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While the Pentagon has been using drones as flying spies for years, it was less than 18 months ago that Jumper--then running the Air Force's Air Combat Command--first realized that his growing fleet of unmanned aircraft represented a missed opportunity. "It just clicked: that if we could put a small weapon on this thing, we could do the entire cycle--find a target, kill it and assess it--from the same vehicle," the Vietnam War pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important...
...loitering in the skies over Afghanistan, largely invisible from the ground but able to spot objects 4-in. across from 16 miles away. Their prey is what the Pentagon calls "high-value mobile" targets--like SUVs suspected of ferrying bin Laden from one hiding place to another. The combat record remains secret, but Pentagon officials claim that Predators have fired dozens of Hellfires "very successfully...
...organization to which it belonged, usually a Pakistani group, the Taliban or "specially for al-Qaeda." Other printed forms listed basic data about individual fighters, including name, nationality, health condition, training background and official role. One Palestinian fighter, listed as Abu Majid, 24, was noted to have extensive combat experience "against the Jews," that is, the Israelis, in south Lebanon. He had joined a unit of al-Qaeda in August 2000. But unlike other fighters, he indicated on his form that he had no desire for more training: "I'm interested in participating in suicide operations, and I am prepared...
...still going on? No, no. It's still going on. It's not as fierce as it was. Earlier we were hearing a lot of AK-47 fire and a lot of M-4 fire, the American Special Forces rifle. So there was probably some hand to hand combat, but that's not happening at the moment. But there's still shots and explosions - There's another one. A lot of tracer fire [as tracer fire goes overhead...
...Grade inflation has become a serious problem,” Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 wrote in the report’s introduction. “Steps should be taken to combat...