An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .  Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .  While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .  Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .  Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .  While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .  Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .  Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .  In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .  After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .  After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .  The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .  Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .  Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .  During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary . 

Who controls Yonggary?


After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .  When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .  The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .  When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .  During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .  The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .  They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .  In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .  They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .  They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . '' 

The aliens, responsible for killing Joe and abducting Iris, are allergic to what?


While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As one NSC staff note put it, "Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists." In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban. In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation. Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy. He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on  Bin Laden. They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything," given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan." President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India. The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan. The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life. Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit. But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia. His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969. At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed  Bin Laden. President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding  Bin Laden." I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get  Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two." The U.S. effort continued. 


Did the CIA and the State Department agree on their advice to President Clinton in terms of his intention to visit both India and Pakistan?