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Where Is That Pentagon Report On China’s Military?

People’s Liberation Army soldiers atop tanks in a Beijing parade. Reuters

Pentagon Under Fire Over China Report — Wall Street Journal

A group of Republican senators are suggesting that the Pentagon is withholding its annual report on China’s military build-up out of concerns of fueling hostility between the countries.

The senators – John Cornyn of Texas, John McCain of Arizona, James Risch of Idaho, Pat Roberts of Kansas, and James Inhofe of Oklahoma – sent a strongly worded letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates Friday, nearly five months after the annual report was due.

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More News On The Pentagon’s Report (Or Lack Of) On China

Senators rap Pentagon’s delay on China report — Washington Times
U.S. Senators Demand DoD Release China Report — Defense News
Pentagon takes an incomplete on report on Chinese military — Washington Post
Where is the Pentagon report on the Chinese military? — Foreign Policy
US Congress seeks report on alarming Chinese military build up — Hindustan Times
US Congress seeks report on Chinese military from Pentagon — Zee News

President Obama’s Guantanamo Policy Under Fire

Camp Delta area at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Photo AFP


Stop Guantanamo Transfers To Yemen: Senators — AFP

WASHINGTON — Three senior US senators on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to stop transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen until Sanaa can guarantee that they will not return to the battlefield.

Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman — the first two Republicans and the third a political independent — said that such transfers are “highly unwise and ill-considered.”

Close to half of the 198 “war on terror” detainees still at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — which Obama has vowed to close — are from Yemen.

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More News On What To Do With Guantanamo’s Yemeni Detainees

Guantanamo policy under fire over Yemen terrorist links — ABC News (Australia)
Airline attack complicates Guantanamo closing — CBC
Former Gitmo detainees investigated in airline bombing plot — CNN
Rep Urges U.S. to Stop Sending Guantanamo Detainees to Yemen — FOX News
Airliner plot complicates Guantanamo closing — Baltimore Sun
Obama asked not to send detainees to Yemen — UPI
ANALYSIS: Obama’s plan to shut Guantanamo suffers yet another blow — M&C
Obama Under Pressure to Prevent Yemeni Detainees From Returning Home — FOX News
Former Guantanamo detainees fuel growing al-Qaeda cell — Washington Post
Yemeni links to airliner plot threaten US efforts to empty Guantanamo — Canadian Press

F-35 Cost Overruns And Delays Starting To Concern US Senators

F-35 Lightning II

F-35 ‘Deeply Concerns’ US Senators On Cost And Schedule — Flight Global

Two US senators – Carl Levin and John McCain – have expressed deep concern about the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme’s “growing costs and apparent delays”, as the Department of Defense works to restore confidence in the development project.

The joint statement by the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Armed Services Committee, came after a closed hearing about results from the Joint Estimating Team (JET).

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Must Osama Bin Laden Be Killed Or Captured For Us To Claim Victory?

No Al Qaeda Defeat Until Osama Caught — DoD Buzz

The world can­not defeat al Qaeda until Osama bin Laden is cap­tured or killed, Gen.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials — December 7, 2009

A woman walks amidst ”Cool Globes,” an exhibition about combating global warming and climate change in the center of Copenhagen today.

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