Posted in Arab World, terrorism on Mar 18th, 2009
From AFP:
NEW YORK (AFP) — A Palestinian businessman has been found guilty of conspiring with a Syrian arms trafficker to export millions of dollars worth of weapons to leftist rebels in Colombia, authorities said Wednesday.
Acting US Attorney Lev Dassin said in a statement that the guilty verdict against Tareq al-Ghazi, 62, was handed down on [...]
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Posted in Iran on Feb 20th, 2009
If the UN knows that Iran is smuggling weapons and does nothing, and knows that Iran is enriching uranium and does nothing, then what exactly is the point of the UN?
(FT) Iran has now built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday.
In a development that [...]
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Posted in Iran on Feb 19th, 2009
This is a very confusing tale, reminiscent of the dirty bomb that Iran tried to send to Israel. Just like then, the media is being very vague, and just like then, Iran gets away without punishment. From what I understand, Iran had a ship full of munitions headed for either Hamas, Syria or Hezbollah. Egypt [...]
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