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A daring Israeli commando raid deep into Bashar Assad's Syria in early September not only destroyed an Iranian factory producing missiles for Hezbollah to shoot into Israel, it may have been a test of a concept that puts all of Iran's nuclear facilities at risk. On the night of September 8-9, a 120-man unit of elite Israeli Air Force Shaldag commandos in CH-53 attacked the underground factory in the Masyaf area of Syria, west of Hama, using a combination of landing and fast roping. This is a video of US Marines fast roping from the same type of helicopter used...

Lebanon Radar Destroyed. Major-General Eizenkot, head of the General Staff Operations Branch: “In the evening hours we destroyed all of Lebanon’s coastal radars. The reason for the radars’ destruction was the part they played in the attack on an Israeli missile boat on Friday.”

On July 14th the IDF's best anti-air defense vessel was mission killed by a strike from shore off the Beruit, Lebannon coast. It appears that the vessel was hit by a guided missile, launched either by Iranian trained Hezbollah, or by Iranian Guards themselves operating out of Lebannon. Land-launched Chinese anti-shipping missile, C-802 The missile was apparently a Chinese-made C-802 which is a sub sonic surface to surface anti-shipping missile. The Iranians have purchased a lot of these from China, and is working with N. Korea to improve the design. The missile is capable of a sea-skimming approach, and reportedly...

<p>White House announces agreement with Turkey on aid package and land use.</p> <p>UNITED NATIONS – American diplomats had no public comment Friday on the demand by the chief U.N. arms inspector that Iraq destroy its widely deployed al-Samoud 2 missiles.</p>

THIRTEEN LIES: KENNEDY AND THE 1962 CUBAN CRISIS. PART 1 By Servando Gonzalez TNA News with Commentary The New Australian Australia La Nueva Cuba Octubre 13, 2002 Some time ago I found on the Web a joker's site with suggestions about deductions you can legally claim to lower your taxes. One of them was, go watch a Kevin Costner movie and deduct it as a charitable contribution. Last week I followed the guy's advice and saw Thirteen Days. Believe me, it was not worth the effort. Next time I'll rather pay my taxes in full. Though we are used to...