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Praying for Peace - Watching for War
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Praying for peace; watching for war

In intelligence parlance it’s called “chatter” – communication by known or suspected terrorists among themselves. When monitoring agents detect intensification in the level of communication, or certain variations in the pattern of interaction – they increase the alert level and brace for a possible attack.

Western intelligence agencies are also consistently monitoring hostile nations for the likelihood of war. In the Middle East, falling down on this job could lead – and has led – to surprise attacks that have threatened the very existence of the State of Israel.
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Israeli Jets vs Iranian Nukes
--> Posted to War for June, 2007

Israeli Jets vs. Iranian Nukes
By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2007

Barring a "catastrophic development," Middle East Newsline reports, George Bush has decided not to attack Iran. An administration source explains that Washington deems Iran's cooperation "needed for a withdrawal [of U.S. forces] from Iraq."

If correct, this implies the Jewish state stands alone against a regime that threatens to "wipe Israel off the map" and is building the nuclear weapons to do so. Israeli leaders are hinting that their patience is running out; Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz just warned that "diplomatic efforts should bear results by the end of 2007."

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FBI' Mueller Warns of Nuke Attack--NewsMax--May 15
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FBI's Mueller: Bin Laden Wants to Strike U.S. Cities With Nuclear Weapons

Ronald Kessler
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Osama bin Laden and his terrorist group desperately want to obtain nuclear devices and explode them in American cities, especially New York and Washington, D.C., FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III tells NewsMax.

In an exclusive interview, Mueller also acknowledged that bin Laden is still active, though isolated. The director revealed that the Bureau believes the terrorist leader continues to communicate with al-Qaida cells, some of which remain in the U.S.

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Summer of War: The Sequel--April 18
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Summer of War: The Sequel
By Michael Widlanski
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 18, 2007

Leading Arab and Israeli officials are increasingly convinced that another major Arab-Israeli conflict will erupt within months, according to recent statements and background briefings. View Full Article

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Nuclear Roulette--Oliver North
--> Posted to War for April, 2007

Has Iran taken a major step to build nuclear weapons? Is the outlaw regime in Tehran closer to constructing a functional device? These would seem to be important questions. Yet, the truth of the Iranian claim that they are producing quantities of enriched uranium is shrouded in secrecy -- and seemingly willful ignorance.

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As Syria Prepares for War---March 16
--> Posted to War for March, 2007

Psychological warfare antics are working on Israeli Left, which is exerting massive pressure on the rudderless Olmert-Livni-Peretz government to force it to open negotiations with Damascus — negotiations that would lead to Israel's surrender of the Golan Heights in exchange for a piece of paper from Iran's Arab colony

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Olmert: Prepare for War with Syria
--> Posted to War for February, 2007

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ordered the IDF to actively prepare for war with Syria, despite buying in to assessments that such a conflagration is unlikely in the coming year.

Some Israeli defense officials point to Syria's rapid rearming and redeployments as a sign that conflict is on the horizon.

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The War of the 21st Century
--> Posted to War for January, 2007

Islam is at war with the world. This statement is most certainly a fact and yet it is amazing how many of us are either not aware of it, or don’t believe it. One doesn’t have to look at the attacks on just the West over the course of the past two decades as proof, consider what has happened in Indonesia and what continues to go on in Ethiopia. Islamic Jihadists have vowed to turn Africa totally Islamic, and they’re off to a good start with the slaughter that is going on now. President Bush had all good intentions in his War on Terror, but in the end could not overcome political correctness, Democrat hammering, and the hateful partisan media. So what now?

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Israel Prepares for Next War
--> Posted to War for January, 2007

Under the cover of thick smoke, a Muslim call to prayer ringing in the background, masked Israeli commandos stormed a concrete building in a dense mock neighborhood and "killed" a pair of guerrillas -- preparing for the next round with the Lebanese Hizbullah after last summer's 34-day war.

The Monday war drill, including simulations of helicopter, tank and rocket fire, took place in a recently constructed mock Arab city in the Negev desert, under the assumption that the techniques will be used in combat sooner rather than later.
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Mushrooms Over the Middle East--Hal Lindsey
--> Posted to War for January, 2007

I don't know why it staggered me to read the report in the London Sunday Times. I've not only expected it, I've discussed it previously on numerous occasions.

