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Top Topics
- This analysis argues that Syria is building a potent nuclear program with Iran's assistance and help.
- Was the Western ban on missile technology export to India counterproductive? India's indigenous precision and nuclear-warhead armable missiles are now of sufficient quality that they can be proliferated to other states.
- Israel has asked Moscow to call off its reported deal to sell Syria Igla surface to air missiles. So has the US-in fact, the US is threatening Russia with sanctions if the sale goes through. Cum grano salis: DEBKA says it all starts with Putin's resentment that Sharon won't move against Russian oligarchs plotting against him in Israel.
- A surprisingly sophisticated Al Qaeda strategy and policy document from September 2003 advocated bombing Spain as the weakest link in the Coalition.
Other Topics Today Include:
Iran soon to enrich uranium;Iranian agent arrested in Kuwait;IAEA finally to inspect Parchin;Nobelist Shirin Ebadi summonsed to Revolutionary Court;overview of Iranian terror sponsorship;IDF resumes operations in PA;US makes cross eyes at Syria;Israel to build an antitunneling moat;diminishing returns for Al Qaeda in Saudi;Israeli contacts with Abu Mazen suspended;GIA, GSPC and ETA dying;GIA's lessons for the Iraq situation;EU prepares to resume arms sales to China;Azerbaijan soon to war with Armenia?;US forces redeploying very soon in Eastern Europe;Bali style bombing threatened in London;USA-Russia MANPAD control accord and more...
IRAN REPORTS
- An Iranian agent has been arrested in Kuwait for aiding al Qaeda attacks in the region. So have 30 suspected Al Qaeda terrorists.
- After several delays, the IAEA will begin inspecting the Parchin military facility this week. Good thing they telegraphed that one.
- Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi has been summoned to appear before the Revolutionary Court. She has refused to attend. No reasons have been given for the summons.
- Radio Free Europe's Bill Samii provides a historical overview of Iran's sponsorship of terrorism.
THE MIDDLE EAST
- The US is making increasingly belligerent noises at Syria. Are they next?
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suspended all government contacts with members of the Palestinian Authority after the deadly attack on an Israeli checkpoint in Gaza.
- Dore Gold argues that letting Syria on to the UN Security Council emboldened it to continue to support terrorism.
- Amir Taheri looks at the pursuit of the GIA in Algeria and the lessons that can be extracted for Iraq. The The similarities between the GIA and the Iraqi insurgency are interesting.
- Egyptian President Honsi Mubarek contemplates the role of "President for Life". It's the will of the people, after all.
AMERICAN DOMESTIC SECURITY
- A Hamas-linked banker is sentenced to 13 months in prison.
AFRICA
- The Algerian government believes the GSPC is on the verge of extinction.
- Al Qaeda has popped up in West Africa.
ASIA & AUSTRALIA
- A Cambodian court convicts three Islamist terrorists for participating in a plot to blow up the American and British embassies.
- Big Picture:a CIA internal think tank says China and India will emerge as world powers by 2020 but that globalization will continue to cause the likelihood of nuclear war to be very low.
- A fugitive in an attempt on Musharraf's life was an air force officer. He became a fugitive after breaking out of a bathroom window.
EUROPE
- Dan Darling provides an in depth overview of the Norwegian Counter-Terrorism paper which analyses the threat of Islamic terrorists in Europe.
- The CEO of a German publishing firm lashes out at European intransigence towards Islamic terrorism.
- American forces in Europe may redeploy to Eastern Europe faster than expected.
- Another analysis says that Ansar al Sunna is extending its tentacles into Europe. Germany recently detained 22 of them in a massive raid.
- Basque separatist group ETA seems to be following the Algerian group GIA into terminal decline.
THE GLOBAL WAR
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Bill,
A British Airways flight was denied entry to the United States because someone with the same name as an unwanted terrorist was on it.
If said person had been an actual terrorist, you can bet we would have heard a whole lot more about the story.
On IraqiLiberal / Free Iraqi
Why America is safe now
While the American and European left are serving staring roles in their own cartoonish sick parodies of themselves, Iraqi liberals are showing themselves to be remarkably worldly and asute, remarkable for a people who could be fed feet first into a plastic shreader machine if they got cought with a TV set that could get more than the official government broadcasts.
His take on the WOT is quite worthy insight
Whole Thing
Is it not ironic that this Iraqi has the freedom to say what the left can not, lest it mar their poker face as they pretend not to know how stupid they look.
Meanwhile
New Jersey: an Islamic murder of Coptic Christians?
How could this happen ?
Communist/Democrat(same thing)NAZI Gun control laws
Man shoots would-be robber; is arrested on gun charges
Never mind that pesky Enumerated right to Keep(own) and Bear(carry) a gun, to the east coast left. such limits on govt power dont matter, dont exist, are ignored.
The same utterly perverse thing that is happening in Britain, the new land of the disarmed and helpless.
A Danger to Burglars
For those of us that dont live under the Commie/Democrat ruled lands of helpless sheep, things happen this way.
Tulsa Homeowner Kills Burglary Suspect
Ahh now thats my America, blast the sucker back out the window, tell the cops what happened, let em haul the dead meat out of your yard, replace the spent cartriges in your gun, then go back to sleep in your own bed.
As much as the Jihadi neck cutters want a safe place to cut necks, me thinks they will go after the blue states of helpless sheep, neck slicing is safer there.
As I noted in my Crossroads Arabia blog last week, there's a bit more to the story about the demonstrators' being sentenced in Saudi Arabia.
First, they were taking part in an illegal demonstration. And yes, there are legal demonstrations, defined as those for which a not-very-easily obtained permit is issued. This group had none.
More to the point, though, is that this demonstration was called by Sa'ad Fagih/Faqih, whom both the US and Saudi Arabia have put on the terrorist list for his support of UBL-type terror, through his MIRA group in London. If UBL had called the demonstration himself, would the situation be as problematic?