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Critical Global BMD Milestones In 2009Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 22, 2009 Lockheed Martin missile defense systems achieved several key milestones in 2009, including five successful intercepts and numerous other major accomplishments, further solidifying Lockheed Martin as a world leader in air and missile defense. With 20 successful Aegis BMD intercepts, six successful Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) intercepts and 26 successful Patriot Advanced ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2009The US Congress on Saturday sent US President Barack Obama a massive annual military spending bill that funds current operations in Afghanistan and pays for the troop withdrawal from Iraq. In a rare weekend vote, the Senate approved the 636.3-billion-dollar package, which cleared the House of Representatives 395-34 on Wednesday, by an 88-10 margin. Obama is expected to send Congress ... more  
Panama City (AFP) Dec 20, 2009Twenty years after the United States invaded Panama and captured dictator Manuel Noriega, many Panamanians say the intervention was a US move to remove a "hindrance" to its political agenda. The United States maintains that the invasion, which began on the morning of December 20, 1989 under US president George H.W. Bush, sought to depose general Noriega to bring him to justice for his role ... more 
Bangkok (UPI) Dec 21, 2009 A planeload of North Korean arms seized in Bangkok was reportedly bound for Iran, which has been buying up large amounts of weaponry in recent months as it braces for a possible onslaught by Israel, and possibly the United States. Mystery has shrouded the destination of the Georgian-registered Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane that was found be to carrying 35 tons of arms, including ... more |
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  Blast kills two at suspected Qaeda camp in south Yemen   Look east for lessons in US Afghan surge   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Seoul (AFP) Dec 20, 2009North Korea will eventually be able to make a nuclear warhead small enough to fit in a missile, a news report said Sunday. Seoul's Yonhap news agency, citing the state-run Korea Institute for Defence Analyses (KIDA), said Pyongyang developing the technology to achieve miniaturisation was inevitable. "It is believed that North Korea has not completed the technology for the miniaturisation ... more 
London (AFP) Dec 21, 2009A British soldier has been shot and killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said Monday, in what officials said could have been the result of friendly fire. The soldier from The Royal Military Police "was killed as a result of small arms fire that happened in the Sangin area, in central Helmand province, during the evening of December 20, 2009", the ministry said. ... more 
Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Dec 21, 2009 A recent surge of suicide bombings in Somalia underlines the growing influence of al-Qaida in the Horn of Africa as the war-ravaged country's Islamist forces keep up pressure on the U.S.-backed transitional federal government holed up in the capital Mogadishu. In the worst suicide attack, three government ministers were killed along with 16 other people at a graduation ceremony for ... more |
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  Myanmar bomb blamed on Karen separatists  China boosts Cambodia aid after Uighurs deported: official  On the hunt for the next 'Afghan Star' |
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