Friday, August 07, 2009
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Did Israel Plan to Attack Iran During Recent Riots?
Did Israel ask the U.S. for a green light to strike nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran during the post-election unrest?
Click here for the story.
Israel could have helped bring about the liberation of Iran, as China Confidential observedon June 24.From the Halls of Montezuma to the Jakarta Marriott
Send in the Marines--to the J.W. Marriott?
Click here for the story--an insult to the intelligence of every American who is truly concerned about defeating the Islamist menace.
Time was, Marines hunted and killed America's enemies.
They still do. But now, apparently, their commander-in-chief, who spent formative childhood years in the world's most pupulous Muslim country, wants the commandant of the Marine Corps to also play public relations games.
After 9/11, the American people (except for Islamist supporters, sympathizers and, dupes, and self-haters and blame-America-firsters like President Obama's former pastor and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright) expected their government to react swiftly, decisively, and mercilessly to wipe out Islamist bases, cells, and terror-supporting regimes.
That never happened.Retired US General Calls Attack on Iran Credible
At last, an American military voice of reason.
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China Confidential analysts believe Israel is morally and ethically bound to consider preemptive nuclear strikes on Iran's nuclear, missile, and chemical warfare sties--and on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.Exiled Uighur Separatist Leader Condemns China at Australian Rally; Her Political Activities Strain Ties
Read about it here.
The Uighur leader has a suspect past and suspicious ties. Her global campaign to carve an Islamist-leaning--or outright Islamist--country out of a big chunk of China poisons relations with Beijing at a time when the West most needs China's cooperation with regard to the twin North Korean and Iranian nuclear threats to world peace.
No wonder China and Russia view President Obama's outreach to "the Muslim world" as a revamped Great Game gambit--part of a broader strategy to exploit and manipulate right-wing political Islam.Report: N. Korea Helping Burma Build Nukes
Two defectors from Burma say the military government has a secret nuclear program that aims to build nuclear weapons, and could have a nuclear test as soon as five years from now.
So say Australian researchers in Thailand. They say the defectors have also linked North Korea to the program, raising further concerns about Pyongyang's nuclear proliferation, if the allegations prove true.
In interviews over a two-year period in Thailand, the two defectors reportedly told the Australians that a secret nuclear complex is being built in caves excavated in a mountainous area of northern Burma.
The defectors said that they were directly involved in the program, and that Burma's goal is to build nuclear weapons.
The defectors' testimony was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald, which did not publish their real names in order to protect their identities.
An A-Bomb a Year
One of the researchers who interviewed the defectors is Desmond Ball, a professor in strategic studies at Australian National University. The Herald quoted Ball as saying that if the defectors' story is true, Burma could begin producing one nuclear weapon a year as early as 2014.
One of the defectors, a former Burmese army officer, claims he was trained in Moscow as part of Burma's plans for a "nuclear battalion" of 1,000 men to build the weapons.
The other defector reportedly said he handled Burma's nuclear contracts with Moscow and Pyongyang and arranged the night-time delivery of equipment from North Korea.
Russia is helping Burma build a civilian nuclear reactor.
Concerns have been raised occasionally about a possible nuclear link between North Korea and Burma.
In June, a North Korean ship believed to be headed to Burma with a suspicious cargo turned back under international pressure.
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton told an Asian security conference last month they should be concerned that the two pariah states may be transferring nuclear technology.
Clinton said any military ties between Burma and North Korea would pose a direct threat to the region.Pakistan Taliban Leader Killed by US Missile
Good news from the front.
Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's Taliban leader, was killed Wednesday in a CIA missile strike.
Pakistan's foreign minister,Shah Mehmood Qureshi, told reporters Friday that intelligence sources had confirmed that Pakistani Mehsud was killed in the South Waziristan tribal region, a rugged, remote, lawless region.
Pakistani ntelligence officers said Mehsud was buried in the village of Nargusai, not far from where the U.S. missile fired from a drone struck. The area is controlled by the Taliban.
The Associated Press reported that another Taliban commander, Kafayat Ullah, confirmed Mehsud had died.
U.S. officials have said there are strong indications Mehsud died in the attack.
Pakistani officials said Mehsud's second wife and his bodyguards were also killed in the missile strike.
The United States had a $5 million bounty on Mehsud, who had close ties to Al Qaeda.
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