COTABATO CITY -- POLICE ARRESTED A Muslim cleric following the seizure of bomb components during a raid on his home in Kidapawan City on Friday. Chief Insp. Leo Ajero, Kidapawan City police chief, yesterday identified the cleric as Ustadz Abdulhasis Hassan of Barangay Nuangan. Ajero said the raid, which was backed by a search warrant, was conducted after the arrest of a suspected member of the al-Khobar Gang who confessed the presence of the bombs in Hassan’s house.
Ajero admitted police found no bomb inside the house during the raid but bomb components. Hassan, a member of the North Cotabato Ulama-Priest Federation, denied hiding any bomb in his house. He also said what the police seized were fertilizers, which came from the provincial government.
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US can attack Russia in 2012-2015 - Russian military analyst
After 2012-2015, the U.S. will be able to annihilate Russian strategic nuclear forces by a non-nuclear preemptive strike, said Konstantin Sivkov, the first vice president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
"I declare that the likelihood of a military threat is great as never before now," Sivkov told Interfax on Saturday.
Western military experts have recently started to talk about the possibility of attacking Russia and annexing its territory, Sivkov said. "Russia is supposed to be dismembered into three parts, with the Western part going to the European Union, the central part and Siberia to the U.S., and the eastern to China. This is a rough scenario," he said.
Russian armed forces will be unable to successfully counter an aggression, Sivkov said. "At the present time, the conventional armed forces cannot properly perform their duties in a regional war, like the Great Patriotic War, even in theory. Even if fully deployed, their potential is limited even in local wars. The only factor that deters [the U.S.] now is the nuclear arsenal," he said.
Kosovo independenc could mean trouble for Western Christians
Moscow's envoy to NATO warned that Russia may resort to "brute military force" to earn respect on the world scene if all EU nations and NATO oversteps its authority in Kosovo. Dmitry Rogozin says Western countries are ignoring international law by recognizing Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.
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OPINION: Russia needs to take a chill pill.