http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nuclearthreat/ en-us Wed, 2 Apr 2008 03:13:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995304/posts Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995304/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 03:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854076/posts Jun. 21, 2007 17:38 | Updated Jun. 21, 2007 17:46 House urges UN to charge Ahmadinejad By BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND JTA The US House of Representatives urged the UN Security Council Wednesday to charge Iran's president under genocide conventions. The non-binding resolution, initiated by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), passed by 411-2. It cites an October 27 speech in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allegedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and calls for the Security Council to charge him under its 1948 convention for the prevention of genocide. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) attempted... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854076/posts#comment Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1853287/posts The nightmare scenario of a nuclear attack happening in the US would be catastrophic, causing millions of deaths, our own refugee crisis, abandoned cities, and economic collapse. Adrian Morgan documents the shocking truth that no government agency will: just how real and close the threat is. Read this chilling article here: Click Here to read NOW ! Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1853287/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:33:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830713/posts WASHINGTON: Every week, a group of experts from agencies around the U.S. government - including the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Energy Department - meets to assess Washington's progress toward solving a grim problem: If a terrorist set off a nuclear bomb in an American city, could the United States determine who detonated it and who provided the nuclear material? So far, the answer is maybe. That uncertainty lies at the center of a vigorous, but carefully cloaked debate within the Bush administration. It focuses on how to refashion the U.S. approach to nuclear deterrence in an attempt... The International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830713/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 14:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684168/posts Report Supports Sea-, Space-Based Missile DefensesGlobal Security Newswire, August 4, 2006 The United States should focus on developing sea- and space-based missile defenses rather than expanding ground-based systems beyond the interceptors already deployed in Alaska and California, according to a experts’ report issued last month (see GSN, May 11).“Near-term options exist for developing viable sea-and space based defense within the next decade resulting in a comprehensive, global layered missile defense system,” says the 202-page report from the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, the Space Relationship and the 21st century.“This option would complement the [Ground-based Midcourse Defense] system currently being... Global Security Newswire for NTI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684168/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:56:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683462/posts Iran issued a stark warning on Sunday that it would change its nuclear policy for the worse if the West continued to apply pressure on it to abandon uranium enrichment. “Naturally, if Europe goes down the wrong path, we will definitely change our path and act proportionately”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters during his weekly press conference. His remarks were reported in the state-run news agency ISNA. The United Nations Security Council adopted a legally-binding resolution earlier this month ordering Tehran to freeze all its uranium enrichment activities by August 31 or face possible sanctions. “The Islamic Republic... Iran Focus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683462/posts#comment Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:15:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650918/posts SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad and moved about 10 fuel tanks to a launch site in preparation to test-fire a long-range missile that could reach as far as the U.S. mainland, a newspaper reported Saturday. South Korea and the United States made the assessment after analyzing satellite images, the Chosun Ilbo reported, citing an unnamed high-level South Korean government official. On Friday, a U.S. government official said Pyongyang was accelerating preparations for testing the missile. MSNBC.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650918/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:17:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1619835/posts Thursday, April 20, 2006 The Insanity of the United Nations The United Nations has finally responded to the Iranian nuclear threat. Believe it or not elected Iran has been elected to be Vice Chair of the U.N. Disarmament Commission. Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi used his ascension to claim that Israel's nuclear stockpile is among "the major sources of concern with regard to global peace and security." Arutz Sheva quotes Danesh-Yazdi's statement: "The continued existence of thousands of nuclear warheads in the stockpiles of the nuclear-weapon States, which could destroy the entire globe many times over, and the increasing resort to... Israel, Zionism, and Aliya (blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1619835/posts#comment Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:49:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617574/posts Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia. Everyone else gets rounded up into groups: “Africa,” “Asia,” “Latin America.” But if you’re one of the down-page crowd, the center of the world is wherever you happen to be. Take Iran: it doesn’t fit into any of the groups. Indeed, it’s a buffer zone between most of the important ones: to the west, it borders the Arab world; to the... