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...pilots' petition will also probably fail. Both the airlines and the Airline Pilots Association support the Age 60 rule. "It's the 'bloody hand' syndrome," says an aviation expert. "No one wants to support a change and then see a 67-year-old pilot crash a plane full of people." If the petition is rejected, Yetman's group plans to file a lawsuit against the FAA immediately. Meantime, McAndrew will keep flying. But maybe he should start thinking about a second career. Aren't some Washington politicians thinking about raising the age for Social Security benefits...
...chemical and biological weapons and the labs used to produce them are devilish to pinpoint. "They can be smaller and dual use," says Gary Samore, a weapons expert at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Any food-processing facility could be used for processing biological agents." Defectors have told Western officials that Saddam loads bioweapons into sealed wells drilled 60 ft. deep across the rural landscape and stocks chemical components in residential basements and palace bunkers. Labs for cooking up new toxins and germs are mounted on specially converted commercial trucks that cruise Iraqi highways to foil pursuers...
...region the week of the first anniversary of Sept. 11. Despite this and related disclosures that indict him as at least a suspect, Ba'asyir (who has denied these accusations) remains free, openly running his Islamic school in the central Java town of Solo. Indonesia, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism and author of a recent book on al-Qaeda, "is the only place in the world where radicals tied to al-Qaeda aren't being hunted down." Adds a Western intelligence source in Jakarta: "The country's like an aircraft carrier from which terrorists can safely launch attacks...
...extensive underwater fleet, as well as powerful anti-ship missiles and top-gun fighter jets, mostly supplied by Russia. In so doing, China is creating pockets of military excellence to address "real-world scenarios like coercing Taiwan back to negotiations or deterring U.S. action," says Thomas Christensen, a military expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taiwan has nervously taken notice of the threat this more focused approach poses. "The real killer," says a Taiwan national security official, is not just China's new missiles and jets but its move toward "a war of paralysis, a surgical strike, information warfare...
Bush is correct in not being content to watch the entire play when he knows what is going to happen in the last act. No matter what any so-called expert says about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, no outsider has been able to collect any evidence to verify their assertions since 1998. In addition to thumbing his nose at almost every U.N. resolution since 1991, which ought to anger our European allies, and his efforts over the last 20 years to build nuclear weapons and support worldwide terror, Hussein has amassed a brainwashed following in Iraq...