DoD special report: Did South Africa test a nuclear weapon?
September 11, 2001 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by an anonymous terrorist force that issued no demands.
What explosives did they use?
How did they smuggle them on board?
Until they took over control of the planes, the hijackers had done nothing illegal.
There was NO failure of airport security.
Guns weren’t necessary: pilots had instructions to cooperate.
September 11, 2001: the last hijacking of a plane in the US.
What did Osama bin Laden want?
What was his expected scenario?
High secrecy is now a weakness. Is it safe? Whom do you call?
What could terrorists still do?
Why not just install explosive detectors at every airport?
search luggage, or destroy it?
But … there is no adequate way to detect explosives!
Saddam will NOT allow inspections.
This was built! All it required (in 1991) was U-235.
Iraqi watch: At the time of the Gulf war, eight 1200mm units were in limited operation at Tarmiya, and preparations had begun for a second group of seventeen 1200mm separators. According to Iraq's declarations to U.N. inspectors, it managed to produce 640 grams of enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 7.2% at Tuwaitha and some 685 grams at an average enrichment of 3% at Al Tarmiya.
What fraction has been intercepted?
What could Saddam do with one bomb?
WASHINGTON - A missile fired by remote control from a pilotless CIA aircraft has hit what was believed to be a group of senior al Qaeda members in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least one of them, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
"It was a CIA Predator missile that was fired upon what was thought to be a senior al Qaeda official," said the official, who asked not to be identified. He said the attack took place on Monday night.
"At least one was killed and possibly others. It's not clear who the individual was," the official said, adding that bad weather in the region had prevented a mission to identify bodies.
The al Qaeda leader who was killed in the attack was taller than the handful of others surrounding him, leading to some speculation about whether the United States may have hit its most wanted man in the war on terrorism -- Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden, whose height is estimated on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list to be 6 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 6 inches (193 cm to 198 cm), is blamed by the United States for the Sept. 11 attacks on America that killed about 3,000 people.
But another U.S. official said several al Qaeda leaders were tall, including Ayman al-Zawahri, bin Laden's top lieutenant.
U.S. officials believe it was an al Qaeda leader because of the manner in which the others around him were paying homage. "You can tell from overhead that one guy's the center of attention," the official said.
"The central figure had a close encounter of the worst kind with a Hellfire missile," he said.
Washington Nov 4, 3:07 PM (AP): US forces killed a top associate of Osama bin Laden in Yemen in a missile strike … a U.S. official said Monday. Qued Salim Siman al Harethi was one of several al Qaida members traveling by car in northwest Yemen when a Hellfire missile struck it Sunday, killing him and five others. … U.S. counter-terrorism officials have said that al Harethi, also known as Abu Ali, was al Qaida’s chief operative in Yemen … [He] is a suspect in the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000.
isn’t what it used to be….
Global Hawk operates at ranges up to 3000 nautical miles from its launch area, with loiter capability over the target area of up to 24 hours at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet. It is capable of simultaneously carrying electro-optical (EO), infra-red (IR), and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads, and is capable of both wideband satellite and Line-Of-Sight (LOS) data link communications.
Jstars can gather and display broad and detailed battlefield information as events occur, and relay it in near-real time to the Army's ground stations.
Radar includes SAR (synthetic aperture radar), wide area surveillance, moving target indicator (MTI), fixed target indicator (FTI), and target classification. The antenna has a 120-degree field of view covering nearly 19,305 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) and is capable of detecting targets at more than 250 kilometers (more than 820,000 feet).
In addition to being able to detect, locate and track large numbers of ground vehicles the radar has some capability to detect low, slow-moving airplanes, helicopters, and rotating antennas.
Will Baghdad be a pushover?
Who will be our strongest allies in the Persian Gulf region in 2004?