America the Next HIROSHIMA?
November 25, 2009 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Middle East
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IAEA inspects nuclear research reactor in Syria
UN atomic watchdog says has doubts about Damascus’ explanation as to how traces of uranium got to research site- YNET- AFP
The United Nations atomic watchdog said on Tuesday it was inspecting a nuclear research reactor in Damascus because it had doubts about Syria’s explanation as to how traces of uranium got there.
In its latest report on Syria, circulated to member states on Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that it found Damascus’s initial explanation unconvincing.
IAEA wants to inspect three secret Syrian nuclear sites
The new IAEA report on Iran’s formerly secret uranium enrichment site at Fordo near Qom also includes a section on Syria and a demand to inspect suspicious sites there too. The inspectors clearly suspect Both Tehran and Damascus of concealing from the UN nuclear watchdog secret facilities related to nuclear weapons production. Monday, Nov. 16, the seven-page IAEA inspectors’ report on their October visit to Fordo stated clearly that Tehran’s belated declaration of its uranium enrichment site suggested that more secret sites remained to be discovered in Iran.
India’s nuclear plants on alert for possible terror attack
The Press Trust of India news agency reported that nuclear plants were put on alert Monday, Nov. 16 in the wake of the arrests in the United States of two suspects of complicity in the Mumbai attacks a year ago in which 171 were killed. David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both of Chicago, are held to have maintained ties with the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which was held responsible for those attacks.
Headley is believed to have carried out advance reconnaissance on the Mumbai targets ahead of the killing rampage in the city, including hotels and the Jewish Habad center. For the latter he is said to have masqueraded as a religious Jew.
This 49-year old suspect, a former Pakistan citizen who changed his name in America from Daud Gilani, may even have been the ringleader who left the scene after setting the operation up.
New Delhi asked the FBI to question him after finding that his advance survey included Indian states which have nuclear plants, where security has now been tightened. Headley also visited Pakistan and met LeT leaders.
He and Rana, a businessman with a grocery store on Chicago’s Devon Avenue, now face federal charges for an alleged terrorism conspiracy against a Danish newspaper which ran cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The cartoons aroused violent Muslim protests worldwide. The store is being investigated as a possible center for plotting terrorist attacks.
Iran digs hundreds of missile silos
Iran digs hundreds of missile silos – some for misdirection
The Iranians are frenziedly digging hundreds of new missile launch silos in central and Western Iran in readiness for a US or Israeli attack on their nuclear installations, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. Some Western sources have noticed that they are creating more silo bases than they have operational missile batteries in order to mislead their enemies about the locations of the genuine launch pads. The dummy silos are fully equipped with air defenses including anti-air missiles which too are fake.
According to our military sources, the commanders of the two-week Juniper Cobra 10 joint US-Israel exercise which ended last week knew all about Iran’s expanding silo project. It is managed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps which is responsible for its missile program.
The Iranians are working at the same frantic tempo to turn out Shehab-3, Shehab-4 and Sajil-2 ballistic missiles, as well as a fourth secret ICBM which is thought believed designed to carry a nuclear warhead. Our sources believe it is modeled on Pakistan’s Ghauri 3, a three-stage weapon powered by solid fuel with a range of 3,000 km. If they can get this secret weapon off the production line, it would be the first three-stage missile in Iran’s armory.
REPORT: Pakistan has more nukes than India
REPORT: Pakistan has more nukes than India
Washington, Nov 17 (PTI) Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India and the two Asian neighbours along with China are increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, two eminent American nuclear experts have said.
While Pakistan is estimated to possess 70-90 nuclear weapons, India is believed to have 60-80, claims Robert S Norris and Hans M Kristensen in their latest article ‘Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2009′.
The article published in the latest issue of ‘Bulletin of the Atomic Science’ claimed that Beijing, Islamabad, and New Delhi are quantitatively and qualitatively increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, yet the locations are difficult to pinpoint.
For example, no reliable public information exists on where Pakistan or India produces its nuclear weapons, it said.
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Have you seen the IAEA report on Israel’s nuclear plants and sites?
Eh, oh yeah sorry, I forgot. There are none, Israel is not part of the NPT or any other nuclear treaty and talking about an existing nuclear arsenal and a radical right-wing government that is in coalition with extremist radical religous parties. It should also not be forgotten that though they have the right to exist, protect themselves and retaliate to violence, that they are also provoking conflict with ignoring the entire world’s pleading to stop provocative settlement creation and in the end they are backing them up with nuclear weaponary.
The couble-standard is the first great problem, it creates the very excuses and justification that the Ahmadinejads and other madmen use.