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08/29/2005
FBI Document Labels Michigan Affirmative Action and Peace Groups
as Terrorists
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/20246prs20050829.html
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today released an
FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an
affirmative action advocacy group as potentially "involved in
terrorist activities." The file was obtained through an ongoing
nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI's use of
Joint Terrorism Task Forces to engage in political
surveillance.
"This document confirms our fears that federal and state
counterterrorism officers have turned their attention to groups and
individuals engaged in peaceful protest activities," said Ben
Wizner, an ACLU staff attorney and counsel in a lawsuit seeking the
release of additional FBI records. "When the FBI and local law
enforcement identify affirmative action advocates as potential
terrorists, every American has cause for concern."
The document released today is an FBI report labeled, "Domestic
Terrorism Symposium," and describes a meeting that was intended to
"keep the local, state and federal law enforcement agencies
apprised of the activities of the various groups and individuals
within the state of Michigan who are thought to be involved in
terrorist activities."
Among the groups mentioned are Direct Action, an anti-war group,
and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), a national organization
dedicated to defending affirmative action, integration, and other
gains of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The FBI
acknowledges in the report that the Michigan State Police has
information that BAMN has been peaceful in the past...
08/29/2005
Conventional Arms
Transfers to
Developing Nations, 1997-2004
Richard F. Grimmett,
Specialist in National Defense
Congressional Research Service: The Library of Congress
- http://www.fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/52179.pdf
Summary
This report is prepared annually to provide unclassified
quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing
nations by the United States and foreign countries for the
preceding eight calendar years. Some general data are provided on
worldwide conventional arms transfers, but the principal focus is
the level of arms transfers by major weapons suppliers to nations
in the developing world. Developing nations continue to be the
primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by weapons suppliers.
During the years 1997-2004, the value of arms transfer agreements
with developing nations comprised 62.7% of all such agreements
worldwide. More recently, arms transfer agreements with developing
nations constituted 57.3% of all such agreements globally from
2001-2004, and 58.9% of these agreements in 2004.
The value of all arms transfer agreements with developing nations
in 2004 was nearly $21.8 billion. This was a substantial increase
over 2003, and the highest total, in real terms, since 2000. In
2004, the value of all arms deliveries to developing nations was
nearly $22.5 billion, the highest total in these deliveries values
since 2000 (in constant 2004 dollars).
Recently, from 2001-2004, the United States and Russia have
dominated the arms market in the developing world, with the United
States ranking first and Russia second each of the last four years
in the value of arms transfer agreements. From 2001-2004, the
United States made $29.8 billion in arms transfer agreements with
developing nations, in constant 2004 dollars, 39.9% of all such
agreements. Russia, the second leading supplier during this period,
made $21.7 billion in arms transfer agreements, or 29.1%.
In 2004, the United States ranked first in arms transfer agreements
with developing nations with nearly $6.9 billion or 31.6% of these
agreements. Russia was second with $5.9 billion or 27.1% of such
agreements. In 2004, the United States ranked first in the value of
arms deliveries to developing nations at nearly $9.6 billion, or
42.6% of all such deliveries. Russia ranked second at $4.5 billion
or 20% of such deliveries. France ranked third at $4.2 billion or
18.7% of such deliveries. During the 2001-2004 period, China ranked
first among developing nations purchasers in the value of arms
transfer agreements, concluding $10.4 billion in such agreements.
India ranked second at $7.9 billion. Egypt ranked third at $6.5
billion. In 2004, India ranked first in the value of arms transfer
agreements among all developing nations weapons purchasers,
concluding $5.7 billion in such agreements. Saudi Arabia ranked
second with $2.9 billion in such agreements. China ranked third
with $2.2 billion.
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