World Threats

Debka.com is reporting here that the United States is apparently taking moves to be prepared for war in the Middle East. DEBKAfile’s US intelligence sources report indications of impending war preparations against Iran after Tehran’s rejections of the UN-brokered proposal to ship its enriched uranium overseas for further enrichment. These sources reveal that the administration [...]

The Washington Times is reporting here that the current government of Honduras has made a deal with former President Manuel Zelaya so that their upcoming Presidential election will be recognized by the “international community”. The deal “effectively opens a pathway to resolve Honduras’ current political crisis and allow the international community to support the Honduran [...]

These events have been reported to World Threats. Following his reply to the European countries and the IAEA over the plan to have Russia and France process Iran’s enriched uranium into fuel rods, Ahmadinejad said in Mashad, “the world should know and some of our own people around the country should know too that this [...]

These events have been reported to World Threats. The Ministry of education’s Academic Basij Resistance summoned all of the commanders of the ministry’s Basij centers to instruct them on confronting the pupil’s march on Nov. 4. The Basij forces are to be spread in groups of 50 among the pupils to control their behavior and [...]

These events have been reported to world Threats. Mullah Imani Kashani is no longer allowed to lead Friday Prayers in Tehran. That position is now filled by supporters of the current administration: Mullah Janati, Ahmed Khatami and Mullah Sedighi. Some residents of Tehran are putting flowers on the graves of martyrs nationwide. November fourth is [...]

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The Los Angeles Times has an article about how local tribes in the Swat Valley, a former stronghold for the Taliban and other terrorists, have begun handling security to keep such militants out of the area. For all the talk that Iraq and Afghanistan are different, this is remarkably similar to what happened in Anbar [...]

This article in the Washington Post details the life of Matthew Hoh and his resignation from the Foreign Service over our Afghanistan Policy. A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, [...]

This article from Trendsupdate suggests that Venezuela is becoming a Narco-State. Substantially, the report that will be published in the end of this month, describes the birth of a “narco-state” in Venezuela. In agreement with the investigation, that country became the main center of cocaine distribution produced in Colombia and in the largest port of [...]

According to this Reuters story, Eritrea is arming and training Islamist militias to carry out sabotage in Djibouti. “They have started training militias and arming them to carry out sabotage in Djibouti, just as they support elements in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia,” he added. Djibouti, a former French colony which separates Eritrea from Somalia, [...]

In this article by Soner Cagaplay we find the explanation for Turkey’s rather startling recent changes of policy towards Israel. The AKP was born out of the Welfare Party (RP), the motherboard of Turkish Islamists since the 1980s. Islamism in Turkey, though traditionally nonviolent, possesses six virulent characteristics; it is anti-Western, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli, anti-European, anti-democratic [...]