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		<title>Is the CIA and Blackwater trying to get more journalists killed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a 2008  interview Patrick Cockburn, a veteran Iraq war correspondent, describes an incident in which he was one step away of being shot by insurgents. He was traveling from Baghdad to Najaf where Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia was resisting the U.S. Marines. Believing that a serious threat would come from the Sunni Arabs, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/is-the-cia-and-blackwater-trying-to-get-more-journalists-killed/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The U.S. response, engaging in two wars, was a 20th-century reaction to 21st-century realities.&#8221;
- wrote Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, in an article for The Washington Post.
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		<title>Documentary: Old Children of Death &#8211; Hungarian troops massacre Romanian villagers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part II &#8211; Part III &#8211; Part IV &#8211; Part V
I came across this great documentary which shows a few dark pages of Hungarian history. I was born in Zalau, about 8 miles from Treznea, where Hungarian troops slaughtered hundreds of civilians, and I&#8217;ve had relatives who witnessed the tragedy.
My grand-grandfather told my mother that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/documentary-old-children-of-death-hungarian-troops-massacre-romanian-villagers/</link>
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		<title>Blackwater contracted to transport prisoners to secret prisons in Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The notorious private military firm Blackwater was hired by the CIA to transfer prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to secret prisons in Asia for interrogation, informs the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
The newspaper says it has obtained a memo from two ex-Blackwater employees which writes that the CIA employed “Blackwater and its subsidiaries” to transfer detainees from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/blackwater-contracted-to-transport-prisoners-to-secret-prisons-in-asia/</link>
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		<title>Journalist killed in northwest Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Afghan journalist working for a series of international media outlets was killed in northwest Pakistan. The region is one of the most dangerous spots in the world for the media as journalists are targeted directly.
Reports inform that the 40-year-old Janullah Hashimzada was returning from Afghanistan when militants attacked his vehicle near Jamrud, a town [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/journalist-killed-in-northwest-pakistan/</link>
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		<title>Lockheed Martin Begins Testing on Australia&#8217;s First Aegis Weapon System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Aegis Weapon System destined for Australia&#8217;s first Air Warfare Destroyer began a four month testing program today at Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Aegis Production Test Center.
When testing concludes, the full Aegis Weapon System will be ready for installation in HMAS Hobart, the first of three Australian Air Warfare Destroyers under contract.
Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Production Test Center replicates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/lockheed-martin-begins-testing-on-australias-first-aegis-weapon-system/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century</title>
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When the book is about robotics and advanced military technology, the reader might expect a more technical writing style – the author offering the full list of specs without too much thought on the art of writing. This is certainly not the case for Wired for War. P. W. Singer actually tells the fascinating story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/book-review-wired-for-war-the-robotics-revolution-and-conflict-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>The UN urges the US Government to properly investigate human rights abuses by private military firms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States have failed to see the evolution of warfare and the political reality of Iraq and Afghanistan before troops moved in. Every war brings changes to society and these particular armed conflicts facilitated the rise of the private military industry. Once the private military firms deployed armed personnel, a series of legal and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/the-un-urges-the-us-government-to-properly-investigate-human-rights-abuses-by-private-military-firms/</link>
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		<title>Romania supplies arms to Georgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Romania exported infantry arms and antitank weapons to Georgia at the end of 2008 worth over 3.6 million euro, according to local Romania newspaper Cotidianul.
Russian ambassador to Romania, Aleksandr Ciurilin was quoted by the newspaper saying that “some countries are willing to contribute to the rise of the military potential of Georgia even after the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/romania-supplies-arms-to-georgia/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Occupation: War and resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn</title>
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Patrick Cockburn is a journalist and a veteran war correspondent. He began his carrier as a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and the Independent in 1979 and he concentrated on Iraq ever since.

In 2003, just weeks before the US invasion of Iraq, Cockburn made his way to the country. Thanks to a book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readingwar.com/archives/2009/book-review-the-occupation-war-and-resistance-in-iraq-by-patrick-cockburn/</link>
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