Word: iraqis
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...electronics. Knocking out a stock exchange may seem attractive at first glance, but Washington is reluctant to engage in financial fiddling for the same reason it avoids assassination of foreign leaders: the U.S. is uniquely vulnerable on both counts. The Bush Administration at one point considered disrupting Iraqi computers that controlled government financial transactions, but the CIA opposed the action. "Every time screwing around with financial systems has been discussed as a covert action, people have walked away from it," says a former senior CIA official. "Messing with a country's money represents a fundamental attack. No CIA director...
About an hour later, two U.S. F-15 fighter jets took off from another Turkish base, bound for the same Iraqi "no-fly zone." They too had an air-tasking order, but with a fatal difference: they were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed...
...northern Iraq, Brigadier General Jeffrey Pilkington, was never called to testify in the May proceeding. Yet he did testify at Wang's court-martial, where he said the F-15 pilots violated the rules of engagement when they launched missiles at the two Black Hawks after misidentifying them as Iraqi Hind helicopters. (Just how they violated the rules remains classified...
Capping a yearlong sting operation, federal authorities in New York arrested three men on charges of storing nearly 8 tons of zirconium -- a material used to make nuclear weapons -- and trying to sell part of it to undercover agents posing as Iraqi-backed arms merchants. The ease with which the zirconium was obtained should serve as a dramatic "wake-up call," said...
...advantage of an open mind is that it allows changes to these guiding principles, a process that will lead to a stronger foundation. Academia's role in particular is to question or reveal the often unspoken guidelines that we use--what makes the Iraqi invasion wrong ? What type of response is justified? The people who devote themselves to asking these question provide a service to humanity's knowledge. As John Start Mill argued, without questioning. Without debate, progress is impossible...