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MOSCOW (AFP) — Seven Russian soldiers were killed on Friday in an apparent car bomb attack in the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia condemned by Moscow as an attempt to undermine the EU-Russia peace accord.
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01/10/2008 03h18
SEOUL (AFP) - US negotiator Christopher Hill arrived in North Korea on Wednesday in an attempt to save a crumbling nuclear disarmament deal, after saying negotiations with Pyongyang have reached a “very tough” phase.
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01/10/2008 02h01
TBILISI (AFP) - European Union monitors were to begin deploying in Georgia on Wednesday to monitor a ceasefire and oversee a Russian troop pull-back after the August war in the Caucasus state.
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U.S. Soldier Held In 2 Deaths at Base
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, September 19, 2008; Page A16
BAGHDAD, Sept. 18 — Seven American soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed early Thursday in the desert of southern Iraq, the U.S. military said. Officials said the crash was not caused by enemy fire.
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25 September, 2008 09:52:00
An Aberdeenshire soldier who survived after his armoured vehicle hit a mine has spoken about his experiences.
Sergeant Wayne Forbes, 38, from Newtonhill, was on a six-month tour of Afghanistan with The Highlanders, the 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, when the incident happened.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops and tribesman shot down a suspected U.S. military drone close to the Afghan border Tuesday, three intelligence officials said.
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Written on September 11, 2008 – 10:57 pm | by Frontier India Strategic and Defence |
On September 10, the Department of the Treasury designated under Executive Order 13382 the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and eighteen IRISL subsidiaries of proliferation concern. IRISL and its subsidiaries are being designated for facilitating shipments of military cargo destined for the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) and its subordinate entities, including organizations that have been designated by the United Nations Security Council in Resolutions 1737 and 1747. MODAFL was designated by the U.S. Department of State in October 2007 under E.O. 13382 and has brokered a number of transactions involving materials and technologies with ballistic missile applications.
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9-01-08
By Timothy D. Johnson
Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN and author of A Gallant Little Army.
History News Network
A George Mason’s University publication. Because the Past is the Present. And the future too.
The president stood accused of fabricating an excuse to get into the war. He stubbornly insisted that his reasons were valid, but members of the opposition party were skeptical. The army was sent to liberate the country from an irresponsible government. It achieved rapid battlefield victories, but had to surmount unforeseen obstacles. American soldiers found that the people they came to liberate distrusted them because of a radically different culture and religion. And as the war dragged on, the president faced growing criticism.
Sound like the war in Iraq? It’s not. The president was James K. Polk and the war was with Mexico. In 1846 when Polk, a Democrat, asked Congress for a declaration of war, he cited a Mexican invasion across the Rio Grande that resulted in American blood shed on American soil. Skeptics from the opposition Whig party suspected that Polk’s story was invented to hide ulterior motives for instigating a war. However, the president’s majority party limited debate and succeeded in passing the war bill.
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By VOA News through Military Spot
28 August 2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the Georgian crisis to benefit one of the presidential candidates, a claim the White House calls “patently false.”
In an interview with the television network CNN, Mr. Putin said Russian defense officials told him the United States encouraged Georgia to attack the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The Russian prime minister did not identify which presidential candidate he was referring to, and he offered no proof of his accusation.
A White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, called Mr. Putin’s claim “just not rational.” She said Russian defense officials are giving Mr. Putin bad advice.
27/08/2008 - 16h56
da Folha Online
O presidente da Rússia, Dmitri Medvedev, viajou nesta quarta-feira para Duchambe, capital do Tadjiquistão, para participar da reunião da Organização de Cooperação de Xangai (SCO) que acontece amanhã (28). O intuito do líder russo é buscar, na Ásia, apoio para as ações que têm promovido na vizinha Geórgia, aliada dos Estados Unidos.
No começo de agosto, a Rússia invadiu a Geórgia para proteger a Ossétia do Sul, uma região separatista do país, de uma ofensiva militar georgiana. O conflito acabou graças a um acordo de paz mediado pela União Européia e pelos EUA. Ontem, Medvedev deu novo combustível à crise ao anunciar que o país reconhecia a autonomia da Ossétia do Sul e da Abkházia.
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