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...tongue last week; the most unsettling focused on Sept. 22. Because Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi, 34, a Saudi national who is being held as a material witness, had made three reservations to fly to San Diego via Denver on that date, people worried that terrorists would hijack another aircraft. (As it turned out, Al-Hazmi's two extra tickets were in the names of his wife and child.) More ornate scenarios had the bad guys finishing off New York City with a suitcase nuke or poisoned water supply. But the day passed, mercifully, without incident...
...trustworthy. As a result, we should send as few personnel as possible to be stationed in Pakistan, and we should not blind ourselves to the reality of these precarious alliances. With minimal support staff based in Pakistan, the brunt of the impending U.S. assault should come from carrier-based aircraft in the Arabian Sea and U.S. Air Force units based further from Afghanistan. In the coming war, we should not leave ourselves more vulnerable than absolutely necessary. Enough American lives have already been lost...
...Command, told the New York Times on Wednesday. "Otherwise, the standing orders have been pushed down to the regional level." All of which means that Maj. Gen. Larry K. Arnold, a two-star at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, can pull the trigger on a potentially dangerous commercial aircraft without even calling his boss Eberhart, much less Bush...
...fired in the aftermath of the attacks. With most flights taking off at half-capacity and the major carriers announcing a 20 percent long-term reduction in the number of flights offered, the financial fallout will extend well beyond the airline industry. Boeing, the nation’s leading aircraft manufacturer, has already announced that it will lay off as many as 30,000 machinists and other workers. In response to these feared layoffs, Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.) has announced plans to introduce a $3.75 billion bill that would provide health coverage, job training and unemployment benefits for former...
Vladimir Putin is cooperating with the U.S. anti-terrorism effort, opening Russian airspace to U.S. aircraft and sharing intelligence on terrorist organizations in Afghanistan - but all that comes with a price. TIME has learned from well-informed and reliable Russian sources that Putin asked for several deal-sweeteners in an hour-long conversation with President Bush Saturday: The Taliban will be wiped out; Russia will be given higher consideration in world politics; the mammoth Soviet debt to the West will be restructured, or eventually forgotten; and the Bush administration will not nudge Putin on Chechnya...