North by west... to the killing fields

A billion dollar firm with a billion reasons to be called inglorious

The last one among the world’s largest defence contractors that deserves to be in our inglorious list is Northrop Grumman. It is more famous for its designing, system integrating, and manufacturing of defence electronics and many other military and commercial weapons. Among various kinds of military products that the company produces are aircraft, aircraft carriers, military vessels, missile satellite systems, electronic censors and information systems. Northrop is one more truant company witnessing growth in employment and sales revenue. During 2007, there were about 122,600 people employed in the firm globally; by the end of 2008, the figure reached 1,33,570 – an 8.9% increase in employment in 2008 during the current global economic mess. And one doesn’t need to wonder about the reasons. Similarly, its sales revenue has also gone up from $30.11 billion in 2006 to $32 billion in 2007 and finally to $33.9 billion in 2008. Northrop is one of the firms filing the highest number of patents – in 2007 alone, the company filed over 8,511 patents. Northrop acquired companies like Integic Corporation in 2005, Essex Corporation in 2007 and 3001 International in 2008.

Expectably, Northrop Grumman has equal contributions in war crimes. Although 90% of its products go to the US government, most of its weapons go to US aided undemocratic countries who are accused time and again of breaking international laws. Its sophisticated deadly weaponry also goes to countries like Korea, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia and UAE apart from Australia, India, Japan, UK, US, NATO, Italy, Germany etc. An example to their reach is that Israel’s reserved A-4 attack aircraft, TA-4 training aircraft and even the AH-64 attack helicopter are made by Northrop Grumman.

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NATO’s immature rants

That the Taliban uses the net to spread hate messages is well known – now, apparently, NATO is also on the same rot path; unfortunately, NATO’s internet rants are only flaming up Taliban passions

Lately, an already complex equation between NATO and Taliban in Afghanistan got worse due to an opinion war on Twitter! The reason the peace process is in pieces can be well understood – both parties regularly indulge in outlandish outbursts against each other. But the latest dialogue went further into ridiculously immature territory.Check the Twitter conversation between NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (@ISAFmedia) and a Taliban spokesperson Abdulqahar Balk (@ABalkhi) this month. @ISAFmedia: “...#Kabul attack: the outcome is inevitable. Question is how much longer will terrorists put innocent Afghans in harm’s way?”
@ABalkhi: “@ISAFmedia i dnt knw. U hve bn pttng thm n ‘harm’s way’ fr da pst 10 yrs. Razd whole vllgs n mrkts, n stil hv da nrve to tlk bout ‘harm’s way.”
@ISAFmedia: “Really, @abalkhi? UNAMA reported 80% of civilians causalities are caused by insurgent (your) activities”
@ABalkhi: “UNAMA is an entity of whom? mine or yours?”
@ISAFmedia: “Hey..., does your boss do this?” [linking to a video of NATO forces’ commander General John Allen taking stock of attacks on the ISAF HQ].

Taliban has been known to rant away on its Twitter handles and official ‘news’ site Shahamat (Voice of Jihad, if you may). But NATO’s current fall from grace has only placed it in a toxic, unclean bathtub, visible to all international commentators. The worrying part is that NATO’s vitriolic attacks may only be flaming up Taliban passions more, egging them on to keep attacking NATO posts.

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