North Korea well along in preparations to launch its Unha-3 long-range missile into space

North Korea technicians watch live images of the rocket Unah-3 at the satellite control room of the space center on the outskirts of Pyongyang on April 11, 2012.

Read more at Press TV

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North Korea is well along in its preparations to launch its Unha-3 long-range missile into space and it could happen as early as this evening, stateside.

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North Korea says it is only launching a weather satellite… though most believe the launch is actually a disguised Ballistic Missile test… in which the North Koreans will be testing their capabilities to launch future missiles that will be able to carry nuclear warheads that would be able to hit the United States.

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If that wasn’t enough… South Korean security sources are now saying that after reviewing new satellite imagery… it is now looking like North Korea is also preparing for another nuclear test sometime shortly after the rocket launch.

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POST UPDATE:

Thursday evening April 12^th

6:20pm CDT

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South Korean Media Is Reporting That North Korea Has Launched Rocket. But… Fox news reports launch may have actually failed... making it off the launch pad OK but having problems later-on in the flight.

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** UPDATE **

7:00pm CDT

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It’s NOW Official:

North Korea’s Rocket Launch Failed!

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Yes… I can now report that North Korea’s Rocket Launch was a FAILURE and NEVER MADE IT out of the Earth’s atmosphere or into space.

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For the record… it was launched from its Sohae Satellite Launching Station at about 7:39am Friday morning, North Korea’s time… said South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min Seok during a televised press briefing in Seoul.

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Fox news is now reporting that according to their sources, the rocket broke up somewhere between 90 seconds and two minutes into flight. That would mean that it never made it past the first stage of the three stage rocket which would be a MAJOR failure on their part.

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Update:

Late Friday morning…

11:30am CDT

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There’s really nothing more to report about all of this, so I won’t. But for now… we all sit and wait to see if the North Korean’s go ahead and actually test another nuclear device sometime in the next few weeks.

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Being they are already on a roll… They might as well go ahead and Double Down on Stupid!

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AubreyJ………

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Remarks at AIPAC Conference Monday Evening

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference Monday evening, March 05, 2012.

Above C-Span Video about 34 minutes long

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AubreyJ………

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Iran: On Ground Updates - December 08, 2009

Iran: On Ground Updates
Israeli Maj-Gen. Yossi Baidatz says Iran NOW has enough Enriched Uranium for one-and-a-half Nuclear Bombs
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
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* JPost.com brings us the following report this Tuesday afternoon and it goes in part like this... Maj-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, the head of Military Intelligence's research division, told committee members that Iran has succeeded in enriching 1,800 kg. of uranium, which is "more or less enough for one-and-a-half nuclear bombs."...
Read this troubling report in full at link below...
'Iran can now produce nuclear bomb'

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More on this bit of news as new info comes out...
AubreyJ.........

Israel Shall Soon Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

Monday, September 21, 2009 AubreyJ.........
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Back in a March 31st interview with the Atlantic, (The Atlantic article here) and just hours before his swearing-in, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if the Islamic Republic is not stopped quickly, Israel may be forced to attack… “You don’t want a messianic, apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs," Netanyahu told the magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg in what the journalist described as "unusually blunt language."
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Netanyahu also said he would support President Obama’s decision to engage Iran, so long as negotiations brought about a quick end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “How you achieve this goal is less important than achieving it,” he said, but he added that he was skeptical that Iran would respond positively to Obama’s appeals. (As of today... they haven’t either.)
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Today... Iran is now WELL embarked down the road to achieving Nuclear Weapons. That is a fact and not just me talking either.
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The way I see it... the End-Game is up. There is nothing left but two choices for Israel now.
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They can either sit by and let Iran BUILD the nuclear bombs while the West talks about it... (and most of us KNOW that anymore talks with Iran will get us nowhere...) or Strike!
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I for one believe Israel will NEVER let Iran build the Nuclear Weapons... So I guess it is STRIKE... and strike them hard is what they will/MUST do.
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Now -- How do I come to this conclusion you ask...? Simple!!! Today... Iran is no longer trying to acquire nuclear knowledge and capability. These things they have already achieved. Even the International Atomic Energy Agency, (the IAEA,) now believes Iran has developed the knowhow and capability to build a Nuclear Weapon.
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Former Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh is now saying Israel will attack Iran's Nuclear Facilities before year’s end if the West has not launched crippling sanctions by then. (Crippling Sanctions!!!? That’s not going to happen!) Sneh also says a nuclear-armed Iran was an unacceptable threat to Israel. (My point exactly.)
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Folks... It’s not IF -- but WHEN Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, and in the VERY near future I might add... it will be done so without a green light from the United States.
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That’s not a shocker either for hell... who could possibly believe Obama has the cahoots to approve such a thing anyway! Israel surely doesn’t. So why would anyone expect Israel to ask for approval... in advance. Simply put... Israel would much rather explain what went down after the fact than ask the Obama Administration for any approval beforehand.
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Sadly... Obama is one of the weakest Presidents the world has ever seen, and I believe the only good he could possibly do in all this mess, (and I believe in the end he and the left will end up SCREWING it up too...) would be help mop-up the political mess after Israel takes care of its and the World’s business.
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I’ll end with this... No one knows for sure where Israel will strike or WHEN. That’s a GOOD thing!
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I for one do believe though that wiping out all of Iran's capabilities to enrich uranium is just about impossible. But that’s OK... The effects of even a limited air attack would most likely be good enough to be extremely devastating to the Iranian’s Nuclear Program and not just a short-term setback either... as some in the West believe.
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Who knows!!! Just maybe... with the NEW unrest and uprisings within Iran since their summer elections, (see latest Iranian protest videos from Friday, September 18, 2009 HERE,) Israel’s attack just might help in the final collapse of the leaders of Iran who are in power today. Now wouldn’t THAT be something!!!
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That’s it my friends... say what you may... But I say- Israel Shall Soon Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities. Talk to the hand, Obama!!!