The story in last Sunday's edition of the Times revealed that Israel plans to use tactical nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear program. I believe it's the only logical choice available to Israel, but reading the report rocked me back on my heels anyway.

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Iran Probably Has Germ Weapons
--> Posted to War for November, 2006

Iran probably has germ weapons, possibly N.Korea-US

By Richard Waddington

GENEVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Iran probably has germ warfare weapons, North Korea may have developed them and Syria could have carried out research into such banned weaponry, the United States told an arms control conference on Monday.

Addressing the opening session of the sixth review conference of the Convention on Biological Weapons (BWC), U.S. delegation head John C. Rood said those countries were of particular concern given their "support for terrorism".

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How the Soviets Gave the Mullahs the Bomb---Aug. 23
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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Regnar Rasmussen, a former military interpreter and interrogation specialist trained at the Danish Armed Forces' Specialist School. For more than ten years, he worked as a translator in the Danish Central Police Department (immigration department) as well as in several criminal investigations departments. He affirms that, through his experience, he learned of the many ways in which the Soviet system trained the Islamist enemy we now face in the terror war. More frightening yet, he claims that his sources informed him back in 1992 that the Soviets sold the Iranian Mullahs nuclear warheads in autumn 1991.

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Bush Sees no End to War on Terror---Aug. 15
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Tuesday that the foiled plot to blow up flights between Britain and the United States is evidence the U.S. could be fighting terrorists for years to come.

"America is safer than it has been, yet it is not yet safe," Bush told reporters at the National Counterterrorism Center just outside Washington. "The enemy has got an advantage when it comes to attacking our homeland: They got to be right one time and we've got to be right 100 percent of the time to protect the American people."

The counterterrorism center is located at an undisclosed site in Northern Virginia known as Liberty Crossing. It merges hundreds of government experts and more than two dozen computer networks from various federal agencies focusing on potential threats.

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Iran's War--Timmerman
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(Hear Ken Timmerman on our "radio archives." Use the search engine.--jm)

Iran's War

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

Haifa, Israel – Some have suggested that the latest round of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon is the beginning of World War III.

Think again.

“This is more like the Spanish Civil War,” says Daniel Seaman, an Israeli government spokesman. “What we are seeing is a series of conflicts that foreshadow a future world conflict, just as the Spanish Civil war prefigured the Second World War.”

Seaman’s analogy is worth exploring.

Just as Hitler used Franco as his proxy in Spain to test new military techniques and equipment on the battlefield, so Iran is using Hezbollah as its proxy to do the same.

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Why China Wants War with America
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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Jed Babbin, the former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of George H.W. Bush. He writes weekly for RealClearPolitics.com and the American Spectator. He occasionally guest-hosts on Hugh Hewitt's and Michael Medved's radio shows. He's the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse than You Think, and the co-author (with Ed Timperlake) of the new book Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States.

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The Jihadist War Against India
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The Jihadist War Against India
By Dr. Walid Phares
Fox News

Is this the beginning of the Jihadi war on India? Yes and no. Yes it is a jihadist war on India, but no, the trains’ bombings weren’t the beginning of that war. Unlike the U.S., Spain, and the UK, the Indians have been subjected to small explosions of the holy war for years. Yesterday’s bombings of Mumbai’s trains (previously Bombay) are not the first strikes on Indian mainland. In October 2005, terror bombings killed more than 60 people in the Indian capital of Delhi. Mumbai itself was the target of terror attacks that massacred 55 persons and injured 180 in August 2003. And in December 2001, jihadist groups launched raids on India’s parliament killed a number of people, as well. The targeting of the most populous democracy on earth has been taking place for years, even before 9/11 at the hands of followers of a Salafi-Tablighi ideology, with common roots with al-Qaeda’s terrorist doctrine. The July 11 blasts in Mumbai aiming at innocent civilians are the last in a string of crimes directed against the Indian population by militants following orders and engaged in an irreversible path of violence. But who did it and why? View Full Article

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The Case for a Pre-Emptive Strike on N. Korea's Missiles
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The Bush Administration has tried to downplay the mounting danger posed by North Korea. That might be the understandable reaction of officials necessarily preoccupied with the ongoing campaign in Iraq. But it is not prudent or safe. Although the July 4 test of the Taepo Dong 2 missile—which is intended to carry nuclear warheads to U.S. territory—appears to have failed, North Korea conducted the test so its engineers could learn how to perfect the missile, and even a failed test provides critical data. More important is the test's symbolic significance: once again North Korea has crossed a line in the sand clearly drawn by the U.S. and its partners.
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Achmadinejad Threatens Europe--J. Post
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Europe that it should support his country's nuclear program or "suffer the consequences."

