Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3838989,00.html
Qassam rocket hits western Negev; no injuries
Published: 01.24.10, 21:44 / Israel News
A Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an open area near the border fence close to Kissufim, apparently at the Palestinian side. No injuries or damage were reported. (Shmulik Hadad)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2437400/posts
Secret Report: Iran will Have Nuclear Bomb This Year
INN.com ^ | 1/25/2010 | Malkah Fleisher
Posted on January 26, 2010 12:10:59 AM PST by sonofstrangelove
A secret intelligence dossier currently being reviewed by US, Israeli, German, and Austrian governments reveals secret Iranian tests and hierarchies of power dedicated to the successful development of a nuclear bomb, and predicts that Iran will have a primitive nuclear bomb by year’s end.
According to the classified document featured in an exposé by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, Iran is well on its way toward obtaining its first nuclear bomb. The country’s nuclear research program, it turns out, has a military wing answering to the Defense Ministry which the West was not aware of until now.
Der Spiegel explained the structure of Iranian nuclear establishment at length. Iran’s new Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Kamran Daneshjoo, 52, is in charge of the country’s nuclear energy agency. A close ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Daneshjoo was educated in Manchester, England. He worked for some time at Tehran’s “Center for Aviation Technology”, which later developed into FEDAT, the “Department for Expanded High-Technology Applications”. FEDAT ultimately became what the German paper calls “the secret heart of Iran’s nuclear weapons program”, answering directly to the Defense Ministry.
FEDAT is currently run by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 48, a professor at Tehran’s Imam Hussein University and officer in the Revolutionary Guard. Western intelligence agencies say FEDAT and the Ministry of Science are working together to create the bomb. They also believe that a primitive nuclear weapon the size of a truck will be completed this year.
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