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Soldados romanos hace 2.000 años, primeras víctimas de armas químicas

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Esqueleto del solado persa encontrado en los túneles de Dura-Europos

 

Soldados romanos de hace 2.000 años, las primeras víctimas de las armas químicas

Obama: Every Libya Option Under Review

Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Wary that Libya's bloody crisis could devolve into humanitarian chaos, President Obama insisted he is considering every intervention option, including military might, along with America's allies. To Moammar Gadhafi, he declared: "Step down from power and leave."
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Obama: Every Libya Option Under Review

Neocon Analysts Push for Invasion of Libya

CNN reports the Pentagon and NATO are ready to send troops into Libya under the cover of humanitarian assistance. CNN underscores the situation by stating that reports say Gaddafi will fight to the end and will seek martyrdom.

Military intervention "is something which I hope doesn't happen, but it looks as though at some point that it should happen," Simon Henderson, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told CNN.

Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, says the globalists are working on a response to the Libya crisis.

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a fanatical neocon operation. It supports the positions of the Likud and other racist warmongers in Israel. It was founded by Martin Indyk, the former research director of AIPAC.

Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan

WEST POINT, NY — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for the United States to ever fight another war like Iraq or Afghanistan, and that the chances of carrying out a change of regime in that fashion again are slim.

“In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it,” Mr. Gates told an assembly of Army cadets here. 

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Analysts: More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO intervention

 By Michael Martinez
(CNN) -- If the U.S. military were to intervene in an increasingly chaotic Libya, it would most likely be part of a NATO action in which Libyan bloodshed has reached a humanitarian crisis, analysts said Thursday.
As reports emerged Thursday about deadly clashes between leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces and anti-government protesters in the town of Zawiya near Tunisia, analysts highlighted how Gadhafi has already pledged to fight a rebellion to martyrdom.
Military intervention "is something which I hope doesn't happen, but it looks as though at some point that it should happen," said Simon Henderson, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"What's an acceptable number of civilian deaths? I don't know. Choose your figure," Henderson said. "At the very least, instead of having a casualty list certainly in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands, we don't want a casualty list numbering in the tens of thousands, or 100,000 or so."
After 10 days of protest, Gadhafi has lost control of the eastern portion of a country he has ruled for 42 years, and analysts portrayed him as a dictator desperately clinging to power. Members of his government have defected, and in a sign of growing international pressure, Switzerland ordered Thursday that Gadhafi's assets be frozen.
"You've got to assume the worst about Moammar Gadhafi," Nicholas Burns, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former under secretary of state between 2005 and 2008, told CNN. "With his back to the wall, he's going to go out in a blaze of vicious attacks."
North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense chiefs ought to be holding discussions about "not taking action but preparation" for the Libyan crisis, said Robert Kagan, a Mideast expert who worked in the State Department under President Ronald Reagan.
"I don't think anyone is talking about immediate military actions now," Kagan told CNN, especially as 167 U.S. citizens are waiting on a ferry to leave Libya.
U.S. officials have said all options were under consideration, including sanctions and enforcement of a no-fly zone, to try to keep the Libyan government from attacking protesters.
Ibrahim Sharqieh, deputy director of Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, interpreted that statement as indicating that military force remains a possibility.
"In my opinion, it's still premature to talk about U.S. military intervention in Libya at this point, but we should not eliminate it completely," Sharqieh said.
Meanwhile, the Department of State recommended Thursday that the 6,000 or so Americans in Libya "depart immediately due to the potential for ongoing unrest."
Libya's disintegration, the latest Middle East uprising that has already toppled autocracies in nearby Tunisia and Egypt, poses greater impacts to Europe than the United States, analysts said.
Africa's largest oil producer, Libya exports 1.5 million barrels a day, mostly to Europe, which relies on the country for 10% of its energy needs, analysts said.
Meanwhile, refugees fleeing Libyan violence are expected to land in such European countries as Italy, analysts said.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama spoke with the leaders of France, Italy and the United Kingdom on coordinating an international response to the crisis in Libya, the White House said.
In separate phone conversations with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British Prime Minister David Cameron, Obama "expressed his deep concern with the Libyan government's use of violence, which violates international norms and every standard of human decency, and discussed appropriate and effective ways for the international community to immediately respond," the White House statement said.
While some critics say the Obama administration has been slow to react to Libya, the statement said Thursday's discussions were to "coordinate our urgent efforts to respond to developments and ensure that there is appropriate accountability."
"The leaders discussed the range of options that both the United States and European countries are preparing to hold the Libyan government accountable for its actions, as well as planning for humanitarian assistance," the White House statement said.
Complicating any consideration of military intervention is how American and European armed forces have been strained from repeated deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq for almost 10 years, analysts said.
Libya's factions and tribalism would make an intervention perilous, said Nathan Hughes, director of military analysis for the global intelligence firm Stratfor of Austin, Texas.
"It's not clear what a post-Gadhafi Libya looks like," Hughes said. "It's a very messy situation. It would be a very difficult situation to jump into militarily.
"There are no geographical boundaries. There are soft demographic, cultural and tribal boundaries. To get enmeshed in that without understanding the local culture ... it would be a pretty tough spot to put troops in," Hughes added. "Once the writing is on the wall that Gadhafi is going to go likely to go, the incentive for the various tribal factions and other factions within Libya is to maneuver to make sure they have a place in whatever comes next."
Were NATO to send armed forces into Libya, the rest of the Arab world wouldn't protest much, the analysts said.
"I don't think they would have any problem with this. I would suspect that the Arab world would support this," Sharqieh said.

