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To: Condor who wrote (118)	9/16/2001 9:36:20 PM
From: ~digs	Respond to of 281500

airbornelaser.com Within the last decade, tactical theater ballistic missiles - such as the Scuds used by Iraq during Desert Storm - have emerged as major threats to American forces deployed abroad and allied nations as well. As part of a U.S. Air Force effort to address the feasibility of an airborne laser system for defense against those types of missiles, a team composed of Boeing, TRW and Lockheed Martin is building an accurate, airborne, high-energy laser. The laser weapon system will shoot down theater ballistic missiles while they still are over the enemy's own territory. The initial system will be available to the Air Force in 2003. The Airborne Laser (ABL) weapon system will operate at altitudes above the clouds where it can acquire and track missiles in boost flight, and then accurately point and fire the laser with such energy that the missile is destroyed before it can do any harm.

To: Condor who wrote (118)	9/16/2001 9:43:23 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

However, as I projected in my end-time novel, I suspect that it will be the EU that emerges as the new global leader when all of the dust settles, based on the apocalyptic prophecies found in the book of Daniel. However, I do not believe there is any biblical reason to say that the United States will disappear. Condor, You had me engaged until I came to this. Start talking prophecy and I tune out. Now I have to go back and try to ferret out which parts I believe and which I do not. Sorry, but this gets too complicated for my tiny brain. --fl