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...vulnerable to the 100 or so shoulder-launched, CIA-purchased, Soviet-war-era Stinger missiles still in the hands of the Taliban. The Stingers have one of the greatest records of any killing machine ever invented; a 1989 U.S. Army study found that the Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed by rocket-propelled grenades...
...cargo carriers each day, and Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes patrol the skies. The base is sealed with tight security?an outer ring of Uzbek police, an inner ring of military police, plus U.S. security patrols. According to officials who have visited the facility, many of the aircraft lie protected in underground bunkers...
...political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by joining an animation production company, where he met his lifelong colleague and sometime creative collaborator, Isao Takahata. They struck out on their own in 1985 with Studio Ghibli?named by Miyazaki, an aircraft buff, after a vintage Italian plane...
...terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S.-led forces launched military strikes on targets in Afghanistan. The raids were aimed at ending the operations of chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaeda network and the Taliban regime sheltering them. The bombing by U.S. aircraft and British and American cruise missiles marked the first stage of what President Bush called a "sustained, comprehensive and relentless" campaign against terrorism. Within days, U.S. military officials said their forces had secured air supremacy over Afghanistan, knocking out 85% of the targets on their initial list. But bin Laden...
...President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes during the war in Croatia. The indictment cites 32 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the "ethnic cleansing" of Croatia between August 1991 and June 1992. ITALY Milan Runway Crash In thick fog at Milan?s Linate Airport, a Cessna light aircraft strayed into the path of an accelerating Scandinavian Airlines System passenger jet, which crashed into a baggage hangar and burst into flames. The conflagration, which claimed 118 lives, was Italy?s worst civil aviation accident. According to recordings of conversations with the Milan control tower, the Cessna pilot thought...