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The Bush Administration has obtianed information that North Korea possesses at least three nuclear bombs as well as an undermined amount of fissile material.The officials said the material is being stored in underground bunkers kept off limits to both the United States or the International Atomic Energy Agency.Geostrategy Direct.com Backgrounder:Compiled by Bill Gertz U.S. Downgrades Saudi Arabia as secure oil sourceIran training Palestinians to use shoulder-fired missilesReconnaissance Photos Show Iraq Converting UN trucks to launchers for artillery, missilesSecret agenda for Arab summit is funding for the Palentinian war

The Israeli army deployed an artillery unit along the northern Gaza border on Saturday after a barrage of Palestinian rockets were fired into Israel, a spokeswoman told AFP. "As a result of the Qassam rocket fire towards Israeli targets, the IDF (army) has deployed an artillery unit east of the northern Gaza Strip," she said shortly after troops pounded the Gaza Strip with air strikes, the first such raids since Israel's withdrawal from the territory last week.

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By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. soldiers stormed three houses near Saddam Hussein's hometown on Saturday and detained four suspects, two believed linked to the ousted leader's special security force, the U.S. military said. Also Saturday, U.S. troops of the 4th Infantry Division arrested seven suspected insurgents and seized about 50 Kalashnikov rifles during raids near Baqouba. Iraqi firefighters also extinguished a blaze at a pipeline in northern Iraq. Officials suspected sabotage. During one of the Tikrit raids, troops questioned a man in his 50s who a U.S. commander said had worked in Saddam's Special Security...