(109 posts)

Uruguay

The text of the draft resolution now in circulation contains no offensive language.

President John F. Kennedy had publicly warned the Soviet Union not to introduce offensive missiles into Cuba.

I call upon all parties to refrain from launching offensive military operations in the lead up to the Abuja talks.

Of course, the obligation of the Self Defense Forces not to engage in offensive combat operations remains unchanged.

The operation began on October 1, 1962 with the departure of four diesel electric attack submarines to the Caribbean Sea to clear the way.

A plan of attack that involved hundreds of people was put in motion, and yet the massive infrastructure of India s government discovered nothing.

They then could resume offensive operations against the still weak Afghan Security Forces, which have yet to demonstrate much military effectiveness.

The arms consisted of AK 47 assault rifles, RPGs, a variety of ammunition and explosives.

And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are unable to buy assault weapons and 100 round clips.

Therefore netizens were enraged by Sheikh Hamid Al Ahmar, a member of Al Islah s political leadership, who allegedly made an offensive statement regarding Yemeni revolutionary women.

In January, the military reportedly deployed gunships and fighter jets in a push to shut down KIA headquarters in Laiza.

Addressing the deep seated social and economic problems of a city like Juárez, however, is a lot harder than flooding its streets with 8,000 soldiers carrying assault rifles.

In fact, in August, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force unveiled the helicopter destroyer Izumo, whose structure and capabilities resemble those of an aircraft carrier, with possible offensive applications.

This battle was part of a larger offensive campaign known as Operation Forager which ran from June 1944 to November 1944 in the Pacific Theater of Operations, and Operation Stalemate II in particular.

RIGA It should surprise no one that many in Latvia view the sale by France of fully equipped assault warships to Russia with grave concern.

Three days later, the Jaleele bought 25 AK 47 assault rifles, 2 anti aircraft guns, 6 PKM machine guns, 4 RPG 2s and ammunition.

Recruits undergoing training in the camps wear new military style fatigues and train with a variety of weapons, such as PKM machine guns, AK 47 assault rifles, mortars, anti aircraft and anti tank weapons.

As it stands, the US sells mainly defensive weapons systems to India, while Russia, for example, offers India offensive weapons, including strategic bombers, an aircraft carrier, and a lease on a nuclear submarine.

The mission took note of the Government's intention to stand up and deploy to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo a total of nine integrated brigades, before April 2006, to conduct offensive operations against foreign armed groups, with MONUC support.

The information technologies Joël de Rosnay was talking about, which were historically born from military research, are today on the verge of developing an offensive capability of destruction, which could tomorrow, if we're not careful, completely destroy world peace.

This assumption is not so far fetched. Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric something most sane people would never dream of doing.

Would the US be willing to sell India offensive weapons including high precision conventional arms, anti submarine systems, and long range air and sea launched cruise missiles that could help to deter Chinese military preemption?

Nor is it reassuring to recall that China, up to now, has been stubbornly watering down sanctions on Iran, investing in major offensive military systems, and pillorying Western leaders for irresponsible financial policies and protectionism.

In February 2005, another weapons cache was discovered that contained one 12.7 calibre anti aircraft machine gun, two rocket propelled grenade launchers, six AK 47 assault rifles and one 7.62 mm rifle (see annex II).

French President Jacques Chirac s visit to India this month to complete the sale of 6 attack submarines to India will confirm once more India s emergence as an economic and diplomatic powerhouse.

Separately, on 1 March MONUC conducted a large scale cordon and search operation, carried out with infantry troops from Pakistan, Nepal and South Africa and the use of Indian attack helicopters, with the aim of dismantling an FNI headquarters in Loga (north east of Bunia), in Ituri.

The report indicated that at least 22 contacts were recorded with vessels suspected to be Chinese attack submarines patrolling outside Beijing s territorial waters last year, and warned that the implicit focus of China s navy appears to be to control highly sensitive sea lines of communication.

These attacks were confirmed by the Head of AMIS, Baba Gana Kingibe, who announced in a press conference on 1 October that the Sudanese Armed Forces had conducted coordinated offensive operations with tribal militia on four occasions since 18 September.

These comprise an additional 1,226 troops, including one infantry battalion (850 personnel), an aviation unit (270 personnel) with four attack and four surveillance helicopters, a riverine unit (30 personnel) and an additional 76 gendarmes for protection of the ministers of the Government of National Reconciliation.

At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that the line between the commercial and scientific uses of space technology and the military use of such technology is fast blurring, to the point that there is an urgent need today to ensure that space, the last frontier of humankind, is used only for non offensive and non belligerent purposes.

He further warned against the placement of non offensive weapons around satellites or non debris producing weapons as these weapons themselves could be targeted by parties using low cost, low technology weapons that create fields of debris and destroying the other more technologically advanced weapons.

For example, in the fight in the Beletweyne area (Hiraan region) between the Gaaljeel and the Jaleele sub clans over livestock, the Gaaljeel bought 50 AK 47 assault rifles, 11 RPG 7s, 2 80mm mortars and a variety of ammunition from BAM on 4 June 2005.