Northrop Grumman wins $60-billion Air Force contract to build new stealth bomber – LA Times

{This tells the tale – Northrop which began is California, now based near the Pentagon in DC to be closer to the feedline for dollars. Are the new bombers needed? Or is this just a jobs and budget game for lobbiests and folks planning to cash in when they “retire” and take cushy jobs for companies like Northrop?}

Northrop, based in Falls Church, Va., built the iconic bat-winged B-2 stealth bomber two decades ago. But the company was seen as the underdog in the battle against a team considered better funded and more politically connected.

Source: Northrop Grumman wins $60-billion Air Force contract to build new stealth bomber – LA Times

Hebron: Second youth killed today

A SECOND Palestinian youth has just been killed by Israeli Occupation Forces near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron (Monday).

 

12144869_1221222237920194_3523026720051069861_nThe second youth killed in Hebron today.12042918_1221222244586860_35824274979035107_nRa’ed Jaradat , who was shot dead this morning.

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A spokeswoman for International Solidarity Movement (ISM) claimed that two eyewitnesses had told her the deceased was a “few metres away” from soldiers and had not even spoken to them before he was gunned down.

She said: “I have information from eyewitnesses that he was a few metres away from the soldiers and he did not have a knife.

“They didn’t ask for ID, they didn’t speak to him, they just shot him. He was walking down the street on his own.

She added: “Nobody knows who he was. People are scared. Palestinians are being killed every day in this city.

“People get killed for nothing. You never know what will happen.”

 

This morning, 22-year old Ra’ed Jaradat was shot and left to bleed to death, after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli soldier in the neck.

Ambulances were said to have been prevented from reaching him until after he had died.

This is a developing story.