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Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency, briefs reporters at the Pentagon, December 2008. Photo: DVIDSHUBPanetta Lets Ex-Missile Defense Chief Keep His Rank -- Bloomberg BusinessweekDefense Secretary Leon Panetta allowed the former director of the U.S....

RQ-11 Raven. WikipediaIran Claims Shooting Down 2 U.S.-Made RQ-11 Drones -- Defense NewsTEHRAN — Iran on Jan. 2 said it had shot down two U.S.-made RQ-11 reconnaissance drones in the past 15 months, adding to a ScanEagle drone and RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft it already claims...

HOWITZER HAULA U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallions lifts M777 howitzers over Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 29, 2012. U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing provided aerial support by repositioning...

America Could Still Go Over The Cliff — And Take The Rest Of Us With It -- Simon Heffer, Dialy MailAfter America postponed its jump off the fiscal cliff in the small hours of Tuesday night, world stock markets soared. Anyone listening to the BBC yesterday with its headlines praising...

Who Holds The World's Nuclear Warheads? Get The Full List By Country -- The GuardianThe cold war is long over, but there are still over 7,000 nuclear warheads deployed globally. How is the world's nuclear arsenal distributed?The news that North Korea has successfully launched a satellite...

U.S. Army Spc. Kaleb Propst provides security overwatch at a meeting for leaders at a Bala Boluk district building in Afghanistan's Farah province, Jan. 2, 2013. Propst is a security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, which trains, advises and assists Afghan...

New Capabilities, New Constraints Call For New Concepts In 2013 -- Aol Defense Whatever happens with sequestration, Pentagon planners are now struggling to fit the services' myriad programs under a reduced budget topline. Advocates point to their particular project or personnel as...

Missteps By CIA's Shadowy Military Wing Highlight The Agency's Troubling Shift To Militancy -- Business InsiderIn the years since the Afghanistan invasion, the CIA, long a covert intelligence gathering body, entered a phase of growing militancy that has rendered headline after headline...

'Zero Dark Thirty' Account of Torture Verified by Media Record of Legislators and CIA Officials -- G. Roger Denson, Huffington PostIn the weeks preceeding the release of the much lauded film Zero Dark Thirty--of which everyone by now knows is about one CIA agent's single-minded mission...

Senate Panel To Examine CIA Contacts With "Zero Dark Thirty" Filmmakers -- Reuters(Reuters) - After the Senate Intelligence Committee's chairwoman expressed outrage over scenes that imply "enhanced interrogations" of CIA detainees produced a breakthrough in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the panel has begun a review of contacts between the makers of...

Afghanistan’s IED Complex: Inside the Taliban Bomb-Making Industry -- Mujib Mashal, Time“I am here in Kandahar on a short vacation,” says the young man, about 27, who we will call Mullah Kalam. His beard is trimmed neat; he is wearing a black leather jacket and a striped beige turban....

ReutersNY Times Loses Bid To Uncover Details On Drone Strikes -- Reuters(Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected The New York Times' bid to force the U.S. government to disclose more information about its targeted killing of people it believes have ties to terrorism, including...

Argentina Urges Britain To 'End Colonialism' And Hand Back Falklands -- The GuardianPresident Fernández uses letter to David Cameron in British press to say Britain should open sovereignty talks over islands.Thirty years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands,...

Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV -- NPRAl-Jazeera announced Wednesday that it was acquiring Current TV, the network launched by former Vice President Al Gore."By acquiring Current TV, Al Jazeera will significantly expand our existing distribution footprint in the U.S., as well as increase...

  Mike, how do you plan on accessing them once transferred? Just using Excel for Mac or ? An option could be using Parallels or like I do VMware and installing Windows and associated Windows software if you have the install disks....

The Menace of Syrian Chemical Weapons -- Jamie Fly, Wall Street Journal A threat in the hands of Bashar Assad, but perhaps an even bigger one if his regime falls.After standing on the sidelines for 21 months while Syrian dictator Bashar Assad slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people, President Obama recently warned that Assad will cross a "red...

