Word: fighters
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...ROLLED OUT. F/A-22 RAPTOR, the most sophisticated jet fighter ever made, after 23 years in production in the U.S.; at a Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Georgia. Designed at the height of the cold war, the fighter was finally built, after years of political infighting over cost and feasibility, with the help of 1,000 subcontractors in 43 states. The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 277 Raptors at a cost of $258 million each. The stealth fighter can fly 1,500 kilometers per hour without detection and engage enemy aircraft beyond the pilot's range of vision...
...Senator, who once criticized Bush for prancing around in a flight suit on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln beneath a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, could be found prancing about the backwoods of Ohio costumed as a hunter on a wild goose chase. Those two macho, flamboyantly phony images--fighter jock and gooseslayer--are the sad legacy of this election year...
...pitched camp was to set up our computers and sat phones," says Jamal, a former explosives specialist for Khattab. Basayev, Jamal recalls, liked to read on the Web. Basayev is coy about possible connections with al-Qaeda now. He has adopted a cell-like structure for his network of fighters, and his men include a sprinkling of foreign mujahedin from the Middle East and Europe. But in a message posted on the Web claiming responsibility for the Beslan siege, he said: "I don't receive money from bin Laden, but I wouldn't say no." Fellow fighters respect Basayev...
...they were on the verge of capturing Maskhadov in a major operation south of the capital. Yet that very day, a senior Maskhadov commander felt comfortable enough to stop for a quick chat a short distance from the battle. "I don't think he's in any danger," the fighter said casually of his boss. Sure enough, Maskhadov escaped. If the guerrillas sound increasingly confident, the Russians sound more and more nervous. "On the surface the situation looks fine," says one Russian colonel. "But it could blow at any moment...
...said. "This is a war between the West and al-Qaeda. We are not part of it." Libya is making amends for its own terrorist war, however. In 1986, Libyan operatives bombed a Berlin discothèque, killing three, including two U.S. servicemen. The U.S. retaliated by sending fighter jets to bomb Gaddafi's personal residence, killing his adopted daughter. Last month, Gaddafi agreed to a $35 million compensation deal for the non-American Berlin victims. Last Thursday, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder went to Tripoli to mark the normalization of relations. The two leaders met in a tent...