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N. Korea would sell nukes to terrorists


February 5, 2008

By Bill Gertz - North Korea threatened to export nuclear weapons to international terrorists in 2005, according to a U.S. intelligence report made public yesterday.

The report to Congress on arms proliferation was produced in 2006 and also said al Qaeda is developing chemical and biological weapons for use in Iraq and Afghanistan and continues to seek nuclear or radiological bombs.

On Syria, the report said that the Damascus government has nuclear research facilities at Dayr, Al Hajar and Dubaya, and that U.S. intelligence agencies "continue to monitor Syrian nuclear intentions with concern."

On North Korea, the report expressed continued worries about threats from the reclusive communist regime to export nuclear arms. In April 2005, North Korea told a U.S. academic, who was not identified further, that Pyongyang "could transfer nuclear weapons to terrorists if driven into a corner," the report stated. It was the first time that the U.S. intelligence community disclosed the basis for concerns about North Korea"s supplying terrorists with nuclear arms.

The threat followed a statement from a North Korean official made during the six-party nuclear talks in April 2003 warning that Pyongyang could export nuclear weapons.

Additionally, the report disclosed that in May 2004, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency recovered 2 tons of uranium hexafluoride from Libya thought to have originated in North Korea. The uranium gas is used in centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium for bombs.

North Korea detonated its first nuclear device in October 2006 and the regime's official media frequently asserts that the U.S. is preparing a pre-emptive nuclear attack.

On al Qaeda, the report said a wide array of intelligence reports had revealed that the Islamist group and other terrorists were continuing to pursue "chemical and biological capabilities for use in attacks against Western targets, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"Rhetoric from these groups continued to focus on the need for spectacular attacks, but actual attempts were few during this time period and consisted of small-scale attacks using commercially available toxic industrial chemicals," the report said.

The annual report to Congress covers the period from January to December 2005 and is known as the "721 report" after the section of the 1997 law requiring U.S. intelligence agencies to report on the acquisition of technology on weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional arms.

Al Qaeda in Iraq sought to improve its chemical capabilities, working with other Iraq-based terrorists. Insurgents carried out one "poisoning" in May 2005, by injecting watermelons with common chemicals and distributing the fruit to Iraqi solders south of Mosul.

"Some soldiers became ill, but there were no reported fatalities," the report said.

The report identified "key suppliers" of weapons and technology as China, North Korea and Russia and noted that China supplied Pakistan, Iran and North Korea with ballistic missiles and support. Russia supplied ballistic missile goods and technology to China, Iran, India and North Korea and also sold Iskander-E short-range missiles, the report said.

On Iran, the report said Tehran "sought foreign materials, training, equipment, and know-how during 2005 focused particularly on entities in China, North Korea, Russia, and Europe."

The report was produced before the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran made public in December that stated Tehran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 but is continuing work on uranium enrichment and could restart the arms program. The NIE reversed a 2005 estimate that said Iran was building nuclear arms in secret.

N. Korea would sell nukes to terrorists

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Dead Billionaire Had Feared Enemy Plot

Updated:19:02, Wednesday February 13, 2008
The sudden death of an exiled Georgian billionaire may have been another "Alexander Litvinenko-style" murder, it is feared.

A major crime squad is investigating the death of 52-year-old Badri Patarkatsishvili, whose body was found at his country mansion in Surrey at about 11pm last night.

His family said he suffered a heart attack - but Surrey Police have launched an investigation to confirm the exact cause of death after reports of a plot to kill him.

However, officers say there is no suggestion any radioactive substance were involved in his death.

Sky News' home affairs correspondent Mark White said: "The police want to leave no stone uncovered.

"In the light of Litvinenko's death in 2006 they are treating it very seriously and want to investigate properly to rule out foul play or to find out whether he was the subject of a hit."

Mr Patarkatsishvili - Georgia's richest man, with an estimated £6bn fortune - spoke recently of his fears for his life after one alleged plot against him was uncovered in London.

It has also been reported that an assassination plan bore chilling similarities to the killing of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

Mr Litvinenko - an outspoken critic of the Putin regime - was killed by radiation poisoning in London. Moscow has refused to extradite the prime suspect, ex-KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi.

Talking about Mr Patarkatsishvili's death at his home Downside Manor outside Leatherhead, a spokeswoman for Surrey Police said: "As with all unexplained deaths, it is being treated as suspicious.

"A post-mortem examination will be held later today to establish the cause of death."

Mr Patarkatsishvili amassed his wealth during the privatisation of state industries in Russia during the 1990s.

He helped to finance the Rose Revolution that swept President Mikhail Saakashvili to power in Georgia in 2003, but subsequently fell out with him.

