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23 April 2013 Military News

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  • OIF/OEF/OND Casualty Update 23 Apr 2013 [PDF]

  • Department of Defense Press Briefing with Maj. Gen. Polumbo from the Pentagon Briefing Room DoD 23 Apr 2013 -- Presenter: Director, ISAF Air Component Coordination Element and Commander, 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force-Afghanistan Major General H.D. Polumbo Jr.
  • NATO's support to Afghan army sustainment takes shape NATO 23 Apr 2013 -- Foreign ministers from NATO and ISAF partner nations made progress in shaping NATO's long-term support to Afghanistan at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (23 April 2013). "Today we agreed on the means to ensure transparency and accountability in our future funding mechanisms of the Afghan security forces. This is an important pillar of the international community's wider commitment to sustaining Afghanistan in the years to come," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
  • NATO Tells Afghanistan to Meet its Commitments to Ensure Aid VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Afghanistan's president Tuesday that his government must follow through on a series of reform plans to ensure that Western support continues beyond next year, when most foreign troops will leave the country. The two leaders met in Brussels during a NATO foreign ministers' meeting.
  • Commander: Coalition to Posture Afghan Air Force to Succeed AFPS 23 Apr 2013 -- Air power has provided a critical advantage throughout the Afghanistan campaign, and it will do the same for Afghan national security forces building their own air capability, the senior U.S. and NATO airman in Afghanistan told Pentagon reporters today.
  • Parliament welcomes 4th Mechanized Brigade home from Afghanistan UK MOD 23 Apr 2013 -- Men and women of 4th Mechanized Brigade have marched through London to the Houses of Parliament to mark their return from Afghanistan.
  • NATO-Russia Council expands support to Afghan Air Force NATO 23 Apr 2013 -- NATO Foreign Ministers together with their Russian counterpart, Minister Sergey Lavrov, agreed to expand their support for the Afghan Air Force during a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on Tuesday (23 April).
  • Gunmen attack NATO tanker in Pakistan Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Unknown gunmen in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region have attacked a NATO oil tanker carrying fuel to US-led forces in Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
  • Despite Gains Against Taliban, Helmand Residents Feel Insecure RFE/RL 23 Apr 2013 -- After years of bloodshed, a tenuous calm has emerged in Helmand. Large swaths of the southern Afghan province, once a bastion of the Taliban insurgency, have been wrested from militant control.

  • Guard Troops Battle Rising Waters in Missouri, North Dakota AFPS 23 Apr 2013 -- About 100 Missouri National Guardsmen from units in St. Louis, Hannibal and Cape Girardeau joined community volunteers to work in support of flood relief operations in affected areas.

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  • Salehi: Iran ready for interactions if US proves sincerity IRNA 23 Apr 2013 -- Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran is ready for interactions if Americans are truly sincere in their claims.
  • FM spokesman: No date fixed yet for talks with IAEA IRNA 23 Apr 2013 -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast here on Tuesday said talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency is on Iran's agenda but no date has yet been fixed for continuation of technical debates.
  • Iran rejects Canada's claim about terror suspects's links Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Iran has strongly rejected a recent claim by the Canadian government over alleged links between the suspects in a foiled terrorist attack in Canada and Tehran.
  • Iran ready to interact if US is honest: Salehi Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran is prepared for interaction if Washington shows honesty in its actions.
  • Lankarani pledges to form competent cabinet if elected president Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Iranian presidential hopeful, Kamran Baqeri Lankarani, has pledged to select highly competent figures from different political fronts as his cabinet ministers in case he wins the Islamic Republic's upcoming presidential election.

  • Dutch courts sentences ex-foreign ministry worker for spying Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- A Dutch court has sentenced a former foreign ministry worker to 12 years in prison, after finding him guilty of spying for Russia.

  • South Africa Close to Passing 'Secrecy' Bill VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- South African legislators are looking at a final draft of the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, a proposed law that critics say would seriously curtail freedoms in Africa's most prominent democracy.

  • Southeast Asian Nations Aim to Restore Unity at Annual Summit VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- Leaders of Southeast Asia are gathering in Brunei this week for an annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The regional group is trying to move forward with plans for economic integration and repair divisions about disputed territory with China in the South China Sea.

