"This is an Administration," says Leahy, "that has tried to bypass
courts and the legal procedures more than any since Richard Nixon."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1145222,00.html
Tuesday, Jan. 03, 2006
Bush Says, Bring It On; the Critics Will
By KAREN TUMULTY, MIKE ALLEN
U
"With most cases, the plea is the end, but with Abramoff, the plea is
just the beginning," said an F.B.I. official who spoke on condition of
anonymity, adding, "This one has legs."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/politics/04abramoff.html?pagewanted=print
January 4, 2006
The Overview
Lobbyist
ctions and only do a few years for TWO separate criminal
cases. For feedback on this see:
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_firedoglake_archive.html#113633743134240656
David Bier
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301536_pf.html
Case Bringing New
"He's not one to take trouble lying down. Inside Tom DeLay's defense
strategyâ"and what it means for Team Bush."
"The probe is being overseen by Noel Hillman, a hard-charging career
prosecutor who heads the Public Integrity Section and who has a long
track record of nailing politicians of all stri
"I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional
acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National
Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency,"
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060104-114052-6606r.htm
NSA whistleblower asks to testify
By
"Hastert on tainted money: Okay, okay, I'll give it back"
"To a person who knew nothing about their context, the details were
confusing and it wasn't always clear what might be significant. One
name, however, apparently stood out--a man the Turkish callers often
referred to by the nickname 'Denny b
completely with the author that it is essential to defend the
United States. But let's not destroy the constitutional village in
order to save it.
David Bier
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lients did not want
immigration changed because they were probably profiting (bribes,
kickbacks, etc.) from the textile companies there which were bringing
in scores of thousands of Chinese and other asians to work in
factories only a step or two above slave labor, producing clothing for
the U.S. mark
e Kurds, Turkey
and the U.S. (NATO members) to attack Iran from U.S. built airfields
in Kurdistan?
David Bier
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10709916/
US sees coalitions of the willing as best ally
By Guy Dinmore in Washington
Financial Times
Updated: 10:42 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2006
Building on its e
"The US secretary seems to have taken a step towards her goal of
moving the acting premier away from the Sharon method of communication
and channeling his interchanges with Washington in future through
Ambassador Jones and the new US military coordinator Maj.-Gen Keith
Dayton, who arrived in Israel
d
registered with the DNC.
David Bier
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/6-1-7/36640.html
DeLay Relinquishes House Majority Leader Post
Jan 07, 2006
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, now under indictment in Texas and
tainted by a corruption scandal, told fellow House of Representative
pported his
anti-corruption efforts stopped by Ashcroft, to testify before Congress.
David Bier
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/13698129.htm
Posted on Tue, Jan. 24, 2006
Bush may ask Congress to OK domestic spying
By Stewart M. Powell
HEARST NEWSPAPERS
"A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an
administration source said."
"Impeachment is a remedy," Mr. Specter said on Jan. 15. "After
impeachment, you could have a criminal prosecution. But the principal
remedy under our society is to pay a political price."
"On Jan. 16,
"After a 230-year run, the "unalienable rights" as enunciated by
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the Founding Fathers are history."
"Most Americans probably won't even notice their altered status, from
citizens to subjects."
"The reality is that Bush has authorized the National Security Age
onder CICBush43 is making tentative overtures to Congress about
legislation to change the FISA statute. Across the board, the
administration has been going over the legal limits.
David Bier
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965509/site/newsweek
The Other Big Brother
The Pentagon has its own domestic
"Whether they're broken or not, I think I would say if we don't change
the way we're doing business, they're in danger of being fractured and
broken, and I would agree with that,"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060124/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/army_breaking_point
Study: Army Stretched to Breaking Point
B
"...if the neighboring countries - Iran, Syria, or Saudi Arabia � come
under attack, the Mahdi Army will be the first to come to their
defense, Allah willing."
