* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1930 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Al Lewis, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1913 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2006

Telephones – main lines in use: 37, 500 ( 2006 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 110, 200 ( 2006 ) ( APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel )

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006 ), pp. 243 – 261

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive ( d. 2006 )

It has since PSOE also favoured the negotiations between the government and ETA during the 2006 cease-fire, which de-facto ended with the Barajas Airport terrorist attack.

* The alleged weakness facing the peace process opened as a result of the permanent ceasefire declared by the organisation ETA on 30 December 2006, broken by the

On April 27, 2006 he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for glorifying terrorism in a speech he gave in 2003 in commemoration of the killing of a prominent ETA member 25 years ago.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

* Mexican Drug War ( 2006 – present ) – an armed conflict fought between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico.

* Fatah – Hamas conflict ( 2006 – 2009 ) – an armed conflict fought between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas with each vying to assume political control of the Palestinian territories.

From June 28 to July 6, 2006, conflict between the MILF and armed civilian volunteers under Maguindanao Province governor Andal Ampatuan who were supported by the Philippine Army had been reported.

On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U. S. armed forces could restore public order and enforce laws in the aftermath of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition.

On June 12, 2006, President Néstor Kirchner brought into force the Defence Law, which had been passed in 1988 as a means to modernize the doctrine of the armed forces and define their role, though successive governments had failed to put it into effect.

In March 2008 the Fiji Human Rights Commission published a report which alleged that Australia might have been planning an armed intervention in Fiji in late 2006.

On July 31, 2006, during the 2006 Cuban transfer of duties, Fidel Castro delegated his duties as President ( Dictator ) of the Council of state, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and the post of commander in chief of the armed forces to first Vice President Raúl Castro.

A US Department of Defense interim rule ( effective 16 June 2006 ) revises DoD Instruction 3020. 41 to authorize contractors, other than private security contractors, to use deadly force against enemy armed forces only in self-defense.

On 18 August 2006, the US Comptroller General rejected bid protest arguments that US Army contracts violated the Anti-Pinkerton Act by requiring that contractors provide armed convoy escort vehicles and labor, weapons, and equipment for internal security operations at Victory Base Complex, Iraq.

The Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) carried out many high-profile armed robberies at locations such as banks and supermarkets in the town 2001, until some time after a BBC Northern Ireland documentary highlighted the events in December 2004, although another robbery involving hostage taking occurred in October 2006.

Since its inception, notable guest editors have included: David Blunkett, who used the programme as an opportunity to ' turn the tables ' on John Humphrys in 2005 ; Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose appearance on 29 December 2006 encompassed discussions of his growing concerns about the ' justification ' for the invasion of Iraq, Britain's role in the affair, and the consequences for British armed forces ; and Peter Hennessy, who, on 28 December 2007, led a visit to HMS Vigilant ( a British Trident submarine ) alongside its base at Faslane.

In February 2006 Dittrich stepped down as chair of the parliamentary party, because he did not agree with the government's decision to send the Dutch armed forces to the southern province of Uruzgan in Afghanistan.

In 2006, after armed clashes broke out during the Djiboutian – Eritrean border conflict, Djibouti's President Guelleh, when asked if his country was at war with Eritrea, replied with " absolutely ".

List of documents and web links relating to the law of armed conflict in air and space operations, May 2006.

According to UNICEF over 27, 000 children in different parts of the world are believed to have been used on the frontlines during armed conflicts in 2006 alone.

In 2006 Libya was removed from the United States list of terrorist supporting nations after it had ended all of its support for armed groups and the development of weapons of mass destruction.

Later, on 13 February 2006, Mashal declared that Hamas would end the armed struggle against Israel if Israel withdrew to its pre-1967 borders and recognize a Palestinian right of return.

While staffing one of the Navy awards, the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Raymond M. Walsh, explained that an internee of the Soviet Union was previously denied the POW Medal under the older version of 10 USC § 1128 “ because he was not a prisoner of an enemy of the United States .” However, he could now be considered for the medal because “ The 1989 change to the law permits the Secretary of the Navy to determine if the circumstances under which internee was held captive were ‘ comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .’” While staffing the Air Force award, the Air Force Directorate of Personnel Services ( AFPC / DPS ) concluded that “ In 1989, Title 10, Section 1128, regarding Prisoner of War Medals changed and allowed Service secretaries to determine eligibility for the POW Medal for personnel held captive in countries not directly involved in armed conflict with the United States, provided the treatment of the prisoners was similar to the treatment received by prisoners held by enemy forces .” AFPC / DPS determined that the internees in Siberia met the statutory criteria because “ the conditions of this detainment were comparable, if not worse, than those experienced in Germany, and therefore, should be eligible for the POW Medal .” In 1996 and 2006 the USAF awarded POW Medals to USAAF T / Sgt Daniel Culler and Lt. Richard Pettit for illegal incarceration during World War II in prison camp Wauwilermoos, in neutral Switzerland.

The Army did not change its medal policy until 2006, when it added the 1989 amendment but incorrectly retained the contradictory requirement that " hostages of terrorists and persons detained by governments with which the United States is not engaged actively in armed conflict are not eligible for the medal.

The Nepali Civil War ( labelled People's War by the Maoists ) was an armed conflict between government forces and Maoist fighters Nepal which lasted from 1996 until 2006.