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According to a recent US government report, ‘people on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them.’ Having your name on the US government’s terrorist watch list is ‘not enough [...]

The costs of Pentagon’s development of major weapons systems ballooned in 2008, and the overruns are ‘staggering,’ revealed a report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In the light of the fact, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently proposed a major overhaul of military budgets, including a significant slash in the US giant [...]