Syrian Death Toll Tops 60,000, U.N. Says -- Washington PostBEIRUT — The United Nations’ human rights chief said Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in the bloody conflict in Syria, a figure that far exceeds even estimates given by opposition groups after nearly two years of fighting.“The number of casualties is much higher than...

In South Korea, Kim Jong-un's New Year Speech Generates Surprise - And Doubt -- Christian Science MonitorNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for economic reform and expressed a wish to improve relations with South Korea, departing from the usual North Korea rhetoric.North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un signaled his desire for improved relations with...

Central African Republic Rebels Halt Advance, Agree To Peace Talks -- Reuters(Reuters) - Rebels in Central African Republic said they had halted their advance on the capital on Wednesday and agreed to start peace talks, averting a clash with regionally backed troops.The Seleka rebels had pushed to within striking distance of Bangui after a three-week...

Nuclear power: A uranium processing facility at the Isfahan nuclear site is seen here in March 2005. Daily MailIran To Citizens: Flee Isfahan -- Washington Free BeaconIranian officials tell citizens to vacate city located near nuke siteIranian officials have instructed residents...

Assad Could Find Sanctuary In Town Of Deposed Leaders -- Sydney Morning Herald/New York TimesBARVIKHA, Russia: A few years back, before he settled in this bucolic town in a pine forest near Moscow, Askar Akayev, then the president of Kyrgyzstan, had a very stressful day.Outside his...

Any End In Sight? Syrian Conflict Enters Third Calendar Year -- Ariel Zirulnick, Christian Science MonitorMany believed 2012 would be Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's last year in power, but at the outset of 2013 the conflict appears locked in a stalemate with alarming fatality rates.The Syrian civil war entered its third calendar year with rebel...

Syria Unrest Has Killed 60,000, Says UN -- BBCMore than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's uprising began in March 2011, the UN has said.A study commissioned by UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay collated data from seven different sources, and concluded that there had been 59,648 deaths until November 2012.Ms Pillay said the figure...

Syria Execution Video Shows Stabbing And Stoning Blamed On Assad Militia (GRAPHIC IMAGES) -- Huffington Post/ReutersBEIRUT, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Internet video posted by Syrian rebels appears to show fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stabbing two men to death and stoning them with concrete blocks in a summary execution lasting several minutes.Assad's...

Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War -- Danger RoomThe world already believed Syria’s civil war to be monstrous, with nearly 45,000 slain. But when the United Nations plunged into the disparate databases cataloguing the victims, it discovered there had been an awful oversight. The true death toll was more like 60,000 people, the data-mining...

Smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling in Homs, Syria (June 2012). UN Photo/David ManyuaMore Than 60,000 Have Died in Syrian Conflict, U.N. Says -- New York TimesGENEVA — More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s 22-month-old civil war, the United...

Burma Admits Air Strikes Targeted Kachin Rebels -- Voice of AmericaThe Burmese government has confirmed that it carried out air strikes this week against ethnic rebels in northern Kachin state, raising fresh concerns about the country's reform and fragile peace processes.In an interview with VOA's Burmese Service on Wednesday, a government spokesperson...

ENDING CEASEFIRE. NPA guerillas somewhere in Compostela Valley during the celebration of the 44th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines last December 26. Photo by Karlos ManlupigPhilippine Communist Rebels Call Off Truce -- Al JazeeraCommunist...

U.S. And New Zealand Secretly Tested 'Tsunami Bomb' Designed To Trigger Tidal Waves And Destroy Coastal Cities In WWII -- Daily Mail* Countries carried out covert tests of a device designed to use underwater explosions to trigger massive tidal waves* Testing saw almost 4,000 bombs...

U.S. Army Sgt. William Russell, right, shakes hands with Afghan Col. Abdul Qayoom, Farah City prison commander, during a meeting with key leaders at the prison in Afghanistan, Dec. 29, 2012. Russell is a security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, which trains,...

Congress Approves ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Measure -- Washington PostCongress approved a plan to end Washington’s long drama over the “fiscal cliff” late Tuesday after House Republicans surrendered to President Obama’s demand to let taxes rise on the nation’s richest households.The House voted 257 to 167 to send the measure to Obama for his signature; the vote...