Top senator hits US sale of F-16s to Pakistan
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A senior US senator lashed the administration of President George W. Bush Wednesday for its decision to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, calling it a sign of a "dangerously misguided" policy toward Islamabad.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is set to ask Congress for $190bn to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The US Senate, after a weekend of behind-the-scenes negotiations, struck a deal to allow passage of a sweeping bill to provide $136 billion (?110 billion) in corporate
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Sen. John McCain on Monday demanded that the Pentagon turn over the e-mails of more than two dozen officials relating to a $23.5 billion US Air Force tanker deal with Boeing Co.
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NEWARK, N.J.  - Briton Hemant Lakhani was an eager  salesman looking to make millions by selling missiles to  militants who wanted to down U.S. airliners, prosecutors said  in opening arguments of his federal trial on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed yesterday during a close air support mission for ground forces -- a rare loss in Iraq of the workhorse aircraft. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert Gates came to Baghdad on an unannounced visit, and the US military said five soldiers had died.
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The US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly said.
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain suggested yesterday that the Air Force&#39;s most senior leadership systematically misled Congress and punished critics who raised questions about a $23 billion deal to buy and lease aerial refueling tankers from The Boeing Co.
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Pakistan and United States have signed a letter of acceptance for a multi-billion dollar package to supply the Pakistan Air Force with F-16 warplanes, an air force spokesman said on Monday.
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the costliest weapons procurement project ever, is set to make its maiden test flight next week, a U.S. general running the project said on Tuesday.
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The United States should cut off military aid to Pakistan if upcoming parliamentary elections are not free and fair, an influential US senator on foreign affairs said on Friday.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday he discussed with US President George W. Bush a potential purchase of US F-16 fighter jets to upgrade the defense capability of his country.
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A Democratic lawmaker says he will press on with legislation to permanently bar the Pentagon from selling leftover F-14 jet fighter parts despite the Defense Department's decision to pull them off the market while it considers national security concerns.
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US weapons experts are calling on the US Senate to tighten provisions of a landmark civilian nuclear deal with India despite warnings by New Delhi that it cannot accept any more restrictions.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., stood on the Senate floor Friday and read e-mail exchanges between Boeing Co., executives and Air Force officials that he said revealed an improper
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld took some heavy hits the other day from one of the US Senate&#39;s big guns, Arizona Republican John McCain.
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The United States has brought forward a planned sale of advanced F-35 warplanes to Israel as part of efforts by the two allies to maintain a military advantage over Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.