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29 November 2011

Satellite images of big ass explosion in Iran

Reports from around the world:

Satellite images of Iran explosion – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs:
New satellite imagery shows the extent of damage to the Iranian military compound that blew up earlier this month, was extensively damaged, the Institute for Science and International Security said after an analysis of new satellite imagery.

ISIS compared a November 22 image from DigitalGlobe to one from September.

"Some buildings appear to have been completely destroyed. Some of the destruction seen in the image may have also resulted from subsequent controlled demolition of buildings and removal of debris. There do not appear to be many pieces of heavy equipment such as cranes or dump trucks on the site, and a considerable amount of debris is still present," according to the analysis posted on ISIS website.
From the Telegraph:
Mystery explosion rocks Iran city
A large explosion has been reported in the Iranian city of Isfahan as the regime issued conflicting reports apparently designed to deny any suggestions of a sabotage attack on its nuclear facilities.
Officials gave varying accounts of a "huge explosion" in the ancient city, which hosts one of Iran's main facilities for refining uranium in its nuclear programme. 
While some sources told news agencies there had been a blast on military facilities, others said there had been a fireball at a petrol station. 
Residents of the city were independently telling relatives and friends overseas that the city had been shaken by a massive blast in the early afternoon. 
The reports immediately prompted speculation that Iran had suffered another sabotage attack, just two weeks after a blast at a missile base gave rise to similar suspicions.


An explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan on Monday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that the blast was heard in several parts of the city. 
According to reports, frightened residents called the fire department after the blast, forcing the city authorities to admit there had been an explosion.Residents reported that their windows shook from the explosion's force. 
Speaking to an Iranian news website, the government of Isfahan said that the explosion occurred as a result of a military drill, denying reports that the blast was somehow related to the nearby nuclear facility. 
"There is no such thing, the blast was entirely from the military maneuver," the Iranian official said. 
The Isfahan uranium conversion plant operates under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and is frequented by its inspectors and surveyed by cameras that broadcast to the IAEA headquarters in Vienna. 
Thus, had the explosion occurred at the nuclear site, the UN's nuclear watchdog would have known of the incident. 
Speaking with Fars news agency earlier Monday, Isfahan’s deputy mayor initially confirmed the reports and said the authorities are investigating the matter. However, after the incident was reported in Israel, the report was taken off the Fars website. 
It seems that city authorities and the Iranian government were embarrassed by the reports of a blasts, releasing contradictory versions of the alleged events. One example is a statement given by the same deputy mayor to the Mehr news agency, saying he had no reports of an explosion.

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29 November 2010

Middle East Aligned in a Coalition Like in Suki IV: Finally a Vacation

Thanks, WikiLeaks for the 'news' that the Middle East wants Iran bombed out of the nuclear club.  The 'revelation' here is that Israel is the only country that wants to do it themselves.  The list of our Middle East allies who want the good ol' USA to do it is growing:
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Egypt
Not an all inclusive list, I am sure.  Just the top players that I could find stories about.  Now, what of that whole business that "the Jews" (meaning Israel proper and anybody Jewish, by people using it as an invective)?  Israel is the only damn country in the area that wants to take care of this themselves and the only country in the world that the USA is preventing from de-nuking Iran.

I denounce Wikileaks and that little traitor Private that leaked this stuff.  However, I must say, the only people this stuff seems to be embarrassing is a bunch of worthless seat-warmers in Foggy Bottom, at the Department of State.  Apparently, nobody over there knows that you do not put anything in a memo that will be embarrassing on the front page of a newspaper.

Liberaltarian Matt Welch, at Reason, was brought to a state of glee for completely different reasons.  He just likes seeing Arabs embarrassed.  Welch does give a nod to the effect of this release on authoritarian states lying to their masses.  As if this will awaken them more.  Most of the folks I met from those countries mention their leaders lying without prompting.

Curious how WikiLeaks never 'finds' any documents from the troublemakers in the 'religion of peace' (I am assured, the bad ones are in the minority) to "open the minds and eyes" of the jihadis?

Rush Limbaugh stated that the leaked documents contain nothing about North Korea supplying Iran with nuclear technology, missiles, etc.  Guess he missed #3 in this story.
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In Suki IV: Finally A Vacation (War With Iran) I speculate that in the 2030s the whole world has dragged their feet about the Iranian problem.  Just like today.  Different nations urged the US to form a coalition with them (yes, I showed our allies in a nicer light than their behavior currently reveals).  The budding alliances came and went, while only one country continued to plan how to deal with Iran.

Finally, Iran's target list was discovered for rocket and ship-borne nuclear weapons.  To their lackadaisical surprise, European, Asian and African targets were on the list for missiles, the Americas were slated for nukes on freighters.

The world allied with Israel and Israel led the way, as the freighters were on the way to their targets.  No nukes were used by the allies.


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26 September 2010

Israeli Settlement Freeze Ends Sunday

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"Israel’s 10-month freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank expires on Sunday, threatening to derail the latest round of Mideast peace talks.

Palestinian leaders have threatened to walk out of the talks if construction resumes."

The Palestinian's big complaint is Israel building apartments in the Israeli portion of Jerusalem.

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08 August 2010

More Moderate Muslims


ANDREW C. McCARTHY



More Moderate Muslims 
For a preview of the the Ground Zero Mosque, check out Virginia.



. . .