The Georgian - who founded opposition TV channel Imedi in 2002 - backed mass street protests against the government in Tbilisi last November.

And just one month ago, Georgian prosecutors charged Mr Patarkatsishvili with plotting a coup after he had stood unsuccessfully against President Saakashvili in January elections.

In December he told the Sunday Times he did not feel safe returning to his home country.

The paper published extracts of a tape recording of a conversation said to have taken place between an official from the Georgian interior ministry and a possible hitman.

The two men allegedly discussed two options for making Mr Patarkatsishvili "disappear completely".

One involved murdering the tycoon during one of his regular visits to London and the other was to kill him as he flew in his private aeroplane to his castle in southern Georgia.

The official reportedly said Georgia wanted to be able to blame the assassination on Russia.

Asked whether he felt safe in Britain, Mr Patarkatsishvili told the Sunday Times: "I know about this tape and I was told it was very serious.

"I have 120 bodyguards but I know that's not enough. I don't feel safe anywhere and that is why I'm particularly not going to Georgia."

He also had close links to fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who lives in self-imposed exile in London. The outspoken Kremlin critic has spoken of the "terrible tragedy" of losing his "closest friend".

Dead Billionaire Had Feared Enemy Plot

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Russia in Ukraine missile threat
12 February 2008

Russia has said it may target its missiles at Ukraine if its neighbour joins Nato and accepts the deployment of the US missile defence shield.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made the comments in Moscow alongside Ukraine's President, Viktor Yushchenko.

Mr Putin has condemned US plans to include Poland and the Czech Republic in its missile defence shield.

The leaders had been meeting in urgent talks over a gas dispute and announced a deal to avoid disrupting supplies.

'Frightening'

Speaking at a news conference at the Kremlin on Tuesday, Mr Putin said he had advised Ukraine not to join Nato, but admitted he would be unable to interfere in any such move.

"Restrictions on sovereignty... have already had certain consequences, such as the stationing of bases or a positioning area for missile defence in Eastern Europe, which we believe is aimed at neutralising our nuclear missile potential," he said.

One must realise that everything Ukraine is doing in this area is certainly not aimed against any third country, especially Russia

"Russia therefore faces a need to take retaliatory action."

The US wants the shield to destroy incoming ballistic missiles potentially coming from North Korea and Iran.

Current plans would see some interceptor missiles based in Poland and an associated radar built in the Czech Republic.

"It is frightening not only to say but even to think that Russia, in response to the emergence of such positioning areas on Ukrainian territory, which cannot be ruled out in theory, will target its offensive missile systems at Ukraine," he said.

"Can you imagine that for a second? That is what we are concerned about."

President Yushchenko said he realised a number of "sensitive issues" would emerge from Ukraine's attempt to join Nato, but that he hoped they could be dealt with through dialogue, openness and trust.

"One must realise that everything Ukraine is doing in this area is certainly not aimed against any third country, especially Russia," he added.

In a televised speech to the Russian State Council last week, Mr Putin had warned that a "new phase in the arms race is unfolding in the world".

He said other countries were spending far more than Russia on new weapons, but that his country would respond to the challenges of an arms race by developing hi-tech weaponry.

Nato invitation

On the gas dispute, Ukraine agreed to start repaying $1.5bn (£770m) owed to the Russian gas company, Gazprom, from Thursday. In return, Russia is reported to have agreed to freeze the price of gas exports to Ukraine at last year's level.

The dispute had raised concerns in European countries, which experienced disruption to their gas supplies as the result of a similar dispute two years ago.

Separately on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mr Putin had accepted an invitation to attend the forthcoming Nato summit in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, in April.

Mr Putin will no longer be Russian president in April. Elections for his successor will be held next month.

"This yet again testifies to the fact that Russia is open to dialogue on any issues," Mr Lavrov told reporters while attending the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

At the conference, Russia and China proposed a new treaty to ban the use of weapons in space and the use or threat of force against satellites or other craft.

Russia in Ukraine missile threat

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Putin: Russia may target Ukraine if it joins NATO
Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:49pm EST


MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia could be forced to redirect its missiles towards former Soviet neighbor Ukraine if Kiev joined the NATO military alliance and deployed a U.S. missile defence shield.

When asked about Ukraine's possible entry into NATO, an emotional Putin said NATO membership could mean elements of a U.S. missile shield would be based on Ukrainian soil.

Moscow has consistently opposed U.S. plans to station elements of the shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying they disturb the strategic military balance in Europe and are a threat to Russia's national security.

Following talks with Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, Putin said the real aim of the U.S. missile shield was "the neutralization of our nuclear missile potential, which prompts Russia to take retaliatory action".

