OH: Men shot in possible home invasion: "Ross County deputies are investigating the shootings of two men yesterday morning in an apparent home invasion. Deputies got a call between 1:30 and 2 a.m. from a man at 4999 Black Run Rd., reporting that people were trying to break into the house, Sheriff Ron Nichols said. The man, whose identity could not be confirmed yesterday, asked police to respond and said that he thought he shot one of the intruders, Nichols said. The reported intruders left the house, located about 10 miles southwest of Chillicothe and just north of Knockemstiff, before authorities arrived, Nichols said. A short time later, a Chillicothe police officer pulled over a vehicle and found Jason Van-Hooser and Wayne Detty, both of Chillicothe, inside. VanHooser, 31, was shot in the head and arm. He was taken to Adena Regional Medical Center, then flown to Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Nichols said. A hospital spokeswoman said she was not allowed to release his condition. Detty, 29, was treated for a gunshot wound to the upper arm and released. He did not return a phone call yesterday."


Bosnia's leftover guns: Sell, give, destroy? "What's been called the biggest arms transfer since World War II -- the shipping of leftover weapons from Bosnia's 1992-1995 war to combat zones in the Middle East and elsewhere -- may not have come to an end, despite a year-old moratorium on Bosnian arms sales. As a UN conference on small arms wrapped up last week, key policymakers reviewed the UN's 2001 action program to end the illegal arms trade, but were unable to come up with a final document or recommendations. 'It is a known fact that in the 1990s, out of 49 major conflicts, 47 were waged with small arms and light weapons -- and that most of the conflicts were exacerbated by the availability of illegal small arms,' conference head Prasad Kariyawasam of Sri Lanka told the press before the conference. The UN estimates that one-quarter of the $4 billion annual global arms trade is illicit. But experts are also concerned about legal trades, particularly from Bosnia before the moratorium. The concerns are heightened in light of an Amnesty International report in May that detailed a 2004 Bosnia-to-Iraq shipment of thousands of guns that apparently went missing in a maze of subcontractors."