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What appears to be of particular concern to the EMP commission is the scepter of terrorist groups or so-called “rogue” nations carrying out such an attack. As outlined by Dr. Pry, one of the commissioners, before a 2005 Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, “[a] nuclear missile concealed in the hold of a freighter would give Iran, or terrorists, the capability to perform an EMP attack against the United States homeland, without developing an ICBM, and with some prospect of remaining anonymous. Iran’s Shahab-3 medium-range missile… is a mobile missile, and small enough to be transported in the...

Pakistan, accused by some powers of blocking progress in the world's top disarmament forum, insisted on Wednesday that it wants an end to nuclear weaponry and is playing an active role to bring this about. But in a statement issued in Islamabad, it argued that "the legitimate security interests of all states" had to be protected in any move towards new talks in the long-stalled Conference on Disarmament, under UN auspices, in Geneva. Pakistan "subscribes to the goals of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation... and has always played an active and constructive role in the conference," the Pakistan Online News Service...

The Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) ushered in significant advances in agriculture which resulted in an increased supply of food and raw materials. Developments in technology resulted in increased production, efficiency, profits, commerce, both foreign and domestic. Industries directly affected were textiles, coal mining, iron, transportation, and steam. The United States was second only to England in the production of wealth and export of goods. The American economy was strong and the dollar was gaining global recognition and nations were waiting in line for America’s exports and the American currency.

Ask any normal teen-ager about his or her spending money as a minor and most likely they will let you know that their parents in some ways control their wallets. So, too, does the Congress of the United States jealously control its parvenu: U.S. federal finances, first by authorization and then by legislated appropriations. Often called, `the Power of the Purse,’ it is more a reminder of the wisdom in an old rhythm and blues song, `First, I look at the Purse.’ Any effort to understand U.S.-Latin foreign policy needs-must first look at the purse and that means: the primacy...

VIENNA, Austria - More than 20 firms - including at least one American company - have supplied rogue nations seeking nuclear arms, marking the first time a U.S. company has been linked to the black market network. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, who is heading a probe into the illicit sales, avoided specifics on the locations of the companies in an interview with The Associated Press Friday. But a senior diplomat said at least one was in the United States - the first time in five months of investigations by the U.N. nuclear agency that an American...

Scott Ritter, formerly the top United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, has long argued that claims that Saddam Hussein possessed biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programmes were massively exaggerated. His public campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq made him a hated figure of the American right, which still demonises him as an apologist for the ousted Baghdad regime. Now, at the very moment when the absence of weapons of mass destruction in post-Saddam Iraq should make Mr Ritter feel vindicated, he faces new questions about his relationship with Baghdad after he quit his UN job in 1998. Mr Ritter...

Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Syria has asked Australia to use its close relationship with the U.S. to help facilitate the rogue state's rehabilitation, but Canberra said it expects Damascus to follow Libya's lead by addressing concerns relating to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has met with Syrian diplomats to discuss these issues, a spokesman said Wednesday. Downer told newly-appointed Syrian charge d'affaires Tamam Souliman this week that "Australia would welcome moves by Syria to engage more broadly with the West." Australia believed Syria had a long way to go, however, and advised it to...

By Kenneth R. Timmerman© 2004 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration. In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the Council on Foreign Relations in December, Kerry called the U.S. war on terror as conceived and led by President Bush "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history." Kerry's remarks were widely praised by journalists. The Associated Press headlined its report on his...

The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration. In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the Council on Foreign Relations in December, Kerry called the U.S. war on terror as conceived and led by President George W. Bush "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history." Kerry's remarks were widely praised by journalists. The Associated Press headlined its report on his speech, "Kerry Vows to Repair...

Colonel Muammar Gadafy of Libya has been buying complete sets of uranium enrichment centrifuges on the international black market as the central element in his secret nuclear bomb programme, according to United Nations nuclear inspectors. The ease with which the complex bomb-making equipment was acquired has stunned experienced international inspectors. The scale and the sophistication of the networks supplying so-called rogue states seeking nuclear weapons are considerably more extensive than previously believed. The purchase of full centrifuges, either assembled or in parts, marks a radical departure in what is on offer on the black market, sources said. While it is...

