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The commandant at the Defence Helicopter Flying Adherents (DHFS) in Shropshire is to take charge of all UK and US helicopters in Afghanistan.

Group Captain Jock Brown will become Commander of Stint Force Jaguar based at Camp Bastion for the next six months.

Source: BBC News

WHEN Finmeccanica announced bad results on July 27th, investors strafed its split price, cutting it down by 28% in four days (see chart). In the first half of 2011, excluding a catch up to from the sale of one of its businesses, the firm made barely any profit: €13m ($18.2m) on revenues of €8.4 billion. Shareholders are spitting fire.

Source: The Economist

Naval Air Systems Control, Patuxent River, Md. — The Naval forces and Maritime Squadron newest .50 caliber weapon system, the GAU-21, began its incipient deployment with UH-1Y helicopters in September.

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In the abrupt aftermath of the 2003 infraction, the triumphalist verdict of the mainstream media was that the war had been won; Iraq was assured of a kind, autonomous time to come....

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In the adjacent aftermath of the 2003 inroad, the triumphalist verdict of the mainstream media was that the war had been won; Iraq was assured of a warm-hearted, republican subsequent. The Times’s author William Rees-Mogg hymned the superiority: “April 9 2003 was Freedom Day for Iraq. (…) It was achieved by “the locomotive of international liberating”, the Agreed States. “After 24 years of hardship, three wars and three weeks of unabated bombing, Baghdad has emerged from an age of darkness. Yesterday was an important day of release.”[1] So here Robert Gates acknowledges that this war was illegitimate according to foreign law, because there was no “casus belli”. But in the same rap he says that the product has been proof for the Collaborative States. What does he uncharitable word for word? How can all the killing and slaying be a adequate result for the USA? And what about responsibilities? If you be aware that Iraq is still paying reparations for the infraction in Kuwait in 1990, how about the payment of reparations by the USA for the slaying it inflicted upon Iraq? .”[3] Yes, they laughed together, like in the disreputable, by Wikileaks released video of the “Collateral Butcher” helicopter gunship malign on Baghdad civilians in July 2007, that killed more than a dozen Iraqis, two of them journalists of Reuters. And blood they certainly have abandon together! A lot of blood of over a million mothers, fathers, children and old fogies Iraqi people. All that for “shared ideals of impertinence, bold and prison”, Mr. Odierno? Well, most Iraqis don’t stake that witness. For them, the power has slided into the age of darkness. Unemployment is as grand as 50 percent officially, 70 percent unofficially. 43 percent of Iraqis stay in abject neediness. 8 million Iraqis instruct pressing predicament aid. 4 million people shortage comestibles and are in dire require of humanitarian benefit. 80 percent of Iraqis do not have access to crap sanitation. Spiritual-minded minorities are on the border of extinction.[4] In a latest Oxfam-designed measurement, 33 percent of women had received no humanitarian benefit since 2003; 76 percent of widows did not take into one's possession a shelve; 52 percent were at liberty; 55 percent had been displaced since 2003; and 55 percent had been subjected to fury – 25.4 percent to casual drive might, 22 percent to native maltreat, 14 percent to twist inflicted by militias, 10 percent to abuse or abduction, 9 percent to carnal ill-treat and 8 percent to ferocity inflicted by multinational forces.[5] William Blum gives a shorten but captivating overview of the “real upshot” of this war: “No American should be allowed to ignore that the land of Iraq, the association of Iraq, have been destroyed, ruined, a failed form. The Americans, dawn 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one overlook or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the ministry, killed wantonly, tortured … the people of that wrong homeland have dead everything — their homes, their schools, their tension, their pure freely, their medium, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their constitution-run enterprises, their mortal condition, their bent fitness, their fettle dolour, their advantage state of affairs, their women’s rights, their pious clearance, their safe keeping, their confidence, their children, their parents, their lifetime, their just now, their expected, their lives … Hannah Gurman adds the following contest to this dire spitting image of “triumph”: “No substance how much the U.S ministry erases the old times or predicts the unborn of Iraq, average Iraqis will persist in to mask the more messy and tangled realities of the award. I venture Obama and everyone else in the reel utensil to go to Iraq and look a adolescent in the eyes. A little one who, seven years after the U.S. violation, still lacks all right habitation, drinking not work, sanitation, verve and information. Now, lecture that descendant that the war in Iraq was a triumph.”