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1009
1/24/2006 Clip No. 1009
Iraqi Shiite Leader Muqtada Al-Sadr: The Al-Mahdi Armi Will
"Gambling doesn't destroy people. People destroy people. The gentleman
or gentlewoman who decides to gamble makes that decision of his own
free will. It's a free market industry, and that appeals to conservatives.
--Michael Scanlon"
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?i
lead quagmire. Sort
of like their pressure on Israel to withdraw from Gaza and not object
to participation by the Hamas terrorist group in the Palestinian
election. They won.
CICBush43 is becoming the King...of unintended consequence. Peachy...
David Bier
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965119/
"The next few weeks of diplomacy on Iran's nukes may be too fast and
too furious. What we really need to avoid Armageddon."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10991253/site/newsweek/
Countdown to a Showdown: Part I
The next few weeks of diplomacy on Iran's nukes may be too fast and
too furious. What w
area of
common ground between the U.S. and Iran from which rapport might
develop (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/25/iran12535.htm).
David Bier
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11021326/site/newsweek/
Countdown to a Showdown: Part II
Two American congressmen have proposed a 'quarantine
was published on as they go way too far left
most of the time. BUT, they certainly hit the nail on the head with
this one. The bush league gang will lie and cheat to get what they
want. And it is increasingly obvious they have about the same high
opinion of the American people that Abramoff had
ion, corporate earnings down, except for profiteering
oil companies, major layoffs of workers, and 4th Qtr GDP far below
estimates at 1.2%).
Unitary King George and his noble bushmen are not doing so well lately
and need a visible and noisily evil knight with which to joust in
order to ente
miflu). If, the bird flu becomes human transmittable,
war and terrorism will become page four news; if anyone is reading the
news...
David Bier
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=34224cff-120f-4d19-bd6c-526d264833f7&k=15148
Eastern European avian flu similar to 1918 strain
ive about Iraq as they have about virtually every controversial
issue from hurricanes to spying, torture, rendition or scandals.(see
http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=20266) Their
statements ranging from half-truths to blatant lies or refusal to say
or release anything at all become more
"Wilkins warned that the waters around Canada's Arctic are
international territory and questioned Harper's plan to place military
icebreakers there.
Harper shrugged off the ambassador's complaint.
"It is the Canadian people we get our mandate from, not the ambassador
of the United States," he sai
so I wonder if part of
their effort, just like Project TALON, is focused inside the U.S. to
deliver propaganda.
David Bier
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1495622&C=america&P=true
Posted 01/27/06 10:36
U.S. Propaganda Aimed at Foreigners Reaches Public: Pentagon Document
B
"There have been many Russian states and each one of them had its own
history, and not one of them followed another directly. Great
Novgorod, the Golden Horde, the Great Principality of Lithuania
(otherwise known as Lithuanian Rus) were all Russian states, and there
were many more. Moscow was no mo
"Aso, who is seen as a contender to succeed Koizumi when his term as
ruling party president and hence, prime minister, ends in September,
said it would be desirable for the emperor to also visit Yasukuni."
''The more China voices (opposition), the more one feels like going
there,'' Kyodo quoted him
"According to Conn Hallinan, a foreign-policy analyst for Foreign
Policy In Focus, these developments suggest a quid pro quo between
Washington and Ankara. This would mean that the US attacks Iran, with
minimal protest from the Turks, while at the same time Ankara hits the
PKK and derails the forma
"Hamas was ready to "unify the weapons of Palestinian factions, with
Palestinian consensus, and form an army like any independent state...
an army that protects our people against aggression"."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4658872.stm
Hamas floats Palestinian 'army'
The political lead
"We don't recognize Canada's claims to those waters. Most other
countries do not recognize their claim."
"The United States defends its sovereignty; the Canadian government
will defend our sovereignty," Harper said. "It is the Canadian people
that we get our mandate from, not the ambassador of the
usharraf to join the ranks of our Islamist enemies stretching from
India to Palestine.
