According to reports, U. S. fighter pilots have been trained to shoot down hijacked commercial airliners should it become necessary.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to official reports, the ship was carrying approximately of oil, of which about were spilled into the Prince William Sound.

According to reports released in February 2010, Hezbollah received $ 400 million dollars from Iran.

According to various reports, Hezbollah is armed with anti-tank guided missiles, namely, the Russian-made AT-3 Sagger, AT-4 Spigot, AT-5 Spandrel, AT-13 Saxhorn-2 ' Metis-M ', АТ-14 Spriggan ' Kornet '; Iranian-made Ra ' ad ( version of AT-3 Sagger ), Towsan ( version of AT-5 Spandrel ), Toophan ( version of BGM-71 TOW ); and European-made MILAN missiles.

According to news reports, Mr Tsvangirai was taken to hospital with head and neck injuries.

According to Kallistos Ware, some Western theologians, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, see the theology of Palamas as introducing an inadmissible division within God ; however, others have incorporated his theology into their own thinking, maintaining, as Jeffrey D. Finch reports, that there is no conflict between his teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

According to official reports, he died in Lindheim, Germany in 1895.

According to reports, the hack is aiming not at child player's Neopets accounts, but at using the malware to steal the financial data and identities of their parents.

According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £ 25 a week immediately after the game.

* 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor ( no British records of this attack exist ).

According to the FBI and the 9 / 11 Commission report, Hazmi first entered the United States on June 29, 2001, although there are numerous unconfirmed reports that he was living in San Antonio, Texas with fellow hijacker Satam al-Suqami much earlier.

Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.

" According to the U. S. State Department report and reports by Human Rights Watch, the other Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan were regular Pakistani soldiers especially from the Frontier Corps but also from the army providing direct combat support.

According to biographer McFeely, historians overwhelmingly agree that his intemperance at the time was a fact, though there are no eyewitness reports extant.

According to Spanish newspaper reports, UC representatives have visited Madrid, Spain to discuss the possibility of opening UC's first general campus outside of the U. S. there in 2014.

According to reports, the Conservative party's links to far-right parties within Europe has caused a " host of condemnation " from Jewish groups in the US ; Ira Forman, chief executive of the National Jewish Democratic Council, stated that " There is obviously concern in the US when there is legitimacy conferred on individuals and political parties that have had some association with anti-Semitism.

According to psychologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis ' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian zombies is viewed as overly credulous.

* August 6 – According to Japanese government and TBS networks reports, torrential rain and mudslides kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.

According to one historian of the show, the idea of the format was to make the hosts the reporters, to always feature stories that were of national importance but focused upon individuals involved with, or in conflict with, those issues, and to limit the reports ' airtime to around thirteen minutes.

According to secondhand reports, Nasser convincingly denied the allegations.

According to news reports at the time, Nixon answered questions about the 18-1 / 2 minute tape gap, altering White House tape transcripts turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, using the Internal Revenue Service to harass political enemies, and a $ 100, 000 contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes.

According to media reports on Sept. 26, 2012, the Holy See, has received a file on beatification for Moro.

According to reports, Japanese troops torched newly built government buildings as well as the homes of many civilians.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BCE, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

The introduction of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

According to Plato, her mother decided she should cut back on her skating to focus on the role.

' According to the Evil Dead DVD commentary, he would often return home after a night of shooting in the back of a pick-up truck, as he was usually covered in fake blood made from a mixture of corn syrup, food coloring, and non-dairy coffee creamer.

According to some ahadith, he will come back to earth in the future and declare to the world that he is " a Servant of God ".

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

According to Martin Noth, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Isaac date back to an older cultural stage than that of the West-Jordanian Jacob.

According to the American federal government statistics compiled by Mark Zandi, currently of " Moody's Economy. com ", back in 1985, the average inheritance was $ 39, 000.

According to the Book of Jeremiah, Moab and Biblical Elam which were exiled during the Babylonian Exile, will be brought back from their captivity in the end of days.

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

According to recent historical findings, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 BC.

According to People magazine reporter Jane Simms Podesta, " She is the steel in his back.

According to his wife Libby, his assignment was to infiltrate the anti-Communist John Birch Society and report his findings back to the FBI.

According to scholarly consensus, the earliest example of an administrative meritocracy, based on civil service examinations, dates back to Ancient China.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the entire area has thousands of river names that can be traced back to an original Baltic language, even though they have undergone Slavicization.

:" According to physicalism, the language of physics is the universal language of science and, consequently, any knowledge can be brought back to the statements on the physical objects.

According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard to avoid capture but was rescued and taken back to his master.

According to the website of the Archives, the oldest surviving document dates back to the end of the eighth century.