Tag: pentagon
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gates cancels latin american trip at last minute
from alertnet: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday canceled a long-planned, four-country trip to Latin America less than 24 hours before departure to help prepare a report for Congress on the Iraq war, the Pentagon said. “Events this week require the Secretary’s participation in policy meetings on Iraq in advance of the July 15th…
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pentagram can’t account for $19b spent on iraqi forces
from washington post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation to be released today. As a result, President Bush’s pledge…
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cia = covert imperialist activity
cia running black op’s against iranfrom raw story: The Central Intelligence Agency has received approval at least twice in the last several years to conduct an “information war” against several countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and Syria, according to current and former intelligence officials. In addition, the Bush Administration has been running…
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‘severe visibility’
from 9/11 blogger: The morning of September 11, 2001, Paul Cross was at the White House for part of the post-production work of his film “Follow the Leader,”a documentary about the everyday life of the President of the United States. On September 12th Paul visited the Pentagon. He saw that the damage to the building,…
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pentagon considers staying in iraq for ‘decades’
from npr: The White House and Pentagon are under increasing pressure from Congress and the public to end U.S. military involvement in Iraq. But the Pentagon is considering maintaining a core group of forces in Iraq, possibly for decades. Two factors may determine the course of the war in Iraq – political progress inside Iraq…
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‘sorry we shot your kid, but here’s $500’
from information liberation/editor & publisher: For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftermath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questions about lack of compensation… Last…
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news on the march
halliburton winds up iran workfrom afp: US oil services giant Halliburton said Monday it had wrapped up its work commitments in Iran and was no longer conducting any projects in the Islamic republic…Halliburton announced last month that it was relocating to the United Arab Emirates to capitalize on the Gulf region’s booming energy market. bush…
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pentagon resumes mandatory anthrax vaccination program
from raw story: The Pentagon resumed its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program for selected troops last week despite the fact that its own doctors are quietly conducting research into adverse effects of the vaccine, a Raw Story investigation has found. While the Defense Department maintains that the anthrax vaccine is safe and poses no long-term…
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tens of thousands protest at the pentagon
from afp/raw story: Tens of thousands of protesters marched to the Pentagon’s doorstep Saturday demanding “US out of Iraq Now,” ahead of the fourth anniversary of the US invasion. Demonstrators from across the United States gathered in a cold winter day to descend on the US Defense Department offices and decry the conflict that has…
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‘dubious’ douglas feith intel fueled push for war
from washington post: Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included “reporting of dubious quality or reliability” that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon’s inspector general.…
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wyden: ‘stop arming iran’
from ap/yahoo: The Pentagon said Tuesday it had stopped selling surplus F-14 parts, announcing the step after congressional criticism of security weaknesses that had given buyers for countries including Iran access to the aircraft parts and other valuable gear. Sales of parts from the recently retired fleet were halted last Friday, Defense Logistics Agency spokesman…
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pentagon & cia involved in domestic spying
from wired: Just a day before the nation celebrated the life of the once-federally-spied-upon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the New York Times reported that both the Pentagon and the CIA have been issuing subpoenas to domestic financial institutions to investigate possible terrorism. Although the military and the CIA are largely barred from spying on…
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weapons for iran & china traced to pentagon
from international herald tribune: The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries – including Iran and China – who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department’s surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components. In one case, federal investigators said, the contraband made it…
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news on the march
pentagon abandons active-duty time limitfrom ap/yahoo: The Pentagon has abandoned its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty, officials said Thursday, a major change that reflects an Army stretched thin by longer-than-expected combat in Iraq. The day after President Bush announced his plan for a deeper U.S. military…
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Gates unlikely to rein in Pentagon on intelligence
from reuters: Robert Gates is unlikely to rein in the Pentagon’s controversial post-September 11 expansion into intelligence, despite concerns the U.S. military is ill-suited for espionage outside the battlefield, experts say. But Gates, the former CIA director who will be sworn in as defense secretary on Monday, could help heal a rift between the Pentagon…