[7] Or deliver assign to this approximation of the “ Iraqi triumph legend” by Iraqi Dr. Riad El Taher: “To pass the net achievements of the Bush/Blair peril are: Handing the Iraqi people a future in the hands of thugs and solvent profiteers. None of them have had the slightest interest to not fail the Iraqi people. The shore up is time plenteousness acquired by Chalabi, Alawi, Maliki, Sistani, Hakin, Bayati, Bachachi, Baher Alom and Rubai by decency of their national venture. Iraq’s natural resources are mortgaged for the next 50 years to the supranational oil contractors. Iraq practice highbrow and aptitude are false to relocate. Votary subdivide is thriving and encouraged by the constitution. Ethnic minorities are undermined or phoney to cede – Christians/Subain. Man rights, solely of women, are violated and have reversed their days attainment in protecting parenthood rights, work and vigour. Lesson, strength, situation and water resources are not sincerely addressed and the same applies to agriculture, industries and savoir vivre. Thanks to Bush/Blair, Iraq held several classless elections where the votes were bought by elect, intimidation or panic. Currently Iraqi citizens have access to a plastic phone, multi-TV channels, which are owned by the Iraqi Fresh Zone thugs and their subsidizer US/UK/Kuwait investors”. The organic contradiction of this happy result is the truthfully that Bremer’s 100 orders turned Iraq into a giantess untouched by-trade in Shangri-La, but a hellish nightmare for Iraqis. They colonized the nation for crown – ruin on the grandest mount, a thug capitalist laboratory, weapons of massiveness putting away. Iraqis got no r in the planning nor were allowed subcontracts to allowance the benefits. New commercial laws instituted low taxes, 100% outlandish investor ownership of Iraqi assets, the favourably to expropriate all profits, unrestricted imports, and extensive-appellation 30-40 year deals and leases, dispossessing Iraqis of their own resources, so no tomorrow command could variation them, writes Stephen Lendman[9]. A Transparency Intercontinental Communiqu states that the corruption in Iraq will unquestionably become “the biggest corruption spot in telling”.[10] And as the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of amoral or defective projects. More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted — more than 10 percent of the some $50 billion the U.S. has gone on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog power. The Precise Inspector Blended for Iraq Reconstruction said the US Conditional on of Defence is powerless to account duly for $8.7bn. Out of $9bn, 96% is unaccounted for. It’s provocative to note that much of this currency is not “aid” readies, but came from the sales event of Iraqi oil and gas, and some frozen Saddam Hussein-era assets were also sold off.[13] This is due to the entire downfall of Iraq’s sewage treatment plants, factories, schools, hospitals, museums and power plants by the U.S. military.[16] UN-Haunt, an medium of the Coalesced Nations, recently published a 218-announce article entitled Conditions of the Men’s Cities, 2010-2011.[17] Adil E. Shamoo’s observe: Almost intentionally concealed in these statistics is one numbing details about urban Iraqi populations. For the dead and buried few decades, former to the U.S. onslaught of Iraq in 2003, the part of the urban folk living in slums in Iraq hovered righteous below 20 percent. Today, that share has risen to 53 percent: 11 million of the 19 million unmitigated urban dwellers. In the on decade, most countries have made ripening toward reducing slum dwellers. But Iraq has gone like a shot and perilously in the vis- managing.[18] The 2007 launched Far-reaching Non-belligerent Listing (GPI) ranks countries annually according to peacefulness, identifying key tranquillity or mightiness drivers. Of the 144 countries in its 2009 write-up, Iraq ranked last, Afghanistan supporter last. In April 2010, Amnesty Oecumenical released a story titled, “Iraq: Someone Rights Briefing,” Their conclusion: “the weak rights ball game in the realm remains sober. All parties to the continuing fight have committed Rabelaisian abuses and the civilian natives continues to carry the shock of the continuing vehemence. The safe keeping picture is still delicate in spite of some gain in 2009. Attacks on civilians, arrests, kidnapping, armed clashes” come off continuously. There is still no functioning domination in Iraq. “Some cynical analysts friendly that the current predicament was perfectly what the US (and Israel) wanted or what Washington had in desire when it drafted the constitution. The widely known Iraqi divisions keep the boonies pitiful and at the tenderness of the US and concede the latter to persevere in playing the part of the balancing power in command to immortalize its company”, writes Saad Jawad, professor of state proficiency at Baghdad University.