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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. Mars 2006 / Time Line March 21, 2006
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03/21/2006
Hawaii-based soldier discharged
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20060321-1304-wst-soldierdischarged.html
HONOLULU - A Hawaii-based soldier who killed a 13-year-old Iraqi
girl and wounded her mother and sister two years ago has been
discharged from the Army without charges, officials said
Tuesday.
Sgt. Jeffrey D. Waruch, 28, of Olean, N.Y., avoided court-martial
and left the service Jan. 27 under a voluntary discharge for
completion of service. "In this case a review of the investigation
determined that no further evidence was likely to be found that
would result in the case going to trial," Army spokeswoman
Stephanie Gardin said. "The results of the criminal investigation
found that Waruch did not act in a negligent or unlawful manner and
that there was insufficient evidence in order to prosecute."
Shaha Jawad al-Jabouri and her two daughters were chased and shot
Feb. 18, 2004, after an explosion hit an Army convoy on its way to
Ai Abbassi. They were weeding a bean field about a half-mile from
the blast...
03/21/2006
Documents Show U.S. Intelligence Targeted French Nuclear Program
as Early as 1946
Washington, D.C., 21 March 2006 - The U.S. Intelligence Community
devoted significant effort to the collection and analysis of
intelligence concerning the French nuclear weapons program
beginning in the early days of the Cold War through the mid-1970s,
according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act and archival research and posted on the Web today by the
National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Today's posting includes more than 30 documents -- many originally
classified Top Secret -- produced by interagency groups, the
Manhattan Engineer District's Foreign Intelligence Section, the
CIA, the State Department, the U.S. Pacific Command, and the
Strategic Air Command.
The records were obtained by Archive Senior Fellow Jeffrey T.
Richelson while conducting research for his recently published
book, Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi
Germany to Iran and North Korea (W.W. Norton), and by Archive
senior analyst William Burr.
The documents show that French nuclear activities were of
sufficient concern to prompt the Manhattan Engineer District's
intelligence section to produce a series of reports in 1946 --
based on a variety of sources on French nuclear research and
development activities -- on the possibility that French scientists
were willing to sell nuclear know-how to the right bidder and
described the French search for uranium deposits. Documents from
the early 1950s show U.S. intelligence interest in personnel
changes in the French atomic energy organization.
The documents also indicate that new technological improvements in
U.S. nuclear intelligence gathering were used to closely monitor
the French program. The collection effort included the use of
overhead reconnaissance systems (including satellites and U-2
aircraft), drones, communications intercepts systems, aircraft to
gather debris and signatures from French nuclear tests, and
specially-equipped ships stationed near the French Pacific test
site.
Intelligence analysts used the results of these collection efforts
to produce the classified periodicals, reports by the Office of
Scientific Intelligence, and national and special national
intelligence estimates included in the electronic briefing
book.
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