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...party with the resources. We have no resources," he said and repeated a previous offer to negotiate an arrangement based on Israel's withdrawing to pre-1967 borders. What about formal recognition of Israel? "Who is more in need of recognition," he asked, "Israel, which has a nuclear arsenal, great power and resources, or the Palestinian people? Which party should be given attention, the hangman or the victim, the oppressor or the oppressed?" He also had no apologies for Hamas' history of attacks directed against innocent Israelis, saying it was a matter of self-defense. (Watch TIME's video "Protesting...
...same time, Task Force Paladin, a counter-IED unit created by the Pentagon, deploys bomb specialists who monitor and defuse roadway threats downrange. Its arsenal includes radio jammers to neutralize remote-controlled devices, as well as radars that can locate mines beneath the surface. According to TF Paladin's commander, Colonel Jeffrey Jarkowsky, such improvements have reduced IED effectiveness in terms of casualties 20% over the past year...
Willow Run is always trotted out as Exhibit A in the transformation of lower Michigan into the world's arsenal of democracy. It's a great story, and it's a true one; in 1942, GM took just two months to convert its Cadillac assembly line to one that could turn out tanks. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor buzzed with boffins working on government contracts, and in 1948, the campus had 21,000 students enrolled - or a fifth of the total number of students at every university in France. Two years earlier, a veteran editor of the Detroit...
...Rumor reported as fact is an epidemic in Pakistan. Very recently the English-language daily the News ran the front-page headline PLANS READY TO TAKE OUT PAK NUCLEAR ARSENAL. The unbylined story, about a secret U.S. commando force tasked with infiltrating Pakistan to secure its nuclear weapons, was based on a Fox News online report describing a worst-case-scenario contingency plan should Pakistan be taken over by extremists. There were no named sources in the News story, and much of the reporting depended on e-mailed comments to the website. Nevertheless, it fueled hysterical discussions on TV chat...
...joined their State Department colleagues in outrage when the Bush Administration at first took a confrontational approach with the DPRK. Bush's hard-line stance, the critics believe, prompted Pyongyang to kick-start nuclear-weapon production. Intelligence analysts in Washington and Seoul believe that North Korea increased its total arsenal from one or two nukes to seven or eight during Bush's time in office...