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...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...
...While U.S cargo jets continued to drop food packages and leaflets assuring ordinary Afghans that the bombs' intended targets were terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda fighters, the chief suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon ordered low-flying AC-130 gunships into action in preparation for the deployment of what President George W. Bush called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge...
...launched some short-run efforts in Afghanistan, aimed not so much at larger ideological points as at proving our niceness and making the country friendlier when U.S. soldiers come in. Commando Solo, an Air Force cargo plane converted into a $70 million flying radio and TV station, will broadcast messages to Afghan citizens that the attacks are aimed not at them but at the Taliban. TIME has learned that the CIA is providing portable radios that will be air-dropped or trucked in so Afghans can listen to what Commando Solo is broadcasting. An Army PSYOPS unit has printed hundreds...
...base, a symbol of Moscow's failure and Washington's hopes. NATO sources say it is now home to up to 2,000 U.S. soldiers, including crack Mountain Division platoons, as well as an unspecified number of British special forces. There are regular incoming flights of heavy U.S. cargo carriers each day, and Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes patrol the skies. The base is sealed with tight security?an outer ring of Uzbek police, an inner ring of military police, plus U.S. security patrols. According to officials who have visited the facility, many of the aircraft lie protected...
...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...