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US, Israel Postpone Military Exercise Amid Tension With Iran
Post Date: 2012-01-15 17:55:56 by Brian S
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REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM -- The United States and Israel agreed to postpone a large joint military exercise from this spring to late in the year to avoid aggravating an already tense regional situation driven by conflicts with Iran, Israeli media reported Sunday. The drill, slated for May and named "Austere Challenge," was announced in November by Andrew Shapiro, U.S. assistant secretary of State for politics-military affairs, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The exercise as originally planned would include more than 5,000 U.S. and Israeli forces and, among other things, simulate Israel's ballistic missile defense. It would be the "largest and most ...
Russia: Attack on Tehran is Attack on Moscow
Post Date: 2012-01-15 17:47:13 by Brian S
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Russia has given Iran its bear hug and warns Israel and the West that an attack on Tehran would be considered an attack on Moscow. The threat heightens the prospect of World War III in the event of a military strike on Iran. “Iran is our neighbor,” Russia's outgoing ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters in Brussels. “And if Iran is involved in any military action, it’s a direct threat to our security.” Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev accused Israel of provoking the United States towards war against Iran, the Russian Interfax news agency reported Friday. “But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have ...
Pantywaist-in-Chief wets his panties, postpones Israeli-U.S. defense drill
Post Date: 2012-01-15 14:35:48 by Happy Quanzaa
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'Israel and U.S. postpone massive defense drill in fear of escalation with Iran'Israeli defense officials tell Channel 2 that Washington wants to avoid causing further tensions in region after various foreign reports of U.S. and Israeli preparations for strike on Iran. Israel and the United States have postponed a massive joint defense exercise, which had been expected in the coming weeks, in order to avoid an escalation with Iran, Channel 2 reported on Sunday. According to an Israeli defense official, Washington wants to avoid causing further tensions in the region, especially in light of the sensitive situation that has been generated after various reports in the international ...
Ron Paul
Post Date: 2012-01-14 16:23:17 by buckeroo
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US military identifies all four 'urinating' Marines
Post Date: 2012-01-14 11:14:28 by buckeroo
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All four US Marines seen in a video apparently urinating on dead Afghans have been identified by American military investigators, US media say. Two of the men have already been interviewed by the US Navy's criminal investigation branch. The Marine Corps has also appointed Lt Gen Thomas Waldhauser, a three-star general, to decide what, if any, disciplinary action is to be taken. It is understood the troops served in Helmand province, Afghanistan. US media reported that the unit belonged to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, but that two of the men and the battalion's commander had moved on to other assignments before the video became public. The names of the men, who are ...
Russia Escalates War Of Words With U.S.
Post Date: 2012-01-13 19:46:04 by Brian S
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In an escalating war of words with the United States Russia has accused Washington of working to change the regimes in Iran and Syria. “Additional sanctions against Iran, as well as potentially any military strikes against it, will unquestionably be perceived by the international community as an attempt at changing the regime in Iran,” Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gannady Gatilov said on Friday. Mr. Gatilov also said the West's goal in Syria was to remove President Bashar al-Assad. Russian comments came as Washington penalised companies from China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates for their failure to comply with U.S. unilateral sanctions against Iran. The ...
US To Probe Video Of Troops Urinating On Taliban Corpses
Post Date: 2012-01-12 18:16:55 by Brian S
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AFP - A video purportedly showing US Marines urinating on dead insurgents in Afghanistan prompted American condemnation and a Pentagon probe Thursday, but the Taliban said peace efforts would continue. A senior US military official said the Marines believed they had identified the unit at the center of the allegations, which evoked memories of previous abuses committed by US troops in Iraq and during the decade-long Afghan war. "We cannot release the name of the unit at this time since the incident is being investigated," a spokesman from the Marines said, referring to the images that could spark outrage and unrest in Afghanistan and the wider Muslim world. The video appeared ...
Iran plans one-kiloton underground nuclear test in 2012
Post Date: 2012-01-11 21:25:41 by A K A Stone
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Russia-Iran An underground nuclear test According to debkafile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing an underground test of a one-kiloton nuclear device during 2012, much like the test carried out by North Korea in 2006. Underground facilities are under construction in great secrecy behind the noise and fury raised by the start of advanced uranium enrichment at Iran's fortified, subterranean Fordo site near Qom. All the sanctions imposed so far for halting Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon have had the reverse effect, stimulating rather than cooling its eagerness to acquire a bomb. Yet, according to a scenario prepared by the Institute for National Security Studies ...
LOL, another Iranian nuke scientist blown to smithereens w/ magnetic bomb :^)
Post Date: 2012-01-11 13:51:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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US denies killing Iran nuclear scientist with magnetic bomb'Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran's nuclear advancement,' security expert says 1:15 p.m. ET: The Obama administration is denying any role in the killing of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the U.S. "had absolutely nothing to do" with Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's death and the U.S. condemns "all acts of violence, including acts of violence like what is being reported today." Published at 9:46 am ET: Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic ...
