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...civilian casualties may prove the most shocking. With Iraqi fighters mixing with civilians, it has been hard to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants. And highly touted smart weapons have turned out to be messier than advertised. A 2,000-lb. bomb steered by a JDAM guidance device may rarely miss its mark by more than 13 ft.--the length of the steering system and the explosive--but when the bomb blows, it sends high-speed shrapnel flying as far as a mile. There may be a lot of uncounted innocents in such a big footprint...
...security as they can get. "It beats having an F-16 shooting you out of the air," said Steve Luckey, a security specialist with the Airline Pilots Association, referring to the government's solution of last resort when confronted with a hijacked airliner that could be used as a bomb. While TSA won't release numbers, the percentage of flights with an armed air marshal aboard is in the low single digits, Luckey said...
...stood by with weapons while Suharto slaughtered 200,000 East Timorese. He opposed and obstructed Vietnam peace talks in 1968 to help Nixon and his “secret plan” get elected, and then convinced him (although it probably wasn’t hard) to massively bomb civilian targets in Cambodia, helping Pol Pot emerge to finish what he’d started. Now Nixon and Pol Pot are dead; Pinochet is indicted and near death. Only Kissinger lives on—Cambodia, Laos, East Timor and Vietnam lie in ruins, a still-smoking homage to his diplomatic...
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...just want the Americans to leave," Mohammed said. "We will sacrifice our blood and be martyrs. If they don't leave, everyone will be a bomb in the face of the Americans...