In an interview to be published in the German Der Spiegel on Sunday, Ahmadinejad also expressed his doubt regarding the Holocaust, saying that even if it had occurred, the Jewish state should have been established in Europe, not in Palestine.

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China Military Upgrade a Threat to the U.S.
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China military upgrades a potential threat to US: Pentagon

The pace and scope of China's modernization of its strategic forces and other surprising military developments could pose a credible long term threat to the United States, the Pentagon warned.

In an annual report to Congress, the Defense Department said China's ability to sustain military power at a distance is limited but it has the greatest potential of any nation to compete militarily with the United States.

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Israel: Iran Can be Wiped Off the Map, too--J. Post
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Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."

"Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program," Peres told Reuters, adding that "Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us."
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Israel's Spy Satellite a Prelude to War--Corsi
--> Posted to War for April, 2006

Today, April 28, is the deadline for Iran to comply with the Security Council's demand that Iran resumes the moratorium on uranium enrichment. Iran is going to defy that notice. Russia and China will block any move toward imposing meaningful sanctions. This has been predictable for months and nothing has changed.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a rally in western Iran that the Security Council was irrelevant:

If you think by frowning at us, by issuing resolutions, you can impose anything on the Iranian nation or force it to abandon its obvious right, you still don't know power.

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Iran:The Countdown is for Real--Timmerman
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(Hear Ken Timmerman on our radio show. Type his name in the search engine to bring up the programs.--jm)

Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani announced on Tuesday that Iran had successfully enriched uranium at a heavily-fortified buried facility in Natanz, southwest of Tehran, raising the specter that the U.S. and its allies would take pre-emptive military action against Iran.

Long considered a “moderate” by many in the West, Rafsanjani has been a key figure in Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program since 1985, when he sponsored a series of conferences to entice exiled nuclear scientists to return to Iran.

By announcing the success of Iran’s uranium enrichment program, Rafsanjani upstaged the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who made a similar announcement on Wednesday in the northeastern city of Mashad, bordering Afghanistan.
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Arab States Urged to Go Nuclear
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Arab States Encouraged to Go Nuclear
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor

(CNSNews.com) - As the U.N. Security Council debates how to confront Iran over its nuclear activities, the head of the Arab League called on the world's Arab states to pursue "peaceful" nuclear energy programs.

Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the 22-nation bloc, said Arab states should "enter into the nuclear club and make use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes with all speed and momentum," according to wire service reports from Khartoum.
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The Implications of Striking Iran
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Report: Attack on Iran would kill thousands, start war
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

A US air assault on Iranian nuclear and military facilities would likely kill thousands of people, spark a long-lasting war and push Iran to accelerate its atomic program, a British think tank predicted in a report published Monday.

The Oxford Research Group, which specializes in arms control and nonproliferation issues, said military action against Iran, "either by the United States or Israel, is not an option that should be considered under any circumstances."

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Playing Poker with Armageddon--Timmerman
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(NOTE: KEN TIMMERMAN IS A FREQUENT RADIO GUEST OF OURS. VISIT "RADIO ARCHIVES" AND TYPE HIS NAME IN THE ARCHIVE SEARCH ENGINE TO BRING UP THE PROGRAMS HE'S BEEN ON.--jm)

The prospect that the Islamic Republic of Iran could acquire nuclear weapons ought to be too serious for it to succumb to political spin, especially from within the U.S. intelligence community.

But leakers seeking to embarrass the Bush administration have been furiously spinning the extraordinary information obtained over the past eighteen months from an Iranian walk-in about Iran’s nuclear intentions, seeking to downplay its importance and suggesting that the intelligence community is divided over how to interpret it..

