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• NATO and Libya - Operational Media Update: 05 Aug 2011
• Coalition Helicopter Goes Down in Afghanistan Killing 38 VOA 06 Aug 2011 -- A NATO helicopter has gone down in Eastern Afghanistan. The international coalition confirms the crash but did not give a cause. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says 31 U.S. Special Forces troops and 7 Afghan troops died in the crash. An investigation has begun.
• Leaders Offer Condolences in Wake of Helicopter Crash AFPS 06 Aug 2011 -- Senior U.S. officials have extended condolences to the families of American and Afghan forces lost in an International Security Assistance Force helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan earlier today.
• Statement from the Secretary of Defense DoD 06 Aug 2011

Defense Policy / Programs

• Florida governor lobbies Obama to sell F-16 C/Ds to Taiwan CNA 06 Aug 2011 -- Citing his state's dismal unemployment rate, Rick Scott, the governor of Florida, recently wrote to U.S. President Barack Obama asking the federal government to accept Taiwan's request to buy F-16 C/D jet fighters as soon as possible.
• Navy protects Iranian ships against pirates' threats IRNA 06 Aug 2011 -- Iranian ships have succeeded to safely pass through the Gulf of Aden with the help of Iran's naval force which was engaged in 18 separate conflicts with pirates since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), it was reported Saturday.
• Chinese Seamen Enjoy Performance by KPA Navy KCNA 06 Aug 2011 -- Seamen of the flotilla of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army enjoyed a performance given by the Korean People's Army.
• Meeting of Seamen of DPRK and China Held KCNA 06 Aug 2011 -- A meeting of seamen of the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Liberation Army took place on China's training ship "Zheng He".
• DPRK Officials Visit China's Flotilla KCNA 06 Aug 2011 -- Senior officers of the Korean People's Army and leading officials of local party and power bodies Saturday visited the flotilla of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

• Libyan Rebels Advance in Western Town VOA 06 Aug 2011 -- Libyan rebels say they have pushed back pro-government forces in Bir al-Ghanam, a strategic town about 80 kilometers southwest of Tripoli.
• Al-Shabab Militants Retreat from Mogadishu VOA 06 Aug 2011 -- Somalia's transitional federal government has announced that al-Shabab militants have retreated from Mogadishu, leaving the African Union-backed government in control of the capital.
• UN urges rapid response to measles outbreak in Somali refugee camps in Ethiopia UN News Centre 06 Aug 2011 -- The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm at the plight of Somali refugees in the Dollo Ado camps in south-eastern Ethiopia following an outbreak of suspected measles, and called for urgent action to assist an already vulnerable population.
• UN envoy welcomes news of Al-Shabaab vacating Somali capital UN News Centre 06 Aug 2011 -- The United Nations envoy for Somalia today welcomed the news that the Islamic insurgent group Al-Shabaab has begun to leave the capital, Mogadishu, and called on the strife-torn Horn of Africa nation's government to use the opportunity to ensure aid delivery to civilians in need.
• Ban disappointed at Israel's approval of more settlements in East Jerusalem UN News Centre 06 Aug 2011 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his deep disappointment at the recent approval by the Israeli Government of plans for more than 900 housing units in East Jerusalem.
• Taiwan will not consult China on Spratlys issue: MND CNA 06 Aug 2011 -- The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Friday nixed the possibility of Taiwan consulting with China over the controversial Spratly Islands issue.
• Taiwan to add camps in Pratas islet to defend South China Sea claim CNA 06 Aug 2011 -- The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) will sponsor more ecosystem camps in the Dongsha Islands as part of the government's effort to defend sovereignty claims in the disputed South China Sea, the agency's head said Saturday.
• Grave Situation in Tok Islets Attributable to Humiliating Diplomacy KCNA 06 Aug 2011 -- The Japanese reactionaries are becoming evermore undisguised in their moves to grab Tok Islets.

News Reports

• Syrian FM Promises General Elections Soon VOA 06 Aug 2011 -- Syria's foreign minister has indicated that general elections will be held by the end of the year, as anti-government protesters continue to press for President Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
• Ukraine lawmaker in emergency Tymoshenko parliament debate call RIA Novosti 06 Aug 2011 -- The Ukrainian parliament's vice-speaker has called for an emergency debate on the detention of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on a judge's orders for violating court rules during her trial for abuse of office in Kiev.
• Ukraine's opposition calls for creating nationwide Resistance RIA Novosti 06 Aug 2011 -- Ukraine's leading opposition party, Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), whose leader Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested on Friday, called for creation of the nationwide Resistance Committee, party's first deputy chairman, Alexander Turchinov said on Saturday.