Analysts suspect ploy to stop Bush action against Tehran
“But I entertain an even darker suspicion,” he added. “It is that the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again. This time the purpose is to head off the possibility that the president [...]

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A congressional commission on China reported last week that U.S. intelligence agencies have failed to properly assess Beijing’s military buildup and capabilities and were taken by surprise on key developments, including new submarines built in secret.
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China also could launch up to 10 new Shang-class nuclear attack submarines by next year.
Originally published on Nov. 23, 2007
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For the first time since the 1960s, Israel’s intelligence community has raised the prospect that the West could abandon its support of a Jewish state.
Officials said the intelligence assessment determined that European Union officials regard Israel as the main reason for the Western crisis with Iran, Middle East Newsline reported. They said Israel has become [...]

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Some infidels are better than others. The likes of al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Islamist terrorist groups swear to keep fighting until all confess that there is one God, and Muhammed is his prophet; however, these groups have shown themselves to be remarkably willing to work with individuals, nations, and groups that show no [...]

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There is a strong likelihood that Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon were armed and possibly trained by North Korea, according to a report by the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) obtained Wednesday by the Reuters news agency.
The CRS, which provides independent analyses to the Congress, cited “reputable sources” as saying North Korea had given weapons and [...]

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The Israeli military used cyberwar techniques to help blind Syrian air defenses prior to its strike on an alleged nuclear facility at Dayr az-Zawr.
The magazine Aviation Week recently reported that the main attack by the Israeli Defense Forces was preceded by an engagement with a single Syrian radar site at Tall al-Abuad near the Turkish [...]

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“Pakistan is acquiring advanced missile technology from China. No missile defence system is perfect, but if we can knock out three out of every five warheads, it means our adversary has to fire more rockets. It is a means of deterrence.”
Analysts in Pakistan say such thinking is hastening an arms race. “The first impulse is [...]

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Find out which countries have short, medium and long range ballistic missiles.
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Imagine, if you will, that you had served your country in the U.S. military for 22 years, and viewed yourself as a patriot. To this end, you have tattooed on your arm a small image of the Stars and Stripes and the words “U.S. Army’. When preparing to retire from the army, you then decide [...]

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WITHOUT fanfare, China has created a colossal new city. It is called a city even though it barely has a population to speak of and consists mostly of water and desolate islands. It would be no more than a bizarre misnomer were it not that the affected area—a swathe of the South China Sea—has other [...]

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Vladimir Putin’s bid to remain in power is bad for Russia, for democracy and for the world
The simplest approach would have been to change the constitution. But even to Mr Putin that must have seemed too bare-faced. Instead he has played a shabby three-card trick on Russia’s voters. The first card was to put himself [...]

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Republican lawmaker Duncan Hunter told the hearing that China was turning out 5,000 commercial ships a year, against 300 by the United States, and an average of three submarines a year, to the United States’ one.
China is also producing nearly five times as much steel as the United States, he said — some 480 million [...]

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This was originally posted 9-2-2005. It shows how China is preparing for war with America. It also points out that when a Chinese general threatens to use nuclear weapons against us over Taiwan, he is serious.
In effect China is using trade with the United States until the day it is strong enough to destroy us. [...]

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You may have thought that relations between Britain and Russia could not get any worse.
I thought relations between Britain and Russia could not get any worse. I was wrong.
Russia has decided to raise the stakes again, and the victim is the poor old British Council.
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Major cities of the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and other “high value targets” will get the anti-ballistic missile defence shield, once the ballistic defence system (BMD) is fully operational within the next three to four years, missile and strategic system chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Dr V.K. Saraswat said [...]

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