By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 29, 2006 – The challenges the world faces in the 21st century can’t be overcome by military means alone, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.
In a meeting with reporters capping this week’s informal meeting of NATO defense ministers, Rumsfeld said that while NATO has [...]

PRNewswire
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — After six months aboard the International Space Station that included arrival of two space shuttle missions, resumption of construction of the orbiting laboratory and the restoration of a three-member crew, Expedition 13 landed at 9:13 p.m. EDT in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA station science officer Jeff Williams [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2006 – The Iranian government is behind shipping components used to make improvised explosive devices to Iraqi insurgents, a senior intelligence official in Iraq said yesterday.
Labels on weapons stocks seized inside and outside Iraq point to Iranian government complicity in arming Shiite militias in Iraq, Army Maj. [...]

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28, 2006 – Some 12,000 U.S. troops in 14 eastern provinces of Afghanistan will come under NATO control in the near future following a decision today by the alliance’s defense ministers meeting here.
The transfer of authority from the coalition to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force will [...]

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28, 2006 – The enemy in Afghanistan underestimated NATO’s will and ability to bring security and stability to the country, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.
“The enemy obviously decided that once NATO came in, NATO would be a soft touch,” Rumsfeld said at a [...]

By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service
ZAGREB, CROATIA, Sept. 28, 2006 – NATO’s Implementation Force will no longer tolerate checkpoints in Bosnia, according to Defense Secretary William J. Perry.
Implementation forces will fan out all over the country and knock down any checkpoints they come across — “and they’re not going to be polite about the [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2006 – A 65-year segment of history ends Sept. 30, when the last American servicemember based in the country leaves Iceland.
U.S. servicemembers will continue to work with, train with and operate with their NATO ally, but troops will not be based in the island nation, said Thomas [...]

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28, 2006 – NATO defense ministers meeting in Portoroz, Slovenia, have approved the expansion of responsibility for the alliance’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to include the eastern portion of the country. ISAF already exercises opertional control in the country’s other three regions.
James Appathurai, NATO [...]

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28, 2006 – Military equipment, availability of troops and the alliance’s willingness to use them are on the table here as NATO defense ministers meet today and tomorrow, Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said here today.
“Over the next two days we have a chance to address [...]

U.S. Newswire
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — Two weeks ago, Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Eric Cantor, R-Va., introduced legislation, H.R. 6057, which would finally end taxing inflationary capital gains as part of the capital gains tax.
Under current law, taxpayers are currently paying, in part, a tax on inflation. By indexing the cost basis for inflation, this [...]