[19] Who is portentous Iraq’s surveillance? Who is to blame for the dreary attacks, car bombs…? There are a lot of stories about involvement of certainty forces. On the 28th of August U.S. forces have arrested a intermediary of Ahmad Chalabi, Ali Faisal al Lami, who was once the Bush management’s favorite Iraqi machine politician, and implicated him in bombings that killed Americans and Iraqis. Al Lami is a Shiite Muslim bona fide and a fellow of the Sadrist Dinner party who’s serving as an supervisory of the Legitimacy and Responsibility Board, which Chalabi heads.[20] With these facts in heed, it’s astonishing to consider the US officials talk about a “healthy Medicine sequela usually for the Common States”. Obama declared the so-called end to Strive against Charge in Iraq[21]. He refuses to look back at 7 years of bad luck; he wants to look at the unborn, decamp his responsibilities. Perhaps the most impressive expose on Obama’s expression came from Chris Floyd: After mendaciously declaring on 31 August an “end to the controversy function in Iraq”, (…) Obama delivered what was perhaps the most egregious, bitterly raw lie of the gloom: ‘Through this marvellous chapter in the information of the Like-minded States and Iraq, we have met our fault.” “We have met our task!” No, Mister President, we have not. Not until many Americans of aged magnitude stand ready in the berth for war crimes. Not until the Harmonious States pays hundreds of billions of dollars in unrestricted reparations to the people of Iraq for the rapine of their outback and the mountain ruin of their people. Not until the Unanimous States opens its borders to resign oneself to all those who have been and will be driven from Iraq by the ruthless havoc we have inflicted upon them, or in send off from the scandalous thugs and sectarians we have loosed — and empowered — in the fatherland. Not until you, Mister President, go down on your knees, in sackcloth and ashes, and publish a Jingoistic of Day of Calumniation to be noticeable each year by lamentations, reparations and confessions of blood contriteness for our violation against mortality in Iraq.’[22] But the US does not design to pay reparations for the hurt done. On the perverse: Christopher Crowley, USAID steersman in Iraq, said the prompt for Iraqis to take over the U.S. victims aid program is part of a inexact swing for all American help programs in Iraq. The U.S. is “seeking a larger contribution from the (Iraqi) command to these programs so they will become more sustainable as chance goes on,” he said. Crowley said many in the U.S. have the courage of one's convictions pretend Iraq has the means to pay its own way to rebuild after the war, with the fantastic’s third largest proven reserves of tasteless oil. Asked why the Iraqi guidance should pay compensation for deaths during American operations, he said the victims “are Iraqi citizens”.[23] This is very inconceivable: The US wants the Iraqi guidance to pay compensations for the laying waste and all the killings the US military vehicle inflicted upon the sticks. The reasons they give are: a) Iraq can inform against a lot of oil to reconstruct the outback and b) the victims are Iraqis and thus compensations should be paid by… Iraqis. Twisted judiciousness this is. Explanation from an Iraqi: “Someone entered my concern illegally and destroyed everything and killed my kinsmen and he asks me to pay for the price? Am I talking to barbarians who valid came out of a cavern?” All this assassination has expense the US taxpayer a lot of folding money. “As the Connected States ends quarrel in Iraq, it appears that our $3 trillion judge (which accounted for both direction expenses and the war’s broader colliding on the U.S. terseness) was, if anything, too low. For exemplar, the fetch of diagnosing, treating and compensating crippled veterans has proved higher than we expected.” writes Joseph Stiglitz in the Washington Pillar[24]. Moreover, a piece published by the Vital Caution Accumulation in India in a tome entitled The Sell for of Disagree in the Stomach East, calculates that struggle in the room over the last 20 years has rate the nations and people of the section 12 trillion U.S. dollars. The Indian story adds that the Halfway East has recorded “a enormous track record of military expenses in the over 20 years and is considered the most armed precinct in the excellent.”[25] Think up if that sum would have been prostrate on pastoral and urban infrastructure, dams and reservoirs, desalination and irrigation, forestation and fisheries, effort and agriculture, physic and civic robustness, casing and poop technology, jobs, moral integration of cities and villages, and repairing the ravages of wars rather than on arms that can only conceive eradication.

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I've fair finished an exceptionally exhilarating enrol, a narrative of derring-do and British determination. Well, in point of fact it's about a picayune more than perfectly British pick. Call it the 1970s, penetrating technology...

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