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...even once consensus is achieved, the long-term role of the Lebanese Army in protecting the border would require a massive modernization that would take at least three years and cost upward of $1 billion, according to Dr. Riad Kahwaji, the Lebanese founder of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, a think tank in Dubai. Right now, its 1960s-era American and Soviet armor is so obsolete that spare parts are no longer available. Its only air force consists of 16 very old Huey helicopters that pilots call "flying coffins"; it has no navy except for four...
...Hizballah continues to fight, and the Israeli bombardment appears to have actually strengthened it politically. Instead of the Lebanese backlash against Hizballah anticipated by Israel, the opposite has occurred - a survey of opinion across all communities last week found that upward of 70% of Lebanese backed the movement's original decision to seize two Israeli soldiers, the action that provoked the Israeli campaign...
...states from trading missile-related technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...
...while the Guthrie bears a resemblance to the mills and granaries of the past, it also announces that it's a 21st century dream factory. Two vertical posts that rise from the roof may bring to mind industrial chimneys, but they're actually electronic signboards. Words and images shoot upward like the flames of bygone furnaces. The Guthrie's exterior walls are covered in dark-blue steel meant to recall grain silos. But the metal is imprinted with images from past Guthrie productions, scenes with great performers like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. "There are 'ghosts' on the walls," says...
What has been concluded for the most part is this: al-Qaeda's thinking is that a second-wave attack should be more destructive and more disruptive than 9/11. Why? Because that would create an upward arc of terror and anticipation between the second and ostensibly a third attack. That fear and terror is a central goal of the al-Qaeda strategy...