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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 16. August 2005 / Timeline August 16, 2005
Version 3.515. August 2005, 17. August 2005
08/16/2005
Russia Stops Use of Rail-Based Missiles
Interfax Military News Agency
Russian Strategic Missile Commander Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov
said yesterday that the service’s rail-based missile
launchers have all been permanently removed from operation.
08/16/2005
Psychological trauma widespread in Iraq
By Vermont Guardian
BAGHDAD - One of Iraq’s top psychiatrists says that more than
two years of war, occupation and insurgency have turned the country
into possibly the most psychologically damaged place in the world.
"Psychologically, it may be the worst affected country in the
world,” Dr. Harith Hassan, the former head of Baghdad's
Psychological Research Center, told Reuters news agency last week.
“What's going on is really a catastrophe from a psychological
and a societal point of view.”
More than 70 percent of the private clients Hassan sees each week
are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a severe
anxiety condition, he said. Since the "shock and awe" of the 2003
U.S. bombing, Iraqis have had to deal with occupation by foreign
forces, random and widespread death brought about by insurgents,
and the growing effects of sectarian tensions.
08/16/2005
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department
of Defense
U.S. Department of Defense - Israeli Ministry of Defense Joint
Press Statement The strategic alliance between the United States
and Israel reflects common understandings of the global security
environment. In this cooperative relationship, the United States
and Israel share information and consult on possible threats to
U.S. and Israeli defense interests.
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Israeli Ministry of Defense
have signed an understanding that is designed to remedy problems of
the past that seriously affected the technology security
relationship between their defense establishments and which begins
to restore confidence in the technology security area. In the
coming months additional steps will be taken to restore confidence
fully.
The signing of this understanding underscores the commitment of the
U.S. and Israel to work together to address global security
challenges. Cooperation between the U.S. and Israel is important to
the security of the Middle East and we expect that cooperation to
continue.
08/16/2005
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of
Defense
Cryptek Inc., Sterling Va., is being awarded a $9,900,000
cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity
contract for software research and development (R&D) efforts in
support of Expeditionary Warfare Systems Department work on the
Mobile Rapidly Deployed (MoRAD), Secure Information Technology
Systems program. Tasking will include basic R&D and serve to
further basic efforts by the contractor to explore the need to
address a constantly changing threat matrix to the U.S. and its
coalition allies. Work will be performed in Sterling Va., and is
expected to be completed by September 2006. Contract funds will not
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was
competitively procured and advertised via the Internet, with one
offer received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division,
Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-05-C-6651).
08/16/2005
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department
of Defense
Statement on Freedom Walk
It is unfortunate that the Washington Post has made this decision
not to support the "Freedom Walk," but we welcome their donation to
the Pentagon Memorial Fund. This is a commemorative event to honor
the memory of the victims who died in the attack on the Pentagon
and to highlight the yet to be constructed Pentagon Memorial.
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