Pentagon Trying to Block Advanced EU Space Project

[Major Variola (ret)]

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.