Report: Hamas to escalate attacks on Israel

Posted by Matt in December 14th, 2007 | no comment

Published in Israel

Report: Hamas to escalate attacks on Israel
Ynetnews,Â IsraelÂ - 17 hours ago
Hamas has asked Iran to allow the organization to escalate its altercations with Israel, carry out more suicide attacks and if need be â€“ threaten kidnapped …
Hamas seeks Iranian help for Israeli raids Earthtimes
PNA: Hamas Threatens To Harm Shalit Stratfor (subscription)
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Hezbollah hero pays for war with Israel

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Published in Israel, Middle East, hezbollah, Nasrallah

HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah, perhaps the most admired figure in the Arab world, has been stripped by Iran of his control of the Lebanese organisation’s military wing, according to a report yesterday in Asharq Alawsat, an Arabic-language newspaper published in London.
A similar report, in the Tel Aviv daily Ma’ariv, attributed the move to his role [...]

Interesting Times: Israel is not alone

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Published in Iran, Israel

Israel is not alone because Israel is the most Iran-proof country in the world. Taking the most likely rather than the worst-case scenario, a nuclear Iran will actually have a greater negative impact on the lives of Europeans and Americans than on those of Israelis.
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Defense Focus: Russia’s edge — Part 1

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Published in Military, Russia

The first point is that the Soviet Union was so heavily militarized that despite the miserable state of the Soviet command economy, the arms industry was also a vastly larger proportion of the national economy than it has been in the United States since World War II. Consequently, a far larger proportion of engineering, technical [...]

India speeding up nuclear missile production

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Published in India, Missiles

Nuclear-armed India said on Friday it was ready to jump-start production of long-range nuclear missiles which can hit targets deep in China or Pakistan.
V. K. Saraswat, the chief of India’s missile development project, said the assembly lines were in place to speed up the production of the precision rockets.
Military insiders told AFP the announcement was [...]

China supplied the technology for Iran’s first solid-fuel missile

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Published in China, Iran, Missiles, solid-fuel

Iran has developed its first intermediate-range solid-fuel ballistic missile.
Israeli intelligence sources said Iran has developed a solid-fuel missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers.
The intelligence sources said Iran acquired solid-fuel technology from China. In 2002, Iran developed the Fateh-110 single-stage solid-propellant, surface-to-surface missile with a range of 200 kilometers.
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Analysis: China eyes J-10A sale to Iran

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Published in China, Iran, Military

Is China preparing to export its J-10A fighter aircraft to Iran? Most likely, say military observers in Moscow and Tehran. The Russian Kommersant Daily reported that an Iranian aviation company agent had confirmed that China would export to Iran 24 J-10A fighters between 2008 and 2010 at a price of $1 billion.
Allowing this information to [...]

Russia may deploy new-generation ballistic missiles by 2017

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Published in Missiles, Russia

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) may adopt a new ballistic missile system in the next decade, an SMF spokesman said Friday. At present, Russia deploys Topol-M (NATO reporting name SS-27) ballistic missiles as the mainstay of its land-based component of the nuclear triad. As of December 2006, Russia’s SMF operated 44 silo-based and three mobile [...]