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...help in that effort. The faa also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed could pierce the concrete dome that protects the reactor core...
...been Fox Sports’ choice of a theme song. Not content to introduce their NFL coverage with a fluttering flag and an instrumental version of “America the Beautiful,” Fox now begins its sports programs with shots of fighter jets taking off from aircraft carriers with the backing of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” an obvious homage to the attack scenes in Apocalypse Now. The glib stupidity of Fox is almost breathtaking. Anyone who has even the faintest idea of that movie?...
...helicopters and MC-130 Combat Talon planes from bases in southern Pakistan and Oman. A military cameraman videotaped the special forces donning fatigues (the camera zoomed in on a photo of New York fire fighters that commandos had packed in their gear to leave at their destinations), boarding aircraft and leaping out in Afghanistan. While a group of commandos seized a dry-lake airstrip some 100 miles southwest of Kandahar, other troops headed to Kandahar itself in pursuit of Omar and one of his command centers. The special forces didn't manage to snare Omar, but Pentagon officials said...
...lines: The limits of the air campaign and the Northern Alliance have made the job of the U.S. special forces and their British counterparts that much more difficult. Still, a number of reports from the frontlines suggest some significant success in deploying these forces as target spotters for U.S. aircraft. Some 20 militants of Pakistan's pro-Bin Laden Harkat al-Mujahedeen meeting in a house in Kabul were killed in a U.S. bombing raid this week after the venue was reportedly pointed out from the ground...
...political objectives guiding the military action. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday called on the Northern Alliance to begin advancing on Kabul, with the objective not of capturing the city but of "investing" it - a military term for laying siege that required translation to a lay audience. U.S. aircraft echoed the call by bombing the Taliban frontline to the north of Kabul, Monday, although so lightly as to elicit skepticism among Alliance commanders as to the objectives of the raids. Like Secretary Powell's military jargon, current U.S. strategy in Afghanistan bears some translation for a lay audience...