  • Musharraf appears in anti-terrorism court Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf has appeared before an anti-terrorism court over his alleged role in the murder of former Premier Benazir Bhutto.
  • Pakistan's Musharraf Appears Before Anti-Terrorism Court VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has ordered the country's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, to be made part of an ongoing investigation into assassination of Benazir Bhutto five years ago. Also on Tuesday police say they found a vehicle packed with explosives near the Musharraf residence.

  • Ban, Security Council strongly condemn attack on French Embassy in Libya UN News Centre 23 Apr 2013 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council today condemned, in the strongest terms, a deadly attack on the French Embassy in Libya's capital, Tripoli, affirming the responsibility of Libyan authorities to ensure protection for diplomatic premises.
  • France Outraged at Car Bomb Attack on Embassy in Libya VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- France is expressing outrage following an attack on its embassy in the Libyan capital.

  • Rely on a Smartphone? New NASA Satellites Do VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- Smartphones. We carry them in our pockets, toss them in our tote bags and have them at the ready whenever we want directions to a destination or to snap a picture or to call a friend.

  • The forgotten displacement crisis IRIN 23 Apr 2013 -- Iraq has experienced waves of displacement in recent decades, but none compare in size or scale to the flight of Iraqis after the bombing of a Holy Shi'ite shrine in 2006, an event that marked the start of two years of deadly sectarian violence.

  • Sources: Brothers Acted Alone in Marathon Bombings VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- U.S. investigators say preliminary evidence from interviews with the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suggest that he and his brother were motivated by Islamic religious extremism, but not linked to any terrorist groups.
  • Boston Suspects Learned to Make Bombs from Al-Qaida Magazine – US Media RIA Novosti 23 Apr 2013 -- Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that he and his brother learned to make homemade pressure-cooker bombs from an online magazine published by al-Qaida, NBC News reported Tuesday.
  • Boston Bombing Suspect Exhibited Extremism at Local Mosque VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- Two ethnic Chechen brothers, suspected of the double bombings at the Boston marathon, attended a mosque in Cambridge Massachusetts. The bombs killed three and injured more than 170. The older brother, now deceased, is accused of being argumentative about his religion, critical of those who weren't conservative Muslims.
  • Congress to Question FBI on Boston Bombing VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- U.S. lawmakers will question senior security officials this week about whether the FBI mishandled information after interviewing Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev about his six-month stay last year in the Russian provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya.

  • Four arrested for plotting terror activity in Britain Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Britain's domestic spying agency MI5 has arrested four people for plotting to perpetrate terrorist bombings throughout Britain, local media reported.

  • US officials now buckle on hyped up claims of toxic mail targeting Obama Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- Following last week's hyped up media reports on the arrest of a Mississippi man for mailing poisonous letters to US President Barack Obama, a senator and a judge, FBI has announced that it has not found any poison-making materials at his home.

  • Two Arrested In Canada Terror Plot RFE/RL 23 Apr 2013 -- Police in Canada say two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train.
  • Canada Foils Alleged al-Qaida-Backed Terror Plot RIA Novosti 23 Apr 2013 -- Canadian security officials on Monday arrested two men who were suspected of planning a terror attack to derail a passenger train, allegedly with backing from "al-Qaida elements in Iran," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

  • US Teen Appears in Court on Terror Charges VOA 23 Apr 2013 -- A teenager in the Midwestern U.S. state of Illinois accused of planning to join an al-Qaida linked group in Syria appeared in a Chicago federal court Tuesday, charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorism.

  • China H7N9 bird flu spreads to eastern province of Shandong Iran Press TV 23 Apr 2013 -- China's H7N9 strain of bird flu has spread to a new region as Chinese health authorities confirm the first virus case in the eastern province of Shandong.

  • Guatemala: UN adviser calls on judges to ensure accountability for atrocities UN News Centre 23 Apr 2013 -- A senior United Nations official today urged judicial authorities in Guatemala to ensure that legal proceedings continue without interference against the country's former head of State and former head of intelligence who stand accused of atrocities committed in the Central American nation over 30 years ago.



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