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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

kangdawei - 09:32pm Sep 30, 2001 EST (#10040 of 10048)

We have no chance against these people unless we are willing to wage total war against them.

At a time when Americans his age worry about making the football team, passing a math exam or getting a date for Saturday night, Mohammed bin Laden spends his days moving furtively through desolate regions of Afghanistan, assault rifle in hand.

He is the 19-year-old son of Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the horrific Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington that left thousands dead.

And he is reportedly being groomed to play a key role in his father's far-reaching terrorist organization, al Qaeda.

The second-eldest of 17 children by four wives, he has been described as shy, deeply devout, adoring of his father and committed to his radical ideology.

rshowalter - 09:33pm Sep 30, 2001 EST (#10041 of 10048)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

RECENT MISSILE DEFENSE ARTICLES IN THE NYT

Forces on Highest Alert to Protect and Reassure By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12MILI.html Warships and jet fighters were directed to protect major cities and national landmarks in case of another wave of suicide attacks.

Official Washington Hears the Echoes of Earlier Ones by ADAM CLYMER http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12ELDE.html Many of the capital's elder statesmen heard an echo of the sudden attack on the country's most important naval base 60 years ago.

Nation Plunges Into Fight With Enemy Hard to Identify By R. W. APPLE Jr. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12ASSE.html America's sense of security took a grievious blow.

Bush Aides Say Attacks Don't Recast Shield Debate By PATRICK E. TYLER http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/europe/12MISS.html A top Pentagon official said President Bush's missile defense shield could not prevent the kind of assaults that occurred on September 11.

Russian Aide Emphasizes Opposition to ABM Plan by PATRICK E. TYLER http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/international/europe/11RUSS.html Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov expressed Moscow's resolve to oppose America's missile defense plans.

Europeans Pledge to Mount a Joint Battle on Terrorism http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/international/europe/11CND-WORLD.html European governments expressed solidarity with the U.S. as a democratic ally under attack.

Biden Gives a Tough Critique of Missile Shield http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/international/11DEMS.html Declaring a profound difference with President Bush, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., said today that plans for missile defense sacrifice national security for the sake of a "theological" belief — and that the effort to make such a system work would cost astronomical amounts of money.

Thousands Feared Dead as World Trade Center Is Toppled By JAMES BARRON http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/national/11WIRE-PLAN.html In coordinated attacks, unknown terrorists crashed hijacked jetliners into both towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

World Briefing http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/international/11BRIE.html ASIA/PACIFIC.

Iraq Says Spy Plane Downed; U.S. Craft Loses Contact By REUTERS

rshowalter - 09:33pm Sep 30, 2001 EST (#10042 of 10048)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

RECENT MISSILE DEFENSE ARTICLES IN THE NYT

Europeans Pledge to Mount a Joint Battle on Terrorism http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/europe/12WORL.html European governments expressed solidarity with the U.S. as a democratic ally under attack, and European Union foreign ministe

Jimmy That `Lockbox' by WILLIAM SAFIRE http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/10/opinion/10SAFI.html In the fog of economic war, one incontrovertible truth is clear: the budget projections of Congress and the White House will change.

rshowalter - 09:45pm Sep 30, 2001 EST (#10043 of 10048)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I posted a number of posts citing back articles.

dialog just before: MD1032 rshowalter 9/30/01 9:27pm

This post was interspersed with my postings of past articles:

MD1040 kangdawei 9/30/01 9:32pm

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