Added Henderson: "On day one, they would probably think it's a good idea. On day two, come back and ask...me."

Pentagon Prepares Attack to Libya

by Kurt NimmoAs we reported yesterday, the United States has specific instructions to intervene militarily in Libya under the cover of providing humanitarian assistance.

Less than 24 hours after our report, the Pentagon has announced it is looking at "all options" in dealing with the Libyan crisis. In short, it is drawing up plans to intervene.

Corporate media rehashes Lockerbie bombing to demonize Gaddafi.

"Our job is to give options from the military side, and that is what we are thinking about now," a Pentagon official told CNN. "We will provide the president with options should he need them."

"This department is always doing prudent planning for any number of contingencies," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told reporters. "The president said yesterday that the United States is discussing with allies and... more

Gen. David Petraeus orders an investigation into claims that a top Army official instructed a military team to manipulate visiting U.S. dignitaries using 'psychological operations' so they would approve more resources for the Afghanistan war. 

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The new frontline of modern warfare

The new frontline of modern warfare

BY STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL |

From the outset of my command in Afghanistan, two or three times each week, accompanied by a few aides and often my Afghan counterparts, I would leave the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul and travel across Afghanistan -- from critical cities like Kandahar to the most remote outposts in violent border regions. Ideally, we left early, traveling light and small, normally using a combination of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, to meet with Afghans and their leaders and to connect with our troops on the ground: Brits and Marines rolling back the enemy in Helmand, Afghan National Army troops training in Mazar-e-Sharif, French Foreign Legionnaires patrolling in Kapisa.

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Baghdad City Government Demands $1 Billion!!! From U.S. for War Damages

BAGHDAD -- The Baghdad city government is demanding the United States pay $1 billion and apologize for damage to the city caused by blast walls erected during the nearly eight-year long war.

City officials filed a lawsuit in an Iraqi court against the U.S. military, a media official said Thursday. He did not want to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation.

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General Petraeus 'to quit as Afghanistan commander'

 

General David Petraeus is expected to leave his role as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan as part of changes to be introduced by the Pentagon.

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Llaman a poner a punto sistema de defensa israelí "Cupula de Hierro"

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Iran: Los niños que murieron portando las llaves del paraiso

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Tercera guerra mundial, Yijad universal. Ley Marcial en América?

Tercera guerra mundial, Yijad universal. Ley Marcial en América?

China Experts Dispute Stealth-Theft Claims

By JEREMY PAGE

Wall Street Journal 

 

 

Reuters

An aircraft that's reported to be a Chinese stealth fighter is seen in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in this picture taken Jan. 7.

