JERUSALEM — An airfield in Montenegro once helped ensure the survival of Israel, declassified documents reveal.
The airstrip played a part in a cloak and dagger operation in 1948 to provide warplanes for Israel’s nascent air force in the Independence War, the Associated Press reported, quoting recently declassified documents in Israel and Serbia.
“Without this help [...]

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Honarmand found out that Iranian officials are present in every sector of the economy. And according to an article, which appeared in the Iranian newspaper Entehab on December 8, Teheran has actually been engaged in proselytizing to the poorest sectors of Venezuelan society.
Furthermore, Iran’s manus longa, Hezbollah, are also reported to be openly acting throughout [...]

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects “no options” to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.
The statement was the Israeli leader’s clearest indication yet that he is willing to use military force against Iran.
“Israel clearly will not reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran,” the [...]

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The Muslim Boys would make most of their income by committing robberies, stealing from drug dealers and laundering money. They gained a fearsome reputation amongst their peers through their forced conversions to Islam.
52-year old Ruth Marriott told the inquest: “We heard the shooting. We heard gun fire. The thought did strike me that Adrian could [...]

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The avian flu virus is a bomb waiting to explode, in the same way that the HIV virus decimated millions.
In the past several weeks, the specter of an avian flu pandemic has raised its ugly head again, with reports of new deaths in China, Indonesia and Vietnam. The first dead victims in South Asia were [...]

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The emerging technologies of the 1990s have not changed the very nature of war, as many claimed they would.
The Future of War
Any future adversary will, at a minimum, attempt to employ all the dimensions of warfare to asymmetrically counter critical U.S. military capabilities in such areas as conventional warfare, force projection, and C4ISR, including space [...]

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Governments are likely to become targets of increasingly sophisticated Chinese cyber warfare attacks over the next three to five years as the PLA assembles an advanced cybermilitia.
A Chinese hacker community, referring to itself as “Honker Union,” declared war on US government and business websites in 2001. The group claimed responsibility for attacks against the US [...]

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