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Pentagon, the, building accommodating the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Located in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is a five-sided building consisting of five concentric pentagons connected to each other by corridors and covering an area of 34 acres (13.8 hectares). Completed in 1943, it was intended to consolidate the various offices of the U.S. War Dept., now the Dept. of Defense. One side of the vast building was damaged by a terrorist attack (Sept. 11, 2001) in which a hijacked airplane was intentionally crashed into the Pentagon. As a result of the crash and subsequent fire 189 people were killed, including the passengers and crew of the jetliner. The attack was coordinated with a similar one on the twin towers of the World Trade Center World Trade Center, former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If approved by the Pentagon, the deal for six Global Hawks and a ground control system could be worth as much as $250 million for the Los Angeles-based defense contractor and improve its already strong position in the emerging market for pilotless planes. Among the several hundred engineers who helped demolish the Kamisiyah depot in 1991 and have recently been interviewed by the Pentagon, the official said, there has been no evidence of any extraordinary frequency of illness. For Clinton, the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex, bloated "defense" budgets, and the maintenance of the U. |
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