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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
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lchic
- 10:21am Feb 5, 2003 EST (#
8590 of 8598) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Iraq : the timing is driving the politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/04/international/middleeast/04CND_DISP.html
GU : ... dollar fell to a four-year low against the euro
... plunge is due to the increasing probability of war ...
dollar will be damaged further if the US launches military
action against Iraq without gaining a second UN resolution to
authorise it ... Reuters Eurozone business activity index fell
to 50.2 in January from 50.6 in December, close to the 50.0
level which separates economic growth from contraction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,889363,00.html
UK - Nuclear power's future has never been more insecure -
resigning-Chief hasn't finished the job he was was brought in
to do at BNFL, namely cleaning up the prevalent culture of
cover-up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,889043,00.html
GU | UK | ... weakness of the global economy has led to
blanket depression descending across manufacturing in the UK,
with all 11 regions of the country suffering a decline in
business confidence ... found the pressure on profit margins
was forcing firms in every region to mothball investment plans
... Weak international demand is pulling operating levels
further away from full capacity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,889040,00.html
NK - US fears Koreans will sell N-bombs
... given the poverty of North Korea, that it would be
too long after she had a good amount of fissile material to
do whatever she wanted to do with it, first that she would
be inclined to engage with somebody – a non-state actor,
possibly a terrorist group or a rogue state".
The warning came as the Pentagon placed long-range
bombers on alert for possible deployment to military bases
within striking range of North Korea.
Russia's foreign ministry criticised the US plan
Shuttle - cameras
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5942455%5E401,00.html
""The private contractor that takes the photos denied
there was a problem. However, the NASA officials, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said a top Kennedy Space
Centre manager had ordered contractor Johnson Controls Inc
to fix the problem. ""Tragically for all of us, there
is no sense that George Bush and Tony Blair regard war as a
desperate last resort. Instead, they contrive frantically to
create the circumstances in which they can go ahead and
start bombing. http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=374668
satire war | America's humorists are now having a field day
with the many absurdities of the imminent conflict. Leading
the way is The Onion
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=374802
Ordinary Americans think Bin Laden and Saddam are the same
man...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=374807
... The only problem is that both these stories were
untrue. The allegation of the Prague meetings – first made
by Czech intelligence – was extensively investigated by
the Czech government. President Vaclav Havel informed the
White House that the allegation could not be
substantiated. The CIA's director, George Tenet, told
Congress last October that the CIA could find no
supporting evidence.
As for the anthrax attacks, the widely held view in
the US now is that they were the work of a deranged
American defence scientist and that the anthrax spores
were stolen from America's own stocks.
But the administration has continued to link Saddam
Hussein, a man Bin Laden has called "an apostate, an
infidel and a traitor to Islam", with al-Qa'ida
lchic
- 10:32am Feb 5, 2003 EST (#
8591 of 8598) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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FISK
""Travelling to the US more than once a month, visiting
Britain at the weekend, moving around the Middle East, I have
never been so struck by the absolute, unwavering determination
of so many Arabs and Europeans and Americans to oppose a war.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=373102
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