Here is what we know about the extraordinary documents provided by the walk-in on a laptop computer. They include:

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The Nuclear Dots--Timmerman
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(NOTE: HEAR KEN TIMMERMAN ON OUR RADIO SHOW. TYPE HIS NAME INTO THE SEARCH ENGINE AT "RADIO ARCHIVES."--jm)

The Nuclear Dots
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 2, 2006

As the International Atomic Energy Agency board meets today in emergency session in Vienna, they finally will begin to connect the dots of Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, after years of ignoring or dismissing the evidence.

Reaching this point has been no mean feat. It has required extraordinary diplomatic efforts – from an administration ridiculed by Democrats for its “unilateral” approach to world affairs – and strong but quiet leadership from the White House.

Three individuals and two pieces of information have been key to the refreshing burst of realism we are finally beginning to see from the IAEA board of governors. (Their action has not been mirrored by IAEA Secretary General, Mohammad ElBaradei. More on that below).

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Iran: Preparing for Armageddon?--Krauthammer
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Lest you get carried away with today's good news from Iraq, consider what's happening next door in Iran. The wild pronouncements of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have gotten sporadic press ever since he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. He subsequently amended himself to say that Israel should simply be extirpated from the Middle East map and moved to some German or Austrian province. Perhaps near the site of an old extermination camp?

Except that there were no such camps, indeed no Holocaust at all, says Ahmadinejad. Nothing but "myth," a "legend" that was "fabricated . . . under the name 'Massacre of the Jews.' " This brought the usual reaction from European and American officials, who, with Churchillian rage and power, called these statements unacceptable. That something serious might accrue to Iran for this — say, expulsion from the United Nations for violating its most basic principle by advocating the outright eradication of a member state — is, of course, out of the question.

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The War for the Free World--Gafney
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The War for the Free World
By Frank J Gaffney Jr.

Let's be honest. The so-called "Global War on Terror" is not going brilliantly just now. While our forces on the front lines continue to do their difficult missions with courage and competence, morale is sagging at home.

Receding memories of 9/11 and a sense of lost momentum - if not of futility - has combined with the effects of natural disasters and political ones. Support has eroded for the war effort and for those who lead it.

Worse yet, our enemies are emboldened by the demonstrations and calls for withdrawal from the Iraqi front. They redouble their efforts to kill and maim Iraqis and, if possible, American and other Coalition personnel. These terrorists are confident that doing so will reinforce popular demands to set an early date for bringing the troops home.

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Russian-Chinese War Games Message to U.S.--Wash.Times
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A joint Chinese and Russian military exercise set to begin tomorrow is meant as a political signal to the United States, in addition to helping Moscow showcase its weapons for sale to China, U.S. defense and intelligence officials said yesterday.

"For the Chinese and the Russians, this is a message to the United States," one U.S. official said. "They want to see our bases in Central Asia and presence in Asia cut back."

The fact that the United States was not invited to observe the war games is a sign of the anti-U.S. nature of the exercises, said several officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Defense officials from India, Iran, Pakistan and Mongolia will be present in China to observe the exercises. View Full Article

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China Stocks Nukes as Anti-U.S. Tactic--Bill Gertz
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China stocks nukes as anti-U.S. tactic
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

China is building up its nuclear forces as part of a secret strategy targeting the United States, according to a former Chinese diplomat.

China's strategy calls for "proactive defense," and senior Chinese Communist Party leaders think that building nuclear arms is the key to countering U.S. power in Asia and other parts of the world, said Chen Yonglin, a diplomat who defected to Australia two months ago.

A recent comment by a Chinese general shows that Beijing's leaders are prepared to launch "a pre-emptive attack on the country considered a huge threat to China," Mr. Chen said.

Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu told reporters two weeks ago that China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against "hundreds" of U.S. cities if a conflict breaks out over Taiwan.

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China Wants War--NewsMax
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If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition onto the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons," stated Zhu to the shocked audience.

"If the Americans are determined to interfere, [then] we will be determined to respond," said Zhu in reference to Taiwan.

"We ... will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."

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War's New Face
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April 16, 2003
by Daniel Pipes, New York Post

"One gets the impression that U.S. military dominance is now so overwhelming," writes David Brooks in The Weekly Standard, "that the rules of conflict are being rewritten."

Indeed they are. In both the Afghanistan war of 2001 and the Iraq one now concluding, traditional features of warfare have been turned upside-down. But it's not just an American phenomenon; the same rewriting also applies in Israel's war against the Palestinians.

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