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Outside View: 30 seconds over TripoliWashington (UPI) Mar 9, 2011 "A mind is a terrible thing to lose," U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle once Malapropped in a mistaken reference to the NAACP's slogan that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. But Quayle's remark applies to the U.S. debate about whether to impose a "no-fly zone" over Libya and perhaps dislodge Moammar Qaddafi from his throne. Does no one recall even recent history? In the pre-dawn hours of April 15, 1986, President Ronald Reagan ordered a retaliatory strike against Libya after its agents ... read more |
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  One Step Closer To Demonstrating Autonomous Aerial Refueling Between Two UAV On Jan. 21, Northrop Grumman, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center took a major step toward demonstrating autonomous aerial refueling between two ... more | .. |
  Syria must not be allowed to stonewall IAEA probe: US Syria cannot be allowed to continue to block a long-running investigation by the UN atomic watchdog into alleged illicit nuclear activity, the United States said here Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 US says NATO 'natural choice' for Libya intervention The United States would see it as preferable that any military intervention in Libya were conducted under a NATO banner, a senior US official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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 World powers press Iran to cooperate with IAEA World powers urged Iran to cooperate with the UN atomic watchdog Wednesday, otherwise it could soon face further censure for blocking the investigation into its controversial nuclear drive. ... more | .. |
  UK's High Military Spending Attracts Stakeholders In Land Defence Market The United Kingdom has clinched the fourth spot on the list of the top military spenders with an expenditure of $58.30 billion in 2009, which translates to 3.8 per cent of the global share. As a Nor ... more | .. |
 Rebels retreat in chaos to Libyan oil town Libyan rebels broken by government shelling and air strikes fled back to the oil town of Ras Lanuf Wednesday, just as a huge pipeline blast sent fireballs leaping into the sky. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Teams With West Point To Combat Insider Threat On War Front Lines To arm warfighters with the ability to rapidly detect and neutralize insider threats, Raytheon has teamed with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for a study about insider threats on war front ... more |
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  Iraq premiere at world's biggest tourism fair The world's biggest tourism fair, the ITB Berlin, opened Wednesday with an Iraqi stand for the first time, eight years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the turmoil that followed. ... more | .. |
 Pentagon accounting problems 'serious': Treasury The US administration is taking a hard look at problems in the Defense Department's accounting, after a report called its books unauditable, the Treasury said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Cuba says US waging 'cyberwar' against Havana Cuban authorities are accusing the United States of waging "cyberwar" against the communist-ruled island - an effort that Havana claims includes an American contractor on trial for espionage. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Begins Final Assembly Of First P-8A Poseidon Production Aircraft Boeing has began final assembly of the first U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon production aircraft in the company's Renton factory. The P-8A is the first of six low-rate initial production aircraft that Boein ... more |
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  InterSKY 4M Provides BLOS Comms For C4I Military Systems Elbit Systems has announced the launch of its tactical broadband satellite communication (SATCOM) platform, InterSKY 4M. Designed specifically for government and military Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) ... more | .. |
 S. Korea accuses N. Korea over communications attack North Korea is thought to have beamed signals from two locations to try to jam military communications in South Korea but the attempt failed, Seoul's defence minister said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Rockets from Iran seized in Afghanistan: ISAF International forces in Afghanistan have seized a "significant" shipment of rockets from Iran which would have doubled insurgents' strike range, an official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Australia's Gillard to US: Don't fear China's rise Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday urged Americans downcast by their woeful economy to embrace, not fear, China's explosive growth while pressing Beijing to be "a good global citizen." ... more |
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What Elon Musk's Twitter tactics may bode for US government
Fukushima nuclear plant operator to dismantle water tanks next week
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 First Chinese American named Beijing envoy US President Barack Obama on Wednesday named Gary Locke to be the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing, hoping the exemplar of the American dream can manage the two powers' often rocky ties. ... more | .. |
 Sweden halts arms deliveries to two Mideast states: official Sweden has halted weapons deliveries to two countries in the Middle East and North Africa due to the unrest sweeping the region, the head of a government agency said Wednesday, refusing to name the countries in question. ... more | .. |
 North Korea jams South's guided missiles Seoul has accused North Korea of using sophisticated jamming systems to block South Korean military signals and disrupt its guided missiles. ... more | .. |
 Libya no-fly zone looms as fighting rages Moamer Kadhafi's forces stepped up pressure on Libya's eastern front Tuesday with air strikes and heavy shelling, amid reports of an onslaught in the west, as calls mounted for a no-fly zone over the country. ... more |
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  Guardian Anti-Missile System Flight-Tested On A KC-135 Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), has announced the completion of the first round of flight testing with the company's Guardian System an ... more | .. |
 FBI Announces Initial Operating Capability For Next Gen ID System New technology designed to revolutionize law enforcement's ability to process fingerprints has reached its initial operating capability, the FBI has announced. The Next Generation Identificati ... more | .. |
 LockMart Completes C4ISR Mission System Delivery For Coast Guard Surveillance Aircraft Lockheed Martin recently delivered the ninth and final Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) mission system pallet for the U.S. Coast Gua ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded Contract For USAF HH-60G FLIRs Raytheon has been awarded a $42 million U.S. Air Force contract for additional AN/AAQ-29A forward looking infrared imaging systems for installation on Pave Hawk HH-60G helicopters. Deliveries ... more |
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Lula pushes mega-oil project as Brazil prepares to host COP30
Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'
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 Gates sees 'acid test' ahead in Afghanistan war US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touted progress on a visit to southern Afghanistan Tuesday but said NATO forces will soon face an "acid test" as Taliban insurgents move to seize back ground. ... more | .. |
 Iraq's Sadr meets supporters in Baghdad Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr held talks in Baghdad on Tuesday on what was only his second visit to the Iraqi capital since the US-led invasion of 2003, aides said. ... more | .. |
 Pyongyang: All fishermen must return North Korea called for talks with South Korea this week to resolve the repatriation of 31 fishermen Pyongyang says are held against their wishes. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan's leader denies falling into China 'trap' Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has rejected criticism that he has fallen into Beijing's "trap" and vowed to press on with a controversial policy of greater economic integration with the Chinese mainland. ... more |
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 IAEA under heavy political pressure: Iran Iran on Tuesday said the UN atomic watchdog was under "heavy political pressure" after the agency reported Tehran may have engaged in nuclear weaponisation studies more recently than previously thought. ... more | .. |
 China's Xinjiang 'still ethnically divided' China's traditionally Muslim Xinjiang region remains ethnically divided but is basically stable nearly two years after the eruption of deadly violence there, the region's top official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Transmitting Data And Power Wirelessly Through Submarine Hulls Steel walls are no match for Tristan Lawry. The doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed and demonstrated an innovative new system that uses ultrasound to simultaneously tr ... more | .. |
 New Design Of Through-Wall Radar Enables Increased Covert Surveillance Leading technology product design and development firm, Cambridge Consultants, has launched the latest evolution of its popular Prism through-wall radar product line. The Prism 200c is a lightweight ... more |
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