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Boeing Announces Completion Of Sea-Based Radar's Mooring System
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Boeing announced that the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) mooring system has been installed at SBX's homeport in Alaska, completing a key piece of infrastructure for the missile defense sensor. Manson Construction, a Boeing subcontractor, used tugs, barges and cranes to place the mooring system's eight anchors on the bottom of Kuluk Bay. Heavy machinery aboard a barge then dragged the 75-metric-ton ... more Thompson Files: Air tanker dilemmas 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 The oldest fleet of jets in the world isn't operated by Uzbekistan Airways. It is operated by the U.S. Air Force, which decided in the early 1950s to buy hundreds of Boeing 707s as the backbone of its aerial-refueling fleet. More than 500 of them are still in service, and by the time the next president is sworn in they will have reached an average age of 50 years. How would you like to ... more Analysis: Israel plans Gaza crackdown 
Jerusalem (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 As military action failed to stop Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks into Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government moved to pressure the Gaza Strip's residents, hoping they will demand their government halt the fire. Following long deliberations, Israel's Security Cabinet last week declared the Gaza Strip a "hostile territory." It said it would "restrict the passage of various ... more NATO's Afghan force short of helicopters, troops 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The NATO-led security force in Afghanistan needs more helicopters, troops and equipment to deal with booby-traps in its fight against a Taliban-led insurgency, a senior military officer said Monday. "The means which is very important to give us more flexibility is helicopters," said Brigadier General Vincent Lafontaine, Chief of Plans for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ... more Commentary: Al-Qaida on the run 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 Osama Bin Laden "is a man on the run, from a cave, who's virtually impotent other than the tapes" he releases from time to time. That was the mid-September assessment of Frances Fragos Townsend, top adviser to President Bush on homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism. A former assistant commandant of the Coast Guard for intelligence, Townsend was also a counsel to the attorney gener ... more |
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Auburn Hills MI (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Chrysler LLC is teaming with the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) to promote modern, clean diesel vehicles running on clean, renewable biodiesel fuel. Chrysler is offering a special discount program to NBB members in the United States who purchase or lease a new Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge product -- with special emphasis on the company's new diesel passenger vehicles -- Dodge Ram heavy duty pickup a ... more Analysis: New sanctions may bust Iran LNG 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 Potential European and U.N. sanctions, and an Iranian energy policy unfavorable to foreign investment, may spell disaster as Tehran struggles to develop its liquefied natural gas potential in the massive South Pars fields. With the major powers considering a third set of U.N. sanctions against Iran over worries it is using a civilian nuclear program to cover up attempts to develop nucle ... more World companies show big interest in climate, US firms lag 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The world's corporate giants are increasingly focused on climate change and many see it as an opportunity for profit but US firms tend to view it as a risk to their bottom line, a new study has said. The paper, released just ahead of Monday's UN summit on climate change, is the fifth annual report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a not-for-profit organization that vets corporate respo ... more China To Build New Space Launch Center In Southernmost Province 
Beijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2007China plans to construct a new space launch center in Wenchang, China's southernmost Hainan Province, according to official sources. The new launch center aims to serve the next-generation rocket carriers that do emit poisonous and pollutive gas and new-type spacecraft. The new launch site will be mainly used for launching synchronous satellites, heavy satellites, large space stations, and deep ... more US cities' Wi-Fi dreams fading fast 
Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2007Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected. San Francisco and Chicago in recent weeks abruptly halted plans to set up municipal Wi-Fi networks while Internet giant Earthlink, a partner for a number of cities, has begun a ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2007The White House will ask Congress next week to approve another massive spending measure for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan totaling nearly 200 billion dollars, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday. Citing unnamed Pentagon officials, the newspaper said if President George W. Bush's spending request is approved, 2008 will be the most expensive year of the Iraq war. ... more Iran And Israel Face Off As Ahmadinejad Says No Need For Nukes 
New York (AFP) Sept 23, 2007Iran has no need of nuclear weapons and is not on a path to war with the United States, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview with CBS television to be broadcast later Sunday. Ahmadinejad, who is due to arrive in New York Sunday for the United Nations General Assembly, said Tehran's nuclear ambitions were open and being conducted in accordance with the UN's International Atomic ... more China hits back at hacking charges 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 22, 2007China is worse hit by computer hackers than any Western nation, a Chinese military expert was quoted as saying Saturday in an apparent response to claims it was the source of attacks on US systems. Unlike other countries, however, China does not point the finger of blame, Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences, said in remarks carried by the Xinhua news agency. "Ha ... more Britain has enough plutonium for 1000s of Nagasakis: report 
London (AFP) Sept 21, 2007Britain has stockpiled enough plutonium to replicate the nuclear bomb attacks on Japan in 1945 thousands of times over, the country's top science academy said Friday. The Royal Society said the amount of separated plutonium, most of which is the by-product of reprocessed spent fuel from nuclear power stations, has almost doubled in the last 10 years to more than 100 tonnes. But the emine ... more US, Israel shared intel before Syria raid: report 
Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2007Israel warned the United States that North Korea might be sharing nuclear know-how with Damascus before it carried out an air strike deep inside Syria, the Washington Post reported Friday. Washington was "deeply troubled" by the Israeli intelligence showing North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, but US President George W. Bush decided against an immediate response out of concern it co ... more
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