"I am not only terrified to utter this, it is scary even to think that Russia, in response to a possible deployment of (elements of the planned U.S.) ... missile shield in Ukraine... would have to target its offensive rocket systems at Ukraine," Putin said at a news conference in the Kremlin.

The United States has not asked Ukraine, an ex-Soviet republic of 47 million people seen by Russia as within the sphere of its interests, to play any role in the proposed scheme.

Putin: Russia may target Ukraine if it joins NATO

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NKorea increases military manoeuvres

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SEOUL (AFP) — Energy-starved North Korea has recently increased military manoeuvres, arousing suspicions it may have diverted fuel oil provided under a multinational aid-for-disarmament deal, a report said Sunday.

"It is noteworthy that the North's armoured units have sharply increased exercises in the ongoing winter manoeuvring," an unnamed military source told South Korea's Yonhap news agency, adding Seoul and Washington were analysing the moves.

The new drills involved fighter jets and armoured vehicles in contrast to previous years which had focused on artillery rather than such oil-consuming exercises, the source added.

"We understand North Korea has been enhancing the number of flights flown for training," another unnamed military source told Yonhap.

The sources attributed the increased manoeuvring of armored vehicles and aircraft to the North's "improving" oil supply conditions, without elaborating.

South Korea's defence ministry refused to comment on the report.

But Yonhap said US and South Korean intelligence experts were trying to verify whether the North had diverted the provided fuel oil or earnings from inter-Korean business for military purposes.

Under a six-nation agreement last year, the North would receive one million tons of heavy fuel oil or equivalent aid in return for disabling its nuclear facilities and declaring all relevant programmes.

The impoverished North has also expanded cooperation with South Korean businesses to help earn hard currency.

South Korean negotiators of the disarmament deal have privately said the fuel oil is unsuitable for armoured vehicles, but Yonhap said intelligence authorities were wondering whether it was refined for military purposes.

North Korea's winter military exercises came as South Korean and US troops were preparing to launch a joint drill codenamed "Key Resolve" between March 2 and 7 here.

The North last week condemned the upcoming US-South Korean exercise as preparation for an invasion of the communist state, allegations which are routinely and flatly denied by Seoul and Washington.

The exercise is the first to test Seoul's ability to wage war under a scenario in which South Korea has regained wartime control of its troops from the US. The shift in control is due in 2012.

Some 28,000 US troops are stationed here to back up South Korea's 680,000-strong forces against any threat from the North's 1.1 million-member military.

NKorea increases military manoeuvres

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China's expanding fleet of submarines
By David Lague
Thursday, February 7, 2008

BEIJING: For a procession of senior U.S. military commanders who have visited China in recent years, the complaint has become almost routine.

As part of a sustained military buildup, they say, China is investing heavily in so-called area-denial weapons without explaining why it needs them.

The term area-denial weapons refers to a combination of armaments, technology and tactics that could be used to dominate a specific area or keep opposing forces at bay in a conflict. And one of the most formidable examples U.S. commanders identify is the Chinese Navy's rapidly expanding fleet of nuclear and conventional submarines.

"I would say that the U.S. feels a strong threat from Chinese submarines," said Andrei Chang, an expert on Chinese and Taiwan military forces and editor in chief of the magazine Kanwa Defence Review.

"China now has more submarines than Russia, and the speed they are building them is amazing," Chang said.

U.S. and other Western military analysts estimate that China now has more than 30 advanced and increasingly stealthy submarines, along with dozens of older, obsolete types. "China is capable of serial production of modern diesel-electric submarines and is moving forward with new nuclear submarines," the Pentagon said last year in its annual report on the Chinese military.

By the end of the decade, experts say, China will have more submarines than the United States, although it will still lag in overall capability.

In a conflict, these Chinese submarines - many armed with state-of-the-art torpedoes and anti-ship missiles - would sharply increase the threat to enemy warships approaching the strategically important waterways of North Asia, according to security experts.

On a visit to China last month, the senior U.S. military commander in Asia, Admiral Timothy Keating, said the Pentagon was continuing to monitor the development of China's area-denial weapons, including submarines.

"Chinese submarines have very impressive capabilities, and their numbers are increasing," Keating told reporters in Beijing. Like other U.S. commanders, he also called on China to be more open about its plans.

If China were more transparent about the need for these weapons, it would improve trust and reduce the danger of crisis or conflict, Keating said.

"In submarine operations in particular, because of the medium in which they are conducted, underwater, there is greater potential, in my opinion, for inadvertent activity that could be misconstrued or misunderstood," he told reporters.

Under pressure from Washington, senior Chinese officers have said that the buildup is strictly tailored to defending China's interests and that it poses no threat to any other nation.

"The distance between the Chinese and U.S. militaries is big," said General Chen Bingde, chief of general staff in Beijing of the People's Liberation Army. "If you fear China's military buildup, you don't have much courage."

