Topic: W A R - on August 28, 2013 at 3:49:00 PM CEST
US Targets in Syria Mapped
It seems more and more likely that the United States will take some kind of military action against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. On Aug. 26, Secretary of State John Kerry all but said the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons to kill hundreds of civilians, a move the Obama administration says it will not tolerate. Kerry's words came days after the U.S. announced it is stationing four guided missile destroyers off the Syrian coast.
The goal of the attacks is unclear. But one of the suggested aims is to stop the Assad government from using chemical weapons. If that's the case, the American military may well find itself going after everything from chemical plants to arms depots to airfields in an effort to sever the the Syrian military's ability to make, store and fire its deadly sarin, mustard, and VX gas stockpiles.
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Topic: W A R - on January 26, 2012 at 6:27:00 PM CET
New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who's accountable?
The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.
The Navy's new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It's designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation's most difficult maneuvers.
What's even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.
The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone's ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.
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Topic: W A R - on February 26, 2011 at 8:01:00 PM CET
Report details arms sales to Libya
Italy has sold Libya explosives, gun targeting equipment and other military hardware worth tens of millions of euros in the past two years, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday.
The newspaper quoted an official report from the Italian interior ministry that listed signed contracts as well as ongoing negotiations between Libya and several major Italian defence companies including industry giant Finmeccanica.
Missile systems maker Mbda Italia signed a deal worth 2.5 million euros ($A3.42 million) in May 2009 to supply Libya with 'material for bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles', the interior ministry report was quoted as saying.
Helicopter maker Augusta Westlan
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Topic: W A R - on February 26, 2011 at 7:04:00 PM CET
Vente d'armes à la Libye : « C'est avant qu'il faut s'indigner
France €50m arms sales to Libya, Italy €111m, & MALTA €80m
Spécialiste des questions de défense au Point, Jean Guisnel vient de publier « Armes de corruption massive, secrets et combines des marchands de canon » (La Découverte), une somme issue de vingt-cinq ans d'enquête.
Dans le chapitre consacré à la Libye, on trouve quelques personnages connus : Michèle Alliot-Marie, Patrick Ollier, Nicolas Sarkozy, l'intermédiaire libanais Ziad Takieddine… Interview.
En 2009 (derniers chiffres disponibles), la France a vendu pour environ 30 millions d'euros d'armes à la Libye. Une somme comparable au chiffre d'affaires des Britanniques (25 millions), et inférieure à ceux de l'Allemagne (53 millions), Malte (80 millions) ou l'Italie (111 millions).
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Topic: W A R - on April 7, 2010 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory
WikiLeaks has revealed the secrets of the Pentagon, Scientology, and Sarah Palin—and the explosive video of a US attack on civilians and journalists in Iraq. Meet the shadowy figure behind the whistleblower site.
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Topic: W A R - on April 6, 2010 at 9:12:00 AM CEST
Wikileaks video shows US gunfire on Reuters staff
Whistleblower website Wikileaks continued its catapult into mainstream journalism Monday with the release of a classified US military video showing forces firing repeatedly on unarmed people on a Baghdad street.
The video showed an incident from July 12, 2007, the same day that Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver were killed in hail of gunfire in the same section of Baghdad. Nine other people were also killed and two children were wounded in the incident.
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Topic: W A R - on August 23, 2009 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
Is Blackwater Too Big to Fail?
Erik Prince's security enterprise has a division for pretty much everything. Need planes or choppers? See Aviation Worldwide or Presidential Airways. A compliment of Colombian mercs? Greystone at your service. For-hire spooks? Total Intelligence Solutions—emphasis on total—is standing by. And for the super-double-secret covert work—the kind that the CIA keeps even Congress in the dark about—Prince has a division for that too. According to the New York Times, it's called Blackwater Select.
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Topic: W A R - on August 20, 2009 at 1:23:00 PM CEST
CIA hired Blackwater in plan to kill militants
The CIA in 2004 hired contractors from the private security firm Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to track and assassinate senior al Qaeda figures, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Topic: W A R - on February 28, 2009 at 11:56:00 AM CET
Wikileaks cracks password on NATO Afghanistan document
Wikileaks cracks NATO's Master Narrative for Afghanistan Wikileaks has cracked the encryption to a key document relating to the war in Afghanistan. The document, titled "NATO in Afghanistan: Master Narrative", details the "story" NATO representatives are to give to, and to avoid giving to, journalists.
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Topic: W A R - on November 11, 2008 at 12:15:24 PM CET
Albert Einstein's FBI files (1,427 pages)
"In May, 1948, Professor Einstein and "ten former Nazi research brain-trusters," held a secret meeting at which they put on asbestos suits and watched a beam of light, according to the "Arlington Daily," May 21, 1948. This article pointed out that a block of steel was melted as quickly as the light switch in any home could be turned on and that this new and secret weapon could be operated from planes to destroy entire cities. It was further stated that the atomic bomb was "little boy stuff" compared to this new development. The Intelligence Division of the Army subsequently advised the Bureau that this information could have no foundation in fact and that no machine could be devised which would be effective outside the range of a few feet."
What's a Communist doing with NAZI's??
fbi.gov New Details Emerge From the Einstein Files; How the F.B.I. Tracked His Phone Calls and His Trash Albert Einstein, F.B.I. InterviewFBI campaign against Einstein revealed
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Topic: W A R - on November 11, 2008 at 12:08:24 PM CET
Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.
Its unique vantage point - perched at the top of the world - has meant that Thule Air Base has been of immense strategic importance to the US since it was built in the early 1950s, allowing a radar to scan the skies for missiles coming over the North Pole.
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Topic: W A R - on November 10, 2008 at 11:16:18 AM CET
Israel war on Iran on the radar
A senior European Union diplomat says the perfect time for Israel to strike Iranian nuclear installations 'is between now and January 20'.
"A possible Israeli strike against Iran is not completely off the radar," Turkish paper Hurriyet quoted the diplomat as saying.
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