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617574/posts#comment Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613548/posts Apr. 12, 2006 8:19 | Updated Apr. 12, 2006 8:30 Peres: Israel should stay out of Iran conflict By JPOST.COM STAFF Kadima MK Shimon Peres said Wednesday that Israel should stay out of the Iran conflict, saying that if Israel were to take preemptive military measures it would isolate itself in the campaign against the country. Peres told Army Radio that Israel should to be patient and allow the US to manage the situation. "The US has placed the Iran (nuclear) issue at the top of its agenda and, despite the worrying state of affairs, Israel doesn't need to get... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613548/posts#comment Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1609780/posts Response To An Ignorant Young American Woman (Parts 1 & 2) Posted by Chana | Tue, Apr 04, 2006, 5:11pm On a closed mailing list I participate in a young American woman posted a long diatribe claiming the United States and its allies are about to invade and or nuke Iran. It went on to describe the United States and Israel as the two most dangerous nations on Earth and as terrorists and to defend the right of other nations (i.e.: Iran) to develop nuclear weapons to stand against American and Israeli imperialism. My first instinct was to ignore such... Blogs of Zion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1609780/posts#comment Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:44:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599933/posts War and Peace by Yashiko Sagamori Three weeks ago, while discussing Iran's nuclear ambitions, I wrote: If one Middle Eastern country is not allowed to have nuclear arms, then the same must be true for another, unless we decide to resort to discrimination and profiling. And since we have denounced any form of discrimination against all enemies, foreign and domestic, it's not that difficult to predict where IAEA will pitch its tents next. In Israel, of course. A few days later, as if on cue, Jack Straw, the British foreign minister said: If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle... Middle East Facts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599933/posts#comment Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596918/posts Iran’s Ahmadinejad: West opposes our nukes to let Israel live on Wed. 15 Mar 2006 Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Mar. 15 – Iran’s radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the circumstances were ripe for the “collapse of the Zionist regime” and that the West was highlighting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in the world arena in order to “divert attention away from the issue of Palestine”. “The regime occupying Qods (Jerusalem) was set up to create insecurity and confrontation in our region. If one day tranquillity came about, it would mean the death of this regime”, Ahmadinejad said... Iran Focus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596918/posts#comment Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:03:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1596866/posts Tuesday, March 14, 2006The Straw Man Yesterday I turned on CNN International and promptly saw British Foreign Minister Jack Straw once again equivocating the Iranian nuclear threat with the "threat" posed by Israel's nuclear weapons and saying that once Iran is dealt with Israel will have to be dealt with. I don't know if this was merely a rebroadcast of his statement last Thursday or something new since I didn't catch the story from the beginning. Last week he added: If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle East, you've got to remove that threat from Iran, including the rhetorical... Israel & Aliya (blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1596866/posts#comment Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:40:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589599/posts Pre-empting Iran's ambitions TODAY'S COLUMNIST By Ilan Berman March 3, 2006 With some sort of showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions looming on the horizon, a divisive new foreign policy debate has sprung up in Washington. At issue is whether the United States can and should carry out a pre-emptive attack on Iran's numerous nuclear facilities. Proponents of military action contend that the United States is capable of quickly and effectively neutralizing Iran's nuclear program through a few surgical aerial strikes. Detractors, meanwhile, say that such steps are not feasible, and if attempted will create catastrophic regional consequences. Few... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589599/posts#comment Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1585986/posts Saturday, February 25, 2006Iran, Hamas, and the Threat of Nuclear Holocaust The front page of the Arabic website of the military wing of Hamas, the Ezzedeen alQassam Brigades, features an animated graphic at the top on the right hand column. It's a black rectangle with a red Star of David. The Jewish star shatters with a nuclear explosion. This graphic is notably missing from the English language website. Only the Jerusalem Post and a few pro-Israel blogs found this particularly newsworthy. Interestingly enough this graphic appeared on the exact same day Iran offered to fund the Hamas-lead Palestinian government. For... Israel & Aliya (blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1585986/posts#comment Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582787/posts by Mark Finkelstein February 21, 2006 - 11:27. You can take the man out of CBS and NBC, but apparently you can't take the MSM out of the man. Long-time MSMer Marvin Kalb, former moderator of Meet the Press, is now a Fox News contributor. But the specialist on foreign affairs is still offering up opinions that would put him in the mainstream back at CBS or NBC. Interviewed by Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, Kalb offered a very grim take on the nuclear stalemate with Iran, suggesting that any diplomatic or economic sanctions aimed at the country could result... Fox