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To: StanX Long who wrote (56870)	12/4/2001 5:10:01 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

More good news for excess inventory, what a way to consume high tech, blow it up. Stan December 3, 2001 ADVANCED ARMAMENTS U.S. Making Weapons to Blast Underground Hide-Outs By ANDREW C. REVKIN nytimes.com The Pentagon is hurriedly developing powerful new earth-penetrating weapons even as American forces are striking dozens of suspected underground hide-outs of Al Qaeda and the Taliban with specialized tunnel-blasting bombs and missiles. Despite the current focus in Afghanistan, the main target has been not Islamist terrorists, but instead the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs in countries like Iraq and North Korea. The new weapons go far beyond the now familiar "bunker buster," the GBU-28 laser-guided bomb that along with similar guided missiles has been used extensively against Afghan caves and tunnels. Some of the new bombs, missile warheads and other armaments have already been built and tested, including a system called Deep Digger, developed by the Defense Special Weapons Agency for Special Operations forces.