Posts Tagged ‘Pentagon’
Iraqi Forces: Rebuilt and Stronger, but Still Stumbling
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| Twelve members of the 1st Brigade died in April when a female suicide bomber attacked officers distributing food packages to the poor in Karada. At the brigade’s headquarters, a memorial was hung with portraits of seven of those killed, including the commander of the headquarters battalion and a medic who was revered by his colleagues.
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| Iraqi Forces: Rebuilt and Stronger, but Still Stumbling |
| New York Times | May 07, 2009 | By STEVEN LEE MYERS |
| BAGHDAD — Iraq’s security forces, despite significant improvements, remain hobbled by shortages of men and equipment, by bureaucracy, corruption, political interference and security breaches that have resulted in the deaths of dozens of Iraqi and American troops already this year, according to officials from both countries. read more |
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| Maj. Brian K. Wortinger, left, and Colonel Ayad Hamid Bahar Al-Utaibi, the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Iraqi National Police, on the roof of the battalion’s new headquarters in a former embassy building in Baghdad’s central Karada district. |
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Chinese and American ships clash again in Yellow Sea
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A US destroyer docks in the northern Chinese port of Qingdao. Relations between the two countries’ navies remain tense |
| Chinese and American ships clash again in Yellow Sea |
| Times Online UK | May 06, 2009 | Jane Macartney in Beijing |
| China demonstrated its growing naval confidence again in the latest standoff between American and Chinese ships.
The fifth such incident in two months occurred on Friday in the Yellow Sea when a US Navy surveillance ship turned its fire hoses on two Chinese fishing vessels. |
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Georgia accuses Russia over foiled rebellion
| A helicopter hovers above the Mukhrovani military base where some soldiers staged a mutiny, some 10 km east of Tbilisi May 5, 2009. Georgia said it put down a mutiny at a military base on Tuesday and accused Moscow of trying to foment a wider rebellion on the eve of NATO war games in the former Soviet republic.
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| Georgia accuses Russia over foiled rebellion |
| Reuters | May 06, 2009 | By Niko Mchedlishvili |
| MUKHROVANI, Georgia (Reuters) – Georgia said it put down a mutiny at a military base on Tuesday and accused Moscow of trying to foment a wider rebellion on the eve of NATO war games in the former Soviet republic. read more |
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U.S. Crew in Standoff With Pirates Off Somalia Coast
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images An undated file photo of the Maersk Alabama container ship, formerly called the Maersk Alva.
U.S. Crew in Standoff With Pirates Off Somalia Coast
NY Times | Apr 08, 2009 | By SHARON OTTERMAN and MARK MAZZETTI
Hours after pirates commandeered a United States-flagged container ship with 20 American crew members off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, the pirates and crew appeared to be in a standoff, with the ship under control of its crew once again but the skipper a captive of the pirates.. . . read more
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Iraq takes control of Green Zone
US Col. Steven Ferrari, a commander of the Joint Area Support Group Baghdad shakes hands with Brigadier Emad Yaseen, commander of the Iraqi Army’s Baghdad Brigade, during a hand-over ceremony at the ‘Green Zone’ in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. Iraqis took control over the ‘Green Zone’ Thursday. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the handover of the heavily fortified Green Zone and the presidential palace is the most visible sign his country has regained its sovereignty. (AP Ph
Iraq takes control of Green Zone
BBC, 1 January 2009, Iraq has taken control of security in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone after a UN mandate for troops expired. The end of the UN mandate – put into place soon after the invasion in March 2003 – means Iraq will now take greater control of its own security.
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The panopticon economy
It looks innocent enough, but no loitering, please: The NSA’s Texas Cryptology Center, under construction at 410 and West Military. (Photo: Greg M. Schwartz/SAN ANTONIO Current)
The panopticon economy
The NSA’s new data-mining facility is one component of a growing local surveillance
Dec. 3, 2008, By Greg M. Schwartz, SAN ANTONIO Current
Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying signs of any kind. Surveillance is tight, with security cameras surrounding the under-construction building. Readers are advised not to take any photos unless you care to be detained fo…
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Gates Will Lead New Obama Team at Defense Department
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Gates Will Lead New Obama Team at Defense Department
By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2008 – While Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will stay in office in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration, other Bush administration political appointees will move on, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
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Operation enduring disaster
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Operation enduring disaster
19/11/2008 04:19:00 PM GMT, Aljazerra — Obama would be foolish to imagine that Petraeus can work a miracle cure in Afghanistan. The cancer has spread too far and is affecting US troops as well. If the American media chose to interview active-duty soldiers in Afghanistan (on promise of anonymity), they might get a more accurate picture of what is happening inside the U.S. Army there.
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In secret agreement, Shell nets 25-year monopoly on S. Iraq’s gas
Shell says the arrangement gives it exclusive rights to all natural gas runoff produced by oil exploration operations in the southern portion of the country.
In secret agreement, Shell nets 25-year monopoly on S. Iraq’s gas
Stephen C. Webster Published: Saturday November 8, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell oil company and the Iraqi Oil Ministry have struck a secret, as-of-yet non-binding agreement that gives a monopoly over southern Iraq’s natural gas to the energy giant. It marks the first time in over 35 years a Western oil company has played a major role in the country’s most lucrative industry.
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Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
The documents make clear that within weeks of the incident, investigators piecing together the fragments realised that only three of the weapons could be accounted for.
Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
By Gordon Corera BBC News security correspondent, northern Greenland
The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.
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