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...Arkia charter Boeing 757 carrying 261 Israelis home from a beach vacation. But he wondered if something far more frightening might have been after his plane when crew members spotted two white stripes of smoke streaming past the jet's tail, only 100 yards away. Two shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles had just missed blowing up Marek's plane: the launcher and shell casings were found a mile from the Mombasa airport...
...scariest aspect of Mombasa was that terrorists fired a simple, shoulder-launched SAM at a commercial airliner. For the first time, terrorists showed that they are able and ready to shoot down vulnerable civilian planes anywhere as they take off or land, when a heat-seeking missile can easily lock onto a plane's engine...
...those who lived through the aerial attacks, it's the authentic description of life under the bomb. "It's almost unbearable to read", says Elisabeth Schumacher, a 79-year-old former diplomat from Bonn who spent many hours in air-raid shelters. "It conjures up the indescribable noise, heat and stench of cold sweat in the cellars." And younger readers, says Friedrich, are fascinated by the picture of a ruined Germany they never imagined looked "just like Sarajevo." It's also undeniable that Germany, for the moment, needs a public exploration of its past. Since his account of human pain...
Some students complain that the heat doesn’t circulate and that different parts of their dorm rooms are at polar extremes...
...delivered in 1986-87 to get them back, offering up to $100,000 per missile, and sometimes paying more, U.S. officials say. A Stinger is five feet long, 2.75 inches in diameter, weighs 35 pounds, and is "relatively easy" to operate, U.S. officials say. It homes in on the heat put out by a jet's engine, and can hit a plane at 10,000 feet from five miles away. That means the shooter can be located miles away from the airport where the plane being targeted is taking off or landing. There is concern among U.S. officials that...