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UN's El Baradei Details Pakistan Nuclear Weapon Fears
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 10/01/2008 - 18:19:16
Comments made by the head of the United Nations’ atomic energy regulatory body on the 8th January highlighted his concerns over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons being used by insurgent/militant organisations. Speaking to the Al-Hayat publication,...
Read more....Gates Considers Additional US Troops for Afghanistan
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 10/01/2008 - 18:07:24
Robert Gates, the US Defense Secretary, is contemplating plans to provide additional troop support to Afghanistan. Under the proposals, 3,000 Marines servicemen would be supplied to the area to strengthen the NATO troop deployment in the so...
Read more....USAF Airstrikes Unleash 40,000 lb of Bombs on Al-Qaeda
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 10/01/2008 - 17:51:22
United States Air Force combat aircraft let loose 40,000 pounds of explosives over the course of an airstrike carried out on the 10th January. The 10-minute long assault targeted areas around Baghdad described by the US military as ”safe ha...
Read more....HIV, Hepatitis Tests for UK Troops after Blood Transfused
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 10/01/2008 - 11:39:38
18 members of the British armed forces injured whilst serving in Afghanistan and Iraq are currently having medical checks carried out on them after it became apparent that blood supplied to them had not been properly tested. The source of t...
Read more....US Report Declassifies Vietnam War Intelligence
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 09/01/2008 - 19:42:46
A US National Security Agency-issued report highlights how, during the Vietnam War, fake calls were made by North Vietnam with a view to making the US military attack its own servicemenStudy Issued After New Call for Data DeclassificationTh...
Read more....RAF Training Flight Sees Practice Bomb Lost
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 09/01/2008 - 19:10:47
A practice bomb has been lost from a military aircraft which was undertaking a routine training flight. Officials at the Ministry of Defence think that it was being carried by a Harrier (likely a Harrier GR7 — the latest variant of the fame...
Read more....Rice Condemns Iran’s Confrontation with US Navy
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 09/01/2008 - 14:56:05
The actions of a number of Iranian speedboats which, several days ago, confronted US Naval ships off the coast of Iran, have been referred to as dangerous and provocative by the US Secretary of State.While Iranian sources have described the...
Read more....UK Orders More Reaper UAVs
Posted by Mark Broadbent on 08/01/2008 - 15:45:59
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DASC) has announced that it has received an order from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for 10 additional General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for the Royal Air Force.The sal...
Read more....UK Armed Forces Recruitment Criticised
Posted by Mark Broadbent on 07/01/2008 - 13:58:03
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has refuted claims that it is glamourising war in order to help recruitment to the armed forces.In a report released on 7th January 2008, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust argues that the material used to...
Read more....US Planning Nuclear War, Says North Korean Paper
Posted by Paul Fiddian on 04/01/2008 - 18:46:00
A warning was issued by the North Korean state media on the 4th January which described the prospect of the nation substantially strengthening its ”war deterrentâ, claiming that the US was planning a nuclear war. Rodong Sinmum — the chief n...
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