Topic: - on November 10, 2002 at 12:19:19 AM CET
Huge anti-war protest in Florence
Hundreds of thousands of protesters from across Europe joined a rally in the Italian city of Florence on Saturday to voice their opposition to any war with Iraq. The march started early because of the massive number of people who had gathered to participate.
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Topic: - on November 9, 2002 at 1:35:58 AM CET
Photos of terrorism suspects cause stir
The Pentagon today was investigating to find out who took and released photographs of terror suspects as they were flown in heavy restraints to the high-security prison in Cuba.
¬> HoustonChronicle ¬> CNN ¬> Associated Press
¬> OLD SHIT
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 11:59:13 AM CET
Photos taken inside a military C-130 transporting POW's
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Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 11:02:37 AM CET
Massive Military Cargo Ships Leave U.S. Ports
Three enormous U.S.-military owned cargo ships capable of carrying tanks have left U.S. shores in recent days, a U.S. navy official said on Monday, amid mounting evidence Washington is building up firepower to attack Iraq. The latest deployment comes as the aircraft carrier battle group the USS Constellation set sail for the Gulf from San Diego, California this past weekend.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Reuters
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Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 10:42:15 AM CET
Army Shoots Down Artillery Shell with Laser
The U.S. Army used a high-energy laser to shoot down an artillery shell in mid-flight on Tuesday in a defense industry breakthrough, the Army and the manufacturer said. The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) is being developed by TRW for the Army and the Israeli Defense Ministry. Lasers have been used in past tests at the range to shoot down slower Katyusha Rockets similar to those fired at Israel by militant guerrilla groups in neighboring Lebanon.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Reuters ¬> BBC ¬> MSNBC
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Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 10:08:48 AM CET
IX 529 Sea Shadow
Builder Lockheed Martin
Power Plant Diesel electric
Length 164 feet (50 meters) Overall Length
118 ft Waterline Length
Beam 68 feet (20.7 meters) Extreme Beam
58 ft Waterline Beam
Draft 14.5 feet (4.4 meters)
15 ft Maximum Navigational Draft
15 ft Draft Limit
¬> Stealth ship
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 7:51:39 PM CET
Bin Laden Aide Said Killed in Blast
Six al-Qaida suspects were killed, including a top operative of Osama bin Laden, when their car exploded in northwest Yemen, the official Yemen news agency SABA said Monday. Tribesmen told The Associated Press they saw a military helicopter hovering overhead shortly before the car exploded, suggesting it may have been attacked from the air.
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Topic: - on November 3, 2002 at 9:58:56 PM CET
Saudis: No airspace, bases for Iraq strike
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister pledged his country's allegiance with the United States in its fight against the al Qaeda terrorist group, but said Saudi Arabia would not allow its bases and airspace to be used in any U.S.-led military strike against Iraq.
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Topic: - on November 3, 2002 at 9:50:39 PM CET
Human Rights Watch
Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli civilians
Copyright © October 2002 by Human Rights Watch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-56432-280-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2002114404
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Topic: - on November 3, 2002 at 1:23:57 PM CET
Army's secret 'people zapper' plans
The documents reveal the full scope of the new weapons programmes that the US military is developing. The first was high-power microwave technology that cooks an enemy's skin. Its military name is the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-Mads), but it has already been nicknamed the People Zapper. It works by harnessing electromagnetic power to fire an invisible pulse of energy at light speed towards a target. The beam causes the water molecules under the skin to vibrate violently, producing heat and discomfort. Scientists believe the system could heat a person's skin to about 130 degrees in two seconds.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 10:45:13 PM CET
KILLER CLOUDS
GAS USED IN RUSSIAN TRAGEDY PART OF U.S. CROWD CONTROL PLANS Ironically, according to the Sunshine Project, an international NGO dedicated to the eradication of bio/chemical weapons, this is the very drug that has caught the eye of American researchers at Penn State who are exploring potential military uses of pharmaceuticals.
The Sunshine Project, which has obtained a deluge of documents through the Freedom of Information Act, believes the U.S. military is in fact deeply interested in weaponized "calmatives," particularly Valium, Prozac and Zoloft. Arms monitors are sounding the alarm that, while George W. Bush prepares to invade Iraq over its alleged chemical weapons, U.S. efforts to turn pharmaceuticals into "non-lethal" armaments are themselves in direct violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 10:24:41 AM CET
Army grounds Apache helicopters
Dozens of the Army's new £3bn Apache attack helicopters will be kept in storage for four years due to a shortage of trained pilots, the government's spending watchdog has said. Eleven of the 25 helicopters so far delivered - out of an order for 67 - have been mothballed in a move described as "wasteful" by the National Audit Office.
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