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...Palocci, a physician who, as a PT mayor in the '90s, engineered a very unsocialist privatization of local utilities. Both men have pledged to adhere to strict economic targets that the International Monetary Fund set last year in return for a $30 billion loan to Brazil. Senator Heloísa Helena, part of a PT group that wants Brazil to default on its $208 billion foreign debt, says she is "sad and disillusioned" by the government. "Did we win," she asks, "just to be the good little boy for international bankers...
...were somehow diverted to Iran. The CIA comforts itself by hoping the missiles have degraded after a decade and a half. Perhaps, but the hundreds of Stingers still missing are an unsettling legacy of the operation in Afghanistan. In Kenya just two months ago, terrorists using a Russian-made SA-7 version of the Stinger narrowly missed shooting down an Israeli airliner. The chilling conclusion: these weapons can put any airline passenger in jeopardy. Federal officials say they are developing plans to try to protect airliners in the U.S. from the missile threat, but they haven't yet figured...
...posh Baghdad suburb, he says they were intrusive, even examining the personal belongings of his wife and daughters. He also said that one of the inspectors, an American, suggested that she could help him to accompany his wife out of the country to seek medical aid. Now Sheik Qutaiba Sa'adi Amash, a Shia cleric of the blue-domed Al Nid'a Mosque in Baghdad says that the visit of the bare-footed inspectors - and their rather innocuous questions about the area and construction of the structure - was an insult to Islam. "Mosques in Iraq contain nothing that they...
...Mombasa shooters used an antiquated Soviet-era SA-7 Strela that missed only because of equipment malfunction or operator error. Shoulder-launched SAMs are efficient and easy to fire and require little instruction; al-Qaeda trainees were taught how to use them in the Afghan camps. The U.S. supplied hundreds of shoulder-fired Stinger missiles to the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan; Washington was so concerned about their potential for trouble afterward that it offered as much as $100,000 per missile to try to buy them back. But shoulder-fired missiles made in Yugoslavia, Pakistan and China slosh...
...discovery, last May, of SA-7 missile tube was near a Saudi military base used by U.S. warplanes prompted the FBI to alert U.S. law-enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for any signs that terrorists were planning shoulder-fired missile attacks. While the missile found in Saudi Arabia remained in its tube, burn marks suggested a bungled effort to fire it, U.S. officials said. A Sudanese with possible al Qaeda links was arrested in connection with the missile. "The FBI possesses no information indicating that al-Qaeda is planning to use 'Stinger' missiles or any type of MANPAD...