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...Mujahedin commanders trade weapons to raise the money needed to transport supplies across the Pakistan border to Afghanistan...
Congress has found that the combat readiness of U.S. Special Forces is far below acceptable levels and that equipment shortages, despite the recent infusion of dollars, are getting worse. A 1980 investigation into the Desert One fiasco faulted the Pentagon for having available only eight specially equipped helicopters to transport the rescue force when "at least" ten were needed. Today the Air Force has only seven. Although the Pentagon has ordered ten more, "the main transport programs are hopelessly behind schedule and over cost," charges Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...major problem is that instead of fusing into a cohesive elite force, this hodgepodge of different units has increased interservice rivalries, in part because of such rapid growth in recent years. The Air Force's 1st SOW is equipped to transport Special Forces; so is the Army's Task Force 160 of the 101st Air Assault Division. The Rangers, 1,800 strong, see themselves as the elite light-infantry unit; so does the entire 198,000-member Marine Corps. The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Agency, established in 1984 to advise on policy, is run by Marine Major General Wesley...
...hijacking. In Tokyo, all approaches to Narita Airport are monitored, and each arriving car, passenger and possession is scrutinized. Nevertheless, local radicals made two attempts to disrupt flight operations last year. Even if airports could be converted into safety vacuums, says Richard Lally, director of security for the Air Transport Association of America, "the threat is always changing. It could be sabotage or hijacking or assault." It is that chilling uncertainty that places a potentially deadly weapon in the hands of determined terrorists. --By John Moody. Reported by John Borrell/Cairo and Mirka Gondicas/Athens, with other bureaus
...overcrowding in the sky. Because of the spurt of new U.S.-based carriers, about 30,000 flights land or take off in the U.S. each day, an increase of more than 10% from seven years ago. The new airlines provide a bewildering array of commuter, regional, national and international transport, and have filled air ports and airlanes with planes of all sizes...