Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Al Qaida has developed a bomb that could penetrate U.S. security and blow up aircraft. Officials said Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula assembled a bomb that did not contain metal and could be worn as underwear. They said AQAP had planned to send an operative with the underwear improvised [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has enhanced its campaign against suspected violators of sanctions on Iran and Syria. President Barack Obama has empowered his administration to identify and track alleged violators of U.S. and international sanctions on Damascus and Teheran. On May 1, Obama signed an order that authorized the Treasury Department [...]
Lev Navrozov Even Stalin would have had a very long way to go before becoming the owner of the globe. Russia, which Stalin seized as its absolute owner, had technologically lagged behind the countries with developed capitalist systems. Germany, for example, had become industrialized long before Russia. It is hard to imagine what Russia would [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran reported details on previous missions and destinations of an advanced U.S.-origin unmanned aerial vehicle captured in December 2011. Iran has also reported replicating the drone. In a briefing, Air Force commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh disclosed details of the RQ-170, which for years was concealed by Washington. The general, [...]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] As more detail seeps around The Great Firewall Beijing masters once thought would suppress all dissident China blogging — and contradictory explanations emanate from Party sources — the case of Bo Xilai and his wife becomes all too familiar. For those who have tried to follow happenings over the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has been asked for data of an advanced U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured in 2011. Officials said the Iranian Defense Ministry has been approached by at least two U.S. adversaries for inspection of the RQ-170 Sentinel. The officials said China and Russia were requesting data from the advanced unmanned [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Viktor Bout, known as Russia’s merchant of death, was handed a 25-year jail sentence in New York. Moscow was offended, and called it “absolutely unacceptable” and a “politically motivated” miscarriage of justice. “It’s even more outrageous that this is not the first politically motivated sentence lacking a [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has identified senior commanders of President Bashar Assad in his crackdown on the Sunni revolt. The Treasury Department has sanctioned three senior Syrian officials said to have been responsible for the Assad offensive on the opposition. One of those designated was Syria’s new defense minister, who replaced [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A former consultant has been sentenced to 13 years for trying to sell U.S. classified data to Israel. Stewart Nozette, a former consultant for Israel Aerospace Industries, was arrested in an FBI sting operation. Nozette, who is Jewish, later admitted that he agreed to supply space data to FBI undercover [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad could order weapons of mass destruction attacks to save his regime, a report said. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies asserted that Assad could employ Syria’s massive WMD arsenal against any rising Sunni revolt. In a report, the center warned that the Damascus regime could also [...]
