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Tuesday July 5, 7:27 PM ASDF to have 1st airstrike drill with live bomb on island off Guam (Kyodo) _ The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force is set to perform its first ever airstrike drill with live ammunition, scheduled to take place on an uninhabited island off Guam, ASDF officials said Tuesday. The drill, in which an ASDF combat aircraft will drop a 500-pound bomb on a ground target on the island some 350 kilometers north-northeast of Guam, will be conducted on the sidelines of a joint exercise between the ASDF and the U.S. Air Force in Guam to begin Monday....

US might find Pyongyang strike 'tempting' By Hamish McDonaldBeijingMay 21, 2005   South Korean electronics giant Samsung has launched a unilateral initiative to improve relations with the North. It has signed North Korean dancer Cho Myong-ae to promote its mobile phones. Cho will be the first North Korean to appear in an advertisement in the South.Photo: Reuters A nuclear arms control expert has warned that the United States might be tempted to carry out a strike on the reactor that is North Korea's source of bomb-making plutonium.The warning comes as North Korean moves suggest it may soon carry out a nuclear...

Israel Air Force Commander-in-Chief Major General Eliezer Shakedi said Monday that Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran in light of its nuclear activity.

AFTER two years of unswerving solidarity over the war in Iraq, Tony Blair’s relationship with President George W Bush is coming under strain from the newly revived threat of an American military attack on nuclear facilities in Iran. British officials are increasingly concerned that months of patient European-led diplomacy aimed at curbing the ayatollahs’ nuclear ambitions may suddenly explode in a torrent of bunker-busting bombs dropped by B-2 stealth bombers. Reports last week that US special forces are already scouting for targets in Iran have fanned concern that London and Washington are heading for an embarrassing split over American mistrust...

Hey all. My wife was sent a great video of an airstrike that pinned down Marines called in and whacked about 40 scumbags. Great stuff but it seems to have been deleted. Anybody have a link or can ya'll send me a copy? Tx, GG&G

Do the media give aid and comfort to terrorists by giving their violence maximum exposure and impact at times while sanitizing the perpetrators and tainting their victims at others? It is standard procedure for many media outlets to describe the perpetrators of terrorist acts - the premeditated slaughter of civilians - with a range of euphemisms, "militants" being the most common. Thus, The New York Times can headline a report on the killing of a hostage as "Iraq Militants Said to Behead a Truck Driver From Bulgaria." Similarly, terrorists killed in a military strike can be described in another as...

Victim identified as second-in-command of group’s military wing GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a car traveling in the Gaza Strip late Thursday, killing a senior Hamas commander who was among the government’s most-wanted fugitives for years — the latest in a series of Israeli assassinations that have weakened the militant group. The man, Adnan al-Ghoul, a founder and the No. 2 figure of Hamas’ military wing, was killed along with a second unidentified occupant in the car. The airstrike dealt another heavy blow to Hamas’ military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, which is responsible...

WANA, Pakistan, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed on Thursday in air strikes by Pakistani jet fighters in the South Waziristan tribal area which borders Afghanistan, a witness said. About 40 members of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban militia and other Islamic militants were attacked during a meeting in the village of Laggimanzai, close to the Afghan border. Villager Ajab Nur told Reuters that many more civilians were killed in a subsequent air strike when they gathered to survey the damage.

FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have launched new attacks in the towns of Falluja and Tal Afar, which they say are havens for foreign militant fighters, killing a number of Iraqis in air strikes and gun battles. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.main/index.html

US forces have launched an air strike on suspected insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja, the US military says. The military said it targeted militants linked to suspected al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whom it blames for a string of attacks in Iraq. A hospital source said five people were injured in the attack early on Friday morning, including children. In other violence, two US soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in the northern city of Samarra. The Associated Press has reported that gunmen in the northern city of Mosul have attacked and killed a retired Iraqi general...

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed two Islamic militants in a missile strike on a car in Gaza City Thursday amid a Palestinian leadership crisis over corruption that is creating growing chaos in Palestinian areas. The European Union (news - web sites)'s top diplomat raised pressure on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) to implement reforms demanded by Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, hinting the EU would reconsider relations if the premier quit. Palestinian security sources said an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Gaza City district known to be an Islamic militant stronghold, killing two Islamic Jihad...