BEIJING—Chinese military experts disputed that China obtained secret U.S. technology to develop its new stealth fighter, saying the country relied on homegrown innovation to produce a plane that has drawn new international attention to its military advances.
Speculation that China obtained U.S. stealth technology has been circulating since aviation experts noted that the J-20 stealth-fighter prototype looked like a larger version of the U.S. F-22 Raptor, currently the world's only fully operational stealth fighter. The twin-engine J-20 made its first public test flight two weeks ago during a visit to China by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
On Sunday, the Associated Press quoted Balkan military officials saying China likely learned some of its stealth technology from pieces its agents obtained of the wreckage of a U.S. F-117 shot down by a Serbian anti-aircraft missile during the 1999 Kosovo war. The F-117 Nighthawk was the first U.S. stealth fighter.
Then, on Monday, a former U.S. B-2 stealth bomber engineer called Noshir Gowadia was sentenced by a U.S. court in Hawaii to 32 years in prison for selling stealth-missile technology—with potential applications on fighter jets—to China.
Mr. Gowadia's son, Ashton Gowadia, said his father plans to appeal.
The Chinese experts rejected the idea that China obtained American technology either from espionage or from the wreckage of the F-117—which they said used less advanced technology than what China has developed—although some acknowledged that China may have used publicly available source materials.
"China is completely capable of making its own stealth fighter jet," said Li Daguang, a professor at the People's Liberation Army's National Defense University. "I think we developed the J-20 largely on our own research, but at the same time learning from existing foreign models. Many countries have already possessed stealth-jet technology...stealth materials are not considered highly sophisticated or confidential at all."
China's Defense Ministry and Air Force declined to comment on any of the reports, as did China Aviation Industry Corp., which is developing the J-20, and the Chengdu Aircraft and Design Institute, where it is being tested. Asked about the reports at a routine briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said "I am not aware of relevant information."
Current and former U.S. officials also said in 2009 that computer spies had repeatedly broken into the program to develop the F-35, the next generation of U.S. stealth fighter. The former officials said at the time they thought the attacks came from China. Beijing has denied involvement in such cyberattacks.
Song Xiaojun, a former naval officer who is now a military commentator for Chinese state television, attributed the reports that China appropriated its stealth technology to those who "just envy and hate us for having developed the jet, for we made something they thought we'd never be able to make. I'm saying that I'm sure the technology is 100% Chinese."
The F-117 was developed in secrecy in the 1970s and began service in 1983. It was not completely invisible to radar, but was very hard to detect because of its unique radar-absorbent coating. The one shot down over Serbia was the first to be hit. The F-117 was retired in 2008.
The AP quoted Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war, as saying intelligence reports in 1999 described Chinese agents "criss-crossing" the region where the F-117 went down, and buying bits of wreckage from local farmers.
"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them," he was quoted as saying.
Parts of the F-117 are still exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.
Wang Yanan, associate editor-in-chief at China's Aerospace Knowledge magazine, said there was no point in China acquiring wreckage parts of the F-117, as its technology was already outdated in 1999.
Still, other analysts point to signs of Chinese interest in the F-117. Andrei Chang, the Hong Kong-based editor of Kanwa Defense, an online publication about military affairs, said China had also built a scale model of the F-117 at an aviation research institute in the city of Luoyang in Henan province.
He included in an emailed statement what he said was a satellite photograph of the F-117 model, taken in May 2010.
"This is the fundamental reason why it took China only a very short period of time to develop several types of stealth materials in Beijing," he said.
The B-2, which was developed in the 1980s and first unveiled in 1988, is still used as a long-range strategic bomber and has never been shot down.
Mr. Gowadia—the former B-2 engineer sentenced Monday—moved from India to the U.S. for postgraduate work in the 1960s and became a U.S. citizen about a decade later.
He helped design the propulsion system for the B-2 when he worked at Northrop Corp., now known as Northrop Grumman Corp., between 1968 and 1986.
He was arrested in 2005. A federal jury in Honolulu found that he pocketed about $110,000 to help China design a cruise-missile exhaust nozzle that would give off less heat, allowing it to evade infrared radar detection and U.S. heat-seeking missiles.
He was not accused of assisting with the J-20 program, although prosecutors did say that he visited an aviation design facility in Chengdu, the western city where the stealth fighter has been tested.
However, aviation experts have noted that the J-20 prototype that made the test flight had unusual exhaust nozzles, which appear to be designed to prevent it from emitting enough heat to be detected by infrared radar.
—Yoli Zhang and Juliet Ye contributed to this article.

Mines, a real threat to the coalition forces in Afghanistan and for Cuba too

Esto parece un tema muy lejano para los cubanos,pero el regimen kaxtrizta siempre se ha negado rotundamente a firmar los acuerdos internacionales contra las minas. Por demas, todos las zonas consideradas vulnerables militarmente en Cuba estan minadas, o lo seran ante cualquier acto que consideren una "amenaza"

Egyptian Journalist: "The U.S. Will Be Transformed into an Islamic Republic"