Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2008 |
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Israel: war is likely in near future
PRESS TV, Iran - 19 hours ago
Zionist prime minister Ehud Olmert also addressed the ceremony, saying that the lessons of the Lebanon 33-day war are being implemented at all levels of the …
IDF Chief of Staff Warns of Impending war Christian Broadcasting Network
Israeli army chief says conflict is likely uruknet.info
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Iran,
Nuclear
New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb by the end of this year. By Markus Becker more…
Iran ‘has nuclear warhead factory’
THE Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s controversial nuclear fuel program has given the UN’s nuclear [...]
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Watch two videos - one showing the missile launch and the other showing the satellite interception.
See video here!
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The most likely scenarios, military sources said, would involve a major Hizbullah strike against Israeli or Jewish interests abroad. They said the attack would be similar to the bombings of the Israel embassy and Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s.
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What is the hardest to believe — but is, of course, possible — is that Putin simply will allow the Kosovo issue to pass. He clearly knew this was coming. He maintained vocal opposition to it beforehand and reiterated his opposition afterward. The more he talks and the less he does, the weaker he appears [...]
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Russia,
putin
While calls for “change†have been a potent part of the American presidential primary contest, a world away Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is affecting some of that very change many people may prefer not to see. In the course of a week, Putin has threatened neighboring Ukraine with missiles, scorned the independence of Kosovo from [...]
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Podvig describes Russian’s main security concern as maintaining strategic parity with the United States. This parity will be destroyed by U.S. missile-defense systems and space-based weapons, and Podvig suggests that Russia is most likely to respond with “asymmetric” countermeasures, such as extending the service life of multiple-warhead ballistic missiles. Podvig warns such countermeasures will be [...]
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Iran,
Israel
Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Hadad has warned that the “countdown to Israel’s destruction has begun,” in an interview published Thursday in an Iranian newspaper.
Hadad’s comment was one of a number of scathing remarks made by Iranian officials regarding Israel this week, a trend apparently escalated by the assassination of Hezbollah’s second-in-command Imad Mugniyah earlier this [...]
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The recent American shoot down of a failing spy satellite, using a SM-3 anti-missile missiles fired from an Aegis cruiser, upset Russia. U.S. military technology has been the bane of Russian military planning since World war II. Back then, billions of dollars worth of U.S. military equipment was shipped to Russia, and a generation of [...]
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China,
Military,
arms
China is using billions of American trade dollars to modernize its military force — from purchasing foreign weapons systems and technologies to building its own ships, planes and missiles — a top lawmaker and his colleagues say.
As top U.S. military officials questioned China’s intentions in expanding its military last week, ranking House Armed Services Committee [...]
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The US Defense Department said late Wednesday it had successfully used a ship-board missile to shoot down an out-of-control spy satellite before it plummeted to Earth. “At approximately 10:26 pm today (0326 GMT Thursday), a US Navy Aegis warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a single modified tactical standard missile 3, hitting the satellite [...]
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