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No Letup In Concerns Over China's Military Buildup: US Experts
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2005
China is doing little to ease concerns over its rapid military buildup which is threatening American dominance in a wide range of areas, from Asian sea-lanes to outer space, US experts said Friday. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went on a maiden trip this week to Beijing to directly express US worries over China's growing military power but the experts felt the assurances he received had failed to lift long-held suspicions.

US, India Hold Talks On Nuclear Deal
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 21, 2005
A senior US State Department official met Friday with India's foreign secretary for talks on a nuclear deal between the two nations that breaks precedent on decades of non-proliferation policy.

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US Forces Israel To Freeze Venezuelan F-16 Contract: Ministry
Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 21, 2005
Pressure from Washington forced Israel to freeze a major contract with Venezuela to upgrade its US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets, the Israeli defence ministry said Friday.

BAE Systems Advanced Defensive System Deployed On U-2
Nashua NH (SPX) Oct 24, 2005
BAE Systems' AN/ALQ-221 Advanced Defensive System (ADS) is now being deployed on U.S. Air Force U-2S reconnaissance aircraft and being used in military operations after achieving initial operating capability.

Aurora Flight Sciences' Goldeneye-50 Completes Flight Milestone
Manassas Va (SPX) Oct 24, 2005
Aurora Flight Sciences' GoldenEye-50 unmanned aerial system performed its first high-speed, coordinated banked turns during recent envelope expansion flight.
US Blacklists Eight North Korea Entities Over WMD Proliferation
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2005
The United States blacklisted on Friday eight North Korean entities as proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and froze whatever assets they have under US jurisdiction.

Analysis: Seoul Seeks Smaller U.S. Role
Seoul (UPI) Oct 21, 2005
South Korea failed to win an immediate promise from the United States on Friday to transfer its wartime operational control of South Korean troops back to Seoul.

US, South Korea To Examine Military Command Shift
Seoul (AFP) Oct 21, 2005
The United States and South Korea agreed on Friday to accelerate talks on switching the command structure of Korean forces in wartime in what would be a major shift in the half-century-old alliance.

Levin Pushes New Plan For Iraq
Washington (UPI) Oct 21, 2005
The United States must change course in Iraq and should use troop reductions as a bargaining chip in the country's political process, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.

Insurgency Stays Strong After Vote
Washington (UPI) Oct 21, 2005
The Iraq referendum last Saturday did not take the wind out of the insurgency there. On the contrary, the rate of casualties inflicted upon U.S. and allied Iraq troops actually increased significantly in the following days.

Iraqi Forces Coming Along, Slowly
Washington (UPI) Oct 21, 2005
A young Iraqi lieutenant in a maroon beret and immaculately pressed battle fatigues paced in front of 28 children at a school courtyard in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib neighborhood in early October, smoking a thin cigarette, elegantly.
US Seeking World Domination: Iran's Supreme Leader
Tehran, Oct 21 (AFP) Oct 21, 2005
Iran's supreme leader accused the United States Friday of seeking global domination and vowed that his country would not give into demands to abandon its disputed nuclear programme.

North Korea Demands US Accord It Same Status As Israel
Seoul (AFP) Oct 23, 2005
North Korea on Sunday demanded the United States grant the communist state the same status as Israel, a US ally suspected of having nuclear arms outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Wilkerson's Speech: Blasting The 'Cabal'
Washington (UPI) Oct 21, 2005
The following are extracts from the presentation Col. Lawrence Wilkerson give Wednesday, Oct. 19 at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank.
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