DAILY WORLD NEWS AND STRATEGIC TRENDS:
This is a special report from life in the cities and villages near the terrorist infested Gaza Strip, during the recent escalation of rocket attacks, or rather, the continuing war against our civilian population.The effectiveness of Israel's intelligence services was once again displayed this month, when the head of the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza, Zuhair Qaisi was targeted from the air and killed in his car. The Gaza terrorists launched a greater barrage of rockets at southern Israel’s population centers.
Fatah: Iran paid Hamas to block Palestinian unity deal
Iran paid the Islamist group Hamas to block a deal with the rival Fatah movement that would have ended a five-year rift between the two main Palestinian factions, a Fatah spokesman said on Tuesday.He said Tehran recently resumed financial aid to Hamas which it had suspended six months ago over the Palestinian movement's failure to back their mutual ally President Bashar Assad of Syria in his military campaign to crush dissent.
Syrian forces take eastern city after rebel
BEIRUT (AP) — An anti-regime activist says the Syrian army has taken control of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour following brief clashes with rebel forces.Osama Mansour says Syrian troops backed by tanks and armored cars entered the city from four sides Tuesday and briefly clashed with fighters from the Free Syrian Army.
Mansour, who is based in Deir el-Zour, says the rebels quit fighting and hid in local homes, fearing that protracted clashes would destroy the city and kill civilians.
Same 'hand' behind Iraq, Syria blasts: Damascus
Syria said the same "deadly hand" was behind the wave of attacks in Iraq that killed at least 45 people on Tuesday and the weekend bombings in Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo.The foreign ministry said it "strongly condemns the terrorist explosions" in neighbouring Iraq. "The deadly hand which recently struck in Damascus and Aleppo is the same as the one which targeted Iraqi cities today," the ministry said in a statement. "The blood spilt today on Iraqi soil is the same as that spilt in Syria."
Multiple blasts kill 43, injure over 230 across Iraq
At least 43 people have been killed and over 230 others injured in bomb explosions in several Iraqi cities and towns ahead of the next week's Arab League summit in the capital city of Baghdad, Press TV reports.The spate of violence, which rocked several Iraqi towns and cities spanning the southern holy city of Karbala and the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Tuesday between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m, was the deadliest incident in Iraq in nearly a month. Iran will produce nuclear weapons if attacked: Russia
Russia warned Tuesday that Iran would have no option but to develop nuclear weapons if it came under attack from either the United States or Israel over its contested atomic programme."The CIA and other US officials admit they now have no information about the Iranian leadership taking the political decision to produce nuclear weapons," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Moscow's Kommersant FM radio. "But I am almost certain that such a decision will surely be taken after (any) strikes on Iran," Lavrov said.
Khamenei: Iran Will Resist All Pressure
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday said Iran will succeed in withstanding pressure and economic sanctions, while Israel is "besieged."His remarks came after Iranian banks were excluded from the SWIFT international financial transfer networks – only the latest in a series of sanctions on Iran's oil and banking industries that have consistently narrowed avenues of purchase and surety for Tehran's exportable crude oil.
Pentagon Fears 'Regional War'
Pentagon war games predict an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites may quickly spiral out of control and result in a large regional war.A classified two-week war simulation conducted by the US Central Command dubbed Internal Look envisioned a scenario wherein Israel carried out an air strike on Iranian facilities. Projected retaliation targeted both the Jewish state and the American forces in the region since based on the assumption Tehran would hold Washington complicit in the attack
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that his country is preparing its armed forces to counter any threats posed by NATO’s missile system.Medvedev made the statement during a meeting with Russia's top military brass, adding that this did not mean Moscow would halt dialogue with Washington."By 2017-2018 we must be fully prepared, fully armed," the Russian president said on Tuesday. Major 7.6 earthquake on Mexico Pacific coast: USGS
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck 120 miles east of Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.The USGS located the epicenter of the quake at 15 miles east of Ometepec in Guerrero state at a depth of 10.9 miles.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the inland earthquake would not generate a destructive widespread tsunami, but there was the possibility of some local tsunami effects.
The latest stop on Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen's "Night of Hope" tour brought him to the Times Union Center in Albany, his first visit to upstate New York, where 12,000 people gathered last week for an inspirational sermon and praised the minister for not being "preachy."
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