Sunday, May 22, 2011

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: Obama Will Not Hesitate To Repeat Osama Raid, If Required

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: Obama Will Not Hesitate To Repeat Osama Raid, If Required
(NSI News Source Info) LONDON, U.K. - May 22, 2011: US President Barack Obama says he would order another covert military raid like that which killed Osama bin Laden if it was necessary to stop terrorist attacks.
Pakistan is furious that that United States sent Navy Seals to raid Osama's Pakistan hideaway earlier this month without informing Pakistani authorities.
Mr Obama told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Sunday that 'we are very respectful of the sovereignty of Pakistan,' but 'our job is to secure the United States.'
He said he could not allow 'active plans to come to fruition without us taking some action,' and would send troops again if a senior Taleban leader was found in Pakistan.
Mr Obama begins a six-day trip to Europe on Monday, visiting Ireland, Britain, France and Poland.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

DTN News - BAE SYSTEMS DEFENSE NEWS: BAE Systems Wins Contracts To Maintain Typhoon's Front-Line Capability

DTN News - BAE SYSTEMS DEFENSE NEWS: BAE Systems Wins Contracts To Maintain Typhoon's Front-Line Capability
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / WARTON, United Kingdom - May 21, 2011: BAE Systems has been awarded long term contracts worth a total of £39m by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide support services to ensure that Typhoon continues to maintain its ability to operate in all types of environments.
The development work covered by the contracts will enhance the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) capability to process intelligence information about operational threats and then upload this to Typhoon’s electronic warfare systems prior to the mission.
The data generation is undertaken at the Air-Warfare centre at RAF Waddington. This data is then assessed using a ground-based rig to simulate the aircraft’s operational environment at RAF Coningsby.
Martin Taylor, BAE Systems’ Combat Air Support Director says: “BAE Systems is proud to be awarded this significant contract which demonstrates our ongoing commitment to maintain Typhoon’s front-line capability. The contract will also allow us to continue to work as part of an integral team with the UK MOD and the RAF as well as sustain the essential skills of our workforce to continue the support of the Typhoon fleet."
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- BAE Systems also takes a major role in ensuring the availability of the Typhoon fleet to meet its standing and operational commitments. The contract, known as Typhoon Availability Service (TAS) aims to deliver best practice support solutions. The arrangement will see the RAF’s Typhoon aircraft maintained and supported by the Company until the end of 2013.
- A key requirement underpinning TAS is to drive the, reduction of Typhoon support costs over the lifetime of the jet. Working in partnership with the RAF and UK MOD, a range of innovative support solutions has been identified to maximise value and minimise costs.
- Although BAE Systems have had a presence at RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, since 2004, the Typhoon Availability contract has expanded the BAE Systems population at the base to over 400 employees.

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DTN News - BATTLE FOR LIBYA: NATO Says Libya Airstrikes Cripple Gaddafi's Forces

DTN News - BATTLE FOR LIBYA: NATO Says Libya Airstrikes Cripple Gaddafi's Forces
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 21, 2011: NATO's bombing campaign in Libya has crippled the government's ability to attack rebels fighting to topple Muammar Gaddafi and effectively forced the leader into hiding, the alliance said on Friday.
NATO took command of a U.N.-authorized mission nearly two months ago to stop Gaddafi's forces attacking civilians, and Western governments including the United States, Britain and France are under pressure to show results.
Ambassadors of the 28 NATO states who met this week are confident the mission is making "steady and tangible progress," said NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero, adding that the campaign had relieved pressure on rebel-held towns.
"NATO nations and partners agree we have taken the initiative. We have the momentum," she told a briefing in Brussels.
"Our mission remains unchanged -- we will prevent attacks and threats against civilians until the threat is removed. The evidence shows we are doing just that," she said, adding that NATO had helped relieve the siege on the port city of Misrata.
Three months into an uprising against Gaddafi's four-decade rule, rebels control the east and pockets in the west including Misrata. The conflict has reached a stalemate as rebel attempts to advance on Tripoli have stalled.
Tripoli calls the rebels criminals and al Qaeda militants and says NATO's bombing is armed aggression by Western nations bent on grabbing Libya's oil.
Libyan state television showed footage on Thursday of Gaddafi. But NATO military spokesman Wing Commander Mike Bracken said in Brussels that strikes on command-and-control centers Tripoli had limited Gaddafi's ability control his forces.
"It has also constrained his freedom of movement." Bracken said. "Effectively he has gone into hiding."
In a sign of international discord over the campaign, Russia stepped up its criticism of NATO. A foreign ministry statement accused NATO of killing civilians and destroying infrastructure.
Rebels and government forces battled in an area called Ryna around 10 km (6 miles) east of Zintan, a town in the contested Western Mountains region.
A Reuters reporter in the center of Zintan heard artillery rounds and anti-aircraft gunfire. A rebel spokesman in the town, Juma Ibrahim, said it appeared pro-government forces were trying to advance and were firing tank rounds and heavy guns.
MISSILES HIT LIBYAN SHIPS
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Gaddafi's downfall was inevitable. The administration says it will not put U.S. soldiers on the ground in Libya.
Instead, the Pentagon said it has shipped the rebels military food rations and will soon provide other forms of non-lethal aid including uniforms, tents and protective vests.
In an escalation of the campaign, NATO said it sank eight Libyan warships and intercepted the oil tanker Jupiter, saying it believed the fuel would be used for military purposes.
Libyan officials took journalists late on Thursday to Tripoli's port, where a small ship spewed smoke and flames. Missiles hit six boats, said port general manager Mohammad Ahmad Rashed. Five were coastguard vessels and one was a navy ship but all had been under repair since before the fighting began.
By targeting shipping, NATO is enforcing a blockade against civilians, Rashed said. Journalists taken back to the port on Friday saw three badly damaged vessels, one partly submerged.
"We had been told if those ships moved they would be destroyed so they were docked here," said Amran al-Ferjani, chief of the Libyan coastguard.
A series of apparent high-level defections suggest Gaddafi is struggling to hold his inner circle together.
Tripoli says its top oil official, Shokri Ghanem, is on an official visit to Europe but rebel and Tunisian sources say he has defected and his name was on a list for a flight to Vienna.
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Friday, May 20, 2011

