Why do intelligence officials fear a Syrian attack? Below are some reasons, based on foreign sources and information already reported by the media:
1. Syria is currently completing the accelerated deployment of a large rocket arsenal on the Golan aimed at Israel.
2. The Syrian army is quickly equipping itself with hundreds of advanced anti-aircraft and anti-tank [...]

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to announce plans for a deepwater docking facility and military base in the far north of the country as part of the nation’s quest to assert its sovereignty in the Arctic.
Military planning documents, obtained by CBC news on Thursday, outline C$60m ($57m) plans to adapt an abandoned mine [...]

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Stuart Levey, the US Treasury official spearheading efforts to hit Iran economically, met with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Tel Aviv on Thursday to discuss the ongoing efforts to get the world’s financial institutions to sever ties with Teheran.
Israeli officials said Levey’s work, which is conducted outside of the UN framework, was important because it [...]

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Saudi Cleric ‘Aed Al-Qarni: Throats must be slit and skulls must be shattered. This Is the path to victory
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Promises to Continue Nuclear Activities Following “Death to America” Chants
Syrian Cleric Muhammad Said Ramadhan Al-Bouti on Hizbullah TV: I Support Blowing Up American and Israeli Targets around the World
Palestinian Friday Sermon by [...]

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A recent survey, which revealed that negative sentiment toward the US is growing in Germany, sparked readers’ attention and got them writing. Many shared their opinions and personal experiences.
The following comments reflect the views of DW-WORLD.DE readers. Not all reader comments have necessarily been published. DW-WORLD.DE reserves the right to edit for length and [...]

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Russian bombers are reported to have buzzed an American military base for the first time since the Cold war when they flew over the Pacific island of Guam.
Moscow said that US fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the two Tupolev-95 warplanes as they resumed the Cold war era practice of flying over Western offshore [...]

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Discharged from one of the five torpedo tubes in the bow of HMS Trenchant, a UK Royal Navy (RN) Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the missile had broached, transitioned to cruise flight, and then navigated to its target using a combination of GPS updates and digital scene-matching area correlation. Arriving in the target area, it [...]

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IN RECENT weeks Russian nostalgia for past greatness has been seen stretching from the North Pole to the Mediterranean via the Caucasus. First the Russians planted a flag on the bottom of the Arctic. Then they promised to return to the Mediterranean. For good measure, a Russian-made bomb fell (but did not explode) into a [...]

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The Bulava will most likely be built to carry 10 warheads, as its combat effectiveness would not be sufficient otherwise. The Yury Dolgoruky, the first of the Borey-class submarines, will have 12 missile launchers, but the two later subs, the Vladimir Monomakh and the Alexander Nevsky, will have 16 launchers.
If the designers’ plans materialize, the [...]

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The government of embattled Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Thursday it may impose a state of emergency because of “external and internal threats” and deteriorating law and order in the volatile northwest near the Afghan border.
Tariq Azim, minister of state for information, said talk from the United States about the [...]

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Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about the value of these strange objects. Simply asking the travelers for the price is hopeless, [...]

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Russia’s flag-planting caper at the North Pole last week captured the world’s attention. Harking back to the heady days of colonial imperialism and perhaps the success of Sputnik, a resurgent Russia dispatched from Murmansk a nuclear-powered icebreaker and a research vessel armed with two mini-submarines to stake a symbolic claim to the Arctic Ocean’s riches.
Russia [...]

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Russia’s strategic aviation started Wednesday an active phase of military exercises to fly over the North Pole and conduct test launches of cruise missiles, an Air Force spokesman said. During the active phase, four Tu-160 Blackjack, 12 Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers, and 14 Tu-22 Backfire-C theater bombers will conduct simulated bombing raids, and more than [...]

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Allowing Russia to get away with a fraudulent claim to the Arctic is an abdication of U.S. national sovereignty, seriously affecting our national security in that region. FSM Contributing Editor Cliff Kincaid excoriates our State Department for failing to assert U.S. authority there.
The failure by the U.S. State Department to cite historical evidence that American [...]

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Finally, the worse news is that the cheap-labor lobbyists, terrorists and world-governing globalists are all moving ahead with their various plans. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from an alarming story on the front page of yesterday’s Washington Times, which informed us that “Islamic extremists embedded in the United States - posing as Hispanic nationals [...]

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