Overall, not a successful result for CICBush43's "democratization".
David Bier
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/27/opinion/edtoft.php?rss
When terrorists go mainstream
Monica Duffy Toft The Bo
"They were arrested with explosives and vehicles which they planned to
use for attacks... Among the nine are people who were suicide bombers,"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4660258.stm
Afghanistan holds 'bomb plotters'
Afghan security forces in Kandahar province say they have arrested
r book in the Colonel's future?
David Bier
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060128-085412-7010r
Colonel: Key northern town on right track
By PAMELA HESS
UPI Pentagon Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The United States and Iraqi forces have
won the upper hand in
uch more powerful position in the vacuum between Hamas and Israel.
What will CICBush43 do then?
David Bier
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060127-054934-1354r
Saudis: U.S. paved way for Hamas victory
By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI International Editor
WASHINGTO
"...the EU risked becoming "the first empire in history to go down
before it was founded."
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060127-105125-9798r
Walker's World: Turning out EU's lights
By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- While the stunning elec
"We can't turn a Katrina over to a FEMA again because they have no
legal authority or enough manpower. DHS has got to be there to
coordinate the whole effort," he said. "It has got to be done pretty
quickly too, because the next test is right around the corner and we
have got to do better the next
dy needs to
get their act together. When they stood DHS up, I predicted it would
be at least ten years before DHS really became a single organization
and would be reasonably effective. So far, that estimate is right on
track...or even optimistic.
David Bier
http://www.riskwatch.com/Whitepapers/G
"Al Qaeda Leader Warns of Attacks Against U.S."
"Al Qaeda's second in command taunted President Bush in a new video
broadcast today, referring to the U.S. leader as the "Butcher of
Washington" and warning of new attacks against Americans inside the
United States."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp
ation to "support the troops" again.
David Bier
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800831.html
Budget to Call for Cuts In Military Reserves
Bush to Cut $4 Billion From Jet Programs
By Lolita C. Baldor
Associated Press
Sunday, January 29, 2006; A
the Congressional language in the bill
requiring full compliance with all existing laws as it has done so far
in the GWOT.
David Bier
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800833.html
Pentagon Can Now Fund Foreign Militaries
Defense Secretary Pushed for New Powe
"They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a
quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek/
Palace Revolt
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a
quiet battle to rein in the
"...military action is not an end in itself. Military action buys you
time to utilize all other instruments to get to the core issues which
are spawning terrorism ... Having bought this timewhat is the overall
strategy? It is extremism that is important. Extremism is in the minds
of people. It nee
"Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed
up at Tora Boraintelligence operatives had tracked himand could have
been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/
Exclusive: CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip
science of Intelligent Design. And I would hope that
the schools educating American children would teach science to them
instead of a belief system that dooms them to non-technical
occupations and eats away the National Security of this nation.
David Bier
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853604/sit
"The Bush administration does not seem to know how to handle this new
challenge. Donald Rumsfeld, fresh from wrecking U.S. -European
relations over the last three years, has decided to try his hand at
Asian affairs."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853602/site/newsweek/
Mishandling the China Challen
"...Osama bin Laden, has come out of hiding in Afghanistan and set
out, or is about to set out, for Iraq."
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1068
Osama bin Laden Looks Like Heading for Iraq
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
August 8, 2005, 11:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Coded electronic signals bandied in r
"...Ms. Sheehan said she broke in and told Mr. Bush that Casey was her
son, and that she thought he could imagine what it would be like since
he has two daughters and that he should think about what it would be
like sending them off to war.
