Conflicts / Tags / Weapons

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said. The statement was the Israeli leader's clearest indication yet that he is will.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:17pm neoform

CTV -- Former United Nations' chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has challenged U.S. President George Bush's assertion that Iran poses a nuclear threat and the world should take pre-emptive action. Bush has recently renewed calls for a missile defence shield i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Sep 22, 2007 @ 10:22am neoform

Yahoo News -- Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, off.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

CBS News -- U.S. military officials say a group of eight Iranians, including at least one diplomat, were released by U.S. forces Wednesday after being detained because unauthorized weapons were found in their car. The U.S. says the Iranians, along with seven Iraqi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 1:20pm neoform

news.cincypost.com -- For years, the list of enemies targeting U.S. troops in Iraq has included Sunni insurgents, Shiite militia and, more recently, a group that calls itself al-Qaida of Mesopotamia. The enemies list in Iraq also includes outsiders such as Iran and Syria, who.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- A U.S.-led raid and airstrike targeting networks allegedly smuggling weapons and fighters from Iran killed 32 suspected militants Wednesday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, the military said. The raids came as Iraqi authorities clamped a th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

Washington Post -- The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Washington Post -- Attacks in Iraq involving lethal weapons that U.S. officials say are made in Iran hit a record high last month, despite efforts to crack down on networks supplying the armor-piercing weapons known as explosively formed projectiles, according to a senior U.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:30am neoform

CNN -- Iran is training Iraqi insurgents to assemble weapons, the U.S. military said Wednesday, while also providing some intelligence support for Sunni groups in Iraq. U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell also told reporters that two militants.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:45am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The United States expressed concern about China's announced increase in military spending as "inconsistent" with peaceful goals and hinted official figures do not reflect actual spending. "This kind of spending not only concerns us but raises concerns.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 9:43am mrmdc

CBC -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday Iran would be willing to shut down its nuclear program, but only on the condition that other Western nations hold "fair" talks by abandoning their own nuclear programs. "We shut down our nuclear fuel c.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 9:48am mrmdc

Alter Net -- Hyped claims of nuclear weapons with no evidence to back it up ... Why does that sound familiar? It's déja vu. This time the Bush gang wants war with Iran. Following a carefully orchestrated strategy, they have ratcheted up the "threat" from Iran, des.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 9:55am neoform

Yahoo News -- Iranian weapons found in improvised explosive devices in Iraq and the capture of some Iranians did not by themself implicate Tehran, the head of the U.S. military's joint chiefs of staff said on Tuesday. Officials of U.S.-led forces in Baghdad showed j.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 9:33am mrmdc

MSNBC -- North Korea agreed Tuesday after arduous talks to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program, just four months after the communist state shocked the world by testing a nuclear bomb. The deal marks the first c.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 4:45pm neoform

New York Times -- After weeks of internal debate, senior United States military officials on Sunday literally put on the table their first public evidence of the contentious assertion that Iran supplies Shiite extremist groups in Iraq with some of the most lethal weapons i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Feb 11, 2007 @ 11:45am neoform

Reuters -- U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq presented on Sunday what officials said was "a growing body" of evidence of Iranian weapons being used to kill coalition soldiers. A senior defense official from the Multi-National Force told a briefing that 170 coalit.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 6:31pm neoform

BBC News -- The US has asked China to explain its intentions after Beijing reportedly carried out a weapons test in space last week... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Times Online -- Western money and military facilities are used to train Iraqi soldiers — but their commanders at home are concerned about how the troops — and their equipment — seem to be disappearing.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jan 7, 2007 @ 9:55am neoform

New York Times -- The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an.. Read More