FITCH: ECB MUST PREVENT "CATACLYSMIC" COLLAPSE
Post Date: 2012-01-11 07:11:17 by war
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FRANKFURT, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should ramp up its buying of troubled euro zone debt to support Italy and prevent a 'cataclysmic' collapse of the euro, David Riley, the head of sovereign ratings for Fitch, said on Wednesday. Speaking to investors as part of a European roadshow, Riley said the collapse of the euro would be disastrous for the global economy, and while it is not Fitch's baseline scenario, it could happen if Italy did not find a way of its debt problems. 'The end of the euro would be cataclysmic. The euro is a reserve currency,' Riley said. 'What would that do in terms of financial and political stability?' 'It is hard ...
China Says War Over Iran Will Bring Disaster
Post Date: 2012-01-10 12:13:39 by Brian S
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AFP - A top Chinese diplomat said Tuesday war over the Iranian nuclear issue would bring disaster to the world economy and urged all nations involved to exercise restraint and prevent hostilities. The remarks by Chen Xiaodong, a top Chinese diplomat on Middle Eastern affairs, came as Iran's showdown with the West slid closer to confrontation as alarm over its new uranium enrichment plant and Tehran's death sentence for a "CIA spy" raised the stakes. "We urge all relevant nations to remain calm, exercise restraint, refrain from taking actions that will intensify the situation and make common efforts to prevent war," Chen said in an online interview with state ...
West Edges Closer To Confrontation With Iran
Post Date: 2012-01-10 12:10:27 by Brian S
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Iran’s showdown with the West slid closer to dangerous confrontation on Tuesday as international alarm over a new uranium enrichment plant and Tehran’s death sentence for a “CIA spy” raised the stakes. Both sides were digging in deeper and brandishing military muscle, with Iran’s defiance hardening and the United States and European Union actively taking steps to fracture the Iranian economy through further sanctions. The IAEA’s confirmation on Monday that Iran had begun enriching uranium in a new, underground bunker southwest of Tehran was seized upon by the United States, Britain, France and Germany as an unacceptable “violation” of UN Security ...
Iranian, Venezuelan Leaders Rebuff U.S., Joke About Bomb
Post Date: 2012-01-09 19:36:05 by Brian S
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CARACAS | Mon Jan 9, 2012 6:56pm EST (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal. "Despite those arrogant people who do not wish us to be together, we will unite forever," the Iranian president told Venezuela's socialist leader Chavez at the start of a visit to four left-leaning Latin American nations. Despite their geographical distance, the fiery anti-U.S. ideologues have forged increasingly close ties between their fellow OPEC nations in recent years, although concrete projects have often lagged behind the ...
Heya Boyz&Girlz: US expels Venezuelan diplomat as Ahmadinejad makes Latin America tour
Post Date: 2012-01-09 18:29:30 by buckeroo
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The Obama administration asked a Venezuelan diplomat based in Miami to leave the United States by Jan. 10, potentially straining US-Venezuelan relations further as Iran and Venezuela grow closer. The expulsion corresponds with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Venezuela yesterday, the first stop on his four-country Latin America tour. Some fear Iran is using the region as a staging ground to attack US interests, an issue that’s especially salient given recent Western anxiety about Iran’s nuclear goals. In December, a Univision documentary called “The Iranian Threat” linked Livia Acosta Noguera, the Venezuelan Consul General to Miami since March 20 ...
U.S. Army to Deploy to Israel for Huge Missile Exercise
Post Date: 2012-01-09 06:54:51 by CZ82
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U.S. Army to Deploy to Israel for Huge Missile Exercise Kerry Patton On January 19, 1991, during the first Gulf War, the United States sent Patriot Missiles and a contingent of U.S. service members into Israel on temporary assignment. This was the least we could do for Israel, which vowed not to respond to Saddam's Scud attacks that reached deep inside Tel Aviv. Yet U.S. forces never found a permanent home inside the Holy Land -- until today. Twenty years later, the United States has committed to a permanent presence in Israel. According to Defense News, as of September 21, 2011, the United States deployed a high-powered, high-frequency, transportable X-band radar system to Israel ...
Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case
Post Date: 2012-01-09 05:03:59 by We The People
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An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday. Iran charges that as a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati received special training and served at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission. The radio report did not say when the verdict was issued. Under Iranian law, he has 20 days to appeal. Hekmati, 28, was born in Arizona. His family is of Iranian origin. His father, who lives in Michigan, said his son is not a CIA spy and was visiting his grandmothers in Iran when he was arrested. The U.S. State Department has demanded his release. The ...
Afghan Commission Accuses U.S. of Detainee Abuse
Post Date: 2012-01-08 14:08:59 by Brian S
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KABUL, Afghanistan—An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military Saturday of abuse at its main prison in the country, repeating President Hamid Karzai's demand that the U.S. turn over all detainees to Afghan custody and saying anyone held without evidence should be freed. The demands put the U.S. and the Afghan governments on a collision course in an issue that will decide the fate of hundreds of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida operators captured by American forces. The head of the Afghan investigation said U.S. officials told him many of those militant suspects were taken based on intelligence that can't be used in Afghan courts. The dispute that has ...
