When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC's Meet The Press show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: "We do"
General staffs are supposed to plan for even the most unlikely future contingencies Right down to the 1930s, the US maintained and annually updated plans for the invasion of Canada - and the Canadian military made plans to pre-empt the invas
Israeli soldiers were performing routine operations in a border-area enclave within Israeli territory when they were ambushed by Lebanese troops During the incident, which took place mid-day Tuesday, Lebanese soldiers ambushed an Israeli Engineering Corps force operating on the Israeli side of the border The Israeli soldiers were clearing bushes along the border fence According to the army, such activity has become routine since the conclusion of the Second Lebanon War
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Check out this nice innocent garbage truck, once the tray is elevated it becomes a deadly rocket launcher able to fire 9 Kasem rockets and then drive off undetected
The note pasted on the drivers door says In case of traffic violations, please contact The Palestinian Authority
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Iran will not send a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as it had planned to do on Thursday, according to a report from the official news agency of Iran
The Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Hossein Sheikholeslam, secretary-general of the International Conference for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada, as saying: "The Iranian ship carrying humanitarian aid will not go to Gaza"
IRNA said that Sheikholeslam told reporters in the northern city of Rasht that the ship had origin
Palestinian children sing about how nice it will be to be martyrs The source is an Islamic satellite channel for children called "Birds of Paradise" which broadcasts from Bahrain and aired in Gaza The children's choir is also called "Birds of Paradise"
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Here is a public-service advertisement being aired by Hamas in Gaza
It shows a man about to be hung, and flashbacks on the crimes that caused him to get to this point - looking at porn on the Internet and using Facebook, which leads him into contact with an Israeli handler who provides him with drugs, money and explosives to blow up a terrorist car
But then he wakes up, and it was all a dream, and he is back in his wonderful home in Gaza
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Iraq's security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless The wands are claimed to detect explosives, weapons, and people However the US military see it as a giant dangerous hoax that has cost the Iraqi military, and ultimately the US forces over 80 million dollars Its no joke
However there may be a thread of sanity in this story, if the military really don't want the responsibility of finding w
Suspected Taliban militants publicly hanged a 7-year-old boy for spying in the militant stronghold of Helmand province The child was placed on trial by the Islamic extremist group and later found guilty of working for Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government
[quote]A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a seven-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a seven-year-old boy is a crime against humanity[/quote]said Karzai in published r
Following the Hamas Bee who was beaten to death and the Micky Mouse who died of an illness, the terror loving Teddy bear in the children's television show, Pioneers of Tomorrow, urges children to sacrifice themselves, and a caller assures them that if they become martyrs, they will go to Paradise
"Dear children, when we grow up, we will become martyrs, God willing the pioneers of tomorrow will liberate the Al-Aksa Mosque," Nassur declares
A caller from Holland then sings a song th
In this great read a popular Saudi religious scholar has raised some questions about governmental and societal practices across the Arab world and asserts that the United States is more in alignment with many Islamic values than many countries represented as Muslim states
Aaidh ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni compared a Saudi woman’s experience after being beaten by an abusive husband in the United States with what often happens — or doesn’t happen — in her native land In the second column, Al-Qarni
Hizballah and Syria are building a massive fortified wall, running from Rashaya Al-Wadi on the western, Lebanese slopes of Mt Hermon in the south, to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley town of Aita el-Foukhar, in the north
The structure, 22 kilometers long in parallel to the Lebanese-Syrian border promises to be one of the biggest fortified structures in the Middle East It is designed as an obstacle against any Israeli tank forces heading through Lebanon toward the Syrian capital, Damascus
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For a country that seems to be forever at war, the Afghan soldiers are a disappointment to the politicos who expect them to take over control of the country As American Marines and Afghan soldiers have fought their way into this Taliban stronghold, the performance of the Afghan troops has tested a core premise of the American military effort here: in the not-too-distant future, the security of this country can be turned over to indigenous forces created at the cost of American money and blood
A Missile recently found buried in Iraq is not a WMD as some media feverishly imagine Its an old land to ship Silkworm missile from the 1970's - 1980's Such missiles would normally have an external rocket booster which is missing on this one The missile is buried upside down and the curve by the tail of the missile is where the rocket booster would be located
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They have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days
Today, the
Irfan Husain, a senior Pakistani journalist, outlines just what the Taliban want in this informative article
Often, I am asked by readers or friends abroad what the Taliban want Why, they ask, are they slaughtering hundreds of innocent people wherever they can What is their purpose What is their agenda
The short answer is power Other excuses for their murderous excesses are a fig-leaf: demands for the Sharia and the expulsion of foreign forces from the region are no more than windo
Now this is novel, Egypt is to build a giant pipeline from the Mediterranean sea to flood the Gazan smuggling tunnels
Cairo has stepped up its siege measures against the Hamas-ruled Gaza To cut off its smuggling routes through Sinai, Egypt is reinforcing the wall of iron plates embedded along the Philadelphi border of the southern Gaza Strip with a new pipe for flooding the smuggling tunnels with Mediterranean water It is also building an electronic fence
Cairo is expected by our sou
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