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US Concerned About Iraqi Purge
Washington (AFP) Apr 30, 2007Washington on Monday expressed concern about reports that aides to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki played key roles in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and police officers who tried to rein in Shiite militias. "We're aware of the reports, we're concerned about them, and that will be a focus of conversations," with top Iraqi officials, White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters ... more US Death Rate Falls In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) April 30, 2007U.S. fatality rates in Iraq have fallen during the past two weeks despite insurgent attempts to target American soldiers deployed as part of the "surge" strategy. As of Monday, 3,342 U.S. troops had been killed in Iraq since the start of military operations to topple Saddam Hussein on March 19, 2003. Of these, 2,723 were killed in action, according to official figures issued by the U.S. Departme ... more South Korea Wants Talks With North Korea On Opening Rail Link 
Seoul (AFP) April 30, 2007South Korea urged North Korea on Monday to hold military talks this week to prepare for the first test runs of railways across their heavily fortified frontier in half a century. Seoul has suggested that chief delegates to the working-level talks meet Thursday at the truce village of Panmunjom, defence ministry spokesman Song Gi-Hong told AFP. North Korea has yet to reply to the offer, he ... more A Money Laundromat For Nukes Keeps It All That Much Cleaner 
Washington (UPI) April 30, 2007On Oct. 4, 2003, a German cargo ship, the BBC China, was inspected in the southern Italian port of Taranto as part of an ongoing program designed to check on ships that might be transporting equipment to assist nuclear proliferation. The inspection disclosed sophisticated components designed to facilitate the erection of centrifuges indispensable for the enrichment of weapons-grade uranium. The ... more Bush Woos Russia On Missile Defense 
Washington (AFP) April 30, 2007US President George W. Bush, conceding he had more work to do to overcome Russia's strong objections to a planned missile shield, said Monday that the proposed system was in Moscow's interest. "It's in your interests to have a system that could prevent a future Iranian regime, for example, from launching a weapon. It's in Russia's security interests," he said on the sidelines of an annual US-Eur ... more |
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Radio Controlled Toys Potentially Serious Threat To Global Security
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 27, 2007NATO is concerned by the easy access to drone technology in the world, which is in particular used in radio controlled toys, a NATO deputy assistant secretary general said Thursday. Guy Roberts told a Moscow nonproliferation conference that 18 months ago, a father and son built a small unmanned airplane in Vermont ... read more Japan's Jet Plan Upsets South Korea 
Seoul (UPI) April 27, 2007Alarmed by Japan's move to acquire U.S. F-22 stealth fighters, South Korea has hinted it would also seek to procure the future generation fighter jets to cope with any possible security jitters. Japan is aggressively pushing for the purchase of 100 F-22 "Raptors," which cost $200 million per unit, saying the fighter aircraft is necessary to combat Chinese air force expansion and North Kore ... more South Korea To Explore Peace Summit To End Korean War
Seoul (AFP) April 29, 2007A South Korean presidential aide will visit the United States next month to explore the idea of holding a peace summit to try and finally bring an official end to the 1950s Korean war, a news report said Sunday. Lee Hae-Chan, a former prime minister and special political advisor to President Roh Moo-Hyun, will embark on a 10-day trip to the US on May 10 for talks on holding a four-way peace ... more Mutual Destruction Danger In US Anti-Missile Plan Says Putin 
Moscow (AFP) April 27, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned that US plans to deploy an anti-missile system in eastern Europe sharply increase the danger of mutual destruction. In comments laden with Cold War imagery, the Kremlin leader accused the United States of misrepresenting the true aim of the limited missile shield, which is to be based in NATO members Czech Republic and Poland. ... more Successful Intercept Claimed In US Missile Defense Test 
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2007A US Navy Aegis cruiser simultaneously intercepted a ballistic missile and a cruise missile in a test over the Pacific, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. "The test demonstrated the USS Lake Erie's ability to engage a ballistic missile threat and defend itself from attack at the same time," the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday. The Lake Erie is one of a growing fleet ... more NATO Wants Clarification About Russian Treaty Freeze 
Oslo (AFP) April 27, 2007NATO called Friday for Russia to clarify whether it has actually frozen its application of a key arms treaty limiting the number of military forces in Europe. "The first step will still have to be to clarify exactly what President (Vladimir) Putin meant," chief NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters, when asked how the alliance would respond to the apparent move. ... more |
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Russia Freezes Missile Treaty As Rice Says Kremlin Claims Ludicrous
Oslo (AFP) April 26, 2007A dispute over US plans to station anti-missile bases in eastern Europe escalated Thursday as Russia froze a key defence treaty in a move that raised "grave concern" among NATO allies. In heated NATO talks in Oslo, Norway, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ivanov warned that Russia was to halt ... read more Boeing Demonstrates Key GPS 3 Features In Critical Program Review 
St Louis MO (SPX) Apr 27, 2007Boeing has completed a critical Global Positioning System (GPS) Space Segment III System Design Review, supporting the U.S. Air Force's requirement for a low-risk, high-confidence acquisition solution. During the review, Boeing demonstrated the technical readiness of its GPS III payload design that will allow the Air Force to field and upgrade GPS satellites quickly and cost effectively. T ... more US Army Awards Raytheon Major Patriot Engineering Services Contract 
Tewksbury, MA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007Raytheon has been awarded a $144 million contract modification by the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command to provide engineering services for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense program. This award represents the third of four annual options to the base contract awarded in fiscal year 2004. The contract embodies the U.S. Army's Air and Missile Defense visionary commitment for a cost-eff ... more A Book From Guantanamo Makes For Many Questions 
Berlin (UPI) April 26, 2007The United States reportedly paid Pakistani police some $3,000 for Murat Kurnaz before they locked him away for nearly five years without charges in Guantanamo. The German-Turkish man has written a book about his plight in the world's most famous prison. "I understood a long time ago what this prison was about," Kurnaz writes in "Five Years of My Life," his memoir that hit the shelves of G ... more Poll Shows Security Imbalance In US 
Washington (UPI) April 26, 2007By a large margin, Americans feel the Bush administration has tipped the balance of security against liberty too far towards security, a new UPI/Zogby polls shows. But the public remains closely divided on the president's most controversial security programs, favoring by small margins warrantless wiretaps against terror suspects and the broad mining by federal agencies of personal data abo ... more North Korea May Be About To Invite UN Atomic Inspectors 
Seoul (AFP) April 26, 2007South Korea's spy agency said Thursday that North Korea may be preparing to invite UN atomic inspectors to its key nuclear facility, as a prelude to shutting it down. Unusual activity has been spotted around the Yongbyon reactor, which produces the raw material for plutonium to make nuclear weapons, parliament's intelligence committee said in a statement. The National Intelligence Service ... more |
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