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Oct 16 (Reuters) - Iran's top envoy said that a "preemptive action" could be expected in the coming hours, state TV reported on Monday, adding that Israel will not be allowed to take any action in the Gaza Strip without facing consequences. "Leaders of the Resistance will not allow the Zionist regime to take any action in Gaza. ... All options are open and we cannot be indifferent to the war crimes committed against the people of Gaza," Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, told state TV. "The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with the enemy (Israel)... in...

The Transportation Security Administra tion's move to mix up security procedures on flights is likely to hamper terrorists. But in the end, we need to stop them before they buy their plane tickets. Terrorists want the security they face to be predictable -- and for the results of their attacks to be predictable. They rehearse, do practice runs, test security and conduct surveillance of airports and airlines. When they attack, they want the results to be successful and spectacular. They must get it right the first time. So any change in security screws them up. For that reason, it probably...

Not Just A Last Resort? A Global Strike Plan, With a Nuclear OptionBy William Arkin Sunday, May 15, 2005; Page B01 Early last summer, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved a top secret "Interim Global Strike Alert Order" directing the military to assume and maintain readiness to attack hostile countries that are developing weapons of mass destruction, specifically Iran and North Korea. Two months later, Lt. Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of the 8th Air Force, told a reporter that his fleet of B-2 and B-52 bombers had changed its way of operating so that it could be ready to carry...

America is at war with a nationless enemy capable of attacking anywhere and sleeking away. The President descrbes this War on Terror as a war unlike any other. The enemy doesn't have cities to bomb, ports to blockade, or capitals to occupy. Instead, it has a hideout here, a website there, and a willingness to blend into everyone else. The War on Terror certainly is nothing like World War II or the Vietnam War, but it does have historical precedents. The scourge of piracy plagued coastal colonies and shipping on the high seas for several centuries. Much like terrorists of...

kerry + "imminent threat" RUSH HAS IT WRONG by Mia T, 8.18.04 The addition in John Kerry's latest speech, that a Commander-in-Chief Kerry will act against an imminent threat, is nothing new. Acting against an imminent threat is consistent with the old neo-neoliberal/Soros doctrine; it is not consistent with the Bush Doctrine. Gathering threat, not imminent threat, is the Bush Doctrine operative phrase. Indeed, the left criticized George Bush precisely because the threat was not imminent. Remember, President Bush said that if we wait until the threat is imminent, we will have waited too long. Kerry is Unfit #10:...

Sep. 23, 2002 What's sauce for the goose...By GABRIEL DANZIG US President George W. Bush's recent speech to the UN on the danger that Iraq poses to the people of the world, and the necessity of taking strong preemptive measures to forestall that danger, is a model of courageous and rational thinking. It is so much easier to wait until after the disaster before reacting. It requires so little courage, so little effort, so little risk of being wrong, or being portrayed as wrong. Only deeply responsible leaders know that all of that does not matter when set in the...