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...their leaders. But it's an irony to which the Taliban - hosts of Osama bin Laden - appears oblivious, as it denounces terrorism and steadfastly refuses to negotiate. While in the Christmastime hijacking, the Taliban insisted on a negotiated end to the crisis and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting Indian commandos from making a raid - the movement's civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor called Monday for British forces to storm the Afghan plane. "The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women...
...denounced terrorism and steadfastly refused to negotiate. Taliban civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor even called Monday for British forces to storm the plane. But in the Christmastime Indian Airlines hijacking, the Taliban had insisted that the Indian authorities negotiate with the terrorists, and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting Indian commandos from making a raid...
...battle for the Chechen capital may have been primarily symbolic - if particularly bloody - but the for the city's residents it has been devastating. Many have sheltered for months in freezing cellars with little to eat or drink, enduring daily pounding by Russian artillery and aircraft. Now hardly a building is left intact, and Russian officials have indicated that Moscow is unlikely to cough up the $1 billion that would be required to start rebuilding the city. (For one thing, if the history of the last war is anything to go by, Moscow's tenure there may be far from...
...keep warplanes flying right, Air Force pilots argue that there has to be a "man in the loop"--a person in the cockpit. A recently completed investigation into a crash of the Pentagon's most sophisticated unmanned aircraft may reinforce their bias...
...keep warplanes flying right, Air Force pilots argue that there has to be a "man in the loop" - a person in the cockpit. A recently completed investigation into a crash of the Pentagon's most sophisticated unmanned aircraft may reinforce their bias. The Global Hawk, which is under development, is a $45 million drone with a 116-foot wingspan that can fly for more than a day, scouring terrain and relaying video to a ground station 3,000 miles away. Last March a Hawk on a simulated mission surprised its manned F-16 chase plane by rolling onto its back...