The US departure has led to one of the biggest movements of troops and equipment of modern times and one of the biggest fire sales. The military says it has given around 3.5m items to the Iraqi government, worth more than $353m (£228m). Doing so, it estimates, has saved around $605m in transport costs either [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 13, 2011
Hezbollah identifies undercover CIA officers
December 13, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Hezbollah identifies undercover CIA officers 13 Dec 2011 The militant group Hezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon, a blow to agency operations in the region and the latest salvo in an escalating spy war. Hezbollah made the names public in a broadcast Friday [...]
December 13, 2011
Hezbollah names CIA spies in Lebanon
Hezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon, a blow to agency operations in the region and the latest salvo in an escalating spy war. The militant group made the names public in a broadcast on Friday night on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar. Using video animations, the station recreated meetings [...]
December 13, 2011
Hezbollah names ‘CIA spies’ on TV
13 December 2011 Last updated at 03:36 GMT Hassan Nasrallah has referred to the US embassy in Beirut as a den of spies The Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has exposed purported CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon. Hezbollah broadcast what it said were the names of the American spies on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar, [...]
December 9, 2011
Kabila Named Winner of DRC Election; Tshisekedi Rejects Results
Electoral officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say President Joseph Kabila has won re-election in a vote marred by violence and delays. Our correspondent reports from Kinshasa that the president’s leading opponent is rejecting those results and says he is the country’s new president. Supporters of President Kabila cheered his re-election outside the headquarters [...]
December 9, 2011
Congo Election Results Delayed Again
Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have again delayed the results of presidential and legislative elections. Opposition supporters are rejecting partial returns that show President Joseph Kabila heading for reelection. Electoral Commission head Daniel Ngoy-Mulunda says results will be postponed for a third day because officials have not completed comparing vote totals sent [...]
December 8, 2011
Congo Voters Await Final Results From Presidential Election
Electoral officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are expected to release complete results of presidential and legislative voting Thursday. Opposition supporters are rejecting partial returns that show President Joseph Kabila heading for re-election. When these results were first expected Tuesday, Congolese security was out in force. Shops were closed. The streets of the capital [...]
December 8, 2011
Fliers blame ‘bully’ flight attendant
(CNN) — Three women kicked off an AirTran plane bound for New York say a “bully” flight attendant is to blame. The passengers — who did not know each other before the Monday flight from West Palm Beach, Florida, to White Plains, New York, but were seated in the same section of the plane — [...]
December 5, 2011
More Radioactive Water Leaks at Fukushima Plant, Tepco Says
December 5, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis More Radioactive Water Leaks at Fukushima Plant, Tepco Says –Water may have contained one million times times as much radioactive strontium as government limit 05 Dec 2011 As much as 45,000 liters (11,870 gallons) of highly radioactive water leaked from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear station at the weekend and [...]
December 5, 2011
Russian Ruling Party Weakened as Voters Choose New Parliament
Russia’s Prime Minister is hoping for a renewed mandate from Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Instead, Vladimir Putin’s political party appears to have lost ground. Exit polls indicate that Mr. Putin’s United Russia party is hoping to keep its majority in parliament, with nearly one quarter of its seats going to the opposition. After state-run television aired [...]
December 4, 2011
Russians Vote For Parliament While Hackers Shut Down Observer Site
Russians voted in parliamentary elections Sunday, with many voters saying they expected a government party victory. As a light snow turned to rain outside a central Moscow school, Elina Kharshor said that she and her mother voted for an opposition party, Just Russia. She said she voted to strengthen the opposition, hoping there would a [...]
December 2, 2011
Iranian TV station accused of faking reports of Somalia drone strikes
An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100,000 by Ofcom on Thursday after the station hid the fact that a 2009 “interviewee” was being forcibly detained in Iran, has reported the deaths [...]
November 29, 2011
Herman Cain denies affair claim
29 November 2011 Last updated at 00:08 GMT Ginger White says Herman Cain paid for her travel to meet him around the US Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has denied claims by a Georgia woman that she had a long extramarital relationship with him. Even before Ginger White’s allegations were aired, Mr Cain went on [...]
November 21, 2011
CIA forced to curb spying in Lebanon
November 21, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis CIA forced to curb spying in Lebanon –Source: up to one dozen CIA informants had been compromised 20 Nov 2011 The CIA was forced to curtail its spying in Lebanon, where U.S. operatives and their agents collect crucial intelligence on Syria, terrorist groups and other targets, after the arrests [...]