Re: Pentagon Trying to Block Advanced EU Space Project

At 05:14 PM 12/20/01 +0200, Jei wrote:

Subject: [ParanoidTimes] Pentagon Trying to Block Advanced EU Space Project

PARIS - The European Commission said Tuesday that the United States had sought to block the deployment of a European system of navigation known as Galileo, with the Americans arguing that an enemy could turn it against the West in the event of a war.

But President Jacques Chirac of France warned that Europeans risked "vassal status" if they abandoned this and other important space projects.

*Ding* Give the monkey a bon-bon.