Nov 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from JP: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised the Israeli public that he is capable of "pushing the button" to strike Iranian nuclear facilities if he felt he had to, in a Channel 2 investigative report aired Monday. "I guarantee that as if I'm re-elected as prime minister I will not allow Iran to get ...
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Nov 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL: The United States considered moving its Benghazi consulate a mile away to a CIA base a month before the deadly attack by militants linked to al-Qaeda which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three. A classified cable also reveals the U.S. mission drafted a contingency plan to suspend its operation as security ...
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Nov 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL: The Israeli army said three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights on the Israel-Syrian border Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces raised its alert level in the Northern Command area, and a military spokeswoman said Israel complained to the U.N. peacekeeping force in the area after the ...
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Nov 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from WND:Work surrounding Iran’s latest secret nuclear site continues unabated, new satellite images from DigitalGlobe show. The existence of the site was first revealed by WND on Oct. 8. The site – Velayat 1 – which is in the province of Isfahan on the outskirts of the small city of Najafabad, was built for ...
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Nov 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE BLAZE: Adding to the security concerns that were building up to the bloody attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, an Arabic television station revealed new information on the lax security there, including a major breach took place at the consulate early in the morning of the ...
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Oct 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from ABC News: In an unusual move, the Navy has replaced an admiral commanding an aircraft carrier strike group while it is deployed to the Middle East. The replacement was prompted by an Inspector General’s investigation of allegations of inappropriate leadership judgment. Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette, the commander of the USS John C. ...
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Oct 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
It starts a little slow, and then it blows up. "They have been in the tank on this in a way I've never seen. CBS, days after the President (in fact) told them he knew that there was an attack ... I am appalled right now, this White House, this President, this Vice President, this Secretary ...
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Oct 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE BLAZE: A former Department of Defense official said Friday that if President Barack Obama really gave an order to secure U.S. personnel when the consulate in Libya came under assault, there will a paper trail to prove it. Francis “Bing” West, who served as an assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, ...
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Oct 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from MYFOX ORLANDO: DEVELOPING -- Two U.S. troops in Afghanistan were killed after an individual wearing an Afghan National Police uniform turned his weapon on them, officials said Thursday. The attack took place in Khas Uruzgan district. Officials are investigating the incident. It was the latest in a string of attacks from inside the Afghan Army ...
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Oct 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from FP: For several months, the U.S. government has been urging the Iraqi government to stop Iran from supplying arms to the Syrian regime through commercial flights over Iraqi airspace, but a larger amount of supplies is now crossing Iraq via convoys on the ground, Iraq's exiled Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi told The ...
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Oct 22, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Buzz Feed: BOCA RATON, Fla. — Sen. John McCain said Monday that if President Barack Obama is to take credit for killing Osama bin Laden in tonight's debate, he must also bear the responsibility for the turmoil in the Middle East. Speaking to reporters in the spin room hours before the third and final ...
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Oct 22, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Canadian Press: An Afghan police officer and cook poisoned their colleagues at a checkpoint in an assault co-ordinated with insurgent fighters that left six dead in the country's south, officials said Saturday. It was the latest in a string of attacks from inside the Afghan army and police that are threatening ...
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Oct 21, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Times Of Israel: Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi participated in prayers over the weekend in which the preacher urged Allah to “destroy the Jews and their supporters.” In footage of the service from Matrouh governorate’s el-Tenaim Mosque screened on Egyptian state television on Friday, Morsi was shown in fervent prayer as cleric Futouh Abd Al-Nabi ...
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Oct 21, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) -- The Israeli military says its largest ever exercise with the United States has begun. A major air defense drill called Austere Challenge 2012 started Sunday and includes more than 3,500 Americans and 1,000 Israelis. The militaries are practicing their ability to work together against a range of threats facing Israel, the main U.S. ...
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Oct 21, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The White House scrambled late Saturday to deny a New York Times report claiming Iran has agreed to meet directly with U.S. officials to discuss its nuclear program, sending New York Times editors rushing to quietly but substantially revise their initial reporting on a key foreign policy issue for ...
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Oct 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from FP: A poll of Egyptians conducted last month shows that they have increasingly positive views of Iran, believe that both Iran and Egypt should obtain nuclear weapons, and still trust their own military more than any other institution in Egypt. The poll of 812 Egyptians, half of them women, was conducted ...
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Oct 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from JP: The Israeli navy boarded the Gaza-bound "Estelle" ship seeking to break Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, an army spokesperson confirmed at 11:40 am on Saturday. The army said the soldiers seized control of the ship, which is carrying pro-Palestinian activists, in accordance with the government's decision and international law, diplomatic efforts to prevent ...
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