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...first been used in Bosnia in 1995. Later, the CIA and the Pentagon began a highly classified program designed to produce pictures--viewable in real time--that would be fine-grained enough to identify individuals. The new, improved Predator was finally ready in September 2000, and the CIA flew it over Afghanistan in a two-week "test of concept." First results were promising; one video sent to the White House showed a man who might have been bin Laden. For the first time, the CIA now had a way to check out a tip by one of its agents among...
...shot dead by Massoud's guards while trying to escape. Khalili believes he was saved by his passport, which was in his left breast pocket--eight pieces of shrapnel were found embedded in it. Dashty remembers being rushed to a helicopter with Massoud, who had terrible wounds. The chopper flew them both to a hospital in Tajikistan. By the time they arrived, Massoud was dead...
...frills carriers' fondness for remote airports, once a handicap, is becoming an attraction. Ryanair passengers may in the past have been disconcerted to discover that a flight to Copenhagen didn't actually land in the Danish capital, but instead flew into the Swedish city of Malm? with a 45-minute bus connection to Copenhagen. Now more and more flyers are staying in the cosmopolitan port, whose old city is surrounded by canals crisscrossed by bridges, rather than using it merely as a drop-off point. Southern Sweden's chamber of commerce executive vice-president, Ingemar Nilsson, says increasing numbers...
Remember not so long ago when the latest crop of low-cost airlines first appeared on the aviation scene? Travelers tisked that the low-cost carriers didn't have enough planes. They quibbled that the carriers were based at - and flew into - remote airports. They complained that their Internet booking facilities meant little customer contact. Even some of their names - easyJet, Buzz, Go - had an unsettling air of impermanence. And weren't those prices just a bit, er, too good to be true...
...both). Keith Hamlyn, a soccer-playing six-footer who travels to Florida two or three times a month for Lockheed Martin Astronautics, used to get to the airport two hours before his flight; in the past few weeks he has cut that to 90 minutes. "The first time I flew after Sept. 11, it took us 50 minutes to get through security," he says. "Lately I've been whipping right through...