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Is War With Israel The Next Step For Iran?
Global Politician ^ | August 22, 2006 | Ghazal Omid
Posted on 10/22/2006 11:44:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Iranian government will fight with utmost brutality. The result will be the destruction of the beautiful Persian culture. Iran is not only harboring the terrorist group Hezbollah; it has adopted their method of fighting. Mahmood Ahmadinejad, in his interview with Mike Wallace, said that the number of registered suicide bombers has increased from 2000 in January 2006 to the current number of 54,000... While Iran was at war with Iraq, Khomani kept referring to the eight year war as a blessing. Iran’s only “blessing” from that war was over 1,000,000 casualties, including half a million dead, The regime, of course, survived many uprisings, killing over 2500 of its opposition per month and no one from the international community even blinked... Anticipating hard times, key figures have already pulled their assets from national banks; at the same time, trying to find allies among the very fragile circle of friends in the Arab community. Iran will stage a war on Israel and the US on all fronts in the coming months. US troops in the Persian Gulf can be hit by their fast boats; at least that is what Iran banking on. Iran will not put all their eggs in one basket. They will hit Israel at the same time as they step up the militia aggravation of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; as well as hitting US troops via supporters in Arabic countries. And, Iran will interrupt oil flow.
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China Holds Ethnic Koreans for Attempted Uranium Sale
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 10/24/06
Posted on 10/23/2006 6:33:43 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China Holds Ethnic Koreans for Attempted Uranium Sale
Chinese police last month arrested two men on charges of trying to sell 1 kg of enriched uranium, an essential raw material for nuclear weapons, press reports said Monday. The two were ethnic Koreans living in China, police in Beijing confirmed. Press reports said Beijing police arrested the two men, identified as Chang and Chung, on charges of attempting to sell 969.03 grams of enriched uranium at a hotel there on Sept. 11.
Beijing police said initial investigations found the enriched uranium probably came from Russia, but sources there say the possibility that it came from North Korea can’t be ruled out. One source said a considerable number of ethnic Koreans in China are involved in smuggling with North Korea. “I actually met someone in a Chinese border town who asked me to find a buyer for the material and told me, ‘I have enriched uranium smuggled from North Korea.’”
Uranium naturally occurs in two isotopes: U-238 (99.3 percent), and U-235 (0.7 percent). When the latter is enriched at 3-4 percent purity, it can be used for nuclear power plants, and with more than 90 percent purity, it becomes a raw material for nuclear weapons. It is not known at what purity the seized uranium was enriched. Some 15-17 kg are needed to produce nuclear weapons, but the seized amount was less than 1 kg. When U.S. envoy James Kelly visited Pyongyang in 2002, the North allegedly admitted to having its own highly enriched uranium program.
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China launches two satellites with one rocket
People's Daily Online ^ | 10/24/06
Posted on 10/23/2006 8:09:51 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
China successfully launched two satellites into space with a Long March-4B carrier rocket early Tuesday morning.
The two satellites, which are intended for space environment exploration, were launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi province at 7:34 a.m.
One of the satellite was detached from the rocket after about 11 minutes of take-off, followed by the other about one minute later. Both have successfully entered preset orbits.
The two satellites, which form Group-02 of Shijian-6, were manufactured by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and China's DFH Satellite Co., Ltd. respectively. Both have a designed life of more than two years.
They will replace two Shijian-6 satellites launched on Sept. 9, 2004, to conduct exploration of space environment, radiation in space and their influence, parameters of physical environment of the space, and carry out other related space experiments.