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...fact, the Predator wouldn't fly again until after Sept. 11. In early 2001 it was decided to develop a new version that would not just take photos but also be armed with Hellfire missiles. To the frustration of Clarke and other White House aides, the CIA and the Pentagon couldn't decide who controlled the new program or who should pay for it--though each craft cost only $1 million. While the new UAV was being rapidly developed at a site in the southwestern U.S., the CIA opposed using the old one for pure surveillance because it feared...
...complete; in the northeast of the country, Northern Alliance forces led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, a legendary guerrilla leader who had fought against the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan in the 1980s, were still resisting Taliban rule. Clarke argued that Massoud should be given the resources to develop a viable fighting force. That way, terrorists leaving al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan would have been forced to join the Taliban forces fighting in the north. "You keep them on the front lines in Afghanistan," says a counterterrorism official. "Hopefully you're killing them in the process, and they...
...Faculty approved a “two-track system” in which students going abroad will be able either to choose from a list of pre-approved courses, or to develop their own plan of study as they...
...Numbers 45 million people are using the Internet in China now?only the U.S. and Japan have more people online- according to a survey released by the Chinese government 3 years is how long it would take Iraq to develop a functional nuclear weapon from uranium it already possesses, a former Iraqi nuclear engineer told the U.S. Senate last week $355.4 billion has been allocated for U.S. defense in this year?s budget, a 10% increase over last year?s total 14 men could face the death penalty if convicted of involvement in the June gang rape of a woman...
...head of the World Food Program in Pyongyang. Skeptics suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may be adjusting prices to curb the flourishing black market. A more plausible explanation: persistent food shortages and the need to import fertilizer, fuel and other commodities make it imperative that North Korea develop a functioning economy. The hermit country seems at last to be joining the real world...