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...fearless prediction here: the ports controversy will soon turn into an even greater battle over U.S. defense contracts going to foreign-owned companies, including-as the Washington Post reported last week-Dubai International Capital, which wants to buy a company that makes components for U.S. tanks and military aircraft. Lawrence Korb, a defense specialist at the Center for American Progress, estimates that foreign companies may receive as much as 20% of Pentagon contracts, sometimes in tandem with U.S. companies and sometimes dealing with sensitive technologies. I asked Korb what would happen if we ended the practice. "Things would...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's--wanted $65 million for such equipment as sophisticated nightscopes and computer-mapping systems, but the Administration refused the request. The Marines are still flying around Iraq in Vietnam-era helicopters--yet $1 billion was cut from the program for the choppers' only replacement aircraft, the V-22 Osprey. The Marines were able to establish the long-awaited first squadron last week but say they need more funding to replace aging aircraft. "It is unconscionable," says a military officer, "that the one new aircraft that could clearly help them in Iraq is getting...
...illegally in Orlando, Fla., while the plot's leader, Mohammad Atta, waited to pick him up in the airport parking lot. As the Pentagon has said, "Had al-Qahtani succeeded in entering the U.S., it is believed he would have been on United Airlines Flight 93, the only hijacked aircraft that had four hijackers instead of five [and the one that ended up crashing in a Pennsylvania field instead of striking the White House, its widely believed intended target...
When President Clinton went to Pakistan in 2000, the security situation was so bad that he did a last-minute switch of airplanes. As he left India to go to Pakistan, Clinton walked toward an official U.S. jet - and then got into an unmarked aircraft that would be less easily identified by terrorists. And that was before 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, not to mention multiple attempts on the life of the country?s president, Pervez Musharraf...
...those of you who are sick of getting stuck with a seat by the aircraft toilet (again), there is deliverance in the form of SeatGuru.com-a know-all site that enables you to check the cabin configuration before you fly, so you can decide in advance which row and seat number to request...