Hostage Fears Over Troops Seized By Iran
March 23, 2007
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Britain’s crisis with Iran deepened last night after Tehran justified seizing 15 British servicemen by claiming that they had strayed into Iranian territorial waters “illegally”.
The announcement appeared to rule out any hope that the incident was a simple mistake that could be quickly rectified.
Instead, there were growing fears that the 15 British sailors and Royal Marines were victims of a deliberate ambush on the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, perhaps seeking to use the captives as hostages in the increasingly tense stand-off between the West and Iran over its nuclear programme.
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Chlorine Bombs Raise Worries of U.S. Attack
March 23, 2007
Chlorine bombs in Iraq have raised concern that lax security at U.S. chemical plants could make the country, and particularly New York City, vulnerable to similar attacks.
Policymakers and law enforcement officials said poor security at the plants could lead to the theft of ingredients needed to build a bomb like the ones detonated in Iraq.
“It is perplexing that a nation that has expended so much blood and treasure searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, would allow what could become their equivalent to sit largely overlooked on U.S. soil,” Stephen Flynn, former U.S. Coast Guard officer and now analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Congress this week.
Flynn said he expects Islamic militants to try to strike the United States again within five years using lessons learned in Iraq. Chemical plants, he said, were likely a top target.
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Ahmadinejad Cancels U.N. Visit
March 23, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, blaming a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N. Security Council before a vote, scheduled for Saturday on sanctions against Iran.
Iran says it will still try to get high-level representation to the U.N. most likely the foreign minister.
The draft resolution comes after the U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog agency said last month it could not verify that Iran’s uranium enrichment program was strictly for peaceful purposes, as Iran has said. Western nations, including the United States, believe Iran is using its uranium enrichment program to develop nuclear weapons.
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Iranian Vessels Seize 15 British Navy Personnel
March 23, 2007
Iranian naval vessels on Friday seized 15 British sailors who had boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf, British and U.S. officials said. Britain immediately protested the incident which comes at a time of high tension between the West and Iran.
Iran had no immediate comment about the incident. In London, the British government summoned the Iranian ambassador, Rasoul Movahedian, to the Foreign Office at mid-afternoon and demanded “the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment.”
The U.S. Navy, which operates off the Iraqi coast along with British forces, said the British sailors appeared unharmed and that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard naval forces were responsible.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said the British Navy personnel were “engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,” and had completed a ship inspection when they were accosted by the Iranian vessels.
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Rat Poison Found in Tainted Pet Food
March 23, 2007
A spokeswoman for the New York State Department of Agriculture says rat poison was found in tainted pet food that killed several animals and sparked a nationwide recall.
Developing…
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Ahmadinejad To Offer New Proposals At U.N.
March 23, 2007
Iranian President Ahmadinejad is expected to arrive in New York City late Friday or, early Saturday to address emergency UN Security Council meeting now slated for Saturday.
Ahmadinejad has promised to make new proposals for resolving the dispute over his country’s nuclear program when he appears at the United Nations.
But he again rejected international demands to suspend uranium enrichment.
Speaking in a French TV interview, the Iranian leader said the demanded freeze on enrichment, a process that can be used to produce fuel for power plants or material for atomic weapons - was illegal.
“We will make new proposals, good proposals,” he told France-2 television in an interview in Tehran. It was his first appearance on Western TV since UN sanctions were imposed on Iran in December.
“Our proposals will be based on rights and laws and on the inalienable rights of all nations. Not only on what the US or Great Britain wants,” he said, without offering specifics on the proposals.
“Uranium enrichment is legal. The American and British Security Council proposals are illegal,” Ahmadinejad said. “For us, it’s an illegal demand.”
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Three Held In London Terror Attack
March 22, 2007
Three men were arrested yesterday in connection with the 7 July suicide bomb attacks on London.
Two men were held at Manchester Airport as they prepared to fly to Pakistan. The third was detained at a house in Leeds.
Last night, they were being questioned at a high-security police station in central London.
Scotland Yard said the three were arrested “on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.”
Security sources said the arrests related to “unanswered questions” about the attacks in July 2005, which killed 52 people. Among those questions are why the car in which the bombers travelled to London contained spare explosive devices.
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Study - U.S. Cities Unprepared For Nuclear Attack
March 21, 2007
The largest U.S. cities are catastrophically unprepared for a nuclear attack and the widespread medical emergencies that would result, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.
The three-year study produced by UGA’s Center for Mass Destruction Defense and published in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Health Geographics _ paints a horrifying picture.
Millions dead. Hundreds of thousands more wounded with burns and radiation poisoning. The most critical hospital infrastructure in downtowns destroyed and outlying medical facilities unable to cope with the mass burn injuries.
“It would be hard for me to see how we’ll make it more than 10 years without a nuclear weapon being detonated on American soil,” said Cham Dallas, center director and co-author of the study. “We’ve got to prepare.”
The study looks at four cities, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C. and simulates the impact a 20 kiloton and a 550 kiloton nuclear detonation would have. To compare, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II ranged from 12 to 20 kilotons.
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Al-Qaeda Terrorists Obtain UK Passports
March 20, 2007
Two convicted terrorists, including a key al-Qaeda member, were among at least 10,000 applicants who fraudulently obtained passports from the Home Office in the last year, ministers said.
One of the men Dhiren Barot was the al-Qaeda figure who planned radioactive “dirty” bombs in London. He was convicted in December after admitting conspiracy to murder and jailed for 40 years. He managed to obtain nine British passports, seven of them in his name.
The other, Salaheddine Benyaich, a Moroccan national, obtained two British passports. He is serving 18 years in a Moroccan jail for terrorist offences.
Last night, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) said a face-to-face interview would have stopped the applications.
The Home Office revealed that an estimated 10,000 fake applications had been successful by the year to September, out of more than 16,500 attempted fraudulent applications. The real figure could be far higher as officials admitted 10,000 was only an estimate.
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Extremists Buying School Buses ?
March 20, 2007
Good follow-up article to the recent story, Extremists Seek School Bus Work .
Atlas Shrugs points out that extremists may be interested in more than just obtaining school bus drivers licenses. The may also be purchasing school buses for as little as $1,205.00 on the Repo Market.
The article includes a list of repossessed bus sales in the last 48 hours.
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