"I said, 'Trust me, you don't want to go there'," Ms. She
"In my estimation, [in the event of] a biological, a chemical or
nuclear attack in any of the 50 states, the Department of Defense is
best positioned -- of the various eight federal agencies that would be
involved -- to take the lead," said Adm. Timothy J. Keating, the head
of Northcom, which coord
"The e-passport initiative has its roots in legislation passed by
Congress in May 2002 to improve border security. It called for 27
countries whose citizens don't need visas for entry into the USA to
convert to electronic passports by October 2004. Congress has since
delayed the deadline until Octo
"More than a year before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a U.S.
military intelligence unit identified four future hijackers as likely
members of a cell that Al Qaeda was operating in the United States,
according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican
member of Congress.
The int
"They were nice men. I told them Iraq was not a threat to the United
States and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I
wouldn't leave until I talked to George Bush. I want to ask the
president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?' Last
week, he said my son died for a 'no
"We believe they came from Iran's Revolutionary Guards," the official
told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The find is significant not only because of the Iranian connection but
also because it indicates manufactured bombs are now being introduced
in a conflict that has seen the widespread
"Before, they used to use car bombs. Now they are using people and
animals," said Col. Adnan Jaboori, a spokesman for the interior
minister. "They are finding new ways to use remote-control technology."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-dogs10aug10,0,2727461.story?coll=la-home-hea
"...as of late summer 2005, the Pentagon, "under instructions from
Vice President Dick Cheney's office," was "drawing up a contingency
plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack
on the United States. The plan mandates a large-scale air assault on
Iran employing both conve
A video featuring Congressman Weldon on the subject "Did 9/11
Commission Ignore Able Danger Data?" can be found at
http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/CW081105.php
David Bier
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"Abdullah's mother and wife are from the Shummar tribe, a key group in
the Iraqi Sunni resistance. In other words, U.S. troops are killing
his relatives."
"Of 1,200 suspected suicide bombers arrested by Syrian authorities
since the beginning of the war in 2003, 85 percent have been Saudis."
http:/
"Listen, I sympathize with Mrs Sheehan," Mr Bush said. "She feels
strongly about her position.
"And she has every right in the world to say what she believes. This
is America."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4143976.stm
Bush rejects mother's Iraq plea
President George Bush has said
"It is Iran, more than Syria, that poses a long-term threat to
American designs in Iraq. It is the Iranians who are patiently setting
up a political order that will be an alternative to what the Americans
favorand they're doing so with many of the very people the Bush
administration considers its
"Tariq A. Hamdi, who allegedly delivered a satellite-telephone battery
to bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998, has left the United States and
has told associates he is currently employed in the Iraqi Embassy in
Ankara, Turkey, said the government officials, who asked not to be
identified because of pe
"I'm sorry as well that Bob Novak obviously left the set a little
early," Henry explained to viewers. "I had told him in advance that we
were going to ask him about the CIA leak case. He was not here for me
to be able to ask him about that. Hopefully we'll be able to ask him
about that in the futur
"Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key figure in investigations involving
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was indicted Thursday by a federal
grand jury on fraud charges arising from a 2000 deal to buy casino boats.
The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, charges
that Abramoff and an
"...Bakri said: "I have no position with regard to the Al-Qaeda
organization. Neither positive nor negative."
He added: "The organization does not exist in the real world."
A statement to be taken with a large dose of salt...
David Bier
http://www.dailystar.com.lb
"...the U.S. Justice Department argues that even if torture does
occur, U.S. officials can't be sued under the Torture Victims
Protection Act because it only applies to foreign individuals
committing or allowing torture."
"Mason said the U.S. government is interpreting its powers in such a
way that
ed her allegations a
State Secret and forbade her to discuss them. A scandal of this
magnitude would have certainly had a significant impact on Bush43's
re-election.
David Bier
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
Did Speaker Hastert Accept Turkish Bribes to Deny Armenian Genocide
and Approve
"Edmonds' case is not an isolated incident," said ACLU Associate Legal
Director Ann Beeson. "The federal government is routinely retaliating
against government employees who uncover weaknesses in our ability to
prevent terrorist attacks or protect public safety."
