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Pravda reports:

'The cities are the problem' [says the] director of the Joint Urban Operations Office at U.S. Joint Forces Command. [...] 'This is the next fight'

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The largest contractors in the military-corporate complex are already hard at work helping the Pentagon prepare for future urban occupations. Raytheon, L-3 Communications, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) - the 5th, 7th, and 10th largest Pentagon contractors last year, taking in a combined $18.4-plus billion from the Department of Defense - have all signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with the U.S. Joint Forces Command, according to Berry "Dan" Fox, the Deputy Director of Science and Technology at its Joint Urban Operations Office.

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According to Dan Fox of the Joint Urban Operations Office, the Department of Justice, like the military, is currently working on sense-through-wall technologies. His associate Duane Schattle is collaborating with the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) - set up by the Bush administration in 2002 and whose area of operations is 'America's homefront'

[note from profmarcus - here's the link to the original post in tomdispatch...]

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