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...standard 1,000-MW reactors for a year. That much uranium can satisfy fully 2% of the world's electricity demand--as much as would be provided by 140 million tons of coal (twice Canada's annual production) or 450 million bbl. of oil (more than twice Qatar's annual production). Cameco expects to take 585 million lbs. of uranium out of McArthur River during the next 25 years or so--not counting a second ore zone, not yet fully delineated, a few hundred feet west of the current mine. And that still won't be enough to meet...
...QATAR The government is set on building strong ties to the U.S. to protect the tiny emirate from regional powers, especially Iraq and Iran. Thus Qatar is second only to Kuwait in its willingness to let the U.S. use its territory as a launchpad for war. It has agreed to let the U.S. use its al-Udeid facility as a U.S. air base and command and control center...
...ubiquity of American military power is extraordinary. At the end of 2001, the U.S. had 255,000 active-duty troops overseas based in 148 nations. Since then, some 60,000 troops have been prepositioned for a possible invasion of Iraq, and the U.S. has developed major new bases in Qatar, Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The worldwide military machine does not come cheap. The war in Afghanistan has so far cost an estimated $15 billion, and respectable guesses at the cost of a campaign in Iraq range from $100 billion to $200 billion. But the military's precise role in support...
...every indication that a reckoning is near. In recent weeks, with quiet but gathering urgency, the Pentagon has been moving its forces into the Persian Gulf theater to prepare for battle. More than 50,000 troops are now deployed in the gulf--5,000 of them at bases in Qatar, the roughly Connecticut-size emirate that serves as a headquarters for the military's Central Command and its chief, General Tommy Franks, who would direct any operation against Iraq. Last week 1,000 U.S. and British troops stationed at the top-secret Camp As Sayliyah--just 700 miles south...
...cruise pretty much where they want inside Iraq, the U.S. military is setting itself up all around the perimeter. Diplomats went to Turkey to negotiate for basing rights and got a half-yes. Chief of the U.S. Central Command, General Tommy Franks, flew to his forward command center in Qatar to play war games that could turn into combat overnight. An armada of a dozen ships steamed off to possible war stations, and Pentagon planners prepared to call up a first batch of reserves. One way or another, the U.S. insists, Saddam is going to be disarmed. --Reported by Massimo...