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• May 16 airpower summary: A-10s strike enemy AFPN 17 May 2008
• Bush Tells Karzai U.S. Will Help at Paris Donor Conference AFPS 17 May 2008 -- President Bush praised Afghan President Hamid Karzai today following meetings at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
• Afghanistan: Pakistani Ambassador Released By Kidnappers RFE/RL 17 May 2008 -- Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, who was kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants more than three months ago, has returned home safely after being released by his captors.
• Air Force delivers 77,000 lbs of relief to Burma AFPN 17 May 2008 -- A total of four Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft have delivered more than 77,000 lbs. of relief supplies to Burma as part of the ongoing U.S. relief efforts following Cyclone Nargis which devastated the coast of the Irrawaddy Division in Burma, May 2.
• Pacific Air Forces to deliver aid to China AFPN 17 May 2008 -- Pacific Air Forces Airmen are slated to deliver the first humanitarian aid to the People's Republic of China Sichuan province after an earthquake hit earlier this week.

Defense Policy / Programs

• US Military Lawyers Want Charges Dropped Against Guantanamo Detainees VOA 17 May 2008 -- U.S. military lawyers want charges dropped against alleged conspirators in the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, saying their cases were improperly influenced by a Pentagon adviser.
• Continuing Promise Seabees Wrap Up Work in Guatemala Navy NewsStand 17 May 2008 -- Seabees with Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 and Navy Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5, embarked aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4), completed renovation and repair operations throughout Guatemala, May 15, as part of Continuing Promise (CP) 2008.
• Army Helos Expand Capability with Boxer Navy NewsStand 17 May 2008 -- The Army's 1-226th Aviation Regiment conducted deck landing qualifications (DLQ) aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4), May 13, while the ship was off the coast of Guatemala for Continuing Promise (CP) 2008.
• AMC Airmen posturing to support China, Burma humanitarian relief AFPN 17 May 2008 -- Mobility Airmen are posturing for possible relief efforts for victims of China's earthquake, planners from the 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center here said May 16.

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Other Conflicts

• GLOBAL: Is this the end for cluster munitions? IRIN 17 May 2008 -- Banning a military weapon said to inflict a 98 percent civilian casualty rate is seen by many as an open-and-shut case, but for two weeks government representatives and interested parties will be guided by the phrase "cluster munitions that have unacceptable humanitarian consequences" in formulating a convention to curtail use of these weapons or totally getting rid of them.
• Israeli Official Warns of Growing Hamas Military Threat VOA 17 May 2008 -- A senior Israeli official has warned of a growing military threat from the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

News Reports

• British Prime Minister Criticizes Burma Over Failure to Allow in Foreign Aid VOA 17 May 2008 -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has strongly condemned Burma's military government for not allowing international aid to reach its own people
• Zimbabwe Opposition Alleges Tsvangirai Assassination Plot VOA 17 May 2008 -- Allegations that an assassination plot had been hatched against Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday, leading his Movement for Democratic Change to postpone his return to the country after a seven-week absence, have injected a sobering element into campaigning for the June 27 presidential runoff election
• Kazakhstan: President's Former Son-In-Law Offers To Testify In U.S. In 'Kazakhgate' Probe RFE/RL 17 May 2008 -- Rakhat Aliev, the exiled former son-in-law of Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev, says he's ready to give evidence in a U.S. investigation into whether Nazarbaev and other Kazakh officials took bribes from U.S. businesses to receive lucrative oil contracts more than a decade ago.
• Russia: Opposition Opens Parallel Parliament, Decries 'Monopoly On Power' RFE/RL 17 May 2008 -- Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov has formally launched an alternative parliament aimed at the "restoration of democracy and popular government in Russia."
• Russian opposition launches 'alternative' national assembly RIA Novosti 17 May 2008 -- The Russian opposition movement launched an alternative national assembly in Moscow on Saturday, committing itself in its founding charter to working toward the "restoration of political democracy in Russia."