While the administration of President George W. Bush continues to press Beijing for transparency, most foreign security experts, including senior Pentagon analysts, believe China's unstated objectives are relatively clear.

They say that China plans to use its submarines and other area-denial weapons to delay or deter a U.S. intervention in case of conflict over Taiwan. China regards the self-governing island as part of its territory and has warned regularly that it would use force to prevent Taiwan from moving toward formal independence.

Stealthy submarines would pose a direct threat to the deployment of U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups, almost certainly the first line of any American response to a Taiwan crisis, according to security experts.

In conjunction with attacks on military surveillance satellites, regional U.S. bases and communication networks, the Chinese military would attempt to keep U.S. forces at a distance while attempting to overwhelm the island's defenses, they say.

"This is precisely what the submarines are for," said Allan Behm, a security analyst in Canberra and a former senior Australian Defense Department official. "They can bottle up and deny an enemy access to any given area; in this case that means the U.S. Pacific fleet."

On previous occasions of high tension over Taiwan, Washington has deployed aircraft carriers to neighboring waters, sending a signal to China that it should not use force against Taiwan.

But in a clear demonstration of the increasing vulnerability of these warships, one of China's new Song-class conventional submarines was able to remain undetected as it shadowed the U.S. carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in late 2006. It then surfaced well within torpedo range.

For some China experts in the U.S. military, this was an aggressive signal to Washington that ranked with China's destruction in January 2007 of one of its own obsolete weather satellites with an antisatellite missile. In so doing, the Chinese Navy demonstrated that it could challenge the most powerful surface combatants of the U.S. Navy in waters around Taiwan. It also gave evidence that Chinese submarine technology had advanced more rapidly than some experts had expected.

"The U.S. had no idea it was there," said Behm. "This is the great capability of very quiet, conventional submarines."

Submarine construction is clearly a top priority for the Chinese Navy, and foreign analysts have noted that in recent years it has concurrently developed four - possibly five - classes of new, locally designed and built submarines.

Some experts have suggested that China is taking the same path as Germany and Japan, which once relied heavily on submarines in a bid to compete with the British and U.S. navies.

The attraction of submarines, the experts say, is that they are extremely cost-effective weapons compared with surface warships. For a relatively modest investment, stealthy submarines can threaten much more valuable military and cargo vessels and attack targets on land with missiles.

The suspicion alone that a submarine may be in the area can force an adversary to operate more cautiously, while diverting resources to expensive and complex detection and tracking.

In further evidence of progress in submarine technology, China displayed photographs and models of its new Shang-class nuclear-powered attack submarine at a Beijing exhibition in July celebrating the 80th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army. The official People's Daily newspaper reported that two submarines of this class are now in service.

In October, Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons researcher with the Federation of American Scientists, spotted on a Google Earth satellite image what appeared to be two of China's Jin-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. Some military analysts were surprised that China had built another submarine of this class so soon after the first, in 2004.

And to put the improvement of its fleet on a fast track, China has also taken delivery of 12 advanced Kilo-class conventional submarines from Russia. These submarines are among the quietest and most difficult to detect, according to veteran submariners.

Experts say the designs of the newest Chinese submarines show evidence of technical assistance from Russia.

Analysts have also suggested that some of China's conventional submarines have been fitted with so-called air-independent propulsion systems. This would allow the submarines to patrol for extended periods under water without needing to draw in air for the diesel engines used to charge their batteries.

A number of naval experts have noticed that the growth in China's submarine power has occurred while U.S. antisubmarine warfare capability has declined from its peak during the Cold War.

What is more, in case of conflict over Taiwan, Chinese submarines would have the advantage of operating in a favorable environment for undersea warfare.

The waters of the East China Sea, South China Sea and Yellow Sea are of uneven depth, with considerable background noise, complex thermal behavior and strong currents. These factors make it very difficult, if not impossible, for surface ships and aircraft to detect stealthy submarines, even with the most advanced passive sonar and other sensors.

China's expanding fleet of submarines

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Kuwaiti Paper: Mega-Attack on Israel in March

(IsraelNN.com) The Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan quoted "top Western sources" Monday saying that, "according to reliable intelligence information, Hizbullah has begun planning a large-scale attack on Israel in retaliation for its [alleged] assassination of senior Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyah."

According to the report, translated by MEMRI, the attack is being planned in coordination with Syria and Iran, and is to take place before the Arab summit next month.

It was also reported that there would be a simultaneous terrorist escalation by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other PA groups in Gaza.

Kuwaiti Paper: Mega-Attack on Israel in March
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Hizbullah Planning Attack On Israel In March

The Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan has quoted a report by top Western sources that, according to reliable intelligence information, Hizbullah has begun planning a large-scale attack on Israel in retaliation for its assassination of senior Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniya.

