Word: weaponeering
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...Police! Sir, please stop. We need to ask you a question." Diallo did not stop, he added, and instead headed to the back of the vestibule. There, Carroll said, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a black object. "Gun!" Carroll screamed, as he fired his weapon at Diallo. Officer Edward McMellon followed suit, and the two cops half-ran, half-fell down the steps of the building...
...civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor called Monday for British forces to storm the Afghan plane. "The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them...
...British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out." Judging by their demand, the hijackers appear to be affiliated with the anti-Taliban opposition, which comprises diverse ethnic minorities and forces loyal to the previous government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. They would, no doubt, have been inspired by the recent success of the Kashmiri separatists who managed through...
...defense. Attorneys for the policemen contend, without irony, that each of the plainclothes officers was wearing his police medallion around his neck - a detail the police evidently expected Diallo to process correctly at the same instant that they were mistaking Diallo's wallet for a weapon...
...scaled back in an election year no matter how poor its report card. The irony is that long-range missiles aren?t exactly the preeminent threat facing the U.S. in the near future. "The bad guys are more likely to use a Piper Cub to deliver a weapon of mass destruction than a long-range missile, which always has a return address," says Thompson. "If they did use a missile they?re more likely to fire it at short range from a cargo ship so nearby that this system couldn?t stop it. So we?re spending most...