Candid camera sex scandal shocks Palestinians

Posted by Matt in February 12th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Middle East, Off-Topic, Candid Camera, Candid Camera Sex, Channel 10, Chief Of Staff, Corruption, Fahmi, Hebrew, Hidden Camera, Husseini, Intelligence Officer, Israeli Tv, Mahmud Abbas, Palestinian Authority, Ramallah, Ramallah West Bank, Seeking A Job, Sex Scandal, Shocks, West Bank, West Bank Palestinians

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinians were shocked on Thursday after Israeli TV aired a graphic video showing a senior official caught on a hidden camera soliciting sex from a job applicant.
The video, parts of which aired on Israel’s Channel 10 earlier this week, was shot by former Palestinian intelligence officer Fahmi Shabaneh, who has accused [...]

DEBKAfile – New Israeli unmanned wonder boat deployed in Persian Gulf

Posted by Matt in December 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Military Tech, Capabilities, Capitals, Chief Of Staff, Debkafile, Gaby Ashkenazi, India, Intelligence, Israel, Lt, Military Sources, Naval Experts, Persian Gulf, Shark, Singapore Navy, Sources Report, South-Korea, Stealth, Sv, warships

The first unmanned stealth craft on the seas, designated Protector SV or Death Shark, recently deployed in the Persian Gulf, is in high demand after its successful performance with the Singapore Navy. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that India and South Korea asked Israel’s Rafael to build craft to their specifications when chief of staff, Lt. [...]

Russian General: China Is a Potential Enemy

Posted by Matt in December 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Russia, Chief Of Staff, China, Compass, Conflicts, Lieutenant General, Quot, Russia, Russian Federation, Russian General, Russian Land, scenarios, Sensation, Sergey Skokov

Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Land Forces, Lieutenant-General Sergey Skokov, recently made a statement that caused a major sensation across the Russian Federation. Speaking about possible conflicts that Russia may face in the future, he outlined three distinct scenarios: fighting in the “western, southern” and eastern” directions.
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Kremlin warns against wrecking Russia with democracy | Reuters

Posted by Matt in October 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Chaos, Chief Of Staff, Chief Political Strategist, democracy, Deputy Chief Of Staff, Economic Development, Flirting, kremlin, Liberal Reforms, Reuters, Russia, Surkov, Vladislav

The Kremlin’s chief political strategist warned in an article published on Monday that Russia risked collapsing into chaos if officials tried to tinker with the political system by flirting with liberal reforms.
Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov said it was clear Russia was falling behind in many areas of economic development and that the [...]

AFP: Iran chief of staff sees Israel as ‘paper tiger’

Posted by Matt in September 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Afp, Armed Forces, Chief Of Staff, Hassan, Iran, Israel, Jewish State, Mehr News Agency, News Israel, News Paper, Paper Tiger, Staff Paper, Tiger

Armed forces chief of staff General Hassan Firouzabadi on Monday dismissed Israeli threats against Iran, saying the Jewish state was a “paper tiger”, Mehr news agency reported.
“Israel is a paper tiger and when they say that Israel is going to attack Iran it is a bluff,” Firouzabadi said, quoted by Mehr.
AFP: Iran chief of staff [...]

‘Hezbollah has more rockets than before Lebanon war’

Posted by Matt in May 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Middle East, Missiles, Ahead, Ammunition, Chief Of Staff, Committee Meeting, hezbollah, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Lebanon, Lebanon War, Litani River, Presence, rockets, South Lebanon, Unifil, Upcoming Elections, War Israel

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told a Knesset committee meeting Tuesday that Hezbollah has more rockets than before the Second Lebanon War and is boosting it’s power in South Lebanon ahead of the country’s upcoming elections.
“Hezbollah is secretly bolstering its power south of the Litani River, but UNIFIL’s presence is making [...]

US general warns Russia on nuclear bombers in Cuba

Posted by Matt in July 22nd, 2008 | 2 comments

Published in Military, Russia, Air Force Officer, Bombers, Chief Of Staff, Cuba, Norton, Nuclear Bombers, Red Line, Russia, States Of America, Threshold, United States Of America

Russia would cross “a red line for the United States of America” if it were to base nuclear capable bombers in Cuba, a top US air force officer warned on Tuesday.
“If they did I think we should stand strong and indicate that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line for the United [...]

Israel and Iran: It’s Later Than You Think

Posted by Matt in June 26th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, War, Chief Of Staff, Enriching Uranium, Exercises, Fledged War, Foxnews, Iran Nuclear, iraq, Israel, Middle East, Military Installations, Military Strike, Nations Security Council, Nuclear Aspirations, Nuclear Installations, Nuclear Work, Oil Prices, Spike, United Nations, United Nations Security, United Nations Security Council, Video Israel, Winds Of War

WITH oil prices at their present highs and Iraq at last making tentative progress towards stability, the last thing anyone wants to hear is that conditions in the Middle East could be about to take an abrupt turn for the worse. Unfortunately, they could. Recent weeks have brought a spike in chatter about the prospect [...]

Air Force Purge Stemmed From Future War Fights

Posted by Matt in June 23rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Military, U.S., Air Force Chief, Air Force Chief Of Staff, Brother, Buzz, Chief Of Staff, China, Doubts, Future War, Gates, Interchange, Moseley, North Vietnamese, Outgoing Air, Peer Competitor, Purge, Russia, Sentiments, Surface To Air, Surface To Air Missile, Vietnam

Gates expressed doubts that the United States will get into a shooting war with a “peer competitor” like Russia or China any time soon. After he was fired, the outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. “Buzz” Moseley, echoed those sentiments. Not Wynne.
“My response to Secretary Gates in that interchange was my brother was shot [...]

Defense Focus: Makarov’s mission — Part 1

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in general, Armed Forces, Chief Of Staff, Focus, Gloom And Doom, Important Factors, Military Power, Nikolai Makarov, Odds, Russia, Yury

Gen. Nikolai Makarov has replaced tough, old Gen. Yury Baluyevsky as the chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces and has been tasked with rapidly modernizing them — but the odds are against him.
Despite all the stories of gloom and doom about them that regularly appear in the Western media, the Russian armed forces [...]