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...AVIV, Israel: An eight-minute video shot by a U.N. officer shows an Israeli drone aircraft hovering over a U.N. compound when Israeli forces shelled the area April 18. The video is especially embarrassing for Israel, which had denied that the remotely piloted aircraft was in the area. After being confronted with evidence to the contrary, an army spokesman said the plane was on another mission, but Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that U.N. officials are skeptical of Israel's explanation. "They say it is absurd that a drone would be there not looking at the area they were...
...regard, by Sotheby's) has shown wonderful ingenuity at such stratagems. There was, for instance, the sale in Switzerland in 1987 of the Duchess of Windsor's jewelry at which the rich of several nations paid five, 10, 20 times their value for baubles once owned by that calcified drone of a woman, merely because another drone had resigned the crown of England to marry her 50 years before. Then there was the Andy Warhol auction, also in 1987, at which bidders sent the price of the defunct celeb's $25 black-mammy and teddy-bear cookie jars...
...turned over to the U.N., Iraq admitted that as the U.S. mobilized forces to invade Kuwait in November 1990, it had begun filling 191 bombs and Scud missile warheads with deadly biological agents such as anthrax and botulinum toxin. The bombs would have been mounted on missiles, planes or drone aircraft and dropped on enemy troops, fewer than half of whom had received the appropriate germ-warfare vaccinations. Twenty-five Scuds outfitted with biological weapons were aimed at cities in Saudi Arabia and Israel...
...this may presage a vast reorganization of the military. With microprocessors making smaller weapons systems and electronically controlled drones able to track and attack targets, aircraft carriers and manned bombers may become obsolete in future conflicts. Just as computers have flattened the organizational charts of corporations, the military may have to restructure its ranks with fewer layers of staff officers needed to process orders between a general and his shooters on the ground. The distinction between civilian and soldier may blur with more private contractors needed to operate complex equipment on the battlefield. There will, no doubt, be bureaucratic...
...walls and, far below, the roaring waters of the Colorado River. Aware of the jostling horde of tourists on the overcrowded South Rim of the canyon, she traveled to the less popular main overlook at the North Rim. But while she stood there, her ears were assaulted by the drone of two sightseeing Cessnas and a Twin Otter, plus the clatter of four helicopters--all of which flew by within a few minutes. "With such an incredible view," she complained, "you'd expect some solitude...