International Atomic Energy Agency just released a critical report expressing “serious concerns” regarding Iran’s nuclear program. IAEA has reliable information the Islamic republic may be developing nuclear weapons. IAEA report on Iranian program’s military scope found no evidence on Iran’s decision to build a bomb, however their nuclear program is now more ambitious and structured than ever before. IAEA carefully assessed and analyzed information made available to them, and concluded Iran has indeed carried out activities pertinent to the development of a nuclear explosive device. A senior US official called the report a “big deal being the report is comprehensive, credible, and alarming. According to IAEA some of the activities assessed on Iran have both civilian and military applications and others are specific to nuclear weapons. Iran has insisted repeatedly its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian energy purposes only. US officials stated the Obama administration will utilized the reports to lobby the international community to slap economic sanctions against Iran.
NAIROBI, Kenya- Militant terrorist group Al-Shabaab has recently been under attack by the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) . Colonel Cyrus Oguna, in charge of information and operation at the Department of Defense said, “Al Shabaab only has three options; to defect; surrender or leave Somalia as they have limited options. Their resistance is crumbling, their logistics are getting disabled day by day.” Recently, the KDF in collaboration with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces destroyed many of the camps and weapons used by the Al-Shabaab. Nine Al-Shabaab fighters were seriously injured by air raids at militant training camps in El Adde Township, and top leader of the militant group was recently captured by KDF and is being interviewed and interrogated for details about the militia and its networks in the country. Col. Oguna stated that the KDF has achieved their primary initial objectives against Al-Shabaab and has eliminated confidence that they would emerge ...
HOUSTON- A Texan man accused of attempting to sneak out of the United States to aid terrorist group, Al-Qaida, was tried Monday on terrorism charges. After a two-year investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Joint Task Force, Barry Walter Bujol Jr. was finally apprehended when he attempted to use fake identification to sneak into a Houston port and board a ship bound for the Middle East. Prior to the arrest an FBI undercover informant who posed as a recruiter for al-Qaida for the Arabian Peninsula gave Bujol a bag containing GPS receivers, two nonpublic restricted-access Army manuals, money and other items that he agreed to take to al-Qaida operatives in the Middle East. In email exchanges with U.S born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , who has ties to al-Qaida, Bujol expressed he wanted to “die with the brothers for the cause of Allah , and to be in Heaven.” On the contrary, Bujol claims he was never in contact with a real terrorist and that he "t...
05 November 2011 Nairobi (The Seattle Times) — Half a million victims of famine in southern Somalia, trapped inside territory contro lled by the rebel militia al-Shabaab, may be largely beyond the help of Western agencies, Somalia expert Ken Menkhaus writes in a paper for the Enough Project. Access to the south, the region hardest hit by famine, remains difficult and dangerous for humanitarian agencies, with some banned from operating in the south, and myriad rules and bureaucratic requirements for those allowed access. Al-Shabaab’s handling of the famine amounts to crimes against humanity, terrorizing people into submission, confiscating their produce and taxing them into poverty in the name of jihad. As they now starve, al-Shabaab denies them even the opportunity to migrate in search of food. Menkhaus says that the bizarre and extremist behavior of al-Shabaab, has made it unclear whether the West and the United Nations can realistically do much to help the 500,000 famine ...
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