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Alex Thomson: Syria rebels led me into death trap Alex Thomson, chief correspondent for Channel 4 News said the incident happened on Monday in the Syrian town of Qusair, about half an hour's drive from the battered city of Homs. Thomson said he, his driver, a translator, and two other journalists w...

Will Bibi try to retaliate against Gantz? Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak over Iran PM and defence chief not fit to lead Israel and are misleading the public over Iran, warns former Shin Bet boss Yuval Diskin Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 April 2012 12.58...

General Benny Gantz thinks 'rational' Iranian leadership will not build nuclear weapons The head of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) Lieutenant General Benny Gantz has made some striking remarks about Iran's nuclear ambitions in an Independence Day interview with Haaretz. Basically, Gantz says that a...

Former officials warn of parallels between IAEA approach to Iran and mistakes over Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog at the heart of the growing Iranian crisis, has been accused by several former senior offici...

Pakistani brigadier suggests Bin Laden was retired and possibly senile when he was killed and that his eldest wife betrayed him Pakistani authorities have charged the three wives of Osama bin Laden with illegally entering and living in the country, as an independent investigation into the al-Qaida ...

I am more than a little confused about the whole situation, especially with the likes of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-DCZxsrt9I Danny Abdul Dayem is a British citizen of Syrian descent. He reported on alleged governmental oppression in Homs, Syria between 2011-2012. His news reports and ...

Iran 'seeking to build nuclear weapon', warns David Cameron David Cameron has warned that Iran is seeking to build an "inter-continental nuclear weapon" that threatens the west, as he urged Israel to allow time for sanctions to force the Iranians to change their strategic stance. He was s...

Link The FBI has struck a major blow against hacking groups after arresting or charging five key members of the LulzSec hacking crew and revealing that the head of the group, who went by the nickname "Sabu", has been working for it since the middle of 2011. Hector Xavier Monsegur, known a...

Officials in key parts of the Obama administration are increasingly convinced that sanctions will not deter Tehran from pursuing its nuclear programme, and believe that the US will be left with no option but to launch an attack on Iran or watch Israel do so. The president has made clear in public, ...

On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in the...

I am not racist. I have many black friends. Is it not the case that someone of an ethnic origin should point out illegal practices of their fellow community so that it can't be dismissed as racist by others of that community? Ah, so no evidence other than "you just know. Trust me." I supp...

Some people abuse the system, you draw up a stupid anecdote and then use it to tar all immigrants from Afghanistan? Yeah, great thinking here. Perhaps my point about stopping this kind of abuse to stop genuine asylum seekers from falling under the same suspicion of lying about their claims got lost...

Boom time for Afghanistan's people smugglers For citizens going into battle against Afghanistan's officialdom, the warren-like building across the road from the headquarters of Kabul's police chief is a one-stop shop for every document they could need. From their tiny cubbyhole offices, an army of ...

Give Queen a new royal yacht for diamond jubilee, says Michael Gove Michael Gove has brushed aside Britain's economic problems to propose the public donate a new royal yacht to the Queen as a mark of respect during this year's diamond jubilee celebrations, according to a confidential letter to fell...

Palestinians hoping to leave Gaza Strip asked to collaborate with Israel Patients in need of treatment across border among those targeted by Israeli intelligence agency, says human rights group Palestinian patients and business people hoping to leave the Gaza Strip are being asked to collaborate wi...

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Much as this would be a wonderful thing to have as a means of transport, I would think that the average motorist cannot be trusted to operate one of these and there should be more rigorous training/certification a la airline pilots.

It's always interesting to see what politicians really think of each other. There's no surprise here, but it does show how Israel's government is successfully alienating erstwhile allies. Shame this won't have any worthwhile affect as slavish devotion to Israel requires unconditional support irresp...

Scientists are a step closer to creating a Star Trek-style cloaking device after demonstrating a material that makes objects beneath it appear to vanish. The material was used to hide a bump on a surface by interfering with the way light bounced off it, making it seem as though neither the cloak no...

The sweet smell of hypocrisy - part 1 President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on the condition...

Source Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group that ha...

EU says internet could fall apart · Developing countries demand share of control · US says urge to censor underlies calls for reform Richard Wray Wednesday October 12, 2005 The Guardian A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to maintain a key role in the network ...

... It's already been done. Thank the good Doc.... This is off topic but does anyone know an e-mail address at which I can contact Dr. Saxton. In visiting the above link, I found myself also visiting Dr. Saxton's homepage - discovering in the process the rather interesting fact that he is currently...

From here We could have stopped him The CIA has taken much of the blame for the security lapses that led to 9/11 and the false intelligence on Iraq's WMDs. But now one spy has broken ranks to point the finger at the politicians - and warn that the war on terror could plunge the US into even greater ...

snip masturbatory crap Could you please not prance into good threads and muck them up with your furious masturbation about using bombs to solve all the world's problems? I don't care if you pleasure yourself to the thought of big explosions killing hundreds of people, but please do it privately. I ...