Shortly later, it became clear that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was planning to formally terminate the Crusader program.
No one questions the origins of the Crusader sword or the Inquisitor's cloak.
Wolfowitz said President Bush supported Rumsfeld's recommendation that Congress transfer the money for the Crusader's development to other programs.
And we have Jordan where the crusader forces are stationed and where Patriot missile batteries have been deployed to protect Israel.
And we have Yemen that supplies the crusader vessels from its ports.
Mr Watts is also bitter about the administration's decision to discontinue the Crusader, an army gun which is made in his constituency.
Not to mention that the crusader against climate change is taking petrodollars from an empire built on oil, the bete noire of environmentalists.
The Crusader was scheduled to go into service in 2008 as the Army's next generation of mobile artillery to replace the aging Paladin system.
He said the effectiveness of the Crusader, which has no prototype, is a topic that has been under study for five or six years.
The money will pay for helicopters, cargo aircraft, four new warships and a replacement for the Crusader cannon, which is considered too heavy for modern warfare.
His supporters mused about what might come next for "the Enforcer, " "the Crusader, " "the Sheriff of Wall Street, " as he has been dubbed in adulatory news stories.
White angered Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz last week when he delivered a paper of "talking points" to Capitol Hill detailing reasons the Crusader program should be kept alive.
The Islamic world's states that are taking part in this war, particularly the Gulf states, mainly Kuwait, the land base for the Crusader forces, will not be excluded from this.
According to the Army statement, the resignation of Kenneth A. Steadman, principal deputy in the Army's Office of Legislative Affairs, followed his decision to accept responsibility for distributing the talking points defending the Crusader to Congress.
The talking points were delivered within hours of a meeting in which Wolfowitz told White he had 30 days to come up with a plan to cancel the Crusader and put the money saved into advanced technology programs.
The Army inspector general is expected Tuesday morning to deliver a report on the circumstances under which the Army last week sent a paper of "talking points" to Capitol Hill defending the need to keep the Crusader program alive.
The highlight of your visit - apart from Akko's excellent seafood restaurants - will almost certainly be exploring the Knight's Halls, the extraordinary complex of subterranean rooms that made up the bulk of the crusader fortress within the city walls.
The talking points were delivered within hours of a meeting in which Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told White to come up with a plan in 30 days to cancel the Crusader and put the money saved into advanced technology programs.
White first met with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on April 30 when he was informed that the Army had 30 days to develop a plan to cancel the Crusader and find other more advanced technologies on which to spend the Crusader funds.
The investigation of the unauthorized release of talking points to Congress on the Crusader artillery program concludes Army Secretary Tom White continued to direct his staff to respond to Congressional inquiries on the program, expressing the Army's continued support for the weapon, even after White was told there was a preliminary decision to terminate the program.
It cited "blatant intervention of the French crusader forces in Mali" and accused the world of having left Syria's people "groaning under the pressure of the butcher" President Bashar al-Assad.
Like the caped crusader, Casio's G'zOne Commando is rather ordinary underneath its outlandish garb.
Stan Worby, 39, said he accompanied his friend in Bradford while dressed as the caped crusader as a joke.
It sets up a kind of spoof Batman and Robin, as if the Caped Crusader and his spooky lap-dog were not parody enough.
This led to damage to the outer walls, as well as the elegant Crusader chapel inside, which was converted into a mosque in 1271.
The message says it's "clear" some Arab leaders have "conspired" with what it calls the "Zionist-crusader alliance" against the Palestinians in Gaza.
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It is widely visible thanks to its three church towers and the ruins of a crusader castle built by the Boniface de Montferrat from Italy.
Look around and you may see a coffee-table resting on a Greek capital, a tiny Roman mosaic sprucing up the foyer, a spread of Phoenician statuettes and Byzantine coins strewn along the bookshelves or a discreet Crusader cannon in the courtyard.
With Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush supporting the administration's position on that issue, Yokich said the union would consider endorsing a third party candidate such as Nader, the longtime consumer crusader who made his name by taking on General Motors who is carrying the banner for the Green Party in this year's race for the White House.
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Ms. DICKSON: I think it's important to understand, and Rob Williams has often been misunderstood, particularly in the early '60s he was labeled as a violent crusader by the press, and that's not a fair or very nuanced representation of Rob Williams.
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