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China Denounces US Missile
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Americas - USA - Washington - @Pentagon - Re: Far
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Beijing is
denouncing a Pentagon report that says China is pointing more missiles at rival
Taiwan in case of a future conflict. Chinese officials call the report an
excuse for the United States sell more weapons to Taiwan. The Pentagon report
says Beijing is spending more on its military than it admits publicly, and is
greatly increasing the rate at which it is building missiles that can reach
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Beijing is denouncing a Pentagon report that says China is pointing
more missiles at rival Taiwan in case of a future conflict. Chinese officials
call the report an excuse for the United States sell more weapons to
Taiwan.
China's
Foreign Ministry says Wednesday's report from the Pentagon to the U.S. Congress
is an attempt to manipulate public opinion in support of American weapons sales
to Taiwan.
In a statement read by a Foreign Ministry official, China says
it "strongly resents" the report. It also asserts that China has the sovereign
right to build whatever weapons it needs and put them where ever it wants on
its own territory.
The
Pentagon report says Beijing is spending more on its military than it admits
publicly, and is greatly increasing the rate at which it is building missiles
that can reach Taiwan.
China is believed to have about 450 ballistic missiles aimed at
the island. The Pentagon says China is adding about 75 new ones per year
instead of the rate of 50 per year as previously thought.
China
did not comment on the specific numbers cited by the Pentagon.
Strategic studies expert Philip Yang of National Taiwan
University says the short-range ballistic missiles are a crucial part of
China's Peoples' Liberation Army arsenal.
"On the
PLA [China's People's Liberation Army] side they realize the missile deployment
is the only way, the most effective way to impose military threat across the
Taiwan Straits," he said.
Professor Yang says in spite of the report, there are no
unusual tensions in the cross-straits relationship right now.
Washington sells Taiwan enough advanced weapons to protect
itself from military threats from the communist Mainland. The United States is
committed to help defend Taiwan against unprovoked Chinese attack, but says it
wants the two sides to find a peaceful political solution to their differences.
Washington has also said for years that it opposes outright independence for
Taiwan.
Taiwan
split from China politically amid civil war more than half a century ago and
has been ruled separately since.
China says Taiwan must be returned to central government rule,
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| REOPENING CEREMONY —
Col. Michael S. Linnington, commander of 3rd Brigade, 187th Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), cuts the ceremonial cake with the
facility administrator during the reopening ceremony of a medical treatment
center in Tall'Afar, Iraq, July 23, 2003. The refurbishing of the facility was
a joint project by soldiers from the 431st Civil Affairs Battalion and 187th
Infantry Regiment, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff
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WASHINGTON, July 31, 2003
Defense officials are committed to fulfilling requests from the federal 9-11
Commission, a senior official said in the Pentagon today.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States, also called the 9-11 Commission, was tasked by the Congress and
the president to investigate the events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks and recommend ways to prevent future such attacks.
In a July 8 interim report, the commission contended
that the Defense Department was not cooperating with several requests.
That's not the case any longer, defense officials say. "It's certainly our
intent to interact with the commission aggressively and to give the commission
what it needs to cooperate with the review it's conducting," the official
said.
He spoke of six specific groups of
requests from the commission consisting of varying amounts of documents. In
some cases 100 percent of the request has been met; in others, defense
officials are well on the way to fulfilling the request.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan, July 31,
2003 It looks like the Alamo, complete with the Lone Star flag flying over
it.
The red mud walls of the coalition's
Provincial Reconstruction Team compound bring to mind the Texas shrine. But it
isn't Jim Bowie or Davey Crockett manning the walls in a last-ditch defense of
the San Antonio mission; rather, it's the men and women of the coalition
against terrorism standing up for peace and security.
Joint Chiefs chairman Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers
visited the remote outpost July 30. He received a briefing on the effort to "do
things right" in Afghanistan.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. Forget Carmen
Sandiego or Sam Spade. Who do you go call when you want to track down units and
equipment deployed worldwide?
The 804th
Transportation Detachment, Tacoma, Wash., which was mobilized in March as part
of Operation Enduring Freedom, can help. The unit has been here since May and
is projected to stay until January 2004.
"Our job is to track the units and tell the decision makers where their
soldiers and equipment are in the world. It gets a little difficult when no one
gives us a warning that soldiers are going to move, but we have a pretty good
track record of finding where the soldiers are," said Capt. Royce Albert, 805th
commander.
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WASHINGTON, July 30, 2003 Six enemy
combatants now being detained by the Defense Department will be evaluated to
determine if any should be charged and tried for war crimes under military
commissions, two senior U.S. military lawyers told the American Forces Radio
and Television Service recently.
The
detainees were seized during U.S. and coalition military operations
precipitated by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. The
al Qaeda terrorist group, led by Osama bin Laden, is universally believed to
have planned and carried out the 9-11 attacks.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan, July 31, 2003 - The United States highest-ranking military
officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers visited
Bagram Air Base yesterday as part of his tour of Middle Eastern and Asian
Coalition military operations.
While in
Bagram, Myers held a meeting with Combined Joint Task Force 180 leadership to
discuss a range of issues, and he also held a press conference for local and
international media.
Myers opened the press
conference with a statement that included messages of the mission heres success
and statements about his confidence in the coalition forces here.
