Written for PeaceReporter By Alessandro Ursic With a gun in the house, you can defend yourself against intruders; so believe many Americans. But lean times shift priorities, and making it to the end of the month becomes the most important thing. When an offer comes for food in exchange for a handgun, lots of people won't let the chance slip by. That's what's happening in a California town just outside Los Angeles. continue...
Chinese arms for the Taliban. The suspicion began with a dossier put together by the British public television channel, the BBC, which spoke of “military material being found almost every week in possession of the Taliban in Afghanistan over the last few months”. This was followed on 29 August by the Foreign Office in London sending a formal note of protest to the foreign department in Beijing, continue...
The US Naval base in Sigonella will be the launching pad for the new redoubtable unmanned “Global Hawk” aircraft. The official confirmation of a decision that had been hanging in the air for some time comes from the US Armed Forces daily newspaper “Stars and Stripes”, which was quoted on the site of “Terrelibere.org” by Antonio Mazzeo, an expert on military issues. Philip McDaniel, continue...
The United States and Great Britain ever more insistently accuse the Iranian regime of providing arms to the Taliban guerrillas and supporting little “autonomous” armed groups active in the western regions of Afghanistan, those under the responsibility of the Italian command. But both NATO and the government of Kabul, which receives hundreds of millions of dollars of aid from Tehran, continue...
The announcement comes from NGOs such as Amnesty International, Saferworld, and the Italian Network for Disarmament: India is circumventing a 1988 European embargo on furnishing military weaponry and hardware to the dictators of Burma. India, which shares an unstable frontier region with the Burmese regime, is sending light “ALH” helicopters to the Myanmar government, continue...
A commission of experts of the United Nations Organization scheduled to travel to Chile next week. Target: to cast the light upon the alleged sending of 1.200 mercenaries of Chilean origin to Iraq The facts. For sure, it’s not news that, the so called contractors (with diverse nationalities) play an essential role in Iraq. They are so essential, that their presence is inferior only to the Washington soldiers. But today, continue...
American troops newly arrived in Iraq as part of the “surge” are already conducting military operations to block supplies of arms to insurgents. On Tuesday morning, army spokesmen reported that US soldiers are spread out southeast of the capital along the Tigris river, where they are destroying boats used by arms transporters. On Monday morning General Rick Lynch reported on the first results, continue...
