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Head Of U.S. Northern Command: Sufficient Safeguards In Place WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military practices at least twice each week for the nightmare scenario of having to shoot down a civilian airliner hijacked by terrorists, the commander of forces in North America said Thursday. Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, head of U.S. Northern Command, said a strong set of safeguards are in place to prevent an accidental or unwarranted shootdown of a commercial airplane. Commanders, pilots and air defense crews are drilled on those procedures as many as four times each week, Eberhart said. The rules allow for an order to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military practices at least twice each week for the nightmare scenario of having to shoot down a civilian airliner hijacked by terrorists, the commander of forces in North America said Thursday. Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, head of U.S. Northern Command, said a strong set of safeguards are in place to prevent an accidental or unwarranted shootdown of a commercial airplane. Commanders, pilots and air defense crews are drilled on those procedures as many as four times each week, Eberhart said. The rules allow for an order to shoot down a civilian plane only if there...

February 26, 2003 Fierce Winter in IDF Northern Command Israel is bracing itself for another heavy coldfront which left Jerusalem and the Golan covered in snow. The IDF Northern Command anticipated such a storm and prepared accordingly. "We have a fierce winter this year in the Northern Command, but the soldiers are feeling good, we are taking care of them and they feel it," said the Chief Maintenance Officer in the Northern Command, Colonel Nissim Peretz in an interview given to the IDF website. Colonel Peretz also added that the Northern Command and the various IDF posts were prepared for...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/2/02 - Northern Command, Strike Video, 82nd Airborne, Masi Kalay, Baghdad, Double's Pics abound BREAKING: 82nd Airborne, Masi Kalay, BREAKING: Northern Command, Strike Video, BREAKING: Baghdad, Double's Pics abound ========= Pentagon ========= The shield of the Northern Command. The three gold stars represent the Pentagon & World Trade Center towers. VIDEOS: BREAKING: VIDEOS Taken from Predators STRIKE VIDEO (and videos of the Iraq Violations that led to it) [repeated from last night, IF YOU MISSED THIS] Anti-aircraft artillery firing, S-A3 missile firing, and more Operation Northern Watch - Anti-aircraft artillery firing. (mpg...

As it knits together a new command for the defense of North America, the Pentagon is having to unravel a tangle of special interests, ranging from Canada and Congress to the Coast Guard and the Governors. No wonder it’s taking so long.By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. For 50 years, the Pentagon has divided the world among a handful of four-star officers: the regional commanders in chief, whose influence in their areas of the globe has grown so great that The Washington Post, in a series of articles a year before 9/11, likened them to the proconsuls of the Roman Empire....