Mayor Bloomberg is clearly ready for prime time in the State Department’s production division: It was only last year that our foreign service used your tax dollars to broadcast, on its website, a little movie called “Eid in America.” Eid, the occasion for this exercise in cinematic hagiography, is the feast that ends what our government takes pains to call “the holy month of Ramadan” and commemorates with gala dinners around Washington. The star of the video was the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center — and accompanying mosque — in Falls Church, Va. 


JUST LIKE THE MARINES 
Dar al-Hijrah (which means “Land of Migration”) was presented as the moderate face of Islam in America — exactly what Bloomberg and other government officials assure us the Ground Zero mosque will become. Prominently featured was Johari Abdul-Malik, Dar’s soft-spoken “director of outreach,” who positively glowed as he spoke about his community’s growth. 


There were, however, a few lines that Foggy Bottom evidently decided were best left on the cutting room floor. Like imam Abdul-Malik’s call for “sabotage” terrorist attacks against Israel. As he put it in 2001: 

I am gonna teach you now. You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work. You can blow up power supplies . . . the water supply, you can do all forms of sabotage and let the world know that we are doing it like this because they have a respect for the lives of innocent people.
. . .

Read the rest. This is very informative. Andrew McCarthy is one of the many national treasures at National Review.

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31 July 2010

Go Israel! Kick Hamas!


Hamas leader killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

via Bettina Viviano, Facebook friend o' mine


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Gaza City, Gaza (CNN) -- A senior Hamas member was killed during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Hamas security forces said Saturday.
An airstrike in central Gaza killed Saed Al Bitran, who was responsible for manufacturing weapons, the Hamas forces said.
The Israel Defense Forces said the attack on a weapons-manufacturing site in central Gaza was part of a series of strikes starting late Friday in response to a rocket assault on Ashkelon earlier in the day.

More at the link.

Go Israel! Kick Hamas!

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25 January 2010

Another Dick in the News: Christmas Bombing Try Is Hailed by bin Laden

From the NYT:

Christmas Bombing Try Is Hailed by bin Laden

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, spoke publicly for the first time about the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing, praising the attempt — but not explicitly taking responsibility for it — in an audiotape broadcast Sunday that was aimed personally at President Obama.
An audiotape boradcast does not check the "spoke pubicly" block for me.  Any word from Fort Hood terrorist/murderer MAJ Hasan?  Same words, perhaps.

Mr. bin Laden said that the bombing attempt was a heroic act meant to recall the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington. He warned that more strikes against the United States were looming because of American support for what he called Israel’s repression of the Palestinians, one of Mr. bin Laden’s recurring themes in his occasional audiotaped anti-West invectives.
Sounds like it was written by Hasan.  Plus, bin Laden has a US President that one would think he would love.  Obama seems to want Israelis to willingly march into the sea.  Maybe not announcing that he wants them all shot is a step too short for bin Laden, so he addressed this tape to Obama.

Oh, for you terrorist embracing PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah loving types.  Stop denying that you are identical to al Qaeda, you are the same.  Okay, there are a few Marxists in your ranks, but everything else is the same.  You get your funding from the same idots who think they are donating to "schools and hospitals"  (honest brokers call them armories and ammunition caches).  You attack civilians as your primary targets.  You are all terrorists and so are the ones who support you.

“America will never dream of security unless we will have it in reality in Palestine,” Mr. bin Laden said. “God willing, our raids on you will continue as long as your support to the Israelis will continue.”

Mr. bin Laden said his statement was “from Osama to Obama.”

The one-minute recording, broadcast by Al Jazeera’s Arabic news channel, was the first time Mr. bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border, had issued an audiotape in four months.
White House officials said they could not immediately authenticate the recording, but did not dispute that the voice was Mr. bin Laden’s. David Axelrod, a White House senior adviser, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that whatever the source, the message “contains the same hollow justification for the mass slaughter of innocents.”

It was not clear why Mr. bin Laden waited nearly a month to say anything about the Dec. 25 bombing attempt on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, which was carried out by a passenger who sought to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear but was overpowered by other passengers. Federal investigators have said the suspect, a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, received training and the explosives in Yemen.

“The message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes” of Sept. 11, Mr. bin Laden said.
More at the link above, to include a blurb for an al Qaeda expert quoted by the Times saying bin Laden is not claiming responsibility, he is just praising the December bombing attempt.

Other reports across the internet and on the air report the tape as a claim of responsibility.

Amy Alkon covers this too.


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06 January 2010

Good Morning! International News Links and Pix

Good morning everybody!

Israel to deploy their lawyers with their soldiers in the future
Edit 8:10am: In Suki IV: Finally A Vacation (War With Iran), the son of John is a US Army JAG supporting an IDF Commando unit deep in Iran before the war starts and through the invasion.

Joan Rivers delayed in Costa Rica for a "suspicious" passport.

Amy Alkon has a story about good security measures.





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18 October 2009

Interesting blog post by my favorite anti-Semite

Bad day at the Security Council

October 15


Israel had a bad day at the Security Council in NY yesterday as the monthly meeting took up the discussion of the Goldstone Report. Alone, except perhaps for the US, Israel used every complaint, suggestion, and mis-statment it could to stop the proceedings. Among them are the following:

"We have a right to Self-defense." Certainly they do, and the missiles coming from various places in Gaza should be stopped--but not at the expense of over 10,000 homes and over 1,000 killed and more wounded for a bunch of missiles whose most critical hit was a fountain in a southern Israeli town. Israel, it seems believes it has the right to defend itself, but the Palesti nians are simply supposed to roll over and take what they get. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev made this comment, in which she also called the madate of the Commission "Too Broad."
 
Read all of the awful rest, plus my comments, at the link above.

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