http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/secure/2010/11_10/1.asp
Iran’s IRGC moving to destabilize Kurdish government of northern Iraq
BAGHDAD - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been working with
operatives to undermine the Kurdish Regional Government.
Officials said the Kurdish intelligence community has been warning that IRGC
could be planning attacks in the autonomous area of northern Iraq.
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The New Media Journal | Nuclear Bomb Material Found for Sale on Georgia Black Market
Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:37 AM PST
The New Media Journal | Nuclear Bomb Material Found for Sale on Georgia Black Market: “Highly enriched uranium that could be used to make a nuclear bomb is on sale on the black market along the fringes of the former Soviet Union, according to evidence emerging from a secret trial in Georgia.
Two Armenians, a businessman and a physicist, have pleaded guilty to smuggling highly enriched uranium (HEU) into Georgia in March, stashing it in a lead-lined package on a train from Yerevan to Tbilisi.
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http://www.newmediajournal.us/international/1108.htm
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Billions of dollars have been spent upgrading security at nuclear sites around the globe, particularly in Russia, which has an estimated 700 tons of HEU in hundreds of facilities. But it is unclear how much has already been stolen. “The question is: of what iceberg are we seeing the tip?” said Matthew Bunn, a Harvard expert and former White House science adviser, who compiles an annual assessment of the nuclear terrorism threat titled Securing the Bomb.
The uranium sample that Sumbat Tonoyan and Hrant Ohanyan were peddling is thought to have been stolen several years ago. US tests have confirmed it is 89.4% enriched, usable in a nuclear warhead. The Armenians only had 18 grams, but had been told by their supplier in Armenia that much more was available. They smuggled it into Georgia by train in a cigarette box lined with lead to fool radiation sensors at the border. Tonoyan, a 63-year-old who once ran a successful dairy business but gambled away his fortune, and Ohanyan, a 59-year-old scientist at the Yerevan Institute of Physics, had arranged to meet their buyer in a hotel in the Georgian capital on 11 March. They thought they were selling their 18g sample to a representative of an Islamist group as a precursor to a bigger consignment. But the buyer was an undercover police officer.
It is the third time in seven years HEU has been intercepted in Georgia. There have been 21 seizures or attempted thefts of weapons-grade material, uranium or plutonium, in the region since the Soviet Union collapsed. In every case the material seized had not been missed and mostly the theft was by an insider.
[This was a part of the collection of articles / history, that came today.
It is a subject that we should all be alert to.
granny]
“Hamas: Anthrax should be put in US water supply
Atallah Abu Al-Subh, a columnist for the Hamas weekly Al-Risala based
in Gaza, writes open letters to prominent figures, ideologies, and
events. His most recent letter, No. 163, was titled “To Anthrax”:
“The truth is that I wondered how to begin! Should I greet you [i.e.
anthrax], or should I curse you? Should I hold my tongue?... I will
begin by saying: Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown
horror in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of
boastfulness! Your gentle touch has made the US’s life rough and
pointless...
“You have entered the most fortified of places; [you have entered]
the White House and they left it like horrified mice ... The Pentagon
was a monster before you entered its corridors... And behold, it now
transpires that its men are of paper and its commanders are of
cardboard, and they hasten to flee as soon as they see - only see -
chalk dust!
“Nevertheless, you have found your way to only eight American breasts
so far ... May you continue to advance, to permeate, and to spread.
If I may give you a word of advice, enter the air ... the water
faucets from which they drink, and the pens with which they draft
their traps and conspiracies against the wretched peoples.”
(The Middle East Media Research Institute translated the above op-ed
piece which originally appeared in Al-Risala)
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/07/LatestNews/LatestNews.37698.html
Extremist website that inspired stabbing of Stephen Timms urges Muslims to
‘raise the knife of jihad’ to other MPs
[Thanks to Milford421 for this report]
Wife Calls Radio Station To Report Husband’s Plans to Attack Florida School
Hundreds of Schools Have Been Places on Lockdown in Florida
http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-schools-lockdown-shooting-threat/comments?type=story&id=12109125
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As many as 300 schools in South Florida have been placed on lockdown today after a woman called a radio station to warn that her husband was allegedly preparing to open fire at an area school.
Capt. Dan Rakofsky of Pembroke Pines Police Department said today that an e-mail threat deemed to be “credible” was also received prompting the security measures.
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Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market
Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette box
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/07/nuclear-material-black-market-georgia
Note: update and page contains other articles that are related.
http://blog.bahneman.com/content/it-was-us-airways-flight-808
He has looked into the California missile photo and has one up for today, interesting blog on the subject.
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The Mail Center is the First Line of Defense
November 11, 2010
In This Issue
German Interior Minister Warns Of ‘Serious’ Terrorist Attacks in the United
States and Europe
Cargo Plane Bomb Plot: Timeline Of How The Worldwide Terrorism Event Unfolded
Mail Bomb Hidden in Poetry Book Sent to French Embassy In Greece — The
14th Confirmed in/from Greece
FBI: Al-Qaida’s Yemen Group Behind Mail Bombs But Not UPS Cargo Plane Crash
As They Claimed
Mail Bomb Plot Raises Questions About Why The 2 Packages From Yemen Had
Chicago Addresses
Going Postal— A History Of Parcel Bombs
U.S. Issues Tougher Air Cargo Measures In Response to Thwarted Bomb Plot
Man Charged With Mailing Fake Anthrax Letters To Alabama Republican Party
and Others
Northern Kentucky University Receives Second Suspicious Letter - Linked
to Previous Smallpox Threat Letter
Arizona Congressman Receives Letter With Suspicious Powde
Bulgarian Mail Service Raises Security Level After Discovery of Suspicious
Mail Addressed to Israeli Embassy
Suspicious Letter and Powder Prompts Evacuation and Decontamination of
Employees at NY Sports Clubs Offices
NPR Receives Bomb Threat Letter, FBI Confirms
Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty To Mailing Suspicious White Powder To Dow Jones
& C
Employee Charged In White Powder Scare At John Deere
Anthrax Hoax Package Is Sent To Public School in Queens
Huntingdon Life Sciences Supplier’s Life ‘Under Siege’ By Animal Rights
Extremists
Rejected Suitor Accused of Stalking and Sending Threatening Letters to
Indiana Woman
Bomb Squad, Hazmat Respond To Suspicious Envelope at Army Corps of Engineers
in Savannah
California Animal Rights Activist Jailed For Stalking UCLA Researchers
Other News We Couldn’t Fit In
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