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…ident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Threats and sanctions have not weakened the regime’s determination to proceed [with nuclear weapons], but rather weakened opposition to it’. Photograph: Sven Hoppe/EPA HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018199

…n it. Look at Syria. Assad has massacred 200,000 of his own people — with tanks, artillery, fighter jets, even chemical weapons — and the world did not lift a finger. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029359

…pe through Greece, raised financing, set up a base in the Molen- beek section of Brussels, imported deactivated assault weapons from Slovenia that were restored by a technician, bought ammunition, acquired suicide vests, obtained “burner” cell phones, rented cars, and, two months...

…ambush. They came to the fore again two years later, when Hezbollah took over West Beirut by force of arms, turning its weapons of "resistance" against fellow Lebanese citizens. When the chips are down, Hezbollah's commitment to Iran HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028696

…s of the West Indies” after the seminal taxonomy by ornithologist James Bond. The exhibition also chronicled the women, weapons, and cars depicted in the Bond films, in addition to the birds that appear in all 24 movies. Even MGM couldnt dream this up. Dinner followed next door...

…ary plan to send up to 120 thousand troops to the Middle East if Iran attacks US forces or accelerates work on nuclear weapons 3-4 oil tankers reportedly damaged in a "sabotage" attack off the coast of the UAE Houthi drones attack Saudi cross-country oil pipeline US withdraws...

…tive foreign terrorist targets for the NSA’s PRISM program. These “targets” included logistics officers, bomb builders, weapons specialists, and suicide bomber recruiters. Until June 6, 2013, many of these targets had frequently used Internet services, such as Twitter, Facebook,...

…eapon, called breakout time. Iran agreed to refine uranium to no more than 3.7% enrichment and eliminated its stocks of weapons-grade 20%-enriched uranium. = On May 8", President Rouhani announced a series of steps to resume the production of nuclear centrifuges and the accumula...

…o a world without a single geopolitical centre of gravity. Perhaps most seriously, Iran seems determined to get nuclear weapons, and, in my view, may succeed in doing so. Where Israel is concerned, relations with our indisputably most important ally, the United States, are more...

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…ng Iran's most problematic enrichment activity: processing uranium to the 20 percent threshold, which makes the leap to weapons-grade material much easier. Instead, the regime could limit itself to 5 percent enrichment, and under strict supervision by the International Atomic Ene...

…ng Iran's most problematic enrichment activity: processing uranium to the 20 percent threshold, which makes the leap to weapons-grade material much easier. Instead, the regime could limit itself to 5 percent enrichment, and under strict supervision by the International Atomic Ene...

…ear, “So, did O.J. do it?” I was taken aback but I quickly responded, “So, Mr. Prime Minister, does Israel have nuclear weapons?” Bibi looked at me sternly and said, “You know I can’t answer that question.” I looked back at him and said, “Aha!” Bibi understood and we both laughed...

…le. Instead the question is this: Given the uncertainty about the end state in Syria and the risks of providing serious weapons to the rebels (and a no-fly zone) that might alter the arc of the fight against the regime, the president saw and continues to see no purpose in America...

…l warlords and fights among fragmented FSA factions. Plus, this unit can handle other key tasks, like securing chemical weapons.” This Syrian strategist argues in another memo that the rebels must “speak to the silent majority, many who did not care about the revolution, and the...