The above-ground Ministry of Defence building at Fort George, Ardersier, was designed to act as a RAF communications centre during a Cold war crisis.
It is built of 2ft thick reinforced concrete and was designed to be totally self sufficient for up to three months in the event of a nuclear attack.
Inverness-based Self Storage [...]

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Shipping Snafu Sends ICBM Parts to Taiwan
Wired News - 9 hours ago
By Sharon Weinberger March 25, 2008 | 1:03:03 PMCategories: Eye on China, Missiles Well, it’s not as bad as mistakenly sending nuclear-armed cruise missiles …
US says missile parts mistakenly sent to Taiwan Los Angeles Times
US accidentally sends Taiwan missile parts Radio Australia
US sent nuclear missile [...]

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SPIEGEL talks to Ernst Uhrlau, the president of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, about the risk of attack by Islamist terrorists in Germany, how German Muslims are training in camps in Afghanistan and the risk from al-Qaida in North Africa. more…

Photo Gallery: Fighting Jihad in Germany
‘A New Crusade’: Bin Laden Threatens Europe over Muhammad [...]

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The following is the transcript of a speech on the subject of Islam given by Jim Horn, vice Chairman of the United American Committee, to a group of Republican women in Southern California on Tuesday March 18th 2008. During and after his speech Jim was met with thunderous applause.
Note: The contents of this [...]

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The 1998 Russian financial crisis proved a tipping point of sorts. Vladimir Putin appeared from nowhere to become Yeltsin’s successor as president in 1999. His dramatic catapulting from obscure KGB spook to president of the largest country in the world indicates that powerful forces within Russia were very unhappy with the gangsters and cowboy capitalists [...]

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Zimbabwe’s economic crisis is so dire that the official inflation rate now exceeds 100,000 percent and at least one-quarter of the population has fled the country. As the economy has deteriorated, President Robert Mugabe has given security groups, including the intelligence service and the military, control over many political institutions. Experts say these groups could [...]

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The long-suffering Tibetans have been in the news. This happens perhaps once or twice a decade. In a more moral world, however, public opinion would be far more preoccupied with Tibetans than with Palestinians, would be as harsh on China as it is on Israel, and would be as fawning on Israel as it now [...]

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Representatives of the Russian government and the Kremlin are multiplying their threats to Ukraine (as well as to Georgia) ahead of next week’s NATO summit, where Membership Action Plans (MAPs) for the two countries will be considered. Moscow realizes more clearly than some NATO governments that this issue is a defining one for the Alliance [...]

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US engineer gets 24 years for exporting military data to China
AFP - 9 hours ago
Last month, a US defense official, an ex-Boeing engineer and two others were charged with spying for China involving sensitive military and aerospace …
Chinese-born engineer sentenced for helping export US military … CNN International
Engineer sentenced to 24 years in China conspiracy case [...]

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The peace along India’s northeastern border with China has been disturbed in the last five years by the aggressive buildup of roads and military infrastructure on the China side, as well as the recent completion of a rail line to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The border, marked in 1914 as the McMohan Line, is [...]

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Thirty years ago, Dubai wasn’t on the international art map. Today, Art Dubai 2008 serves up a cocktail of private equity firms and expensive art, where Land Rovers and seven-star hotels swaddle international art buyers in a simulated Arabian paradise. By R. Jay Magill, Jr. in Dubai more…

Photo Gallery: Art Dubai 2008
Global Village Dubai: Cultures [...]

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