David points out a new story on America's fight against terrorism on Breaking News. It details the Imperial forces headed into the conflict, complete with pictures:
According to White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, the Galactic Empire ? headquartered at an undisclosed location in a galaxy far, far away ? has maintained embassy outposts and training camps at remote interstellar locations for nearly 2,000 years, the most recent being its facility outside Barstow, CA. Opened in 1977 following first contact with a stray Imperial scout pilot, the facility has, until now, existed under a veil of impenetrable secrecy and obscurity.
While occasional skirmishes with Rebel Alliance forces have tarnished the Empire's otherwise amicable relationship with the government, local authorities and defense officials have pragmatically avoided being drawn into the conflicts ? a move that early analysts are describing as pivotal in the successful U.S. bid to add Imperial forces to its arsenal against global terrorism.
Despite Rumsfeld's refusal to disclose the precise numbers of troops and hardware dispatched to the region, a top Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has been retrofitted onsite in the Arabian Sea to accommodate the highly advanced Imperial spacecraft and weaponry. Among other changes to the enormous nuclear vessel's 19-acre flight deck, refueling stations and ordnance elevators have reportedly been upgraded to accommodate a fleet of the Empire's workhorse repulsor-lift TIE fighters, and defensive 30mm anti-aircraft guns flanking the control tower have been replaced with recoilless plasma laser cannons.
Also, according to reliable sources, U.S. Special Forces already inside Afghanistan have been issued lightsabers for use in close-combat encounters and espionage missions, and troops and vehicles ? including landspeeders, sandcrawlers, and brutal Tusken Raider ambush squads ? have been airlifted to the frontlines from as far away as Mos Eisley.
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