As equally as the Occupy movement has spread globally, so too have police actions to disrupt occupiers in the name of enforcing local ordinance regulations. Bay Area Rapid Transit police stormed Occupy Oakland dispersing occupiers using teargas grenades and so-called ‘less-lethal’ munitions. There are also unconfirmed reports of flash grenades and the LRAD sonic weapon (aka the [...]
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From Soviet scraps to backpack drones: the weapons of Libya’s rebels
In the early months, rebel forces fought Colonel Gaddafi’s men using weapons and weapons systems cobbled together using scraps from the Soviet era. As time got on — and thanks to the NATO intervention — rebel weapons became a lot more hi-tech
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Arms sales to Libya in the 5 years proceeding the conflict came mostly came from European nations, including Italy ($432m), Serbia ($67m), and the UK ($57m).
READ MOREThe chronicles of Saddam: Robert Manne, “The Australian” and Iraq’s WMD
Some more salient – yet overlooked – aspects of ‘Bad News’ is its assessment of The Oz’s coverage of the Iraq War, and the allegations of Saddam possessed stores of biological, nuclear and chemical weapons (or, WMD).
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