According to the report, the attack is being planned in coordination with Syria and Iran, and is to take place before the Arab summit next month.

It was also reported that there would be a simultaneous military escalation by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian organizations in Gaza, with the aim of changing the priorities of the leaders of the Arab countries.

Source: Al-Watan, Kuwait, February 25, 2008

Hizbullah Planning Attack On Israel In March

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Kuwaiti Paper: Mega-Attack on Israel in March


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Hizbullah Planning Attack On Israel In March

I believe they had been predicting the Madi's return last March, they need to spout off every now and again. Just the same, I'm praying for the safety of Israel.

Purim is on the 20th of March (Purim is the holiday which commemorates the miraculous salvation of the Jews recorded inThe Book of Esther), also the islamic "prophets" birthday is March 25th, this year.

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Kosovo – Independence May Fuel Wars Worldwide
Written by Tony Dolz
February 27 2008

Every nation has the right to defend its borders and the obligation to protect the people that it serves. ....

    .... Muslim Albanian insurgents funded by Bin Laden, the same Bin Laden that funded the 911 act of terrorism against America, defied the sovereignty and authority of Serbia over its Kosovo Province. When the Serbian government used its political and military power to defend its territory, it was attacked viciously by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in violation of its own charter.

Years later, America was attacked by Muslim terrorists funded by Bin Laden and it used this incident to wage war against Afghanistan and Iraq.  Ironic?

At the same time U.S. federal elected representatives (The United States Congress) under the seductive and corrupting influence of corporate interests that employ cheap legal and illegal labor, has allowed 20 million aliens from Mexico to invade the United States (cheap labor).

Mexico has taught its school children for 160 years that the United States stole it southwestern states from Mexico and that Mexico will take them back one day.  This is a dangerous situation similar to the demographic takeover of Kosovo by Albania.  If Mexican insurgents attempt to take territory, will the United States use its political and military power to retain its states, like California?  In light of its 78 day merciless bombing of Serbia for protecting its territory - that would be ironic also.

Kosovo insurgents declared independence from Serbia, Sunday, February 18, 2008.  In Europe alone there are 23 separatist movements in the balance of renewed flare ups.  Many anxious Europeans can hear in their heads war plans being made in a plethora of ethnic minority languages and accents as real as if they were present in the room.

Who hasn’t been on vacation in Spain and not worried ever so slightly about becoming an accidental victim of Basque separatist terror?

This past weekend the Turkish government clashed with Kurdish Separatist (Kurdish Worker's Party) leaving 41 Kurds and 2 Turkish soldiers dead.  While also the same weekend Muslim Pattani United Liberation Separatists claim responsibility for bombs that left serveral people dead in Thailand.

The green flag to Kosovo and other separatists movements leave us who vacation with our families in many of these locations with terrorial claims, which also happen to be vacation paradises, with something to worry about. 

Separatist rebellions and civil wars are among the most bloody of conflicts.  One in ten living Americans died in the American Civil War!

What if a foreign power had interveened militarily to force President Lincoln to surrender the southern states during the Civil War?   How would today's history books treat the meddling role of the imperial power that forced America to lose half of its territory to the Confederacy?

Will this recognition of separatist independence ignite a firestorm in Turkish Northern Cyprus?  Are we going to see Georgia go up in flame torn by separatist violence?  Will the Serbians living in Kosovo’s northern part now declare their independence and will America, which has disrespected Serbia’s territorial integrity, be forced to protect militarily the territorial integrity of the ludicrous independent Kosovo, a country that has never existed before last Sunday?

Are we prepared to risks peace and stability in Europe in order to reward ethnic Albanian Muslim terrorist’s for their takeover of Serbia’s ancestral homeland, the province of Kosovo?

The Muslim terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army was established in the mid 1990s. Its goal was to create a greater Muslim Albania out of Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. Kosovo has been under a United Nations protectorate since the end of the war that saw Kosovo taken from Serbia in 1999. Life in Kosovo has been a nightmare for Serbians, Jews and Roma (gypsies) ever since.

Muslim Albanians civilians have burned many Christian churches, forced Serbians to flee the province and terrorized those that remained. Law enforcement by the United Nation forces have been colossally ineffective at maintaining the peace and to complicate matters the Muslim terrorists who grappled the province from Serbia were given police roles by the UN protectorate. Under UN protection the insurgents also have control of the Parliament.  This is like assigning the mice to guard the cheese.

Serbia after the war was corrupted into a puppet government role by the United States, which promised economic aid and a path for elitists in Serbia to get rich on post war reconstruction in exchange for submission and tolerance of the UN protectorate of Kosovo.

