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Reply #315 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 2:58pm

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An acquaintance told me she read that Russia is sending (probably selling) advanced anti-aircraft missles to Syria in response to the Israeli overflights according to a Hebrew website. If true, this could get messy fast.

That's all the more reason to get ready for WWIII to break out in the Middle East any time now. There's too many catalysts at work that could spark it. And with oil in such great demand right now worldwide, once things break lose, all the world powers are gonna get pulled in one way or another, including the US, Russia and probably China too, as qwell as all the local players. And if this situation doesn't escalate to that level, we don't know what the Iran situation is going to lead to, so we best be ready for nearly anything right now. We are living in dangerous days.

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(...wonders if he should segregate this into a separate thread?)

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Re: Interesting News Article Thread
Reply #316 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 3:13pm

An update on the missile thing.

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According to the Russian language website isra.com, Russia has given advanced "Strela" missles to Syria so the president will "feel safe."

The escalation continues. I think "Strela" refers to the SA-18 GROUSE advanced shoulder-fired heat-seeking missile. This could very well end up being a much bigger fight than Israel and the Palestinians. Israel wants the Hamas ringleader Syria is protecting because he calls the shots for Hamas from afar. That's the #1 dog they're after, and if Syria continues to protect him, they're risking their entire country for one guy. I'd say Damascus has some problems coming up.

According to Al Jazeera...

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Israel arrests Hamas leadership
Thursday 29 June 2006, 5:01 Makka Time, 2:01 GMT

Hamas officials said more than 30 lawmakers have been arrested in the West Bank.

Other reports peg the number closer to 64 arrest, including approximately one-third of the President's cabinet. Also, from the Jerusalem Post...

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Defense Minister Amir Peretz revealed on Thursday that a "surprising diplomatic breakthrough" was possible in the attempts to release kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Shalit, but did not elaborate on the development.

We'll see.

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(...has no clue which way this thing is going.)

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Reply #317 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 3:17pm

The second person that was kidnapped this week has been executed. Savages...

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Palestinian Group Says Israeli Executed
Jun 28 8:37 PM US/Eastern

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip

A Palestinian militant group said early Thursday it executed an 18- year-old Israeli settler kidnapped earlier in the West Bank. The statement from the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza said the settler, Eliahu Asheri, had been executed.

The group, which has links to the ruling Hamas, had threatened to execute the Israeli if Israel did not halt its invasion of Gaza.

Palestinian security officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah said they believed a body had been found.

Israeli forces arrested the deputy prime minister of the Hamas government, two other Cabinet ministers and four lawmakers in a raid on a complex of buildings in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian security officials said. Israeli forces also arrested Labor Minister Mohammed Barghouti. All those arrested were from Hamas.

Earlier Wednesday, Air strikes and sonic booms shook Gaza as Israeli troops backed by tanks penetrated the impoverished coastal strip in a massive show of might designed to force Islamic militants to free a soldier whose fate has jolted Mideast politics.

In a bold warning to the country that shelters the political leader of the Islamic Hamas group, Israeli warplanes buzzed the home of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Palestinians filled up on basic supplies after war planes knocked out electricity, raising the specter of a humanitarian crisis. The Hamas- led government's information ministry warned of "epidemics and health disasters" because of damaged water pipes feeding central Gaza.

Witnesses reported heavy shelling around Gaza's long-closed airport, and Israeli missiles hit two empty Hamas training camps and a rocket- building factory. Warplanes flew low over the strip, rocking it with sonic booms and shattering windows. Troops in Israel backed up the assault with artillery fire.

No casualties were reported in the incursion, launched in southern Gaza. The area's normally bustling streets were eerily deserted, with people taking refuge inside their homes. Dozens of people living near the airport, which Israeli troops took over, fled to nearby Rafah.

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(...is glad Israel doesn't retaliate in kind.)

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Reply #318 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 3:21pm

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885868104&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti...

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"Palestinian sources Thursday morning warned against the move, saying that terror cells in northern Gaza had laid roadside bombs, readied suicide bombers, and had

strapped explosives to donkeys

to thwart the IDF ground assault. "

In any other context, that would be funny. Poor donkeys...

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(...thinks PETA will have a field day with this one.)

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Reply #320 - Jun 30^th, 2006 at 1:38pm

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17312714&method=full&siteid=66633&...

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BRITAIN discussed a nuclear strike on China in 1961 to defend Hong Kong, secret Government documents have revealed.

Letters circulated to PM Harold Macmillan recommended nuclear force as the only real alternative to abandoning the colony if the Chinese attacked.

British officials discussed the task of ensuring the Chinese understood that, if they did attack, retaliation would involve the US dropping nuclear bombs on them. The plan emerged from the records of the Prime Minister's office between 1957-61, made public yesterday by the National Archives at Kew, London.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #325 - Jul 5^th, 2006 at 1:46pm Here's an article on Kenneth Lay. Massive heart failure, apparently. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/05/D8ILTJL00.html -b0b (...bon voyage.)
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Reply #328 - Jul 5^th, 2006 at 10:00pm

http://www.countingdown.com/movies/15663/news?item_id=3882695

I dont remember if anyone said anything yet but here ya go:

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June 23, 2006 — Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment will kick off the 2008 summer movie-going season on May 2nd with Iron Man, the first motion picture to be produced by Marvel under its alliance with Paramount

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