Word: platformization
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...submarines (including, on the first night of the attacks, a British one). The attacks hit more than 60 targets, such as air-defense systems, weapons dumps and training camps run by both the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Pilots had it as easy as anyone flying a mobile-weapons platform ever will. "My crews," said a lead B-52 pilot who would identify himself only as "Woodstock," "didn't encounter any threat that we weren't prepared to deal with and nothing that put us unduly at risk." Navy Lieut. Commander "Chris," who piloted an F-18 from the U.S.S. Enterprise...
...submarines (including, on the first night of the attacks, a British one). The attacks hit more than 60 targets, such as air-defense systems, weapons dumps and training camps run by both the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Pilots had it as easy as anyone flying a mobile-weapons platform ever will. "My crews," said a lead B-52 pilot who would identify himself only as "Woodstock," "didn't encounter any threat that we weren't prepared to deal with and nothing that put us unduly at risk." Navy Lieut. Commander "Chris," who piloted an F-18 from the U.S.S. Enterprise...
...news. Did a crazy man push somebody in front of a subway train? That couldn't possibly happen to me, you say. I never go to that subway station. I'm never out at that time of day. I never stand too close to the edge of the subway platform (do I?). Therefore, I am indestructable...
...foreign diplomats and a small number of journalists. Common members of the Taliban can see him easily. In the past, he sat on his office carpet and received visitors. However, since being elevated to the status of Amirul Momineen, or Commander of the Faithful, he sits on a raised platform. He has learned to drive his luxury Land Cruiser and is adept at handling satellite phones and walkie-talkies. Inflexible and a believer in miracles, Omar is fond of telling followers how some of his dreams of Taliban military victories have come true. He says the Almighty will save...
...their subjects being exposed to Al Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming. While its liberal coverage has raised hackles among members of the Taliban and other fundamentalist groups, Al Jazeera strives to maintain working relationships with organizations across the region's ideological spectrum. And that inevitably makes it, on occasion, a platform for some fiercely anti-American views. In a rare 1998 interview on the network, Osama bin Laden exhorted fellow Muslims to "target all Americans...