Iran Reportedly Begins Uranium Enrichment At Underground Site Amid Threats, Military Maneuvers
Post Date: 2012-01-08 13:40:10 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. The operations at the bunker-like facility south of Tehran, reported by the Kayhan daily newspaper, are small in comparison to Iran's main enrichment site. But the centrifuges at the underground labs are considered more efficient and are shielded from aerial surveillance and protected against airstrikes by up to 300 feet (90 meters) of mountain rock. Uranium enrichment is at the core of the international standoff over ...
Iran, Russia Replace Dollar With Rial, Ruble in Trade, Fars Says
Post Date: 2012-01-07 13:03:48 by Brian S
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Iran and Russia replaced the U.S. dollar with their national currencies in bilateral trade, Iran’s state-run Fars news agency reported, citing Seyed Reza Sajjadi, the Iranian ambassador in Moscow. The proposal to switch to the ruble and the rial was raised by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Astana, Kazakhstan, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the ambassador said. Iran has replaced the dollar in its oil trade with India, China and Japan, Fars reported. The European Union, the U.S. and the United Nations are applying sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Iran says its nuclear efforts are for ...
Ron Paul Vindicated on Iran (Unfortunately)
Post Date: 2012-01-07 10:53:26 by We The People
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A week ago Ron Paul tried to convey how the ever-tightening sanctions on Iran--which may soon include an embargo on its oil--look from an Iranian point of view: It's as if China were to blockade the Gulf of Mexico, he said--"an act of war".This is sheer conjecture; Ron Paul is no expert on Iran. But now someone who does have relevant credentials has weighed in, and the picture he paints is disturbingly reminiscent of the one Paul painted. It suggests we may be closer to war than most people realize. Vali Nasr, in addition to being a highly respected expert on the Middle East, belongs to a family that, according to Lobelog's sources, has "a direct line into Iranian ...
Musharraf Will Be Arrested on Arrival in Pakistan, PTI Reports
Post Date: 2012-01-07 10:32:45 by A K A Stone
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Pervez Musharraf, who resigned as Pakistan’s president in 2008, will be arrested on arrival in the country later this month, the Press Trust of India reported, citing a prosecutor. Musharraf is a “proclaimed offender” and there’s no need for a warrant for this arrest, PTI reported today, citing Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, prosecutor at the Federal Investigation Agency. Musharraf lives in Dubai and London and plans to return to Pakistan on Jan. 25 or Jan. 27, according to the report. A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf in February over allegations he played a role in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the AP reported at the ...
True Spy Story behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Post Date: 2012-01-07 01:30:56 by CZ82
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True Spy Story behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy By Bernie Reeves Most movie-goers do not know the story behind the acclaimed new film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, opening nationally this weekend. Adapted from the 1974 John Le Carré book, and the 1982 sequel Smiley's People, both were dramatized on BBC TV and PBS and can be found on Netflix and other sites. Le Carré, the pen name for David Cornwell -- who served in MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service -- penned the two books (and the Honorable School Boy, the third installment in this trilogy), drawing on the real-life drama that tore apart the British spy demi-monde in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s: the ...
Russian Warships To Visit Syria, Itar-Tass Says
Post Date: 2012-01-06 16:47:28 by Brian S
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By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW Jan 6 (Reuters) - Two Russian warships are expected to arrive in Syria on Saturday, the state-run Itar-Tass news agency reported, a visit that will likely be seen as a show of force and a display of support for President Bashar al-Assad's government. The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and the frigate Yaroslav Mudry are scheduled to put in at Russia's naval maintenance and supply facility in the Syrian port of Tartus, Itar-Tass cited an unnamed representative of the navy's general staff as saying. The official said the vessels, part of a group of Russian ships currently in the Mediterranean, were expected to spend several days at the Tartus facility, ...
Iran To Hold New Wargames Soon In Key Oil Waterway
Post Date: 2012-01-06 12:06:17 by Brian S
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Iran is to hold fresh military exercises in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz within weeks, the naval commander of its powerful Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Friday. The manoeuvres are to be held in the Iranian calendar month that runs from January 21 to February 19, the Fars news agency quoted Ali Fadavi as saying. They will underline Iran’s assertion that it has “full control over the Strait of Hormuz area and controls all movements in it,” Fadavi added. The announcement — which narrowed down a timeframe for the exercises the Guards had previously only given as “soon” — risked aggravating tensions with the West over the strait. ...
Rockets Hit Green Zone As Iraq Marks Army Day
Post Date: 2012-01-06 11:55:11 by Brian S
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Rockets were fired against Baghdad’s Green Zone as Iraq’s military marked its anniversary with a parade Friday, a day after the country suffered its worst attacks since August and weeks after US troops left. Further violence against Shiite pilgrims, who were the targets of Thursday’s bombings, killed two people, the latest in a spike in attacks against the majority community amid a political crisis that has stoked sectarian tensions. Meanwhile, top officials in Nasiriyah, worst hit by Thursday’s bloodshed, held a funeral for two Sunni soldiers who, officers said, tried to prevent a suicide attack that killed 47 people in the southern city. In Baghdad, insurgents fired ...
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