He tested his system in 1999 in Guinea, where a painfully slow Internet connection compelled aid workers to pass along floppy disks instead.

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Cogan added that while federal disaster aid had been provided in the case of terrorist activities such as the World Trade Center bombing, he knew of no case where such aid had been sent out in connection with a plane crash.

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Certainly, as I said earlier, the historic relationships that have been had between the Taliban and the Pakistani intelligence services -- the headline in The New York Times story says -- basically attributes the headline of that connection to U.S. aid.

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