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14 July 2006 Military News

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  • Rice Calls for Release of Israeli Soldiers, Urges Restraint Washington File 14 Jul 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the abduction of Israeli soldiers is at the origin of the current crisis in the Middle East and called for their safe return in order to defuse the conflict.
  • Hezbollah Vows to Wage Open War on Israel VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- The leader of the Lebanese-based militant group Hezbollah has vowed to wage open war on Israel after an apparently failed attempt on the group's leader.
  • Egypt, Jordan Appeal for Calm VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- Egypt and Jordan condemn Israel's attacks in Lebanon Friday and appeal for calm in a day of diplomacy in Cairo.
  • Secretary-General's team on the Middle East arrives in Cairo for first leg of peace talks UN News Centre 14 Jul 2006 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's high-level team to the Middle East, which includes his Special Political Adviser, arrived in Cairo today on the first leg of a diplomatic mission aimed at stemming the increasing violence between Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinians.
  • Security Council calls on all sides in Middle East to cooperate with UN team UN News Centre 14 Jul 2006 -- Following a Security Council meeting today to discuss the escalating crisis in the Middle East, its President called on all “concerned sides and parties” to fully cooperate with a high-level United Nations team – which includes Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Political Adviser – that has been sent to the region.
  • Middle East: UN officials urge end to ‘disproportionate’ attacks, release of seized soldiers UN News Centre 14 Jul 2006 -- United Nations humanitarian officials today urged Israel, the Palestinians and Lebanese Hizbollah militants to refrain from disproportionate responses in the current renewed fighting, avoid attacking civilians, end rocket attacks and release immediately all kidnapped people.
  • Asefi denies Israeli claim IRNA 14 Jul 2006 -- Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi on Thursday categorically denied the claim of the Zionist regime that the captured Israeli soldiers have been transferred to Iran.
  • Lebanon, Israel Trade Accusations Following Military Offensive VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- Lebanon has accused Israel of 'barbaric aggression' in its current military offensive, and called on the U.N. Security Council to declare a cease-fire., Israel rejected the criticism, and charged Lebanon with harboring terrorists.
  • UN Calls for Restraint by Israel, Extremist Groups VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- The U.N.'s top humanitarian official is calling on Israel and on extremist groups in Gaza and Lebanon to show restraint, and to refrain from attacking civilians and civilian installations
  • Chirac: Israeli Strikes in Lebanon Disproportionate VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- French President Jacques Chirac says it appears Israel is trying to deliberately destroy Lebanon's infrastructure on the second day of strikes on the region
  • Iranian Religious Leader Urges Support for Hezbollah VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- A senior Iranian religious leader Friday defended Hezbollah and called on Muslims and non-Muslims alike to rally to its support
  • Bush Consults Mideast Leaders on Violence VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- President Bush is reaching out to Middle East leaders in hopes of ending the latest round of violence there.
  • Middle East: Syria, Iran Loom Larger In Israel-Lebanon Crisis RFE/RL 14 Jul 2006 -- Israel is stepping up air attacks on Hizballah in a declared campaign to root it out of southern Lebanon
  • Putin urges end to military action in Middle East RIA Novosti 14 Jul 2006 -- The Russian president urged Friday all sides involved in the Middle East conflict to end military operations and bloodshed.
  • Russia's foreign ministry urges Israel, Hizbollah to end violence RIA Novosti 14 Jul 2006 -- The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Israel to lift its blockade on Lebanon, and called on Hizbollah militants to end rocket strikes against Israeli targets in a statement Friday.
  • Israel Strikes New Targets in Lebanon VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- Israeli warplanes attacked Beirut's international airport for a second day on Friday, also hitting gas depots, the main Beirut-Damascus highway and Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs
  • UN Security Council Debates Mideast Crisis VOA 14 Jul 2006 -- The United Nations Security Council is holding an urgent meeting at the request of Lebanon Friday on the escalating crisis in the Middle East.
  • G8's Middle Eastern challenge RIA Novosti 14 Jul 2006 -- The events in southern Lebanon will have dramatic consequences for the region and the rest of the world, especially in terms of energy security, the war on terror, and the dialogue - or rather, the lack of it - of civilizations.