DTN News - AGUSTAWESTLAND DEFENSE NEWS: AgustaWestland North America Secures Contract With U.S. Army For The Egyptian Air Force

DTN News - AGUSTAWESTLAND DEFENSE NEWS: AgustaWestland North America Secures Contract With U.S. Army For The Egyptian Air Force
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 20, 2011: AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that AgustaWestland North America, Inc. was awarded a $37.8 million contract with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Contracting Center for Foreign Military Sales to the Egyptian Air Force.
“AgustaWestland is proud to partner with the U.S. Army and our allies to provide the most advanced rotorcraft technology for their mission needs,” said R. Scott Rettig, chief executive officer of AgustaWestland North America. “We are committed to exceeding our customer’s expectations and believe the modern, best selling AW139 will be a valued asset for the Egyptian Air Force’s helicopter fleet.”
AgustaWestland will configure two Pennsylvania-built AW139s for search and rescue missions; support the U.S. Army in training aircrews; and provide a spare parts package to ensure successful fielding of the aircraft. Designed with inherent multi-role capability and flexibility of operation, the AW139 offers unmatched performance and safety levels as well as the largest cabin in its class. AgustaWestland manages an active, highly efficient AW139 production line in the company’s Philadelphia, Pa. manufacturing facility, where it will also produce the recently added, advanced military AW139M.
With unrivalled range and the highest power-to-weight ratio in its class, the AW139 sets standards of multi-mission performance in high and hot conditions and with a cruise speed of 165 knots. The AW139 features a low acoustic signature, integrated mission avionics and is available with a full ice protection system, allowing aircrews to accomplish missions in the most demanding, all-weather conditions.
More than 140 customers in 50 countries use the medium-twin engine AW139 for multi-mission roles. As the most modern helicopter designed and produced in the last decade, more than 530 AW139s have been sold, flying demanding missions for government customers such as the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Republic of Ireland, the UAE Air Force and others.
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DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: Pakistan Taliban Claim Attacked On U.S. Consulate Convoy To Avenge Osama bin Laden Death

DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS: Pakistan Taliban Claim Attacked On U.S. Consulate Convoy To Avenge Osama bin Laden Death
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(NSI News Source Info) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - May 20, 2011: Pakistan's Taliban said on Friday it had attacked a U.S. consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest in a surge of violence since U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month.
U.S. embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said no Americans were killed or seriously wounded in the attack, which killed one Pakistani and wounded 10 people. He said initial reports suggested it was carried out by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle.
The attack took place on a main road in an area where many Western diplomats live and involved 50 kg (110 pounds) of explosives, police said. "There was an attack on a two-car convoy from the consulate in Peshawar. One car was hit. We are still investigating what actually happened," said Rodriguez.
It was the first attack on Westerners since bin Laden's death.
Peshawar has seen many operations by Taliban militants seeking to topple the U.S.-backed Pakistani government and was home to bin Laden in the 1980s when Islamists were fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda and its ally, the Pakistani Taliban, have vowed to avenge the killing of bin Laden by U.S. special forces on May 2, and, the group said it would target the Pakistani government and its Western allies.
"The diplomatic staff of all NATO countries are our targets," said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban spokesman, told Reuters via telephone from an undisclosed location.
"We will continue such attacks. Pakistan is our first target, and America is our second."
Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali told reporters a booby-trapped car appeared to have been parked at the side of the road and exploded as one consulate vehicle was near.
Many Pakistanis are frustrated with the inability of security forces to subdue the Taliban. In a separate attack on Friday, an explosion killed five people and wounded four in the tribal region of Orakzai in the northwest, officials said.
"The security after the killing of Osama has been lax instead of being tighter. We are feeling insecure," said Tahir Khan, 20, a student standing near the site of the blast in Peshawar.
One of the consulate vehicles, which police said was armored, was riddled with shrapnel. The blast forced it to slam into an electricity pole beside a pre-school.
"I had just arrived at school and was about to start my work when there was a big blast. The windows of our school were broken and I was hurt," said school administrator Zahid Zaman from a hospital bed.
Police superintendent Ijaz Khan told Reuters two American security guards were slightly wounded, and were being treated at a U.S. medical facility.
AMERICANS TARGETED
Americans have been targeted before in Pakistan.
In April of 2010, militants using a car bomb and firing weapons attacked the U.S. consulate in Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the operation. Eight people, including three militants, were killed. No one in the mission was hurt.
Pakistan has witnessed a jump in violence since bin Laden's death, including a twin suicide bombing last week that killed more than 80 people, most of them paramilitary recruits.
The Taliban have kept up pressure on the government with suicide attacks despite several army offensives against them.
The United States wants nuclear-armed Pakistan to be a more reliable partner in its war on militancy. Cooperation between the two allies is needed to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan.
Ties have been severely damaged since the secret raid that killed bin Laden. Pakistan is under pressure to explain how he spent what appeared to be about five years in a military town not far from the capital.
Pakistan's army was infuriated by the operation, describing it as a violation of the South Asian country's sovereignty.
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