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...21st century showpiece. The plane, which has a list price of $285 million (though airlines rarely pay the published rate on any plane), has been ordered by major airlines around the world, including Air France, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qantas and Virgin. Last month UPS joined FedEx as the second U.S. cargo airline to buy the freighter version. "The A380 is the most significant event in aviation in 40 years--since the introduction of the Boeing 747," says Stephen Forshaw of Singapore Airlines, which will be the first airline to fly the aircraft, in the spring...
...expanded. He made contact with the North Korean government as early as 1993, according to Pakistani investigators. In the late 1990s he began shipping centrifuges and the means to make them--"the whole package," as a U.S. intelligence official put it--in bulk to Pyongyang, sometimes aboard Pakistani military cargo planes. Pakistani officials say Khan has testified that the North Koreans were so appreciative that in 1999 they took him on a private tour of their nuclear facilities during his visit to Pyongyang. U.S. and IAEA investigators believe that Khan also traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and to such...
When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in fact, been arranged jointly by the CIA and MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence. When the agents boarded the BBC China, what they found was anything but routine: five large containers, each carefully packed with precision machine tools, tubes and other bombmaking equipment. The containers amounted to part...
...given few clues as to which projects it will support. So far, it has spent $66 million on immediate relief, like bags of rice and medical supplies, as well as $50 million in military aid, covering helicopters, cargo planes and help from troops on the ground. (Most of the Department of Defense's costs won't count against the $350 million pledge, according to State Department officials.) In Jakarta last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that "we will continue responding to legitimate demands until $350 [million] is reached." The $350 million offered by the White House will...
...sailors and pilots are trying as best they can to coordinate with private groups to set up a smooth supply line. A host of aid organizations flies in supplies on U.S. C130 cargo planes to the tiny runway of the airport at Banda Aceh. Once unloaded, the planes must take off immediately to clear space for the next plane. The Seahawks, meanwhile, are landing on a converted football field a few hundred yards away, and the pilots are managing the transfer of supplies from the C130s to the helicopters. "It was like the Wild West down there when we first...