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US-UK Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty

The U.S. is currently working with Her Majesty’s Government to finalize the Management Plan for the Treaty and all other outstanding issues. Treaty testing (“Pathfinder” projects) is complete, but a few outstanding issues remain and are now being addressed, including how compliance and enforcement matters will be handled under the Treaty and how the Approved ... Read More»

By Weblord | 29 November, 2011 | Categories: Policy | Tags: Defense, Trade, Treaty

Treasury Fact Sheet on Combating Terrorist Financing

08 September 2011 U.S. Department of the Treasury Fact Sheet Combating the Financing of Terrorism, Disrupting Terrorism at its Core Terrorist organizations rely on financing and support networks to sustain operations and launch attacks. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) has developed a sophisticated and comprehensive approach ... Read More»

By Weblord | 8 September, 2011 | Categories: Policy | Tags: counterterrorism, Intelligence analysis, OIA, terror, Terrorism, Threat Finance Cells

Memorial Honors Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream has returned to Washington. The memorial honoring King’s legacy opened to the public for the first time August 22. Built on four acres of the National Mall, the memorial includes a 450-foot inscription wall with more than a dozen quotations selected by a council of historians from King’s writing, sermons ... Read More»

By Weblord | 23 August, 2011 | Categories: History, Human Rights, Western Hemisphere

New Embassy Design Concept

Winning design concept As Prepared by KieranTimberlake KieranTimberlake’s concept for the New London Embassy is the result of their efforts to resolve, in architectural terms, what an embassy aspires to be and what present realities dictate it must do. The expressive challenge is to give form to the core beliefs of our democracy – transparency, openness, ... Read More»

By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 23 February, 2010 | Categories: Featured Event | Tags: New Embassy

Scotland’s Release of Pan Am 103 Bomber Disappointing, U.S. Says

August 20, 2009 The Obama administration says it is deeply disappointed by the decision of the Scottish Executive to release Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi, the only individual convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. In an August 20 statement, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton remembered the ... Read More»

By Weblord | 20 August, 2009 | Categories: Europe & Eurasia, Policy, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Bomber, Lockerbie, Megrahi, Pan Am 103, terror, Terrorism

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