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Military News for Canadians
5 November 2006
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HEADLINES

Saddam Sentenced to Hang

USA Mil Mags to Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation

USA Wants to Head All UN Peacekeeping Ops

Afghanistan

CAN General Predicts Another 10 Year's Work

NLD Presses for Mo' Troops in South, More Work to Block Terrs from PAK

Brits Have 2 Para Ready to Jump Into AFG if Needed - More

AQ 2 i/c Still Elusive in PAK - Stoking the Insurgency

Growing USA Worries Over Karzai?

Paper:  Comms in the Mountains

Terror Target:  Canada

CAN Says No Appeal of Arar-Reporter Ruling

GWOT

AQ's "Blue Eyed Emirs"

Working a New Counter-Terr Approach for Europe

Brits Seem Sort ~5K Troops for Two Fronts - More - Seem to Have Eqpt Woes, Too - UK Watchdog Report on Recruiting, Retention

CAN/CF News

CAN Sailor Dies in Nassau

USN Sailor Stabbed Dead in Halifax

PM Not Ruling Out Full-Time Guard of Honour for War Memorial - Army.ca Debate

CF Troops Practice on Big Honking Ship

More on CF Targeting University Sports for Recruiting

Opinion:  Warriors, Peacekeepers

Pearson's Legacy NOT Just "Peacekeeping"

LCOL John Butler:  Valiant to Us, Bad Guy to USA - The Valiants Memorial GG Unveiling Today - Butler's Rangers - John Butler Bio - Wikipedia History - One Massacre - Another One

Newest CF Snowbird Team Members Annoucned

Should CAN Do More in HTI?

Other Mil & Secur News

USA Trying to Take Over All UN Peacekeeping Ops

Fiji Heating Up, Pissed at Aussies & Kiwis - Fiji Mil Promises No Coup (Again)

USAF Prepares to Fight Cyber War

USA Pondering Monument Honouring the War Disabled

Brits Too Tuby to Join Mil?

Hang 'Em High

Saddam, Two Others, Condemned:  AFP - AP- BBC - UPI - RFE/RL - VOA

Charge Sheet (.pdf) - IRQ Law on Criminal Proceedings (.pdf)

Saddam Says He's Good to Go - Appeal to be Filed

Sentence Good-Bad News:  AFP - AP- Reuters - BBC - VOA

Amnesty Int'l Questions Fairness of Trial - News Release

Iraq

USA Mil Mags Call for Rumsfeld to Resign Over IRQ - More - more - Neo-cons Turning - Bush Shrugs Off Opinion - More

Another USA Deserter Gets "No" on CAN Asylum

Troops Still Pissed About Body Armour

Saddam Close to Building a Nuke?

AQ Chieftain Nailed via USA Fast Air

Seeing a Suicide Bomber and Getting Away

USA Mil Keeps Dog Handler Convicted of Abuse Outta IRQ for Second ROTO

Opinion:  Failure in IRQ That of Iraqis, not Yanks - What Osama Wants

Was This War Gamed in 1999?

North Korea

More Talk of Mil Strikes on Nuke Sites?

Middle East

IDF Pushes Back into Gaza - PSE Receiving IRN Wpns Thru EGY Port - Hamas Using Female Human Shields

PSE Says No Plans to Kill IDF Hostage

IRN Continues Missile Tests While IDF Plans

Hezbollah Getting Stronger?

Africa

FRA Military Implicated in RWA Massacre

African, Arab Countries Want to Go Nuclear

SOM, Bad Guys Trying to Talk Truce - SOM For Min Says AQ Pouring in Terrs - Bad Guys Testing Rockets

UN Calls for Darfur Probe - Arab Militia Working with SUD Military

Balkans

Kofi Says Kosovo's Status Could be Put on Hold


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