Word: blackhawks
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...They'll be looking for targets of opportunity, and hunting for people and intelligence. The special forces who operate from these Blackhawk helicopters will be under orders to gather up computers, paper, any sort of stuff that might expose how Al Qaida is put together. The questions, though are how well hidden these guys are, will the U.S. get any actionable intelligence, and will they be able to act on it. Any operations will be custom crafted from the ground up; there is no template. It will depend on intelligence, and the real situation as it develops on the ground...
FOILED MAY 19, 1999 Anaheim, Calif. When police searched the homes of two eighth-graders at South Junior High, they found two bombs, bombmaking materials, a military-surplus rifle, a Ruger Blackhawk .45-cal. handgun, 1,500 rounds of ammunition and Nazi paraphernalia. They were tipped off by a student who heard that the boys, whose names were not released, were threatening to blow up the school...
...told, 18,000 of Israel's 26,000 police will patrol the trip, which Israeli police chief Yehuda Wilk calls "the most complicated in [Israel's] history." There are concerns about terrorist missiles (the Pope, atypically, will travel in a Blackhawk helicopter, a small target) and about the itinerary's effect on his health ("at the limit of what's prudent," says a veteran of 60 papal trips). And the expense: just one preparation, the hollowing of a hillside near the town of Korazim for a papal Mass, cost the Israelis $3 million...
Almost three-fourths of the $1.6 billion would pay for military hardware and training, including 30 top-of-the-line Blackhawk helicopters. The rest would be economic and law-enforcement assistance, which White House officials have ordered U.S. aid agencies to pump into Colombia as fast as its government can absorb the dollars. All that money would be used to battle not only the drug traffickers but also the guerrillas who are aligned with them and who have waged a 35-year insurgency against the government. What's more, U.S. officials say privately that the $1.6 billion would be just...
...needed at exactly the same time that U.S. helicopter builders are looking for new customers. It is a neat fit: Colombia and other Latin American nations can use the aircraft; U.S. helicopter builders can use the orders. The Administration's aid package calls for 30 new Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, at $10 million each, and 33 Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 Hueys, outfitted with new engines and other improvements, for $1.5 million each...