Defence official Abdul Salam Barghathi told the BBC the arrested men were soldiers.
Monday's test at an Israeli test range over the Mediterranean had nothing to do with growing regional tension, a defence official said.
An unnamed defence official in Washington told the Associated Press that the plane was on a refuelling mission to Afghanistan at the time.
American officers admitted that they did step up their military presence in Najaf on July 19th, but only in order to protect a visiting defence official, Paul Wolfowitz.
In the US President Barack Obama welcomed the "historic step" and a senior defence official said about 237, 000 jobs would be newly open to women "who can meet the standards".
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In Moscow, a top defence ministry official said there were no plans to halt such deliveries.
In neighbouring Estonia (also hard bitten by history) support is well over 90%, says Luukas Ilves, a defence ministry official.
Defence ministry official Yoshihide Yoshida told journalists it was not clear whether the incursion was intentional or accidental, but described it as "extremely problematic".
The remark was made during a briefing in which the brigadier mostly read from a written statement, with an eagle-eyed defence ministry official beside him.
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France has sent about 550 troops to the central town of Mopti and to Bamako, and a defence ministry official told Reuters troop numbers would increase to 2, 500 in coming days.
The official German defence has three parts, broadly, and it unites the centre left and centre right wings of the coalition government.
Petraeus had been selected to lead the war effort, "a sigh of relief could almost be heard throughout" the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence, one British official said.
David Cameron is due to receive the initial findings of an official report on whether the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has broken ministerial guidelines.
The defence secretary was the most senior American official to visit the port since the Vietnam war, when it was the site of a large American base.
Some of the daily newspapers have begun speculating about why the accident happened, while the official paper of the Ministry of Defence is reporting the bare facts of the incident.
And last year, defence firm Qinetiq flew a solar-powered plane for 54 hours, smashing the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.
Robinson weaved his way through Northampton's defence and thought he had grounded the ball on Saints' line, but television match official Ed Morrison ruled otherwise.
Earlier this year the defence secretary, Des Browne, suggested that representatives from the weapons labs of all five official nuclear powers meet to see if some of the technologies mastered for weapons building could in future be turned to verification tasks.
This was because it came in the middle of an official inquiry into the suicide of David Kelly, an expert on Iraqi weapons at Britain's defence ministry.
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