After more than 8 years, the inevitable is happening. The Albanian terrorist who were exempted by the United States government of Bill Clinton from signing the UN agreement over the role of the UN in the province have unilaterally declared independence in violation of the United Nation resolution that created the protectorate.

The post-war government of Serbia which since its establishment has been happy to bank the money the United States government provides and stay neutral is now forced to take a nationalistic stand (at least temporarily) to assuage the anger of the Serbian people. As it stands today, the Serbian government has categorically declared that the Serbian people will never accept Kosovo’s independence at the hands of Albanian Muslim insurgents.

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The United Nations has been put into a difficult situation. The Albania Muslims in Kosovo have declared their independence from both Serbia and the United Nations. Should the UN accept the declaration of independence or should it maintain its grip of authority?

Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, and Serbia have lodged a complaint claiming that only the United Nations has the authority to accept or reject Kosovo’s independence. It is also believed by international legal scholars that Serbia must have a say in the matter of independence if there is to be one.

Incidentally, the European Union is trying to elbow in. The EU got involved indirectly through NATOs participation during the 78 day bombing of Serbia.

The Kosovo Liberation Army had foot soldiers but not a navy or an air force. The United States and NATO filled in as the air force of the Muslim insurgents without going as far was flying the KLA flag on the airplane tails. The KLA was handed a victory by the U.S. and NATO’s air force.

NATO meddling was a violation of its charter. NATO is not authorized to be an offensive force. Its charter only allows NATO member participation when another NATO member comes under attack. The fighting took place exclusively within Serbian territory. The CIA secretly provided armament to the Muslim insurgents invalidating any semblance of neutrality for the United States in the post war accommodations. The fighting in Kosovo was a civil war fought within Serbian territory. No NATO country was threatened or invaded. NATOs bombing were the first time its military power was used offensively in its 50 year history.

The inappropriate use of force by NATO sets a tarnished precedent for its relevancy and credibility.   European Union meddling in Serbia’s internal affairs is controversial and its prodding is contradictory.  For example, the politically ambitious EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, became the first EU bureaucrat operative to land in Pristina to prop up the insurgent Muslim regime after its declaration of independence.

The first contradiction is that Kosovo is ruled under a United Nations protectorate not an EU protectorate.  While Solano paraded through Pristina, back in his homeland of Spain, the Spanish government trembled at the thought that the Kosovo insurgency may serve as justification of the Basque ETA separatist organization to continue or step up its struggle for independence from Spain.

Is the EU prepared to deploy troops to Kosovo for the next 99 years?  That would be humorous.  The EU, some argue, does not have a mandate to act as a government.  Lately it failed to muster enough support for a "Constitution", something that only a nation requires.  In any case, the EU has no armed forces, nor is it authorized to raise an army.  So if the EU has no role as a "government" and it has no armed forces, then what is Javier Solano doing in Kosovo negotiating with the Muslim separatist government?

The area is a tinderbox.  There are preparations for a massive protest in Belgrade in the coming days.

Many separatists’ movements around the world, Cyprus, for example, may be ironically waiting their turn for support from the NATO air force to press their separatist demands.

Let’s puts this mismanagement of international affairs by the United States’ Bill Clinton and George Bush in perspective. There are troubling parallels between Serbia’s civil war and the loss of Kosovo, which we witness today; and grave political mistakes now brewing in the United States.

Only a derelict and corrupt government would allow its nation to be invaded by over 20 million illegal aliens from a bordering country that has taught its school children for 160 years that it has legitimate territorial claims against it. Mexico has claimed for 160 years that the Southwestern states of the United States belong to Mexico and that one it day it will retake it.  20 million Mexican illegal aliens is not a static numbers, the numbers increase annually at the rate of 1 to 2 ½ million per year.  Mexico has already deployed in the United States an reconquest civilian force equivalent to 10% of its population.

Making matters worse, an Illegal alien could trespass the United States' border 8 months pregnant and the child, still in the womb, can be enrolled for tax paid pre-natal care. Upon being delivered at taxpayer expense in a county hospital it will be presented with a birth certificate that says - U.S. Citizen. The millions of children born to illegal aliens in the United States are said to be U.S. citizens and become charges of the state and national treasury.

One day, not in our lifetime but possibly in our children’s lifetime, terrorist separatists, the equal of Hashim Thaci in Kosovo, may emerge to lead millions with loyalty to Mexico towards civil war in America. It is not an unrealistic scenario.

Do the remaining Serbians in Kosovo have anything to fear from the insurgent Albanian Muslims declaration of independence today?

George Bush, from a press conference while on his tour of Africa, assured the Serbian people Sunday that they are safe living in Kosovo. But wait, before you die laughing: George Bush also assured them that the border between Serbia and Kosovo will be secured - guaranteed!

