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Deputy PM Moshe Ya'alon reveals that mysterious explosion at Iranian missile facility last year harmed system that was developing missiles with 10,000 km-range • Military Intelligence Chief Aviv Kochavi: Iran has enough enriched uranium for 4 atom bombs. The explosion at an Iranian missile facility in November that killed 17 people including the architect of Iran's missile program, caused damage to a system that was designed to develop missiles with a 10,000-kilometer (6,213-mile) range "capable of hitting the United States," Deputy Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe (Bogey) Ya'alon revealed on Thursday. "This was aimed at America, not us,"...

World dispatch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy Brian Whitaker reports on the network of research institutes whose views and TV appearances are supplanting all other experts on Middle Eastern issues Monday August 19, 2002 A little-known fact about Richard Perle, the leading advocate of hardline policies at the Pentagon, is that he once wrote a political thriller. The book, appropriately called Hard Line, is set in the days of the cold war with the Soviet Union. Its hero is a male senior official at the Pentagon, working late into the night and battling almost single-handedly to rescue...