  • DR Congo: UN agency reports mass displacement in militia-ridden northeast UN News Centre 14 Jul 2006 -- Major population displacements in the Ituri district in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have resulted from renewed fighting between the national army and rebel militias, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported today.
  • UGANDA: LRA peace talks kick off IRIN 14 Jul 2006 -- Peace talks between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) formally opened on Friday in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba, in a bid to end the brutal 20-year conflict ravaging northern Uganda.
  • ANGOLA: Cabinda separatists divided over peace talks IRIN 14 Jul 2006 -- Talks on ending a 30-year separatist rebellion in Angola's Cabinda province have been underway this week in neighbouring Congo Brazzaville, but it is unclear whether rebel forces will endorse the negotiations.
  • MOZAMBIQUE: South and centre still in danger of landmines IRIN 14 Jul 2006 -- Fourteen years after the end of Mozambique's civil war, landmines still threaten the lives of 500,000 rural people, denying them access to farms, trade routes and water supplies.
  • 16 killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lanka IRNA 14 Jul 2006 -- Twelve soldiers and four Tamil rebels were killed in fresh violence in Sri Lanka's restive eastern province Friday as nationalists demanded the arrest of an ailing Tiger spokesman undergoing treatment in Colombo.
  • India to send more peacekeeping troops to Congo IRNA 14 Jul 2006 -- Ahead of holding of first ever general elections in strife-torn Congo, India is rushing 700 additional troops to the country to provide security cover for the internationally- supervised polls scheduled for July 31.
  • Russia: Chechen Resistance Leadership Affirms Readiness For Peace Talks RFE/RL 14 Jul 2006 -- Diplomatic representatives abroad of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (ChRI) have drafted a manifesto addressed to participants of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg
  • SOMALIA: Gov't welcomes UN statement on revising arms embargo IRIN 14 Jul 2006 -- Somalia's transitional government on Friday welcomed a statement by the United Nations Security Council that the world body was ready to ease the arms embargo on the Horn of Africa country to pave the way for the deployment of an African peacekeeping force.
  • LIBERIA: Debt waiver is key to recovery from war, govt tells donors IRIN 14 Jul 2006 -- With more than half of Liberia’s children out of school and all but five percent of the country’s health centres flattened by war, the government is calling for a waiver of the country’s huge external debt to help it quickly recover from war.
  • DRC: Kinshasa accepts militia leader's plea to join army IRIN 14 Jul 2006 -- The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has responded positively to a request by a militia leader in the northeastern district of Ituri to be integrated into the national army.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • COMSUBSOUTH, CSG 8 Changes Command Navy NewsStand 14 Jul 2006 -- Rear Adm. Carl Van Mauney, commander, Submarines, Allied Naval Forces South (COMSUBSOUTH) and commander, Submarine Group (CSG) 8 turned over command to Rear Adm. Jeffrey Fowler in a ceremony on Nisida Island, just off the coast of Naples, July 14.
  • USS Falcon, Oriole Decommissioned Navy NewsStand 14 Jul 2006 -- Two Osprey-class coastal mine hunters were decommissioned June 30 in formal ceremonies at Naval Station Ingleside.
  • SECNAV Tours Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Navy NewsStand 14 Jul 2006 -- Navy Secretary Donald Winter took a tour of USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) July 13 to see firsthand the ship’s capabilities and meet the crew.
  • BHR Says ‘Aloha’ to RIMPAC During Pearl Harbor Port Visit Navy NewsStand 14 Jul 2006 -- The San Diego-based multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (BHR) (LHD 6) pulled into Pearl Harbor Naval Station in late June for a 10-day liberty port visit in support of the 2006 Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC), the largest biennial maritime exercise in the world.
  • NSA Environmental Department Tests Oil Spill Recovery Concept Navy NewsStand 14 Jul 2006 -- The Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain Environmental Department tested an oil spill recovery concept at the Mina Salman pier fulfilling international environmental standards and complying with naval operational requirements, June 26..
  • Blum: Army Guard Enjoying Big Recruiting Successes AFPS 14 Jul 2006 -- The Army National Guard is experiencing its biggest and longest-running recruiting success since the end of the draft, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told Pentagon reporters today.
  • Oregon-based KC-135 unit begins drawdown AFPN 14 Jul 2006 -- The first KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft from the 939th Air Refueling Wing departs Portland International Airport today, marking the beginning of a change in mission for the Air Force Reserve unit.
  • IA program provides political-military, cultural experts AFPN 14 Jul 2006 -- Air Force officers can expect to gain international insight, foreign language proficiency and cultural understanding by becoming international affairs specialists, said an Air Force executive here.
  • RIMPAC 2006: Perfecting air operations AFPN 14 Jul 2006 -- Airmen and Sailors working in the Pacific Air Operations Center here are getting unique command and control training during the Rim of the Pacific exercise, known as RIMPAC 2006.

  • U.S. signs $150 mln air base lease agreement with Kyrgyzstan RIA Novosti 14 Jul 2006 -- The United States is going to pay Kyrgyzstan about $150 million for the continued use of an air base in the country in 2007, the Kyrgyz government said Friday.

  • Press Gaggle by Tony Snow The White House 14 Jul 2006
  • Daily Press Briefing US Department of State 14 Jul 2006

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  • Russia returns to idea of global security RIA Novosti 14 Jul 2006 -- Outlining Russia's positions at the forthcoming G8 summit, President Vladimir Putin virtually returned to the idea of Mikhail Gorbachev - to look at global security from an entirely new angle and to approach it in a way which would be suitable for the majority of civilized nations, or, in other words, to establish firm guarantees of mankind's steady and predictable development.
 

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