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Published: Tuesday November 18, 2008
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday warned Georgia that any efforts to strengthen its military would be punished more severely than during the countries’ brief August war.
“We are concerned over the continuing desire of the Georgian administration to develop its military potential,” Serdyukov said through an interpreter after talks with [...]
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RIA Novosti
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:30 UTC
Russia will not allow Czech and Polish inspectors at its missile bases but is ready for further talks on the presence of its observers at U.S. missile shield sites in central Europe, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
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Report: Moscow ordered troops to raid Israeli facilities in Georgia to protect Iran
by Arnaud de Borchgrave
Global Research, September 17, 2008
United Press International (UPI) - 2008-09-02
NATO guarantees that an attack against one member country is an attack against all are no longer what they used to be. Had Georgia been inside NATO, a number of European [...]
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Sep 9 12:11 PM US/Eastern
Russian officials on Tuesday pledged military bases and 7,600 troops to protect the rebel Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, cementing Moscow’s dominance of the disputed territories.
Washington Post
MANTA, Ecuador — When U.S. officers stationed in this humid coastal city give reasons they should continue their decade-old airborne surveillance mission, they talk not only about fighting drug runners on the open seas but about the $71 million they’ve spent to renovate and maintain the city’s airport, and the $6.5 million they inject [...]
reuters
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama has ruled out hosting a U.S. military base to replace one in Ecuador which is being reclaimed by the Quito government, a senior Panamanian official said on Friday.
Panama — along with Peru and Colombia — had been tipped as a possible site to replace the Manta air base in western [...]
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06-18-2008
Canberra Times
Australian defence support for United States military operations in the Middle East will be boosted by construction of a new top-secret US military communications base in Western Australia.
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By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on June 15, 2008, Printed on June 16, 2008
It’s just a $5,812,353 contract — chump change for the Pentagon — and not even one of those notorious “no-bid” contracts either. Ninety-eight bids were solicited by the Army Corps of Engineers and 12 were received before the contract was awarded this May [...]
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By Gareth Porter, IPS News
Posted on June 13, 2008, Printed on June 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 — Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing U.S. negotiating aims from both U.S. citizens [...]
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By Basil Adas, Correspondent
Published: June 03, 2008, 13:42
Baghdad: A proposed Iraqi-American security agreement will include permanent American bases in the country, and the right for the United States to strike, from within Iraqi territory, any country it considers a threat to its national security, Gulf News has learned.
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