“Iran and Hizbollah have been trying to convince Assad for the past two years that the only way to force Israel to quit Golan would be through resistance operations, and it is believed they have succeeded,” one Syrian analyst said.
The Syrian president raised the rhetorical temperature July 17, as he was being sworn in for [...]

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These four pose the greatest threat to America
Illustrated by Roberto Parada

Four figures who threaten America’s security. From left, Kim Jong-il,
Bashar al-Assad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]

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This means the DF-21s “would be able to hold at risk all of northern India, including New Delhi,” project director Hans Kristensen said. “Moreover, and this is perhaps the most interesting implication of the discovery, DF-21s would be within range of three main Russian ICBM fields on the other side of Mongolia: the SS-25 fields [...]

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In a little over half a decade, Japan’s military has carried out changes considered unthinkable a few years back. In the Indian Ocean, Japanese destroyers and refueling ships are helping American and other militaries fight in Afghanistan. In Iraq, Japanese planes are transporting cargo and American troops to Baghdad from Kuwait.
Japan is acquiring weapons that [...]

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CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself - until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.
To some, the microchip was a wondrous invention - a high-tech helper that could increase security at nuclear plants and military bases, help authorities identify wandering [...]

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Appeasement — The Liberal-Islamic Strategy
Politicians in the US and Europe are ditching the “War on Terror”, however this is probably not the big news. The “War on Terror” will probably not survive the next Republican Administration, let alone the next Democratic one.
The real news is that little or no attention is paid to the Russia, [...]

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Russians are in the dog house. British public figures from the Foreign Secretary downwards have targeted their displeasure on Vladimir Putin’s administration after the discovery of yet another plot to kill a prominent Russian in London. Unlike Alexander Litvinenko, murdered with polonium-210 last year, Boris Berezovsky escaped assassination. But fears about official Russia have been [...]

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Viktor Kremenyuk, deputy director of the Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told AP this week that Moscow is at a critical point in its history, trying to decide what role to play in global affairs.
The nation, he said, stands between three “elephants” — Europe, with the world’s strongest [...]

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The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 stealth bomber would be able to attack and destroy an expanded set of hardened, deeply buried military targets using a new 30,000 pound-class penetrator weapon that Northrop Grumman has begun integrating on the aircraft. The company is doing the work under a seven-month, $2.5 million contract awarded June 1 by [...]

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The massive earthquake that shook Japan this week nearly killed millions in a nuclear apocalypse.
It also produced one of the most terrifying sentences ever buried in a newspaper. As reported deep in the New York Times, the Tokyo Electric Company has admitted that, “the force of the shaking caused by the earthquake had exceeded the [...]

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LONDON — Germany is investigating scores of companies suspected of aiding Iran’s nuclear program. Officials said 50 German companies may have been involved in the sale dual-use systems and material required for Iran’s nuclear project. They said Berlin has determined that the shipments were being used to complete Iran’s nuclear energy plant at Bushehr.
“The [...]

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