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11 April 2013 Military News

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  • OIF/OEF/OND Casualty Update 11 Apr 2013 [PDF]
  • Dempsey: Post-2014 Security Agreement Talks Can Move Forward AFPS 11 Apr 2013 -- It isn't necessary to have a decision on an exact number of troops in post-2014 Afghanistan before securing a bilateral security agreement, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the House Armed Services Committee today.
  • Combined Force in Kandahar Arrests Taliban Leader AFPS 11 Apr 2013 -- A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader and detained another insurgent in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military officials reported.
  • PRT Farah Links Local Leader with International Center for Journalists NNS 11 Apr 2013 -- Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah met with the local Director of Information and Culture, Lal Mohammed Bahari, to deliver cameras and video equipment provided by the International Center for Journalists in Farah City here, Apr. 10.
  • Army engineering team, Soldiers partner in Afghan security mission Army News 11 Apr 2013 -- American Soldiers with a mission to advise the Afghan uniformed police finished securing a key coalition compound with the assistance of deployed U.S. Army civilian engineers and technicians.
  • MWSS-272 helps DHS secure Southwest border USMC News 11 Apr 2013 -- detachment from Engineer Company, Marine Wing Support Squadron 272, based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., deployed Feb. 28 to Nogales, Ariz., to construct a new border security road and improve several existing roads in support of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Southwest Border Infrastructure Enhancement Program.

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News Reports

  • North Korean Dissident: Kim Jong Un is Inexperienced VOA 11 Apr 2013 -- As tensions escalate on the Korean Peninsula with Pyongyang warning foreigners to leave and closing an industrial complex on the border with South Korea, many around the world are wondering what prompted the communist country to provoke its neighbors and the rest of the world.
  • West to be obliged to recognize Iran's nuclear right, MP IRNA 11 Apr 2013 -- Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said here that the West will be compelled to recognize Iran's nuclear right one day.
  • Another radioactive water leak spotted at Fukushima plant Iran Press TV 11 Apr 2013 -- Another radioactive water leak has been confirmed at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following a similar incident at the site a few days ago.
  • New Radioactive Water Leak Found at Japan's Fukushima Plant RIA Novosti 11 Apr 2013 -- A fresh leak of radioactive water has been detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeast Japan, the plant's operator said on Thursday.
  • China H7N9 strain bird flu toll reaches 10 Iran Press TV 11 Apr 2013 -- The death toll from the H7N9 strain of bird flu has climbed to ten as another patient infected with the virus loses life in China.
  • Ivory Coast Soldiers On Trial at Military Court VOA 11 Apr 2013 -- Ivory Coast's military tribunal has begun trying more than 30 soldiers for crimes including assault and murder. Critics have been accusing the government of President Alassane Ouattara of shielding his military backers from the law.
  • G8 Threatens Action if North Korea Launches Missile VOA 11 Apr 2013 -- Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized countries, which includes Russia, have threatened "further significant measures" if North Korea conducts another missile launch or nuclear test in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions. North Korea is expected to launch a new medium-range missile sometime soon.



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