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...embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Three weeks ago when he told an Arab journalist he would mount an unprecedented attack on the U.S. "This was well funded and well planned," said Senator Pat Roberts, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "It took a lot of planning. The weather had to be just so on the East Coast. They used sophisticated tactics where they hijacked planes, killed the crew, and they had to have aviators or navigators who knew what they were doing...
...embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Three weeks ago when he told an Arab journalist he would mount an unprecedented attack on the U.S. "This was well funded and well planned," said Senator Pat Roberts, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "It took a lot of planning. The weather had to be just so on the East Coast. They used sophisticated tactics where they hijacked planes, killed the crew, and they had to have aviators or navigators who knew what they were doing...
...black smoke emanating from the ground. It could have been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment I saw the smoke," says 36-year-old Zhang of the gas explosion that claimed...
...Chernov: We expected an expert professional investigation as the basis for decision-making. Instead, incompetent conmen came up with hasty decisions. We said outright that it was an adventurist sham. They can't even have their equipment moved to the place on time. But the weather in the area will get prohibitive within a couple of weeks. The whole thing is doomed to fail. I can't find decent words to describe all this. I can only suspect that they never intended to raise the Kursk...
...sure that'll be the case. They'll claim the weather as an excuse. But in fact, this is what ought to be done: Put the operation on hold until next May. Do a serious professional expert brainstorming to assess the situation. Use the winter to prepare, and then raise the Kursk and try to give honest answers to all the painful questions. Instead, they're going ahead with this rigmarole, wasting so much money...