The states secrets privilege, Bees
"Do what you must, but be advised that, flourishing rhetoric
notwithstanding, this nation will never truly honor your service, and
it will condemn you to the bottom of the economic scrap heap should
you ever get seriously wounded."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR
"...Roberts and a handful of other strategically-placed Washington
players stymied all questions into pre-war intelligence on Iraq and
post-invasion cover-ups, including the outing of a CIA covert agent,
by using targeted leaks and artfully deflecting blame from the White
House."
http://rawstory.c
"If -- and based on the current state of evidence, we must stress the
word "if" -- if further evidence links Mohammed Atta to
G.O.P.-friendly shady operators, then many lingering questions may
find an answer. Among those questions: Why was the ABLE DANGER team
told to steer clear of Atta?"
http://
``A guy like this may know where a lot of skeletons are buried and
could potentially open up all kinds of investigations of prominent
political figures, given his associations,'' said Greg Wallance, a
former federal prosecutor who now works as a defense attorney in New
York. For prosecutors, ``that
"For the first time since 2001, teams of new recruits are being
shunted between countries, according to coded instructions passing
around the internal sites.
Our sources interpret these instructions as indicating that al Qaeda
was able to raise sufficient fresh operational strength in its recent
r
"The episode deprives Iraq's military of essential gear that could
help prepare the way for U.S. forces to withdraw. It also raises
questions about the new government's ability to provide an effective
defense against an entrenched insurgency and win broad acceptance
among Iraqis."
"Before me, ther
"They'd rather work on something that won't be in their lifetime, and
that's this hydrogen economy stuff," Frank said. "They pick this kind
of target to get the public off their back, essentially."
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBO1UX3CCE.html
Aug 13, 2005
Tinkerers Modify Their Hybrid Cars to
"Comey, the departing deputy attorney general, has also had the task
of overseeing special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's probe into the
leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
Justice officials expect to announce today that Comey will be replaced
temporarily by Associate Attorney General
"Americans are raised on a steady diet of action films and sound bites
that slip from one supercharged scene to another," he says, "leaving
out all the confusing decisions and subtle details where most people
actually spend their lives. While that makes for a great story, it
doesn't reveal anything
"...al-Qaida's strategy for the next two decades. It is both
frightening and absurd, a lunatic plan conceived by fanatics who live
in their own world, but who continually manage to break into the real
world with their brutal acts of violence."
" The First Phase Known as "the awakening" -- this has
ration Officials Involved In Plame Leak"
(http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal) for more on Rove and
article "DeLayâs Dirty (Bakerâs) Dozen"
(http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=430) for more on Abramoff's
interesting relationships.
David Bier
http://www.msnbc.msn.
"...Iraqi politicians are reportedly adamant that the new, sovereign
Iraq will accept no special constraints or monitoring. "They are
demanding the same treatment as any other nation," says a U.N.
official who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of his position.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/i
"...Iraqi politicians are reportedly adamant that the new, sovereign
Iraq will accept no special constraints or monitoring. "They are
demanding the same treatment as any other nation," says a U.N.
official who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of his position.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/i
"The more it looks like the U.S. is gonna leave, the harder it is to
get a deal that will enable them to leave."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1090900,00.html
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005
An Enemy Ever More Brutal
Despite best efforts to defuse them, the rebels keep building deadli
"..."there's no better way to find out what Osama bin Laden's going to
do than to read what he says."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1090889,00.html
Sunday, Aug. 07, 2005
Opening Up the CIA
By TIMOTHY J. BURGER
In what experts say is aà welcome nod to common sense, the CIA, ha
"...al-Sheibani heads a network of insurgents created by the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps with the express purpose of committing
violence against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. Over the past
eight months, his group has introduced a new breed of roadside bomb
more lethal than any seen befor
relative or friend in Iraq wearing a forest green armor
vest, send two bottles of fabric paint (sand and beige colors for
camoflage effect) available in any craft store so that the vest can be
painted to be less targetable.