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U.S. says it launched missile attack in Somalia
Military reportedly going after al-Qaida suspect in border town

Pentagon officials said Monday the United States launched an air strike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect.

In the strike early Monday, Somali police said three missiles hit a Somali town held by Islamic extremists, destroying a home and seriously injuring eight people.

A Pentagon official said the U.S. military was going after an al-Qaida suspect in the town. As yet, there is no word on whether the suspect was hit. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about the strike.
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The strike follows one last year in which the U.S. shelled suspected al-Qaida targets in Somalia.

Prior to the statement, local witnesses said that planes fired three missiles that struck Dobley, some four miles from the Kenyan border. Remnants of an Islamic force that had once ruled much of southern Somalia took over Dobley last week.

A local official told Reuters that the missile was fired by a U.S. aircraft. "Two U.S missiles hit a house in Dobley early this morning," one local politician, who asked not to be named, told the wire service by telephone, adding that shrapnel from the missiles had been found.

"The town is very tense. People have started fleeing because they fear there might be more attacks."

8 wounded
"We woke up with a loud and big bang and when we came out we found our neighbor's house completely obliterated as if no house existed here," a resident of the town, Fatuma Abdullahi, told The Associated Press. "We are taking shelter under trees. Three planes were flying over our heads."

A police officer who gave only his first name, Siyad, because he was not authorized to speak to the media said the eight wounded were hit by shrapnel. He also said the planes were military aircraft.

An aid worker in Dobley said up to six people were still trapped in the rubble by midday. It was not clear if these victims were included in the police officer's tally.

"A minimum of two bombs were dropped," the aid worker, who asked that his name not be used because he is not authorized to speak to the media, told the AP by telephone. "Between four and six people are in the rubble."

Clan elder Ahmed Nur Dalab said a senior Islamic official, Hassan Turki, was in town Sunday to mediate between his fighters and a militia loyal to the government. Turki's forces took over Dobley last week.

In early 2007, Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies drove out a radical Islamic group to which Turki is allied that had taken over much of southern Somalia. The Islamic forces have fought to regain power.

Mired in chaos
Somalia has been mired in chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other.

On Monday, a rights group said all sides in Somalia's long-running conflict are united in at least one goal — trying to curtail independent media by "killing, arresting and threatening" reporters.

The report by London-based Amnesty International was released a day after government raids shut down three independent radio stations in Mogadishu. The soldiers forced the stations off the air, arrested a journalist and seized equipment.

"The troops came in, took our equipment and arrested our boss without explanation. We do not know why they are targeting us," Mohamed Abdullahi, a Shabelle radio staff member, told the AP. Shabelle's director, Muqtar Mohamed Hirabe, was arrested.

Mohamed Abukar, a presenter and producer at Radio Horn Afrik, said troops broke down its doors and ordered the station off the air. The other shuttered station was Simba.

Government officials declined to comment on the raids.

The targeted media houses have criticized both the government and the Islamic militants who have been trying to topple the administration through a bloody insurgency.

At least nine journalists have been killed since February 2007 and death threats and arrests have forced at least 50 others to seek refuge in neighboring countries, Amnesty said.

"The killings, arrests and death threats targeting Somali journalists are not just another unfortunate byproduct of the conflict and general insecurity in Somalia _ they are a deliberate and systematic attempt by all parties to the conflict to stem the flow of information out of the country," said Michelle Kagari, deputy director of Amnesty's Africa program.

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Iran rejects new EU nuclear talks

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has refused to enter into any new talks with the European Union about Iran's nuclear programme.

Mr Ahmadinejad said from now on Tehran would only discuss the issue with the UN's nuclear agency, the IAEA.

Meanwhile Britain, France and Germany have said Iran's record in complying with the IAEA is "abysmal".

In a statement to the IAEA's board of governors, they called on Iran to suspend the enrichment of uranium.

Co-operation

After imposing a new set of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, world powers on Monday called on Iran to hold more talks with the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana.

But Mr Ahmadinejad has said Iran will only talk to the IAEA.

"Regarding the fact that it has been said in the resolution that Solana is in charge of negotiations with Iran, I have to stress again we will not have any nuclear negotiation with any individual and organisation outside the framework of the agency," Mr Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

However, Britain, France and Germany have accused Iran of not cooperating with the agency.

In a strongly worded statement to the IAEA, the three countries said Iran's response to the agency's questions about its alleged weapons development activities had been "dismissive and unsatisfactory".

Britain's ambassador to the IAEA, Simon Smith, warned: "As long as Iran's choice remains one of non-cooperation, we for our part will remain determined to demonstrate the costs and consequences of that choice."

