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...Thursday's botched missile strike on an Israeli airliner will raise pressure for the installation of sophisticated electronic protection gear on civilian planes. It's a problem the Pentagon has been grappling with for some time: Three years ago, the Defense Department told Congress the biggest threat to its cargo planes were shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles like the ones fired in Mombassa. Three months ago, on August 27, the Pentagon awarded a $23 million contract to outfit four Air Force C-17 cargo planes with sophisticated equipment to protect them from Stingers, SA-7s and other portable missiles...
...floor of the north Atlantic, in the frigid depths off Spain's craggy Costa da Morte (Death Coast), sits a time bomb. The Prestige lies in shame, 145 nautical miles off the northwestern state of Galicia, and its remaining cargo - at least 55,000 tons of thick fuel oil - could detonate in days, weeks or months into a great black tide of viscous goo, unleashing one of the worst marine disasters ever. But if King Neptune is kind, the sunken tanker may just sleep, its cargo solidified, having done all the dirty work it will ever do. Its work...
...airlift; European allies own 11, and rental agreements on a further 25 are due to expire at the end of the year. Fixing the problem fell to Berlin, say NATO officials, in part because its capability needs to be bolstered: the Bundeswehr had to rent Ukrainian Antonovs to get cargo to Afghanistan last spring, and the Schröder government, pleading budget problems, has already reduced its order for the A400M from a promised 73 planes to just 40. NATO officials hope Berlin will pull together enough allies to commit to the long-term lease of eight to 10 such...
...huge military cargo ships left the U.S. for the Indian Ocean in the last fortnight...
...with a soundtrack straight out of King Kong. To reach the southernmost tip of the Izu, walk through a torii, or Shinto gate, near the rear exit of the Jungle Park and step down past a little shrine. There you'll look out over jutting rocks as fishing and cargo boats ply the black waters to the south. I was thoroughly enjoying the isolated, out-of-this-world feeling, when I met Naoki Taira, a 25-year-old Tokyoite who was visiting Izu with his girlfriend. "Is America going to attack Iraq?" he asked. And then I was back...