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Russia obtained US guarantees on missile shield: Lavrov
Moscow (AFP) March 20, 2008The United States gave Moscow guarantees that its proposed anti-missile shield "will be not directed" against Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday in a first sign of progress in very hard negotiations between the two countries. "The Americans are ready to provide us with a series of measures to give us confidence and reassure us that this system is not directed agains ... more Walker's World: Why the war worked 
Washington (UPI) Mar 19, 2008 Five years ago, this reporter was putting on a gas mask and heading into a basement shelter in Kuwait as the sirens howled their warning of a missile attack and British and American warplanes roared overhead on the way to Baghdad. And now 4,000 allied deaths, at least 100,000 Iraqi deaths and somewhere around $1 trillion later, the question of whether the war was just or made sens ... more Analysis: Marriage of convenience in Iraq
The U.S. military's use of organic forces in Iraq gives a sense of Iraqi solutions to Iraqi problems, but may also be a sign of a partnership of convenience. U.S. military leaders in Iraq credit the Sunni-led security forces known as Sons of Iraq with contributing to the recent calm there. This security force, roughly 80 percent Sunni and 20 percent Shiite, came out of the Sunni-led Anb ... more Iraq marks fifth anniversary of bloody war
Baghdad (AFP) March 19, 2008Iraq on Thursday will mark the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion that toppled brutal dictator Saddam Hussein, but also plunged a nation of 26 million people into chaos and bloodshed. On March 20, 2003, US planes dropped the first bombs on Baghdad, to signal an invasion that would within three weeks topple Saddam's regime and leave US forces in charge of a resentful and rebellious peop ... more Five years on, Bush vows victory in Iraq
Washington (AFP) March 19, 2008US President George W. Bush on Wednesday defended his decision to go to war against Iraq five years ago, vowing no retreat as he promised the battle against extremists would end in victory. "Five years into this battle, there's an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it. The answers are clear to me," Bush sa ... more |
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Washington (AFP) March 20, 2008Americans are slightly more optimistic about the progress of the war in Iraq even though most remain opposed to the conflict as it enters its sixth year, a new poll showed Thursday. According to a survey carried out by CBS television, 43 percent of people think the war is going "somewhat well" compared to only 22 percent in June and 33 percent in September. But some 54 percent are still ... more Outside View: India buys Russian -- Part 2 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 19, 2008 In time India launched its own development of military hardware under the auspices of the newly created Defense Research and Development Organization. Particular attention was paid to the development of missiles: In a little over 20 years India built a whole family of short-, medium- and longer-range ballistic missiles. The country is also developing anti-tank, air defense and air-to-air missi ... more Software protects against cyberattacks 
Fairfax, Va. (UPI) Mar 19, 2008 U.S. computer scientists have developed software that protects against cyberattacks by identifying vulnerable paths through an organization's networks. Researchers at George Mason University's Center for Secure Information Systems said networks are highly interdependent and each machine's overall susceptibility to attack depends on the vulnerabilities of the other machines in the networ ... more Russian FM warns military action on Iran 'disastrous' 
Tel Aviv (AFP) March 20, 2008Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that any military means to solve Iran's controversial nuclear programme would have a "disastrous" effect. "Any forceful attempts to resolve this issue by non-peaceful means would undermine all that has been done to bring clarity into the Iranian nuclear programme," Lavrov said in a press conference with his Israeli counterpart Tzipi L ... more White House back pedals on Bush comments on Iran bomb 
Washington (AFP) March 21, 2008The White House on Friday sought to back pedal on comments by President George W. Bush accusing Iran of having said it was seeking a nuclear bomb. The Islamic regime has always denied in recent years trying to arm itself with an atomic bomb, saying its nuclear program was a peaceful, civilian effort to meet its electricity needs. But Bush in an interview with a US-controlled Farsi-langua ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 19, 2008 Researchers at Harvard say that public debates about the rights and wrongs of the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable "emboldenment effect" on insurgents there, and periods when there is a lot of media coverage about the issue are followed by small rises in the number of attacks. The researchers, a political scientist and a health economist, studied data about insurgent attacks an ... more Analysis: England: 'Rumsfeld knew'
Munich, Germany (UPI) Mar 18, 2008 Lynndie England, infamous for her role in prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, has given her first interview since being released from prison in March 2007. It is graphic and bizarre -- it depicts a broken woman haunted by paranoia, yet it also reveals how little England is able to regret her actions. During the interview, she claims the U.S. leadership knew what was happening in ... more Defense Focus: Air tanker war -- Part 4 
Washington (UPI) Mar 19, 2008 The debate over the rival merits of the Northrop-Grumman-EADS KC-45A air tanker and the Boeing KC-767 is one of the most intense and difficult in the recent history of U.S. military procurement because of the broad range and complexities of the issues involved. The KC-45A is a far larger plane. It will have a longer range and be able to carry far more fuel. However, it will be consequen ... more Scientists study test fire in building 
New York (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. scientists watched carefully last month as firefighters battled a test fire in a seven-story abandoned building in New York. The National Institute of Standards and Technology fire protection engineers set the fire to gain a better understanding of the fast-moving spread of wind-driven flames, smoke and toxic gases through corridors and stairways of burning buildings. The ex ... more Gene silencing may cut tobacco carcinogens 
Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. scientists have discovered the silencing of a specific gene in burley tobacco plants significantly reduces harmful carcinogens in cured tobacco leaves. North Carolina State University researchers said their findings might lead to tobacco products -- especially smokeless ones -- that contain reduced levels of cancer-causing agents. Professor Ralph Dewey and Assistant Professo ... more
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