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07 31st, 2011|
AFP - Texas police have arrested a US soldier on suspicion of planning a “terror plot” against Fort Hood, the military base where a fellow serviceman went on a deadly shooting rampage in 2009.
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AFP - Iraq will ask for future defence contracts to include provision for training, bypassing MPs to allow some US soldiers to stay past a year-end pullout deadline, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.
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Reuters - Turkey faced turmoil within its military on Saturday after the country’s four most senior commanders quit in protest over the detention of 250 officers on charges of conspiring against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
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AFP - A soldier suspected of planning an attack on fellow soldiers near a US military base refused to stand up for the judge during a brief court appearance and was escorted shouting from the room.
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Reuters - Turkey said on Friday its top four military chiefs were all seeking retirement, in moves that appeared to reflect a deep rift between the secularist military and a government with roots in political Islam.
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AP - An AWOL soldier accused of plotting to launch an attack on Fort Hood was defiant during his first court appearance on Friday, yelling out the name of the Army psychiatrist blamed in the 2009 deadly shooting rampage at the same Texas base.
Jul
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AFP - Texas police have arrested a US soldier on suspicion of planning a “terror plot” against Fort Hood, the military base where a fellow serviceman went on a deadly shooting rampage in 2009.
Jul
28
AFP - A US soldier arrested near the Fort Hood military base in Texas aimed to attack military personnel in what investigators are considering a “terror plot,” police said Thursday.
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AFP - General Martin Dempsey, the nominee to be the next chief uniformed officer of the US military, said Tuesday that major cuts in defense spending would pose a “very high risk” to the United States.