<HTML>In a message dated 7/27/2002 9:04:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, laflame@aaahawk.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Wonder if UDI paid a Harkenesque price for United Defense profit up on Crusader payment  Carlyle affiliate owned US Marine Repair?  Can someone tell me how I can find out the exact date of the ok that Congress gave to the Crusader system?  I swear UDI IPO'd within a day or two but I can't find where I put that info. </BLOCKQUOTE> The IPO date was 12/14/01. Try http://www.uniteddefense.com/prod/crusader.html for more info. The Carlyle group is scary, so is the DOD. The DOD gave Global Crossing a $450mln contract last year (just after William Cohen, ex sec. of defense joined their board, Carlyle was an early investor). WCom raised a fuss. The DOD yanked the contract. The SEC opened a WCom investigation this Feb - yet, by April, the DOD awarded the contract to WCom (who still has it). Nomi</HTML>