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...analysts are jittery this week following comments on Sunday by Vice President Joe Biden that were widely interpreted as a green light to Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Many in the industry have long viewed such an attack as a prelude to a nightmare in global energy markets: Iran retaliating by sinking oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, blocking the route by which most Persian Gulf oil travels to world markets. "We will be in deep, deep trouble," says Leo Drollas, deputy director and chief economist of the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. "The market...
...wink to an Israeli air strike. The Vice President had said that while the U.S. believes that military action against Iran would serve neither American nor Israeli interests, Israel is a sovereign nation, and if it felt threatened by Iran, it would be "entitled to" launch an attack on the Islamic Republic "whether we agree or not." President Obama reiterated in Moscow on Monday that he opposes military action against Iran and instead wants a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long maintained that Israel reserves the right to take matters into...
...restricts its troops to peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts, has found itself drawn into a bloody conflict. In the most recent reminder of how dangerous the mission has become, a memorial service was held in the central town of Bad Salzungen on Thursday for three young soldiers killed in an attack near Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, on June 23. They were the latest casualties of a war that has claimed the lives of 35 German soldiers. At the memorial, senior Cabinet ministers went on the defensive, pledging that German soldiers would stay in Afghanistan. "We're in Afghanistan because we have...
...Sources at the Interior Ministry say they can't rule out the possibility that jihadist groups could be plotting an attack in the run-up to the election on September 27, or on election day itself, with the aim of pushing for a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Until now, Germany has been spared a major terrorist attack. But there is an ongoing and very real threat. German authorities say they have foiled at least six major terrorist plots since 2000. "Al-Qaeda has its eyes set on Germany," Guido Steinberg, an analyst at the German Institute for International...
...Amid fears of an imminent attack, German law-enforcement agencies are jittery and are set to tighten security at the country's airports and borders. Although government officials claim that Germany is well prepared to prevent a terrorist attack, the next few months leading up to the election will be tense times...