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France to reduce nuclear arsenal, warns of Iran danger
Cherbourg, France (AFP) March 21, 2008President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Friday to reduce France's nuclear arsenal but said nuclear deterrence remained a "life-insurance" in the face of new threats from states like Iran. "Countries in Asia and the Middle East are rapidly developing ballistic capacities," he said in a defence policy speech to mark the inauguration of a new-generation nuclear submarine named The Terrible. "I am t ... more 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 |
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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 Iraq war ended era of torture, tyranny: Talabani
Baghdad (AFP) March 19, 2008The US-led war ended the brutal rule of torture and tyranny under Saddam Hussein, even if Iraq today faces the perils of terrorism and corruption, President Jalal Talabani said on Wednesday, the eve of the conflict's fifth anniversary. "The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny," said Talabani ... 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 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 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 |
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Moscow (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 The sensational arrest of Russian businessman and international arms dealer Viktor Bout may trigger one of the most outrageous spying and political scandals of the recent decade. The man is accused of supplying arms to terrorist organizations and making arms deliveries to countries under U.N. embargoes. Some even claim Bout acted with the approval, and under the control of, the Russian ... more Pakistan test-flies pilotless plane: military 
Islamabad (AFP) March 20, 2008Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful test flight of a pilotless plane, the military announced. Flight data from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) named "Uqaab," showed the exercise had been successful, it said in a statement. "The performance of UAV can be compared to any modern state-of-the-art UAV in its category," the statement said, adding that the flight test was preceded by ... more Canada's elite counter-terrorism squad security trashed 
Ottawa (AFP) March 20, 2008Canada's military is probing how detailed plans for its new elite counter-terrorism squad headquarters ended up in a trash bin on the streets of the capital, an official said Thursday. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said an investigation was underway after the daily Ottawa Citizen identified the 26 top secret blueprints, brought to them by a curious passerby who spotted them in a curbs ... more Analysis: Debate on Iraq fuels insurgency
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 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
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