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Since day one of the planned operation to snatch British sailors from Iraqi (or international waters), the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) "Kitchen" in Tehran, had already drawn multiple scenarios for the following weeks and potentially months to come. Indeed the regime, reacting to significant rising pressures from sectors of its own population and from the US-UK led coalition, engineered an "escalating" incident.The main scenario, as projected inside the minds of the Iranian "Jihadi-cooks," is based on one request from the Khamenei-Ahmadinijad regime: wasting time, as much time as possible. To the Khomeinist Mullahs and their men in power, it is crucial...

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That one is priceless:http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/israel/army/jriar119.jpgHadas, Kalanit and Raheli, big gun crew ladies.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 - The State Department is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons, two officials said.The investigation by the department's Office of Defense Trade Controls began this week, after reports that three types of American cluster munitions, anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area, have been found in many areas of southern Lebanon and were responsible for civilian casualties.Gonzalo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman, said, "We have heard the allegations that these munitions were used, and we...

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A suicide bomber exploded in Haifa's Maxim restaurant at about 2:20pm Saturday. "There are 51 people injured and about 18 dead. Seven people were seriously injured, two were moderately injured and 24 lightly injured," a spokesman from Magen David Adom said. Three of the dead are children, the spokesman added......... For full article go to the jerusalem post site, thanks.

(10:28) Three Palestinians, disguised as IDF soldiers, infiltrated an army outpost near the Erez industrial area in the Gaza Strip, shooting and killing four Israelis and wounding four others.(11:33) Border Policeman shot in Hebron.