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...Lying near him were his 62-year-old wife Canh and the couple's three grandchildren, all under 12 and all stabbed to death. Terrified, Lanh says she ran back inside her hut, a makeshift sleeping shelter with a low ditch dug in the floor to shield from incoming bullets. But first, she says, she glimpsed seven shadowy figures moving toward another nearby shelter. Later, she heard gunfire. It was an hour before Lanh worked up the courage to go outside. When she did, she found 16 more bodies, some piled on top of one another, some fallen...
...missile shield would almost certainly prompt Beijing to accelerate efforts to expand and modernize its own nuclear fleet, in order to retain some measure of nuclear deterrent against Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react...
...continent that scrapping the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty takes away the foundation of all subsequent arms-control agreements between Washington and Moscow, removing a key regulatory mechanism on the nuclear balance and potentially prompting an arms race. Europe may be less worried about the details of the missile-shield proposal than by the sense that the new administration is less sensitive than its predecessors to European concerns...
...defense sales pitch has done little to soothe the skepticism of both Washington's allies and its sometime competitors. The President's speech was a sendoff for a team of top administration officials heading for Europe, Russia and China to discuss Washington's plan to build a comprehensive missile shield (NMD)to protect itself and its allies - comprehensive in intent, although still for the most part undefined, because the science has not yet produced an even minimally reliable interceptor system. And from initial reactions to the President's speech, NMD will be a tough sell abroad...
...Beijing has denounced Washington's missile shield, and warned that it will spark a new arms race and threaten relations with the U.S. Among Beijing's central fears is that a U.S. missile umbrella would one day be extended to Taiwan, which China would find intolerable. But it's also concerned that even the most limited version of the missile shield that Washington would deploy as soon as possible to counter the threat of missiles from "rogue" states would effectively neutralize its own missile fleet, which is believed to number around 20 ICBMs...