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...grayer, more profound and more sure-footed." The attacks only deepened Bush's impulse to trust in strength for its own sake, particularly given that earlier al-Qaeda attacks had drawn only limited response and thus perhaps emboldened Osama bin Laden. "Al-Qaeda underestimated us, see," Bush told TIME aboard Air Force One in December 2001. "He [bin Laden] thought we're soft. He made a huge miscalculation, huge. And I'm sure he's now cowering in some cave, wondering, you know, what went wrong...
...pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...weighs 19 tons, two more than the C-130 routinely carries. And Iraq has exposed the Stryker's shortcomings. To protect against rocket-propelled grenades, common in every war zone, the Strykers in Iraq wear a 2.5-ton cage of steel. This also makes them too large to fit aboard a C-130. The steel cage is only a temporary fix. But the final solution--form-fitting armor that will be ready next year--weighs even more, 4.5 tons, and takes 10 hours to bolt on. That's a long delay for a vehicle designed for rapid entry into combat...
...failed coup attempt last March against the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Thatcher's close friend and neighbor Simon Mann, a former British S.A.S. officer, was arrested along with 64 other men in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean and South African authorities say the men, who were found aboard a Boeing 727-100, were on their way to topple Nguema's government, and had touched down to collect weapons and ammo. Nineteen other men, including South Africans and Armenians, were arrested in Equatorial Guinea on suspicion of being part of the plot. The self-confessed leader of the Guinean cell...
Another old story concerns "a certain maritime incident," also known as the children overboard affair. In October 2001, two days into an election campaign in which Prime Minister John Howard successfully portrayed his government as tough on border protection, ministers claimed that illegal immigrants aboard a fishing boat code-named SIEV 4 (suspected illegal entry vessel 4) had thrown children into the sea. This, government ministers suggested, was an attempt at blackmail: sailors from H.M.A.S. Adelaide, which had apprehended the vessel, would be forced to rescue the children, thus improving their families' chances of gaining entry to Australia. Defence Minister...