The enhancements are being done so the submarines can easily reach Iran.
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HAIFA, Israel – German engineers the past few weeks have been in Israel working to improve three advanced, nuclear capable attack submarines it provided the Jewish state last year, security sources tell the Galil Report.
Many here have estimated the vessels [...]

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World war I

World war I

Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane

Date:
1914–1918

Location:
Worldwide

Result:
Allied victory. End of German Empire, Russian [...]

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Newt said:
In the United States, we refer to this struggle as the “Global war on Terror”. Yet, I believe this label fails to capture the nature and scale of the threat faced by civilization.
The nature of the threat — with Iran at the epicenter — is at its core ideological. The threat to the United [...]

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Poland Condemns Russian-German Pipeline Deal
By VOA News
01 May 2006
 
 
Poland’s defense minister has condemned an agreement forged by Germany and Russia to build a gas pipeline beneath the Baltic Sea that bypasses Poland.
Radek Sikorski expressed concern in Brussels Sunday that a new undersea pipeline would allow Russia to cut off energy supplies to Poland and Belarus [...]

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http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp386.htm 
Far from being an Islamic bomb, the Pakistanis owe their dubious achievement primarily to assistance from China. If anything, this weapon should be labeled a “Chinese bomb.” Nevertheless, in the first days following the Pakistani tests, the Arab world and the Palestinians, in particular, celebrated what they viewed as the birth of the “Islamic bomb.” [...]

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BY KIN-MING LIUAugust 8, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/37503
“As for Israel, its Chinese customers are supplying Middle East dictators with missiles that can reach Israeli territory – if handshakes ever close into fists,” A.M. Rosenthal wrote in October 1993. Sadly, recent events in Lebanon seem to have proven the late columnist correct.
On July 14, the Israeli SAAR-5 class [...]

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This article is a few years old, but I wanted to post it to make a point. Things are changing in the world. There are broad trends going in a direction that should cause concern. Some of the broad trends: 
 1. The rise of Islam (Sword of Islam.)
 2. The rise of China.
 3. The re-emergence of Russia.
 4. Nuclear proliferation.
 5. Missile [...]

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BY BERNARD LEWIS
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 4:30 p.m. EDT
What is the significance of Aug. 22? This year, Aug. 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the [...]

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By Kelly Hearn
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 9, 2006
BUENOS AIRES — Russia is negotiating arms sales to Argentina less than two weeks after angering Washington with a $3 billion deal to sell jets and helicopters to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Russian Ambassador Yuri Korchagin met with Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre on Aug. 2 [...]

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