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05 21st, 2010| 
AFP – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday renewed threats of a presidential veto if Congress funds a second engine for the F-35 fighter jet or additional cargo aircraft. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
16
Reuters – Two U.S. senators vowed on Thursday to subpoena the Obama administration next week unless it produces information sought in a congressional probe of last year’s shooting rampage at a military base in Texas. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
8
AFP – The families of two Reuters news agency employees killed in a 2007 US helicopter attack in Baghdad on Thursday demanded justice, telling AFP the Americans responsible should stand trial. Read the rest of this entry »
Mar
15
AFP – The US military handed over one of its two remaining detention facilities to Iraqi authorities on Monday, further winding down its operations as it prepares a withdrawal of combat troops. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb
1
AFP – The United States is ready to negotiate with Japan in a months-old row over a US military base, a Pentagon official said Monday, suggesting a softer stance from Washington. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan
24
AFP – Lawmakers criticized Wednesday an internal Pentagon review into the deadly Fort Hood shooting for failing to discuss why the military promoted the suspect despite concerns over his behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan
21
AFP – Muslim groups reacted angrily after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan
21
AFP – Lawmakers criticized Wednesday an internal Pentagon review into the deadly Fort Hood shooting for failing to discuss why the military promoted the suspect despite concerns over his behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
29
AP – When the U.S. took over a Japanese airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields and the smoldering battlegrounds of Okinawa. It is now the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing Japan’s security alliance with the United States and dividing its new government in Tokyo. Read the rest of this entry »