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Although U.S. and allied intelligence services have broken up parts of the nuclear-parts trafficking network run by A.Q. Khan, creator of Pakistan's atomic bomb, Iran has constructed a new - and possibly larger - clandestine network for acquiring nuclear technology, according to a new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a respected London-based think tank...
...network is known to have peddled to Libya. (The Libyan regime, caught red-handed dealing with Khan, abandoned its nuclear program and handed over the blueprint, together with other nuclear related technology, to the U.S., in exchange for improved relations with the West.) According to the IISS report, "the bomb designs were apparently digitalised and copied onto computer disks at one of Khan's offices in Dubai. One of the Swiss members of the network admitted to having atomic bomb construction plans in his own office. Swiss and American authorities, as well as the IAEA, have been trying to discover...
...We’ve got to try to avert disasters—not just be prepared to bomb somebody if a disaster occurs,” the former president said...
Given the apparently abundant supply of women martyrs--willing or not--it is remarkable that suicide attacks against Israelis have been so infrequent in recent years. In March 2002, for instance, militants carried out twice as many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community...
...Officer dispatched to 79 JFK Street on a report of a bomb threat. A report was filed, and an investigation is still going...