqawi's life to an end for starters?  Some more detail on how the system was used here at armytimes.com.

An armored bus carrying 16 year old Israeli girls was shot at in the West Bank.  Three girls were wounded by shrapnel and two others treated for shock.  I'd like to think that whoever shot at the bus may not have known it was full of children, but I could be wrong.

"We do not believe the Israelis were targeting civilians." Garlasco said. "We just want to know if it was an Israeli shell that killed the Palestinians (ed - in Gaza last week)."  Well, at least Human RIghts Watch admits that much.  That wasn't the story four days ago.  “The likelihood that the Ghalya family was killed by an explosive other than one of the shells fired by the IDF is remote,” said Marc Garlasco, senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch.

The real story behind Bambi. Great podcast.