05/08/2009 |
Notorious Palestinian terrorists among hundreds of delegates admitted for Fatah Conference
DEBKA Staff | DEBKA
Israel has permitted the entire Fatah leaderships of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan - some 500 functionaries - to enter the country for the first Fatah general conference in 25 years which opens Tuesday, Aug. 4 in Bethlehem. ...
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05/08/2009 |
Israeli forces training for rapid incursions against Hizbullah in Lebanon
World Tribune Staff | World Tribune
The Israel Army has intensified training for another war with the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah.Officials said the army has formulated a training course that would prepare combat troops to rapidly cross into Lebanon and overcome Hizbullah's network of bunkers and tunnels south of the Litani River. ...
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05/08/2009 |
The fickle ideologies used by political gangs to enslave nation states
Lev Navrozov | World Tribune
Those who seized absolute power in Russia in the autumn of 1917 called it "Soviet" Russia, though the Russian word "Soviet" means "council," a word that had been used in every country.More specific to the event was the ban, at the behest of Marx, of private enterprise, to stop the "enrichment of private entrepreneurs at the expense of their employees." ...
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05/08/2009 |
México - La comodidad eclesiástica con el narcotráfico
Jorge Fernandez Menendez | Excelsior
Algo extraño ocurre con la Iglesia católica: está muy incómoda con las madres solteras (conozco dos casos cercanos de ellas que han llevado a bautizar a sus hijos a distintas parroquias y fueron literalmente rechazadas por esa condición); con los homosexuales; con la despenalización del aborto. Exigen cada vez más condiciones para poder acercarse a la Iglesia, como si le incomodara que los “pecadores estándar” se acerquen a ella, pero no parece estar a disgusto con los narcotraficantes. ...
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05/08/2009 |
Russian Subs Patrolling Off East Coast of U.S.
Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker | NY Times
A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military. ...
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04/08/2009 |
Africa - Nigerian police probe clashes
SAPA | News24
Police in northern Nigeria say they're investigating how a home-grown Islamist sect unleashed a wave of violence that left more than 700 people dead in clashes last week. ...
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04/08/2009 |
US - Pentagon eyes accelerated
Jim Wolf | Reuters
The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large "bunker-buster" bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.The non-nuclear, 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, which is still being tested, is designed to destroy deeply buried bunkers beyond the reach of existing bombs. ...
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04/08/2009 |
Africa - Islamismo. Talibanes en Nigeria
Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos | Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos
Los sangrientos enfrentamientos que hasta el día de hoy no han cesado de producirse en el noreste de Nigeria, entre islamistas radicales y fuerzas del orden y militares, siguen sembrando de cadáveres las calles de localidades como Bauchi, donde el 26 de julio morían cincuenta personas durante el asalto a una comisaría. ...
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04/08/2009 |
IEDs the frontline in war with insurgents in Afghanistan
Dene Moore | GoogleNews
Improvised explosive device (IED).A decade ago, the words had no place in the common Canadian lexicon.But since 2002, when Canada first joined the international coalition at war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, 67 of the 127 Canadian soldiers who have died there have been killed by IEDs. Ten more have been killed in suicide attacks or in explosions while on foot patrol. ...
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04/08/2009 |
Colombia admite que podría denunciar a Chávez y Correa por apoyo a FARC
A.F.P. | El Comercio
Colombia no descarta demandar a los presidentes de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, y de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, ante tribunales internacionales por su presunto apoyo a la guerrilla de las FARC, admitió este lunes el canciller colombiano, Jaime Bermúdez. ...
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