News Desk, Saturday 14 January, 2006

Air Force officials won't comment on reports that the U-2 reconnaissance plane, stationed at Beale Air Force Base, will be phased out by 2011.

(AP) An airstrike on a Pakistani village near the Afghan border targeted Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, Pakistani officials said Saturday. They said efforts were under way to determine if the elusive Ayman al-Zawahri or any other terror suspects were among at least 17 people killed.

The Defense Department will begin work this year on a next-generation long-range strike aircraft, accelerating its bomber modernization plans by nearly two decades in an effort to quickly enhance the Air Force's effectiveness across the Asia-Pacific region.
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