However, even the unclassified version should be sufficient to keep its consumers – Congressmen, staff, and the media – awake at night.
The assessment states that Iran is developing and deploying longer range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. However, the report fails to mention the close links between Iran and Russia on the [...]

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Pentagon reveals plans to shoot down spy
Times Online, UK - 3 hours ago
US officials say that the craft carries no nuclear material. USA 193 was launched on December 14, 2006, from the Vandenberg US Air Force Base in California. …
US officials say broken satellite will be shot down International Herald Tribune
US will shoot down plummeting satellite International [...]

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DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Thursday night, Feb. 14, Syrian officials fanned out among Arab broadcasting stations with a warning: Damascus will attack Israel shortly following a decision by Syrian leaders to end its policy of restraint against its territorial violations.
Israeli land, sea, air and homeland defense units were earlier ordered to prepare to defend the [...]

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Of the handful of incidents that have come to light where peasants have taken matters—and land—into their own hands, the first was in the province of Heilongjiang. A statement circulated on the internet in December by leaders claiming to represent 40,000 peasants in 72 villages in Jiamusi prefecture called on village representatives “to pledge to [...]

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IT COULD all be a cold-war rerun. Japan complains of Russian military jets intruding on its airspace. Russian pilots reportedly buzz an American naval ship. Against this backdrop, and recently resumed Russian air and naval exercises in the Atlantic and Pacific, Vladimir Putin volunteered Russia proudly this week for a new arms race with America. [...]

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A tense quiet holds in Kosovo a few days before the expected declaration of independence. NATO peacekeepers say they have the situation under control. And the EU mission, which is supposed to foster social harmony, is already standing at the ready. By Erich Rathfelder in Pristina more…

Pro-Western Incumbent Wins Presidency: Tadic Victory Could Topple Fragile Coalition in [...]

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Vladimir Putin has delivered perhaps his most menacing tirade against the West yet, repeating threats to train nuclear missiles on Europe and warning of unspecified retaliation if Kosovo declared independence.
Addressing his last press conference as Russian president, Mr Putin mounted a defiant display that demonstrated more emphatically than ever the widening gulf between Moscow and [...]

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