Iran has long been one of the leading state sponsors of terrorism worldwide. Iran’s ruling mullahs are extending their regional influence in the fog of the Iraq conflict. Their pursuit of nuclear weapons and a robust ballistic missile capability continues apace. Thomas Joscelyn argues that Iran is guilty of far more. An emboldened Iran has [...]

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BEIJING: No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo.
But just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has [...]

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Mohammed ElBaredei has served as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency since 1997- an odd choice for the position since he has absolutely no scientific, let along, physics background and he hails from Egypt and previously served in that nation’s diplomatic corps. This background leads him open charges that he may lack [...]

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In a unique flight scheduled for liftoff from India Sept. 17-20, Israel’s first “Polaris/TecSat” military imaging radar satellite is to be launched along with India’s first military recon spacecraft. They will be fired into an approximately 600-km. (372-mi.) polar orbit atop the same powerful Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
The mission, from India’s launch site on [...]

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This weekend, the mystery of the Israeli aircraft over northern Syria became more important and even less clear than it was before. The story began Sept. 6 with a report from Syria that an Israeli aircraft had dropped ordnance over northern Syria and had been forced by Syrian air defenses to retreat from Syrian airspace. [...]

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As Sun Tsu said:
“Whoever occupies the battleground first and awaits the enemy will be at ease; whoever occupies the battleground afterward and must race to the conflict will be fatigued. Thus one who excels at warfare compels men and is not compelled by other men.”
“Thus the highest realization of warfare is to attack the enemy’s [...]

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WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that Syria has been seeking nuclear weapons from North Korea.
“We do know that there are a number of foreign technicians that have been in Syria,” Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Semmel said. “We do know that there may have been contact between Syria and some secret [...]

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Newly declassified U.S. government documents confirm the U.S. government suspected China was helping Algeria build a secret facility in 1991 for developing nuclear weapons.
The 15-megawatt reactor is now a research center about 80 miles south of the Algerian capital of Algiers, and has been brought under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) controls.
However, the once-classified reports [...]

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DEBKAfile’s military sources assert that Iran does not have as many as 600 Shehab-3 missiles capable of a simultaneous barrage - as threatened on an Iranian Web site Monday - nor sufficient launchers to fire that number. The threatening statement followed the French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner’s warning Sunday, Sept. 17 that in view of [...]

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Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Iran will unleash a barrage of hundreds of missiles against Israel and U.S. targets in Iraq if Iran or Syria are attacked, an Iranian Web site threatened on Monday, in comments linked to an alleged Israeli air strike on a secret Syrian nuclear facility.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) — There is nothing new about vacuum bombs — the fearsome things have been around for more than 40 years. But the fact Russia last week announced it had successfully exploded a new one is important for many reasons.
The vacuum, or thermobaric, bomb was the most powerful of its kind ever [...]

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Taiwan’s war of Words with the US
TIME - 2 hours ago
It’s a provocative moniker: unlike previous applications under its official name, the Republic of China, the use of Taiwan is meant to drive home Chen’s …
China protests against proposed US weapons sales to Taiwan AFP
Why isn’t Taiwan in the UN? Jerusalem Post
Taiwan UN bid [...]

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Who’d have thought that an organization funneling millions of dollars to HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations through Palestinian universities is based in…Dublin, Ohio?! FSM Contributing Editor Patrick Poole blows the lid off of this operation.
The Dublin, Ohio-based not-for-profit organization, Arab Student Aid International (ASAI), has funneled millions of dollars over the [...]

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Ever since Nicolas Sarkozy became French president, he has been bewildering the German government with one controversial idea after another. The latest shocker? The new man in Paris has offered German Chancellor Angela Merkel French nuclear weapons. By Ralf Beste and Stefan Simons more…

Franco-German Friction: Is Merkel Getting on Sarkozy’s Nerves?
The World From Berlin: ‘Rambo [...]

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