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Pakistan Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile Islamabad (AFP) Nov 29, 2006 
Pakistan test launched a nuclear-capable medium range missile on Wednesday, two days after South Asian rival India conducted its first trial of a new ballistic intercept system. The Pakistani Hatf 4 or Shaheen-1 missile -- Shaheen means "eagle" in Urdu -- has a range of 700 kilometers (437 miles) meaning it can hit targets deep inside neighbouring India. "Pakistani troops today conducted a successful launch of the medium range Hatf 4 or Shaheen-1 missile," the military said in a statement. The test came as part of a continuing exercise by Pakistan's Army Strategic Force Command. On November 16 Pakistan test fired a Ghauri missile with a longer range of 1,300 kilometers (812 miles) away.
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Raytheon Contract For Missile Launcher Production
Indianapolis IN (SPX) Nov 27, 2006Raytheon Technical Services has been awarded a $12.8 million contract to produce LAU-115 and LAU-116 missile launchers in support of the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 E/F aircraft. The launchers provide the structural and electrical interfaces that allow the aircraft to carry and launch missiles such as Sparrow, Sidewinder and AMRAAM. US Army To Deploy Lockheed Martin Persistent Threat Detection Systems 
Akron OH (SPX) Nov 30, 2006The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $77.5 million contract to provide additional tethered aerostat surveillance systems for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The Persistent Threat Detection Systems (PTDS) are equipped with multi-mission sensors to provide continuous surveillance, detection and communications in support of coalition forces. Raytheon Completes Extended-Range Test For Excalibur Block Ia-2 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 30, 2006Raytheon's Missile Systems business and BAE Systems-Bofors successfully fired the first extended-range GPS-guided Excalibur projectiles at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., last month. Excalibur is the next-generation family of projectiles for U.S. Army and Marine Corps artillery. The so-called Guided Series-6 test of the Excalibur Block Ia-2 consisted of two inert rounds configured with tactical base and live base bleed. |
US/Korea Meetings Fail To Yield Results As China/Japan Discuss Defense
Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2006US and North Korean envoys wrapped up two days of tough negotiations Wednesday over when to resume six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, but failed to reach agreement on a restart date.The US embassy said in a statement late Wednesday that North Korea had agreed to study its proposal regarding the resumption of the stalled talks, but stopped short of giving specifics. North Korea Policy Options 
Washington (UPI) Nov 24, 2006In Iraq, regime change -- even when it involved the fall of a dictator whom President George W. Bush called a member of the "axis of evil" -- created many unexpected and costly problems. The same thing could happen if regime change comes to North Korea. The time to begin preparing for these problems is now. No tears would be shed around the world if nuclear-armed axis of evil dictator Kim Jong-Il lost power in North Korea. NATO Paying Price For Bad Afghan Strategy Says Kremlin 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 29, 2006The Kremlin criticised NATO's record in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying the Taliban insurgency was the "price to pay" for a strategy of "courting" members of the ousted regime. "This Taliban insurgency is the price to pay for the NATO policy ... where there are good and bad Taliban," said Anatoly Safonov, an anti-terrorism special representative to Russian President Putin. |
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Preventing Genocide In Iraq
New York (UPI) Nov 29, 2006To prevent genocide in Iraq on the scale of the genocide in Rwanda between the Tutsis and the Hutus, the Bush administration must move swiftly to divide Iraq into three main self-rule entities with loose federal ties. Neither the insurgency nor the sectarian killing will end unless the Sunnis can govern themselves. The Bush administration must use every ounce of leverage it has to push for such a solution before it is too late. Saudi Worst Nightmare 
Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2006A precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq will result in an immediate and massive Saudi Arabian military intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from "butchering Iraqi Sunnis." Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi security expert who is managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project in Riyadh and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says that over the past year much has changed. More US Troops To Help Garrison Baghdad 
Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2006The US military is moving as many as three battalions from other parts of Iraq to Baghdad to beef up security in the violence-torn capital, a US defense official said Wednesday. The official said the US troops would not come from Al-Anbar, a vast western province where US marines have been fighting a bitter, long-running Sunni insurgency. |
Democracy In The Middle East
Washington (UPI) Nov 24, 2006Clashing fundamentals of vastly disparate societies are the basis for an unsuccessful bid for democracy, according to experts such as Lee Smith, visiting fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington. "The problem is not the regimes and the lack of democracy; nor is it the flawed policies of the White House," said Smith, an expert in Arab and Islamic affairs.. Beale AFB Gets New Global Hawk 
Washington (UPI) Nov 24, 2006On Nov. 21 a RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle launched from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., made its first operational Air Combat Command flight. Air Force Print News reported on Nov. 22 that Beale Air Force base has been waiting for the UAVs for five years in order to begin local training flights. Dead Russian's Italian Contact: Nuclear Expert Who Drifted Into Intelligence 
London (AFP) Nov 29, 2006Mario Scaramella, a key contact of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko who died last week of suspected radiation poisoning, is a nuclear waste expert who drifted into the world of intelligence. That is what Scaramella, an Italian with dark hair, brown eyes and a round face, said about himself in a recent British newspaper interview, but many details about him are hard to confirm. |
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