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ISF, MND-B Soldiers discover IED in Ghazaliyah
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces discovered an improvised explosive device Feb. 17 while conducting operations in the Ghazaliyah neighborhood of northwest Baghdad.
Troops Find Recently Made Iranian Munitions
WASHINGTON — American and Iraqi forces have discovered Iranian weapons in Iraq that were manufactured as recently as last year, a U.S. military official said yesterday.
On the Ground: U. S. Forces in Iraq Train Police, Soldiers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2009 – With U.S. operations in Iraq shifting from providing security to ensuring Iraqi sovereignty, troops there are stepping up their training of Iraqi forces.
Team in Afghanistan Looks to Double Health Care Access
FORWARD OPERATING BASE GARDEZ, Afghanistan, Feb. 19, 2009 – The walls of the Paktia provincial hospital are a bleak, dirty, two-tone, painted gray along the lower half and lime-green to the ceiling. Charred electrical wires poke from the plastered walls, hot-wired with no caps, covers or even electrical tape binding them.
Program Builds Better Health Care System in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 19, 2009 – Afghans are gaining opportunities for better health care through the International Medical Mentorship Training and Internship Program.
Face of Defense: Vietnam Vets Serve Again in Iraq
CAMP STRIKER, Iraq, Feb. 19, 2009 – Two deployed soldiers who served in the Vietnam War are serving again -- this time in Iraq. Army Staff Sgt. Louis J. Swift and Army Chief Warrant Officer Steven M. Derry serve here with the 3-142nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, a National Guard unit from Ronkonkoma, N.Y.
See 'tea party' call by CNBC analyst
With tongue only partially in cheek, a CNBC analyst on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange this morning responded to President Obama's proposed $275 billion deficit-financed homeowner bailout plan and other massive spending measures with a call for a new "tea party.
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Budget plan goes to Schwarzenegger after Legislature's OK
The deal is done. The California Legislature voted early today to approve a massive budget package of tax increases, spending cuts and borrowing to close a $40 billion deficit after granting major concessions to one holdout Republican senator.
Authorities fear local gangs competing over cartel work
A recent spike in gang-related activity has some law enforcement officials concerned that local criminal groups may be jockeying for position with the Gulf Cartel.
Kyrgyzstan cuts key U. S. lifeline to fight Afghan war
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has cut America's most important supply lifeline into Afghanistan right after President Barack Obama ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops to be sent there.
Israeli warning to Obama: Your talk gives Iran nukes
JERUSALEM – President Obama's policy of direct diplomacy with Iran may buy Tehran enough time to produce nuclear weapons, Shabtai Shavit, former chief of the Mossad intelligence agency, warned in an exclusive WND interview today.
Iran says has own raw uranium supply
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's mines can supply raw uranium for its nuclear programme and it had no problems with a shortage of the material, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday.
Iran has enriched enough uranium to make bomb, IAEA says
The UN's nuclear watchdog reported today that Iran had managed to enrich a metric tonne of low enriched uranium (LEU), which UN officials say is technically enough to build a nuclear weapon.
UN agency finds new uranium traces at Syria site
VIENNA (AP) — U.N. nuclear agency samples taken from a Syrian site suspected of being a secretly built reactor have revealed new traces of processed uranium, the agency reported Thursday.
'Syria building chemical weapons plant'
Syria has been conducting extensive construction work on a chemical weapons facility in the country's northwest, satellite images obtained by the defense analyst group Jane's reveal.
Clinton: U. S. Preparing for Possible Regime Change in North Korea
The Obama administration and America's Asian allies are preparing for a possible regime change in North Korea, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.
3 acquitted in brazen slaying of Russian reporter
Russia threatened on Thursday to pull out of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty unless the US backed away from plans to install its missile defence shield in Eastern Europe.
Czech president compares EU to Soviet Union
BRUSSELS – The European Union has turned into an undemocratic and elitist project comparable to the Communist dictatorships of eastern Europe that forbade alternative thinking, Czech President Vaclav Klaus told the European Parliament on Thursday.
Team's gesture supports grieving opponent
Two missed free throws, ordinarily the cause of a coach's headache, became the symbol of sportsmanship in a Milwaukee boys' basketball game earlier this month.
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