Israeli defense officials agree that Syria, with the backing of Iran, is apparently preparing for war with the Jewish state, but do not believe that conflict will erupt this year.
That according to a security assessment for the year 2007 prepared by the IDF, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Mossad for the government.
The Hamas-controlled [...]

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JUNEAU — Here’s a chilling thought: Iran may have an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States in nine years.
Rogue nations like Iran and North Korea, and other countries as well, are much further along in ballistic missile development than many Americans believe, the chief of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency told a [...]

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Chances of another war in the Middle East in 2007 are relatively low, but so are the odds of a revival of the peace process, according to Israel’s annual intelligence report.
Partial details of the report were publish in the Israeli media on Friday although the document is to be presented to cabinet on Sunday.
While the [...]

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Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Israel’s defense establishment does not believe the nation will go to war with Syria in the coming year, but does see a very high probability for a mini-war against Hamas-led forces in the Gaza Strip by the end of the year.
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Recently, the Iranian media have been citing Western sources on accelerated Iranian nuclear activity. It should be stressed that so far, the Iranian regime has neither denied nor confirmed any of these reports.
The Nine Tons of UF6 Gas Brought to Natanz Could Be Used for One Atom Bomb
On February 20, 2007, the conservative Iranian news [...]

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In Europe, the Czech and Polish governments signaled their readiness to move ahead with deploying key IMD elements on their soil—a radar-tracking facility in the Czech Republic and a bed of missile-interceptors in Poland to be completed by 2011 or 2012. “We have agreed that both countries are likely to give a positive response,” Czech [...]

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Russia currently sees a prime opportunity to return to its Cold war policies in the Middle East. From the mid-1950s to the fall of the Soviet empire, Moscow’s principal clients in the Arab world included Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and Yemen. Supplying these regional allies with military assistance and training under long-term loan arrangements [...]

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If I had been flying a real helicopter, I would be dead and the government of Japan would be out $50 million, the cost of one its 10 MH-53 copters. They wouldn’t miss me—and they might not miss the $50 million either. Though its constitution officially prohibits war and its army and navy are innocuously [...]

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For more than a decade, successive U.S. presidents have declared that political liberalization leading ultimately to democratization in China would be desirable and decidedly in America’s–and the world’s–interests. The Clinton administration, after some initial tortuous twists and turns, fashioned a policy of “constructive engagement” with the Chinese government that called for close bilateral economic and [...]

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