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...reports that suicide bombers may target her. She is not under house arrest and she is free to leave." His concern for Bhutto's well-being was somewhat belied by the four rows of coiled barbed wire, one metal barrier, two layers of concrete barricades, an armored personnel carrier and a phalanx of police officers eight deep blocking the entrance to her street...
...ACAC is counting on another home-court advantage: a guaranteed customer base in China's state-owned airlines. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the country's industry regulator, announced Aug. 31 that it will block the creation of any new Chinese airlines until 2010 - unless the new carrier flies the ARJ21. All of the 71 ARJ21s sold thus far have been to Chinese carriers serving the fast-growing mainland travel market. "The government still controls fleet purchases," says Richard Pinkham, an industry analyst at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation, a Singapore-based consultancy. "That will provide...
...were completely outnumbered. Our camp was totally destroyed, and they looted everything: guns, trucks, even an armored personnel carrier...
...presence of U.S. forces in this corner of the Middle East is hardly a secret. About 1,800 U.S. military personnel, mostly with the Air Force, live on military bases here. And the U.A.E. Port of Jebel Ali, one of the few docks capable of handling a U.S. aircraft carrier, gets more visits from Navy ships than any other port outside the United States. Qatar signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States in 1992. Today, the sprawling al-Udeid airbase there is home to roughly 6,000 troops. Another 3,400 or so troops live at As-Sayliyah...
...would try repeatedly to cancel it - hard, that is, until you get to know the Osprey. As Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, Cheney tried four times to kill the Marine Corps's ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. Four times he failed. Cheney found the arguments for the combat troop carrier unpersuasive and its problems irredeemable. "Given the risk we face from a military standpoint, given the areas where we think the priorities ought to be, the V-22 is not at the top of the list," he told a Senate committee in 1989. "It came out at the bottom...