Posts Tagged ‘Nuclear Bomb’

We Are Definitely Losing The Hearts And Minds In The Middle East


View of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Southern Iran. Photo from Payvand.

Arab Majority Backs Nuclear Iran — Washington Times

A new poll shows that the percentage of the Arab world that thinks a nuclear-armed Iran would be good for the Middle East has doubled since last year and now makes up the majority.

The 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll found that 57 percent of respondents not only believe that Iran’s nuclear program aims to build a bomb but also view that goal positively — nearly double the 29 percent who thought so in 2009.

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A Sobering Assessment On What A Successful Bomb Attack On A Major American City May Mean

Chilling Toll Of Times Sq. ‘Bomb’ — New York Post

Thankfully, it didn’t go off as planned.

A secret FBI test of a correctly made version of the Times Square bomb revealed that it “would have killed thousands of people” if it had been made to explode as terrorists had intended, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday.

Had he built the Times Square device the way he had originally intended to, terrorist Faisal Shahzad, would have turned his SUV and nearby vehicles into a fatal spray of razor-sharp fragments and transformed building windows into glass guillotines hurtling to the streets, cutting down hundreds of people walking by.

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My Comment: The New York Post story brings to light what everyone in law enforcement and the intelligence community have known for a very long time ….

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Is There A Coalition Forming Against Iran In The Middle East?


A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East — Spiegel Online

Israel and the Arab states near the Persian Gulf recognize a common threat: the regime in Tehran.

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CIA Director Panetta: Afghan Progress Slow. Iran Sanctions Will Not Work

EXCLUSIVE CIA Director Leon Panetta in His First Network News Interview

CIA Director Panetta: Afghanistan Progress ‘Slower’ Than Anticipated — ABC News

In an EXCLUSIVE interview on “This Week,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said that making progress in Afghanistan is both “harder” and going more slowly than anticipated.

“There are some serious problems” in Afghanistan, Panetta said.

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The Cold War Between North And South Korea Is Heating Up

North Korea has warned it is no longer bound to an armistice it
signed after the Korean war in 1953.

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