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Swarm of UAVs Attack Waziristan StrongholdMiranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 2, 2010 At least 16 militants were killed on Tuesday after US drones fired numerous missiles at a village in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. The strike, which officials said involved 18 missiles fired from eight of the unmanned planes, is the latest in a series of US attacks on the lawless tribal area, which Washington calls the most dangerous place on earth. It is a known stronghold of homegrown Islamist militant groups and extremists who fled Afghanistan after the US-led invasion toppled the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001. ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2010Google's recently reported cyberattacks are a "wake-up call" about the vulnerabilities of computer networks to attacks that could cripple the US economy, the top US intelligence official warned Tuesday. "We cannot be certain that our cyberspace infrastructure will remain available and reliable during a time of crisis," US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told key lawmakers. ... more  
Kabul, Afghanistan (UPI) Feb 2, 2009 The international conference in London on the future of Afghanistan helped boost President Hamid Karzai's stature by endorsing his Taliban reconciliation plan, but it also sent the Afghan leader home with a tough agenda he doesn't have much time to complete. The conference of about 65 nations last week, while recognizing a military solution in Afghanistan is not easy, gave its nod to th ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Feb 2, 2009 As tension mounts between Iran and Israel, both countries are planning to launch new space satellites to peer into each other's military domains as they prepare for possible conflict. Israel, which has the most advanced defense industry in the region, is technologically years ahead of the Islamic Republic, but the Iranians are racing to narrow the gap. And putting satellites into ... more |
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US probes missile test failure in Pacific: PentagonWashington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 The US military failed to shoot down a ballistic missile in a test resembling an Iranian or North Korean strike after a radar malfunctioned, a spokesman said on Monday. The test was carried out on Sunday at a US Army site at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands but the target missile was not intercepted as planned, said Rick Lehner, spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency. The ground-based interceptor was launched from Vandenberg Air Force base in California and performed "normally," but ... read more |
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