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Rafael Releases New Member of Spike Family - Spike NLOSHaifa, Israel (SPX) Dec 02, 2009 Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announces the release of the Spike NLOS weapon system. The Spike NLOS is an electro-optically guided missile for ranges of up to 25 km with pinpoint accuracy and midcourse navigation. The weapon system can be launched from land, air and naval platforms. Equipped with a variety of warheads, RF communication, unique advantages of hitting non-line of site ... read more |
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Baghdad (AFP) Dec 1, 2009November saw the lowest number of violent deaths in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, official figures showed Tuesday, despite grim predictions of a rise in violence ahead of elections next year. Official data compiled by the ministries of defence, interior and health showed that a total of 122 people were killed last month, comprising 88 civilians, 22 policemen and 12 soldiers. ... more  
Paris (AFP) Dec 1, 2009France will not deploy extra combat troops to Afghanistan but may send more military trainers for Afghan forces, President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to the region said Tuesday. Thierry Mariani, Sarkozy's special representative dealing with the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, told AFP that US President Barack Obama had asked his NATO allies to provide 10,000 more troops for the ... more 
Helsinki, Finland (UPI) Dec 1, 2009 "In the end China went her own way as if the Americans had never come." This is the last sentence of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman's book "Sand Against the Wind -- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45." As Tuchman described, ultimately, Joseph Stilwell's efforts to bring combat efficiency and offensive spirit to the Chinese Nationalist forces did ... more |
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 Karzai, Obama discuss new US Afghan strategy: Kabul  President Obama telephones Pakistan's Zardari: statement  France open to more training, aid for Afghanistan |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2009North Korea will mothball its nuclear weapons for a billion dollars a year, Iran will not build nukes at all and Middle East peace is just round the corner, at least according to one game theorist courted by the CIA. For someone who admits he is not an expert in the topics he studies and to "piggybacking" on predecessors' work, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has become surprisingly influential. ... more  
Sanaa, Yemen (UPI) Dec 1, 2009 Saudi Arabia's escalating war against rebels in neighboring Yemen elevates what had been a local insurrection against Sanaa into a conflict with regional dimensions that could ignite bigger fires in a part of the world that is already staring into the abyss. The monthlong fighting, which capped a five-year tribal rebellion in the mountains of northern Yemen, exacerbates regional ... more 
Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2009President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday sought to allay fears in Baghdad that a dramatic upping of the war effort in Afghanistan would come at the expense of its Iraq commitment. Just hours before Obama was to announce a surge of 30,000 more troops to the Afghanistan, the White House said Vice President Joe Biden had called Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a bid to assuage Iraqi ... more |
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US floats civilian coordinator for Afghanistan  Obama struggles with Afghan exit dilemma   Son of clan leader charged with 25 murders |
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