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Field on July 30, 2003, the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General
Richard B. Myers and Major General John R. Vines, Commanding General of
Combined Joint Task Force 180, move to a press conference held at Bagram
Airbase. General Myers held a press conference and later toured the air field.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan, July 31,
2003 - Mary Jo Myers, wife of Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, visited Afghanistan yesterday with her husband. She has been
accompanying her husband on his trips to Baghdad,
Pakistan, Qatar, India
and Afghanistan.
But while her husband addressed
military affairs, Myers toured other places in Afghanistan. She toured the U.S.
hospital on Bagram Air Field, Gardez, an outpost in Northern Afghanistan, and
Kabul, where she visited a womens hospital and an orphanage.
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 OCALA, Fla. The Quiet Professionals of
the Florida National Guard are once again packing their equipment, checking
their weapons, and preparing to deploy in the global war on terror.
More than 100 soldiers from A and C Companies, 3rd
Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group, have been activated and are leaving from
Florida in early August for a deployment to an undisclosed location in
Southwest Asia. Theyll travel to Fort Bragg, N.C., where they will link up with
other Special Forces soldiers before deploying overseas.
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Division (Air Assault) watch as a TOW missile strikes the side of a building
that is suspected of harboring Uday and Qusay Hussein in Mosul, Iraq, July 22,
2003. Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by
coalition forces to apprehend and detain them. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Curtis
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AYUBKHEL VALLEY,
Afghanistan A day after the elements of 2-505th and 2-504th Infantry Regiments,
82nd Airborne Division endured a six-mile march through rugged mountains and
high altitudes, the infantry soldiers prepared to search a village for any
signs of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.
In their
previous operations over the past six months in Afghanistan, the 82nd Airborne
Division has conducted many village searches, but the one conducted July 26,
the fourth day of the divisions participation in Operation Warrior Sweep,
proved to be their most successful one yet.
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the peoples of those nations. We'll wage the war on terror against every enemy
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WASHINGTON - After nearly a half
century of federal service, William I. Lowry has learned to expect the
unexpected.
"I enjoy the challenges that
come, and everyday is different," said Lowry, the principal director for
organizational management and support in the Office of the Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy.
"You walk in the door
with a plan laid out, say(ing) 'I'm going to do xyz today.' This is my
schedule; this is who I'm going to be talking to. And you know, in a matter of
sometimes minutes, the whole day just sort of goes to dickens. And you're out
there, working and adjusting and what I call 'running and gunning."
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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan Six airmen from the 81st Expeditionary Fighter
Squadrons ammunition flight say conditions are much better here since they
constructed a wooden shelter to shade their work on the munitions pad.
Our table has an aluminum cover and by regulations, it has
to be grounded, said Master Sgt. Robert Byrd, the flights chief. Out here in
the sun, the pad gets hot enough to burn you.
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NEW ORLEANS (NNS) As the summer
months in the Arabian Gulf begin, the crew of Fleet Logistics Squadron 54 have
arrived on schedule and are ready to get busy.
With military operations in Iraq drawing down,
personnel and equipment are ready to head home. The tents that many called home
are coming down, and equipment is being disassembled and returned to its
prospective crate to be shipped stateside.
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Talks Alone Will Not Guarantee
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Americas - USA - Washington - Re: Korean Nuclear
Crisis
The top U.S. arms control
official has cautiously welcomed North Korea's agreement to hold multilateral
talks on its nuclear weapons programs. Undersecretary of State John Bolton
noted that talks alone will not guarantee an end to the nuclear crisis in
Korea. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton says North Korea's
apparent willingness to hold six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons programs
is encouraging. He said the format and timing of the talks remained unclear. At
a news conference in Tokyo, Mr. Bolton stressed that a verifiable inspection
program would ultimately be needed to establish whether North Korea was
dismantling its nuclear facilities. This, he said, would be at the heart of any
agreement among the United States, North Korea and the North's Asian
neighbors.
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The top U.S. arms control official has cautiously welcomed North
Korea's agreement to hold multilateral talks on its nuclear weapons programs.
Undersecretary of State John Bolton noted that talks alone will not guarantee
an end to the nuclear crisis in Korea.
Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton says North
Korea's apparent willingness to hold six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons
programs is encouraging. He said the format and timing of the talks remained
unclear.
At a
news conference in Tokyo, Mr. Bolton stressed that a verifiable inspection
program would ultimately be needed to establish whether North Korea was
dismantling its nuclear facilities. This, he said, would be at the heart of any
agreement among the United States, North Korea and the North's Asian
neighbors.
"We
need very close coordination and preparation with the government of South Korea
and the government of Japan and we talked about some of those kinds of issues,"
said Mr. Bolton. "[The] formula we have used, the complete, verifiable and
reversible dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, has
verification as its centerpiece."
Alluding to Pyongyang's demand for a non-aggression treaty with
Washington, Mr. Bolton said some sort of written security guarantee could be
given to the North if multilateral talks moved forward
successfully.
"We have no intent to invade North Korea, and as Secretary
Powell put it, we can find a way to put that down on a piece of paper," he
said, "but that is going to be, as with all other issues raised by the North
Korean weapons program, that is going to be resolved in the context of
multilateral negotiations if and when they began."
Mr. Bolton spoke after North Korea informed governments that it
would agree to talks with the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and
China. That agreement was first revealed Thursday by Russia, and has been
confirmed by South Korea.
The agreement amounted to a reversal of Pyongyang's
long-standing demand for direct discussions with Washington. The crisis began
10 months ago, when Washington revealed that Pyongyang had a nuclear weapons
program under way in violation of several international
agreements.
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Seoul on Thursday, Undersecretary Bolton had launched a sharp verbal attack on
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