THOUSANDS of Chinese troops are being deployed in the Tibetan capital Lhasa and in towns scattered across the vast plateau to contain outbreaks of anti-Chinese unrest. The riots and protests in recent days have been the most widespread in the region in decades. As China prepares to host the Olympic Games in August, Tibet is [...]

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DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that Hizballah has built up its rocket arsenal to three and-a-half times its pre-2006 Lebanon war stocks. Some of the 40,000 rockets of Syrian and Iranian manufacture can hit Israel targets as far south as Beersheba, 350 km. away from the Shiite terror group’s launching pads north of Lebanon’s Litani River. [...]

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Columnist Fares bin Hazam, who specializes in issues relating to Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, published in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh a personal account by a former Al-Qaeda member of Saudi origin. The article, titled “Iran Recruits Members to Al-Qaeda at Tens of Thousands Dollars a Month,” describes the assistance the former fighter and his friends [...]

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U.S. officials have begun to confirm publicly that they have hard intelligence about North Korean proliferation. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said in Feb. 7 testimony to the House intelligence committee: “While Pyongyang denies a program for uranium enrichment and also denies its proliferation activities, we know North Korea continues to engage in [...]

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At present Bout is accused of supplying portable ground-to-air missiles to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — FARC — the left-wing militia waging a war against the Colombian government. Tensions have been mounting in South America since Colombian forces destroyed a FARC camp in Ecuador earlier this month.
Venezuela has also joined the confrontation, threatening [...]

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When Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev takes the helm in May, powerful technocrats and security barons will be vying for his ear—when they aren’t plotting to undermine him. This week, FP looks at the shadowy figures who will be shaping Russia’s future behind the scenes.
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“I have decided on a new disarmament measure: for the airborne component, the number of nuclear weapons, of missiles and of aircraft will be reduced by one third,” he told an audience of defence officials and dock workers.
The reduction will leave France with less than 300 nuclear warheads, half the maximum number it had during [...]

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Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright are in hot water. Newspapers and news stations across the world have been reporting on Wright’s “inflammatory rhetoric” (as Obama’s campaign is calling it) in 2003 when he called upon his Chicago congregation to reject the hymn “God Bless America” and instead shout “G-d Damn America.” Wright denounced the [...]

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