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23 March 2006 Military News

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Other Conflicts

  • Authorities Arrest Opposition Leader, Nepal's Maoists Wound 3 VOA 23 Mar 2006 -- Nepalese police have arrested a top opposition leader in the capital, Kathmandu, and Maoist rebels have opened fire at a busy marketplace in southern Nepal, wounding three people.
  • Security Council calls for end to violence in Burundi UN News Centre 23 Mar 2006 -- While welcoming progress in Burundi’s emergence from a 12-year civil war, the Security Council today called for the immediate end to hostilities and human rights abuses that it said continue to be committed by both rebels and Government forces.
  • BURUNDI: Dar invites Bujumbura for FNL peace talks IRIN 23 Mar 2006 -- Burundi has received an invitation from Tanzania to attend peace negotiations with the country's remaining rebel group, the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) led by Agathon Rwasa, the spokesman of the Burundian government, Ramadhan Karenga, has said.
  • LIBERIA: ‘Bloated’ war-time government workforce gets peace-time axe IRIN 23 Mar 2006 -- The new peace-time government of Liberia has begun laying off thousands of government workers, some because they fail to show up for work, others because they cannot read or write, in a bid to slash the swollen payroll after 14 years of on-off civil war.
  • SOMALIA: Thousands flee militia fighting in Mogadishu IRIN 23 Mar 2006 -- Thousands of people, especially women and children, were fleeing their homes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday as fighting between rival militias entered a second day, witnesses said.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • Joint Force Elements Improve Crisis Response, Combat Ops AFPS 23 Mar 2006 -- The concept of a standing joint force headquarters core element is proving its value in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, senior officers at U.S. Joint Forces Command said.
  • Rumsfeld: U.S. Must Go 'All the Way' to Counter Terrorism AFPS 23 Mar 2006 -- The only way to prevail in the war against violent extremists is "if we are in it all the way," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Pentagon reporters today.
  • Army, AF Announce Joint Cargo Aircraft Program Army News 23 Mar 2006 -- Army and Air Force officials announced March 17 that a new Joint Cargo Aircraft, designed to enhance the combat readiness of both services, will be developed by a combined team. Fielding of the new aircraft is expected within two years.
  • US Security Strategy Reaffirms Preemptive War Doctrine VOA 23 Mar 2006 -- The White House recently released a new national security strategy that reaffirms President Bush's doctrine of preemptive war, but says diplomacy is the strong preference in combating the threat of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction

  • State Department Briefing, March 23 Washington File 23 Mar 2006 -- Iran, Iraq, Italy, China/Taiwan, Afghanistan, Chile, Ethiopia
  • White House Briefing, March 23 Washington File 23 Mar 2006 -- Immigration reform, speeches on war on terror/questions, U.S. troops in Iraq/length of stay, Iraq/new government, Louisiana/Voting Rights Act, Afghanistan/religious freedom, Iraq/hostage release, upcoming elections/president's agenda

Defense Industry

News Reports

  • NIGERIA: Deaths, delays and disruptions mar national census IRIN 23 Mar 2006 -- At least 10 people have died as Nigeria’s first census in 15 years takes place this week amid violence, delays and disruptions across the country.
  • AFRICA: China's great leap into the continent IRIN 23 Mar 2006 -- Providing cheap goods to African consumers is one way China is making inroads into the continent, but on a more fundamental level China is also engaged in a scramble for African resources to feed a roaring economy, expected to overtake Britain's as the fourth largest in the world by the end of 2006.