But the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh, said the allegations were "politically motivated, fabricated and worthless".

He said Iran had resolved all the outstanding questions about its nuclear programme and was fully cooperating with the IAEA.

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Kuwaiti: Best if Israel, not U.S., destroys Iranian nukes
By News Agencies
14:28 09/03/2008

The destruction of Iran's nuclear capabilities would be in the interest of the Arab nations in the Gulf, and it would be less embarrassing if it was done by Israel rather than the U.S., a top Kuwaiti strategist said in remarks published Sunday.

Officially Kuwait, like the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, wants a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West and will not allow the U.S. to use its territories for any attack on Iran.

But when asked in an interview with the daily Al-Siyassah about the consequences of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear reactors, analyst and former government adviser Sami al-Faraj said it would not be such a bad thing.
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"Honestly speaking, they would be achieving something of great strategic value for the GCC by stopping Iran's tendency for hegemony over the area," he said, adding that "nipping it in the bud by Israeli hands would be less embarrassing for us than if the Americans did it."

Al-Faraj said Tehran was interfering in Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, and inciting strife between Sunnis and Shiites.

"The question is what would it do if it were a nuclear nation? We have to call a spade a spade and say that burying the military nuclear Iranian project is in the interest of GCC states, and other countries in the area," added al-Faraj, who heads the independent Kuwait Center for Strategy Studies.

Tehran has denied it is seeking nuclear weapons and insists its program is for peaceful purposes. Despite three sets of United Nations sanctions, it is still defying demands to suspend uranium enrichment.

GCC countries -Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain - have announced they want to use nuclear energy for civilian uses as well.

Al-Faraj told the daily the GCC offered to cooperate with Tehran on a joint nuclear fuel station, but Iran turned down the offer.

Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar all host U.S. military facilities.

Peres: Iran is the world's greatest problem

President Shimon Peres on Sunday called Iran the world's greatest problem but said Israel would not act on its own against the Islamic nation's nuclear program.

"Iran is a danger not just for Israel but for the rest of the world, the combination of being a center of terror and developing a nuclear option is the most dangerous you can think of," he said at his official residence, a day ahead of an official visit France.

Peres said an active Iranian nuclear reactor would make the world ungovernable. But he added that the problem was not Israel's alone.

"Israel will not be forced [to act]. Israel will do whatever she should do, but Israel doesn't claim that she is the leader of the world," he said.

Kuwaiti: Best if Israel, not U.S., destroys Iranian nukes

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 The Annual Israeli Intelligence Report indicates Israel could faces attacks on five different fronts

The Annual Israeli Intelligence Report prepared by the IDF's intelligence branch with the help of the Mossad, shows that Lebanon is crumbling and falling into the hands of Hezbollah, that Syria remains a threat and that Gaza and the worldwide Islamic Jihad movement are a threat to the Jewish state as well.

The most significant danger of all for Israel is Iran's nuclear program and their connection to Hamas in the Gaza Strip and that Israel's Northern border with Hezbollah, which is a highly flammable situation, realizing that if Hezbollah attacks Israel, this will ignite other Arab fronts as well. The report reveals there are five hostile operative fronts: Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iran and global Jihad with Iran the main threat as indicated by the report.

The Annual Israeli Intelligence Report is like reading out of the pages of Bible prophecy which lays out a scenario for the Middle East in the Last Days.

The IDF's intelligence branch with the help of the Mossad presents an annual report to inform the Israeli government and its military leaders of what they may expect in the next year. The reality that Israel is facing five hostile fronts: Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iran and global Jihad alerts the region that the situation is highly flammable and could be ignited by an attack on Israel by Hezbollah which would open up other Arab fronts.

Let me remind you that I have been reading from the Annual Israeli Intelligence Report, not the pages of Bible prophecy. Bible prophecy however, does mention the same Middle Eastern Islamic nations and almost a word-for-word scenario that will unfold in the Last Days, a scenario that can be found in all the Bible prophecy books including: Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38 and even Psalm 83. Joel 2 reveals that this Alignment of Nations will come to Jerusalem to destroy the Jewish state.

Israeli Intelligence and Bible prophecy indicate that Bible prophecy indeed will be fulfilled.

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Let me remind you that I have been reading from the Annual Israeli Intelligence Report, not the pages of Bible prophecy. Bible prophecy however, does mention the same Middle Eastern Islamic nations and almost a word-for-word scenario that will unfold in the Last Days, a scenario that can be found in all the Bible prophecy books including: Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38 and even Psalm 83. Joel 2 reveals that this Alignment of Nations will come to Jerusalem to destroy the Jewish state.

Israeli Intelligence and Bible prophecy indicate that Bible prophecy indeed will be fulfilled.

Amen!  GOD'S Will be done, and it WILL BE!