Word: stinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directed the aircraft at Clinton. The President's reply: "We take this incident seriously because the White House is the people's house, and it's the job of every President who lives here to keep it safe and secure." Corder somehow managed to elude elaborate security precautions, including Stinger missiles that were not fired, before touching
...outlaw regimes are on a shopping spree in Afghanistan. Governments around the world are worried, particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to the Central Asian republics that might become targets of more powerful weapons. Iran has deployed two delegations to Kabul, offering to pay generously for American-made Stinger missiles -- the shoulder-mounted rockets can shoot down helicopters and low-flying aircraft. With thousands of Stingers now lying unused in Afghanistan, some are bound to end up in the wrong hands. Says an intelligence operative: "Stingers are by far the greatest and most immediate threat from terrorism...
...footage clearly shows the Croatians wearing nearly complete American battle dress. Fatigues are available in U.S. Army surplus stores, priced at $66 for a field jacket, $7 for a helmet. In August, U.S. Customs investigators arrested members of a secret Croatian-support group as they tried illegally to buy Stinger and Redeye antiaircraft missiles, night-vision goggles and other American combat goods. Seeking assault rifles, members of the group simply walked into Doug's Sport and Gun Shop in Calumet City, Ill., and ordered...
...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the resulting strategic importance of neighboring Pakistan accelerated the growth of B.C.C.I.'s geopolitical power and its unbridled use of the black network. Because the U.S. wanted to supply the mujahedin rebels in Afghanistan with Stinger missiles and other military hardware, it needed the full cooperation of Pakistan, across whose border the weapons would be shipped. By the mid-1980s, the CIA's Islamabad operation was one of the largest U.S. intelligence stations in the world. "If B.C.C.I. is such an embarrassment to the U.S. that forthright investigations are not being pursued...
...from the $2.5 billion Al-Yamamah Palace complex in Riyadh to a "cottage" four times the size of the White House in Marbella, Spain. He owns several jets and yachts, all with gold bathroom faucets; his main yacht, a $60 million craft, is escorted by a vessel that carries Stinger antiaircraft missiles. His fleet of air-conditioned Rolls-Royces, Cadillacs and Mercedes would clog Rodeo Drive...