David Bier
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/international/middleeast
"But just as politics are a bad motive for choosing a war, so they can
be a doomed engine for running a war. In an interview with Tim Russert
early last year, Mr. Bush said, "The thing about the Vietnam War that
troubles me, as I look back, was it was a political war," adding that
the "essential" l
The privatization of the Iraq war: lessons learned by small business.
David Bier
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/magazine/14PRIVATI.html?incamp=article_popular
August 14, 2005
The Other Army
By DANIEL BERGNER
When Matt Mann needed to buy armored vehicles, he phoned his
brother-in-law, Ken
"...the agreed final text is neither agreed nor final."
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=547
Iraqi constitution-drafters to meet Monday midnight deadline â" minus
cardinal issues
August 15, 2005, 2:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
The 71-member panel promises an agreed text for the end of Monday,
Aug. 1
"...the M113s were planned to form the core of a new armored division
of the Iraqi army, alongside Hungarian-made T-72 tanks."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1034590&C=europe
Posted 08/15/05 15:42
Switzerland Freezes Armored Vehicle Deal with Iraq
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BERN
Switze
"Iraqi security forces have killed a top aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
...But the battlefield success hardly impressed two leading U.S.
senators, who questioned the Pentagon�s handling of the situation in
Iraq and said they had no more confidence in Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld.
http://www.
"The terrorists aim for disruption on a dramatic scale, so the
destructive power of WMD has a clear attraction,"
Posted 08/15/05 15:57
Globalization Makes WMD Trafficking Easier: Singapore Minister
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, SINGAPORE
Globalization has made it easier for weapons of mass destructio
"It is not hard to guess what the U.S. side seeks through this war
drill," the spokesman was quoted as saying by North Korea�s official
Korean Central News Agency."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1034623&C=asiapac
Posted 08/15/05 16:07
N. Korea Says U.S., S. Korea Exercise Preludes
"...Germany concluded a 270 million euro government-to-government
agreement with Greece for the sale of 183 used Leopard 2 A4 and 150
Leopard 1 A5 main battle tanks."
"A potential sale to Turkey likely would raise more objections among
German politicians than the Greek deal."
http://www.defensenew
"...Spanish and NATO troops likely will have to remain in Afghanistan
for at least another eight years to guarantee stability and peace."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1023955&C=europe
Posted 08/15/05 14:52
Spain�s Bono Predicts Long Stay in Afghanistan
By MARTIN AG�ERA, MUNICH
Death Toll Sparks U.S. Debate On Origin of IED Expertise in Iraq
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"American troops killed by IED attack spiked during the last three
months, with 35 deaths in May, 36 in June and 39 in July."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=949750&C=landwar
Posted 08/15/05 14:54
Death Toll Sparks U.S. Debate On Origin of IED Expertise in Iraq
By GREG GRANT
The risi
"Soaring Chinese military expenditures, along with China�s failure to
express appreciation for more than 3.4 trillion yen ($30 billion) in
foreign aid Japan has provided since 1979, induced Japan to declare it
would end its aid to China when Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics."
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"...China could use nuclear weapons against the United States in a
conflict over Taiwan. Given the potential cost of miscalculation over
the Taiwan Strait, one might have expected a stiff riposte from
Washington. None was forthcoming."
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"Announcing that we're on the road to a stable, democratic and
prosperous region is not enough. That is a utopia, not a vision around
which to organize policy."
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Mideast Guarantee
NATO Pledge Could Provide Room
"Significant aspects of the human resources system fail to conform to
the express dictates of the Homeland Security Act," Judge Collyer wrote."
"Judge Collyer, who was appointed by President Bush, said the 2002 law
gave federal officials "extraordinary authority" to develop a
personnel system witho
"The treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay has been problematic for
several senior officials at the Justice Department, including Mr.
Gonzales, because of questions over their role in formulating and
reviewing policies on the detention of prisoners there and elsewhere.
Timothy E. Flanigan, nom
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