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Pressure On London Over Stopped Saudi Arms Probe London (AFP) Jan 04, 2007 
Britain's government is facing international pressure over its decision to halt its probe into a controversial arms deal between British defence group BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia during the 1980s. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a grouping of 30 industrialised nations, confirmed Thursday that it had written to the British government asking it to explain why it dropped the investigation last month. "The letter was sent before Christmas asking for further information about the BAE affair," OECD head of media Nicholas Bray told AFP. Britain's Attorney General Peter Goldsmith denied in December that the government had contravened an OECD convention, to which Britain is a party, on combating bribery in international business transactions.
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East Asia The Biggest Suspect In US Military Technology Theft
Washington (AFP) Jan 03, 2007East Asian nations are the biggest suspected thieves of American military technology, according to an annual Pentagon study showing foreign spies using sex and computer hacking to steal defense secrets. There will be no let up in technology theft in East Asia, which includes rising military power China, as the economically booming region modernizes its defense systems, said the "2006 Technology Collection Trends in the US Defense Industry" report. Is There A Power Shift In North Korea Underway 
Seoul (UPI) Jan 04, 2007Will North Korean leader Kim Jong Il bring a change to the country's power structure dominated by aged revolutionary leaders in their 70s or 80s? This is the question of the moment following the death of the country's Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun at age of 78. US, Japan To Draft Plans For Taiwan, NK Crises 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 04, 2007Japan and the United States are considering joint plans to coordinate the response of their armed forces if China invades Taiwan or North Korea strikes Japan, news reports said Thursday. US and Japanese defense and foreign affairs officials would next month start studying various scenarios of military confrontation in Taiwan, reflecting US unease over China's growing military power, the Kyodo News agency reported. |
Former US Policy Honchos Call For World Free Of Nuclear Arms
Washington (AFP) Jan 04, 2007Four top former US foreign policy officials, including ex-secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, called for a world free of nuclear weapons in an opinion piece Thursday. The article, which appears in the Wall Street Journal, is also signed by former secretary of defense William Perry and Sam Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. US Blacklists Syrian Outfits Over WMD Charges 
Washington (AFP) Jan 04, 2007The US government Thursday put the financial squeeze on three Syrian government organizations which it accused of spreading weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Treasury Department said it was blacklisting Syria's Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Electronics Institute, and the National Standards and Calibration Laboratory. Boeing Provides ScanEagle UAV to Australian Army 
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jan 05, 2007Boeing Australia Limited announced it has been awarded a contract to provide reconnaissance and surveillance services to the Australian Army using the ScanEagle autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The services provided by ScanEagle are currently being used in southern Iraq by Australian soldiers operating with the Overwatch Battle Group (West)-2 in Operation Catalyst. |
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Raytheon Awarded Subcontract for Sea-Based X-Band Radar Sustainment Support
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jan 05, 2007Raytheon Company has been awarded a $32.7 million subcontract to provide sustainment support for the X- Band Radar (XBR) portion of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX). The award was made by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, the prime contractor for the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). SBX is a component of GMD. Northrop Grumman Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload Takes To Air On First U-2 Flight 
Palmdale CA (SPX) Jan 05, 2007Northrop Grumman's Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP), a next generation signals intelligence sensor for the U.S. Air Force, recently took to the air on its first flight aboard the U-2 aircraft, launching the flight test phase of the program. Recon Optical Awarded Contract For Stabilized Remotely Operated Weapon Systems 
Barrington IL (SPX) Jan 05, 2007Recon Optical has received a $5.5M production contract from Electro Optic Systems, Limited (EOS) of Australia to supply 44 of its RAVENTM R-400 Stabilized Remotely Controlled Weapon System for integration on the Bushmaster infantry mobility vehicle under ADI/THALES Australia's Project Bushranger. |
McCain Reaffirms Support For US Troop Surge In Iraq
Washington (AFP) Jan 04, 2007US Senator John McCain on Thursday reaffirmed his support for the deployment of thousands of additional US troops in Iraq, a proposal expected to figure in President George W. Bush's upcoming reassessment of US strategy there. "When I raise my hand and vote to send young men and women, American men and women into harm's way and fight a war, I am committing to accomplishing the mission," McCain, an early frontrunner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, told MSNBC. Eye On Iraq: The Fragmented War 
Washington (UPI) Jan 04, 2007A new report released Thursday grimly confirms the warnings we have published in these columns over the past 10 months about the fragmented scope of the war in Iraq, and the inability of Bush administration and Pentagon strategists so far to recognize its true nature. BAE Systems Demonstrates Passive Geo-location Technology 
Nashua NH (SPX) Jan 05, 2007BAE Systems has successfully demonstrated a passive geo-location capability that enables aircraft to quickly and accurately identify enemy positions in crowded radio frequency (RF) environments. The equipment can be deployed on any type of military aircraft. |
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