News/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582787/posts#comment Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:13:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581516/posts Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal—maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.When the latest Osama bin Laden tape aired on al Jazeera last month, Michael Scheuer's phone was one of the first to start ringing off the hook with calls from journalists seeking a quick soundbite for that day's news cycle. Scheuer has credentials on the subject that few can match: By the time September 11 happened, he had been studying and trailing bin... City Pages http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581516/posts#comment Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:29:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566493/posts DAVOS - UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday called on the United States to provide Iran with nuclear reactors, and urged Tehran to declare a moratorium on enriching uranium for at least eight years. He said eight or nine years would enable the country to earn the confidence of the international community that it was really interested in nuclear energy - not nuclear weapons. Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566493/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:12:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1558207/posts Saturday, January 14, 2006 On Iran: President Bush Gets It Right Yesterday, after a meeting with new German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Bush made some comments on Iran that clearly demonstrates that on this one issue he clearly understands what the stakes are: Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat to the security of the world [...] The current president of Iran has announced that the destruction of Israel is an important part of their agenda, and that's unacceptable, and the development of a nuclear weapon, it seems to me, would make him a step closer to... Israel & Aliya (blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1558207/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:42:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551015/posts Israel denies it's about to bomb Iran nuke site Jan 2, 2006 Israeli military chief Dan Halutz has discounted an imminent air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities as Iran's President delivered a diatribe against the Jewish state. "I don't think an operation by the Israel defence forces against the Iranians will be necessary soon," General Halutz said. "All political options for halting the Iranian program must be exhausted before other options are considered." He appeared to be toning down the implications of recent statements by Israeli leaders that Iran was only three months away from achieving the technological know-how... Persian Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551015/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:00:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525607/posts The Iranian Parliament approved a bill on Sunday that requires the government to block intrusive inspections of Iran's facilities if the UN nuclear agency refers the Iranian program to the UN Security Council. Of 197 lawmakers present, 183 voted in favor of the bill. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio, four days in advance of an International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting to consider referring Teheran the council for possible sanctions. When the bill becomes law, as is expected, it will strengthen the government's hand in resisting international pressure to abandon uranium enrichment, a process that can be... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525607/posts#comment Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:48:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510556/posts Arab States Silent on Iran's Remarks By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 6 minutes ago CAIRO, Egypt - Arab governments remained silent Thursday as international condemnation grew over a call by Iran's new president for Israel to be destroyed. Despite the silence, analysts in the region said Tehran's Arab rivals may quietly be pleased to see the radical regime further isolated by its extremism. However, some Palestinians — who would have the task of destroying Israel according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — rejected the remarks. "We have recognized the state of Israel and we are pursuing a peace... Yahoo/The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510556/posts#comment Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:06:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493587/posts Military action against Iran is inconceivable and diplomacy could still end the international standoff over Tehran's nuclear program, said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, whose country plays a key role in negotiations. Iran insists its nuclear program is designed for generating electricity, but the Bush administration believes Tehran intends to produce atomic weapons and has refused to rule out military strikes. "All United States presidents always say all options are open. But it is not on the table, it is not on the agenda. I happen to think that it is inconceivable," Straw told British Broadcasting Corp. radio on Wednesday.... APee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493587/posts#comment Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:25:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458177/posts China has been selling its relatively cheap but lower quality products with ease both to US and EU. With US, China is running a trade deficit of about $100 billion a year. A similar trade deficit exists with the EU. The Chinese do not feel obliged to balance the trade. They use FDI and dollar reserves in US and elsewhere as a tool to enhance their trade position. Though the US does not like it, only recently it has started to flex its muscles. Trade imbalance discussions have been going on for the last five years but the US took... India Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458177/posts#comment Sat, 6 Aug 2005 14:01:47 GMT