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TMI!! Ahhh!
Thanks for hangin’ in, Ian. Much appreciated.
India suspects that Jaish-e-Mohammad and its founder Masood Azhar
are also involved in the attacks.
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Thanks for the ping, Ian.
Surviving attacker sold to terrorists by father...(here)
Thanks to chelvaonline at twitter for the link
Moscow races to finish Iran’s Bushehr reactor by mid-2009
Exclusive Report
December 2, 2008, 10:47 PM
Iranian and Moscow sources report that Atomstroiexport, the Russian firm under contract to build and activate Iran’s nuclear reactor at Bushehr, is offering nuclear engineers and technicians top salaries to leave for Iran at short notice. The Kremlin has promised Tehran to have the reactor up and running by mid-2009. Some 1,600 experts are already at work on the site; the project is short of another 500 to meet this deadline.
An Atomstroiexport spokesman explained this week that the main technology for the station has already been installed “so the construction work is getting under way.” Our Iranian sources report that this is the first time Russian officials have admitted that the Bushehr reactor is close to completion.
Sergei Kiriyenko, director of the Russian company, visited Tehran on Nov. 27 to tie up the final stage of the reactor’s construction. Kiriyenko, former Russian prime minister and personal emissary of the incumbent prime minister Vladimir Putin, again assured the Iranians that the reactor would be ready to go within a few months.
Our sources add that the Bushehr plant will make it possible for Iran to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Its completion will provide Iran with an alternative weapons fuel option in addition to the enriched uranium already accumulated for its first nuclear bomb. US and Israel intelligence had believed the plutonium track lagged behind the uranium process. However, now that Moscow has embarked on a crash program to finish the Bushehr project, this no longer holds true.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5754
Thanks for the update, and my apologies for pouting in the corner all month.
...or whatever you want to call being too pi$$ed to post.
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire at Chakoti Line of Control, causing panic among the locals. On Saturday night at 9:00 pm, Indian troops violating ceasefire opened indiscriminate firing at positions of Pakistan army in areas of Pando and Opi, Chakoti sector.
The Indian troops used small weapons and mortar guns in the firing that lasted more than one hour. Pakistan army retaliated with same force.
Besides compelling people living in Chakoti sector and adjacent villages to shift to safer places, the firing has created panic among them because it was the first time Pakistan and Indian troops exchanged fire followed by Mumbai carnage.
Various families had been migrated to other places from Chakoti sector due to firing. According to eyewitnesses, firing was continued till Sunday morning.
We received similar national calls last year in connection with hurricanes and the mid west flooding that occurred, and local alerts for several severe weather situations.
The word, "Jew," "Jewish," or "Chabad" are not even mentioned in this "Threat Matrix," despite the deliberate attacks on Jews first and Westerners second! Did they ignore the fact that Jews were targeted first and tortured to death? Did they think that these MF's sexual mutilation of a Rabbi and his wife were not newsworthy?
But, in fairness to the Indian security forces, several security experts say that even an American city faced with simultaneous attacks at a rail station. But, in fairness to the Indian security forces, several security experts say that even an American city faced with simultaneous attacks at a rail station, major hotel, tourist hub, and religious center would be hard pressed to muster enough commandos.
Aw, bull! Every SWAT team team in the country would have been better equipped and done a better job, if it ever got that far. For whom are we making excuses?
Mumbai is about as soft a target as they come. Read the last paragraph:
Terrorist violence is nothing new, especially to Mumbai. In 1993, 15 bombs killed 257 in the country's financial and entertainment capital. In 2006, more than 200 people died after a coordinated strike on the city's transit system.
So, after all those attacks, why on Earth did the police only have WWII-issue weapons?
Low-tech attacks can do tremendous damage. The attack itself appears to have required little specialized knowledge from the attackers. Automatic rifles and hand grenades appear to have done the most damage
Yet, another bogus comment. These attacks were conducted by terrorists well-trained in paramilitary skills. The attack was masterfully planned and carried out with far more precision than anyone imagined back when this article came out. sad to say.
So, why are we revisiting this post?
Placemark BUMP! Thanks to all posters, linkers, researchers, educators.
Placemark BUMP! Thanks again to all posters, linkers, researchers, educators.
