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“Adm Blair is a retired US Navy admiral who took over as the third director of national intelligence in January 2009.”
“AS MANY as 2,000 staff at British defence technology firm Qinetiq may go on strike”
“hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars on the Star Wars missile defence system”
“Army spokesman Dittaporn Sasasmith said it would run from 2100 local time (1400 GMT) on Thursday until 0500 the following day (2200 GMT Thursday) and repeat for the next two nights.”
“Scientist trade union Prospect said yesterday it and three other unions would ballot up to half of the 7,000-strong work-force at Qinetiq – once a division of Britain’s Ministry of Defence that developed the country’s weapons – on potentia…”
“Defendant’s right of silence in court (without prejudicing the defence): 1995 – 32 per cent support, 2000 – 66 per cent support”
“police and troops cleared some 1,000 protesters from a temple”
“In opposition, the Labour Party had vehemently contested the Official Secrets Bill as it passed through the House in 1988, on the grounds that it did not provide a public interest defence for whistle-blowers”
“Some 50 people have died since troops surrounded the protesters last week.”
“the lynching of two army reservists”
“it would run from 2100 local time (1400 GMT) on Thursday until 0500 the following day (2200 GMT Thursday) and repeat for the next two nights”
“commanding one of four defence posts on the Israeli-Lebanese border”
“in March”
“Finally, in 1916, after several of his climbing partners and former pupils had been killed, he persuaded his headmaster to release him.”
“the now 23-year-old soldier.”
“Hitler launched an army of a million at Russia in June 1941”
“Israel has released a leading Hamas figure jailed after the captured of an Israeli soldier by militants in Gaza almost four years ago.”
“in 1993, 12 US rangers were killed, two helicopters downed and the body of a soldier dragged through the streets after a botched raid on a warlord in Mogadishu; and in 1995, 19 US airmen were killed by a truck bomb in their barracks in Dha…”
“On Wednesday, reports that a Nato helicopter had spotted the plane wreckage proved to be unfounded.”
“after 16 years of military rule”
“The next curfew will begin at 2100 local time (1400 GMT) on Thursday, army spokesman Dittaporn Sasasmith said. It will run until 0500 the following day (2200 GMT Thursday) and the times will be repeated for the next two nights.”
“four other countries have troops inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
“However, witnesses and police now say that at least eight more people were killed in the temple inside the protesters' site after the army assault.”
“Their leader was Captain Ahmed Jibril, then about 50, a product of the Syrian army’s engineering corps.”
“The next curfew will begin at 2100 local time (1400 GMT) on Thursday, army spokesman Dittaporn Sasasmith said.”
“A second test came in February 1965, when several American soldiers were killed in two Viet Cong attacks on US army bases in South Vietnam.”
“It will run until 0500 the following day (2200 GMT Thursday) and the times will be repeated for the next two nights.”
“Within three weeks, he launched Operation Rolling Thunder, an air offensive that lasted until 1973, and sent the first ground troops to Vietnam.”
“witnesses and police now say that at least eight more people were killed in the temple inside the protesters' site after the army assault.”
“In 1941, he joined the merchant navy and began a bizarre odyssey that was to last almost a quarter of a century.”
“Some 40 people have died since troops surrounded the protesters last week, with at least 14 more deaths on Wednesday”
“roughly one in five of those sleeping rough ended up on the streets after leaving the armed forces with nowhere to stay.”
“At least six people died on Wednesday during the army crackdown on the protesters' fortified camp in the Lumpini Park area of central Bangkok”
“at least eight more people were killed in the temple inside the protesters' site after the army assault”
“found two dead bodies”
“two soldiers and at least 40 militants have been killed in clashes with security forces in the north-west.”
“two soldiers and at least 40 militants have been killed”
“On 14 October 1973, more than 70 protesters were killed and 800 were injured when troops opened fire on huge demonstrations held in support of pro-democracy students.”
“Two weeks later, on 6 October, that tension exploded into the killing by soldiers, police and right-wing mobs of at least 46 people.”
“with the loss of 46 sailors.”
“the Cheonan, sank on 26 March, killing 46 sailors.”
“who was killed in 1969 ahead of the military coup that brought Siad Barre to power.”
“A 5,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force is all that stands between it and the insurgents who now dominate most of the rest of southern and central Somalia.”
“Mr Karzai's language was mild when compared to a famous speech in December 2006 when he appeared to denounce Coalition airstrikes, wiping away tears as he said: "We can't prevent the Coalition from bombing... our children are dying because…”