WASHINGTON: Did the Indian Air Force really outperform American pilots and planes during recent India-US air combat exercises or is the USAF using the encounter to pitch for new generation fighter jets? That's the question buzzing around in strategic circles after a recent article in a limited access US Air Force magazine detailing the "surprising sophistication of Indian fighter aircraft and skill of Indian pilots" demonstrated at the Cope India air combat exercise at Gwalior in February this year. The exercise, in which US F-15Cs were said to have been defeated more than 90 per cent of the time in...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli tanks and helicopters fired into a large crowd of Palestinian marchers in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, killing up to 23 people, including children, and wounding up to 60 others.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's top nuclear negotiator warned Israel on Tuesday that his country would retaliate if the Jewish state were to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. Israel and the United States suspect Iran is secretly building nuclear weapons under cover of a nuclear energy program. In the past, Israel has said it would not allow Iran to build a nuclear bomb. In 1981, Israeli fighter-bombers destroyed a nuclear reactor that was under construction outside Baghdad because it feared Iraq would acquire a nuclear weapon. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said last month Iran was a threat to Israel, ``maybe...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a car traveling in a crowded Gaza City street Saturday, killing a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group and a 12-year-old boy on his way to school. The attack wounded 10 Palestinians, three of them critically, in Israel's first targeted killing in six weeks, doctors said.Also Saturday, a Palestinian military court charged four suspects with planting explosives along a main road in Gaza. A prosecutor said the defendants targeted Israeli tanks, but that one of their bombs may also have ripped apart a U.S. diplomatic vehicle...

NEVER FORGET Will longtime HILLARY & BILL CLINTON Friend & 9th Circuit Judge STEPHEN 'No Under God Pledge in our Schools' REINHARDT perform a Sept. 11th Airstrike on the California Recall Gov. GRAY DAVIS Election and push it back to March 2004 ...in order to save DAVIS next Thursday, September 11, 2003..? ...This is the Los Angeles ACLU Lawsuit over Machine and CHAD Recall Election Voting that was brought by Judge REINHARDT's Head of Los Angeles ACLU... ...W-I-F-E..!!! ...Or will Judge REINHARDT go against his grain and follow today's lead set by his longtime Friend Judge JEREMY D. FOGEL of...

U.S. researching N Korea's geological structure Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 06:51 JST BEIJING — The U.S. Defense Department dispatched a research team to Japan and South Korea from late last year through early this year to collect information on the geological structure of North Korea, Japanese government sources said Tuesday. Team members told Japanese and South Korean officials their purpose was to investigate the North's mineral resources, but experts said it is possible the United States began the geological survey with limited air strikes on North Korea in mind, given that it has important military facilities underground. (Kyodo News)

04/08/03 - WASHINGTON -- An Air Force B-1 Lancer crew rode an "adrenaline rush" as they prepared to strike a recently discovered target of opportunity believed to be the site of a high-level Iraqi leadership meeting April 7. "There wasn't a lot of time for reflection," Lt. Col. Fred Swan told Pentagon reporters via telephone from his deployed location. Swan is a B-1 Lancer weapons systems officer assigned to the 405th Air Expeditionary Wing. According to Swan, the B-1 was engaged in midair refueling when a call came from an airborne control aircraft telling them "this is the big one"...

On Friday, March 14, at 7:20 a.m. MST — five days before the official start of the war — two B-1B bombers struck the H3 airfield complex about 250 miles west of Baghdad. The bombers also hit another airfield complex nearby, according to the Associated Press. The Air Force did not say where the B-1Bs were based. Ellsworth Air Force Base has two squadrons of B-1Bs — or 26 aircraft. The other 34 aircraft in the nation's B-1B fleet are based at Dyess AFB, Texas. Nearly 1,000 Ellsworth personnel and an undisclosed number of Ellsworth B-1Bs are deployed overseas for...

***VIA CNBC... Reports that Pentagon says MAJOR AIR STRIKE OVER IRAQ IS Immenent...Fasten your seat belts.prisoner6