WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration’s move to blacklist Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist” organization is a new salvo in a broader effort to choke off funding to Iranian elements accused of developing nuclear weapons and fomenting violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.At the same time, it is intended to send a [...]

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Robot warriors have already seen action in Iraq, and the US Army plans to replace one-third of its armored vehicles and weapons with robots by 2015. These killing machines may one day come equipped with an artificial conscience — even to the extent of disobeying immoral orders.
The US Army’s latest recruits are 1 meter (about [...]

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A German magazine reported Tuesday that some 129 German mercenaries are fighting worldwide for the US army, including in Iraq.The Munich-based Max magazine quoted the US Department of Defense as saying that it was not exactly recorded where these German mercenaries are exactly deployed.
Max interviewed an unnamed 27-year-old German national from the southwestern town of [...]

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Skopje. A coming-home ceremony on the occasion of returning of the Macedonian Army’s contingent Freedom for Iraq-8 is scheduled to take place in Skopje’s army barracks Ilinden today, the defense ministry announced.
Freedom for Iraq-8 contingent was comprised of 40 ARM members, including 35 servicemen of the regiment for special operations (PSO) and five HQ officers.
The [...]

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 Chinese Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites
Destroying an adversary’s satellites has far-reaching implications. Nearly every satellite has dual uses. A civilian weather satellite used for tracking hurricanes also could watch military movements. Once a nation disables an adversary’s satellites, it puts its own in peril.
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Suicide Bombings Kill 200 in Iraq
Astronaut Turns Shuttle Into [...]

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KABUL, Aug 15 (KUNA) — Three German soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a landmine east of Kabul early Wednesday, Afghan police said.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) convoy met with the accident in Bagrami area, east of the central capital Kabul, at around 8:45 a.m. (local time).
No comment was made by ISAF over [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 14 (KUNA) — Iraq and American forces, backed by Iraqi tribes in Diyala, killed 204 terrorists and arrested 164 others since Operation Lightning Hammer started in June this year, an Iraqi official said Tuesday.
“Police forces are controling the ground in Diyala and in the areas liberated by the Iraqi army and Multi-National forces,” [...]

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Nationwide Support Building for Troops, Petraeus
WASHINGTON – Momentum is building nationwide among a coalition of pro-troop organizations to bring thousands of supporters to the Capitol on September 15 to support Gen. David Petraeus when he testifies before Congress, and to protect the nation’s war memorials from threatened acts of vandalism by anti-military protesters.
Based on the [...]

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A new dispatch awaits: http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/three-marks-on-the-horizon.htm

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NNS070814-11. Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion 2 Returns From Deployment
  – http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31173
NNS070814-08. Coalition Forces Train Iraqi Marines in North Persian Gulf
  – http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31175
NNS070814-25. NAS Key West Search and Rescue Crew Saves Adrift Kayakers
  – http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31188
NNS070814-24. Lincoln Sea Sparrow Missiles Impact Multiple Targets During Exercise
  – http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31186
NNS070814-23. Global Fleet Station Makes Project Handclasp Delivery in Guatemala
  – http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31138
NNS070814-21. UCT-1 Integrates Engineering Skills to Support Minneapolis Search and Recovery [...]

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