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...benefit they play My Sweet Little Terrorist Song, a sly lament about Iran's inclusion in President George W. Bush's "axis of evil": "I just wanna watch Dylan live./ I won't fly into the Pentagon alive." Some of their songs can be read as cries for political change, but like everything else here, they are ambiguous enough to be easily defendable in a courtroom, should it come to that. As I sat in 127's practice bunker, I caught myself wondering, Where were you when I lived here? As recently as three years ago, it was still somewhat...
...Special Operations Command, which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has given the lead role in the global war on terrorism, doesn't just have gun-toting commandos out launching attacks. For the past six months, it has been dispatching two- to four-person teams of psychological warriors to the Pentagon's overseas commands, armed with plans for pro-U.S. advertising campaigns to counter propaganda from enemies, including Islamic extremists. The teams are part of a new unit called the Joint Psyops Support Element (JPSE), nicknamed "gypsy...
JPSE's work could meet resistance, however. Three years ago, the Pentagon shut down its Office of Strategic Influence amid press reports that the unit, whose staff included psyops experts, was mulling a scheme to plant false news items with foreign journalists to sway opinion overseas. The allegations turned out to be unfounded. Senior Administration officials suspect they may have been leaked by military public-affairs officers jealous over turf. But Rumsfeld disbanded the organization anyway, complaining that the negative publicity compromised its effectiveness. The JPSE director insists that his group will not engage in deception. Says Treadwell...
...dark time for the U.S. airline business--or at least most of it, with profits scarce and bankruptcies plentiful. But one corner of the market is booming: obscure airlines like World Airways, Atlas Air, Omni Air and Evergreen that provide private transport service to the U.S. military. The Pentagon--which has been a steady customer since Sept. 11, as it moves troops and equipment from bases all around the world and back again--will spend $2 billion this year on such air transport, up from $772 million in 2000. In addition, such international agencies...
...question-and-answer session after the speech, a student asked Frist why—given the urgency of the bioterror threat—Congress has focused funding on efforts to defend against nuclear attacks. The most recent Pentagon budget, which Frist helped to steer through the Senate, allocates $10 billion toward the so-called “Star Wars” ballistic missile shield...