The House Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday approved proposed legislation, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009, which would, if adopted, further tighten sanctions on Iran. In an appropriations measure sent to the President earlier this month, companies that…
An article in Defense Industry Daily today highlighted a previous report by a watchdog group on Triple Canopy’s activities in Iraq. Triple Canopy is one of the major private military contractors in Iraq and has taken over many of the…
Robert J. Cabelly, a D.C.-based lobbyist, has been indicted for violations, among other things, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in connection with lobbying and other activities he was alleged to have engaged in on behalf of the Government…
Psst. Have I got a deal for you. For only $65 million you can be the owner of a military landing hovercraft — complete with guns, compartments for three tanks, space for 170 troops and nuclear and CBW shelters. It…
Hansa India, a ship owned by Hamburg-based Leonhardt & Blumberg and chartered by that firm to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (“IRISL”), was boarded earlier this month in the Gulf of Suez by U.S. troops, who discovered AK-47…