WASHINGTON — As American tanks began to roll through Iraq to overthrow Saddam, Libya's longtime terrorist, Muammar Qaddafi, came up with a strategy to avoid being next on the regime-change list: pre-emptive surrender. Nobody calls it that, of course. Diplomats and doves want to treat the dictator's epiphany as the result of patient negotiation stretching back for decades. Some Republicans claim he was softened up by a bomb dropped his way in the Reagan years. But three years after that, his terrorists murdered 259 people aboard Pan Am 103. Subsequent sanctions led to severe economic pain and the threat of...

GENEVA — Worried over U.S. domination, a group of developing nations wants to put control of the Internet into the hands of the United Nations, an issue that likely will overshadow a summit on information technology opening today. Key decisions on Internet issues, such as domain names and addresses, now reside in a private agency spun off from the U.S. government — and the United States wants to keep it that way. But if countries do not think their concerns are adequately heard by the Internet's key decision-makers, a U.N. official warned yesterday, they may create conflicting national policies and...

The rogue nations are at it again. Cuba's regime, among the world's most proficient human-rights abusers, is leading the charge to yank the consultive status of Reporters Without Frontiers at the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Why is this no surprise? We've seen it before. Cuba and other human-rights violators act in concert to silence their critics. The United Nations mustn't let them get away with it again. Rather, the United Nations needs to purge the rogues' undue influence if it wants to restore credibility to its Human Rights Commission. Of course, Cuba's repressive regime wants to retaliate against Reporters Without...

WASHINGTON - In a fresh round of ominous warnings, the Bush administration branded Syria a "rogue nation" yesterday and accused it of harboring fugitive Iraqi leaders. Weeks of growing tension reached new heights as the White House and Defense and State departments leveled charges and threatened punishment - pointedly leaving open the possibility of new military action. "They should review their actions and their behavior," said Secretary of State Powell. "We will examine possible measures of a diplomatic, economic or other nature." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer called Syria a "rogue nation" and a "terrorist state." He made it clear...

Today we are faced with a cold, hard fact: North Korea is almost untouchable because the CIA estimates that Kim Jong il has as many as three enriched uranium atomic bombs. These bombs are believed to be something on a par with the Hiroshima “Little Boy” and the Nagasaki “Fat Man.” Such bombs may be small and primitive by today's standards to be sure, but they are still capable of ruining your whole day. If one of those “devices” were to be set off in Seoul, Tokyo, Okinawa, or even Anchorage and Honolulu, casualties would run into the hundreds of...

My suggestion is that the U.S. must warn rogue states, i.e., Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya, that if these groups use a weapon of mass destruction on an American city, the U.S. military will not do any investigations, there will be no delay – the U.S. will use similar weapons on their population centers and military targets. Intelligence experts have told me that there are more than 5,000 highly trained terrorists in the U.S. and Europe who are in permanent readiness for new attacks against the civilized world. Now that we are in a full-blown war, the stakes are high...

Israel and the U.S. are trying to halt a new deal for SA-18 shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles between Russia and Syria. Israeli security officials are concerned Syria might transfer the sophisticated weapons to Lebanon’s Hizbullah, which could use them to attack Israeli helicopters. According to Haaretz, Israeli officials said that although the Syrians have made offers to the Russians for the SA-18s, no deal has been finalized. Israel has recently raised its concern to U.S. officials, and asked for help to stop the supply of the missiles to Damascus. According to the Israeli newspaper, Washington has appealed to officials in Moscow,...

Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi is to head an international watchdog on human rights. Libya is to be elected chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights - despite its links with terrorism and torture. The move sparked a storm of controversy as it emerged British officials did nothing to block the appointment. Libyan terrorists were responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, and Gadaffi's regime has been criticised for violence against its own people. Isolate Human rights groups and Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith united to criticise the appointment. But a Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "Our...

There is every reason to believe that Fidel Castro is manufacturing and exporting deadly biological weapons, and the U.S. should take advantage of Castro's offer made to President Carter to allow full inspection of Cuba's key biotech facilities, says a former State Department official who once headed the Department's Cuban Affairs section. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Hays, a former U.S. ambassador to Suriname, says, "We need to know if a nation 90 miles from our shores is experimenting with deadly biological agents." Hays spelled out the reasons for believing that Cuba is involved in biological warfare research...

<p>Now that the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty is dead and buried, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are free to confront — cooperatively — the post-Cold War ballistic-missile threat. Coincidentally, Israel wants to sell India the Arrow ABM system we have cooperatively developed. Perhaps the Arrow is the sort of ABM system Messrs. Bush and Putin should now develop for all our allies.</p>