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God’s Speed, Israel on having a highly successful mission!
I say this, today... for I do not believe we have many Months or Years to wait... but rather just so many days left before Israel does what they MUST do to defend their Homeland...
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AubreyJ.........
September 21, 2009

Iran Has Now Produced Roughly Enough Nuclear Material For One Atom Bomb

Iran: On Ground Updates
Iran Has Now Produced Roughly Enough

Nuclear Material For One Atom Bomb

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File Photo by DOE.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The New York Times brings us this troubling bit of news late this Wednesday evening and it starts off like this... Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors... The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium... Several experts said that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design - a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran Said to Have Enough Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon

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POST UPDATE:
Thursday, November 20, 2008

* FoxNews.com has this take on the news this Thursday morning and it goes in part like this...
..."They clearly have enough material for a bomb," Richard L. Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades, told the newspaper. "They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter."... The report found the Islamic Republic was installing, or preparing to install, thousands more of the machines that spin uranium gas to enrich it - with the target of 9,000 centrifuges by next year... The report on Iran - which also went to the U.N. Security Council - cautioned that Tehran's stonewalling meant the IAEA could not "provide credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities." And it noted that the Islamic Republic continued to expand uranium enrichment, an activity that can make both nuclear fuel or fissile warhead material... While that conclusion was expected, it was a formal confirmation of Iran's refusal to heed Security Council demands to freeze such activities, despite three sets of sanctions meant to force an enrichment stop...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran Produces Enough Uranium to Build Nuclear Weapon
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* Bloomberg.com reports it this way...
Iran Has Enough Low-Level Uranium for Work on Bomb

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POST UPDATE:
Friday, November 21, 2008
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* TimesOnline.co.uk has this report posted on their website early this Friday morning and it goes in part like this...
... The timing of the talks, between two lame duck leaders with only weeks to go before they leave office, is intriguing. Israel has stated repeatedly that it would be unacceptable for an Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons. Although Tehran insists that its uranium enrichment programme is for peaceful purposes, President Ahmadinejad has vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth... During his visit to Washington, which begins on Sunday, Mr. Olmert is expected to meet the Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary... Intelligence sources have told The Times that the prospect of Israel taking preemptive military action to knock out Iran’s nuclear facilities appears to have become significantly more likely in recent weeks. Such an operation would require at least tacit US cooperation because it would almost certainly involve Israeli warplanes flying through US-controlled airspace in Iraq...
Read the full report at link below...
Bush and Olmert to Meet Monday over Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
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I’m sure there will be a lot of fuss over this during Thursday’s news cycle and I’ll update this post if/as needed.
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One other thought -- One cannot help but think that Israel’s fixing to light up some Iranian Nuclear sites now. Time’s UP!!!
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AubreyJ.........

ABC News Reports Senior Pentagon Officials Concerned of Israeli Attack on Iran before Year’s End - Oil Keeps Going Higher

ABC News Reports Senior Pentagon Officials Concerned of Israeli Attack on Iran before Year’s End...
Oil Keeps Going Higher
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

* I found this story on the ABC News website this morning and it starts off like this... Senior Pentagon officials are concerned that Israel could carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year, an action that would have enormous security and economic repercussions for the United States and the rest of the world...
Read the full story at ABCNews.com

* How does this affect the oil markets around the world you ask? Bloomberg.com has this take... Oil rose, extending this year's 48 percent gain, after ABC News reported Israel is increasingly likely to attack Iran this year, starting a conflict that would threaten supplies from the Middle East...
Read the rest at link below...
Crude Oil Rises on Concern Israel Attack Will Cut Iran Supply

IAF File Photo

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AubreyJ.........

Iran With Nuclear Weapons in less than Three Years?

Iran Could Have Nuclear Weapons in less than Three Years
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Iran could obtain nuclear weapons in less than three years - sooner than previously anticipated -- according to a new U.S. Intelligence assessment, CBS News reported late Thursday... Previous assessments suggested Iran would not be able to obtain atomic weapons for about eight years, but the new report says Iran has overcome technical difficulties in enriching uranium that could speed up the process...
Read the rest of the story at link below...
Iran Could Have Nuclear Bomb in Three Years, Report Says
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>>> DEBKAfile.com has this take on the story...
US intelligence estimates Iran has overcome technical difficulties in uranium enrichment, shortening to 2010 the date for enough bomb-grade material - CBS
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>>> HotAir.com has this report...
New Intel Report: Worst-case scenario - Iranian nukes by 2010
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U.S. Department of Energy photo

Iran could have enough material for a Nuclear Bomb by 2009

6abc.com website ran this story yesterday that started off like this... Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material... The development means Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009...
Read the rest HERE

HOTAIR.com has this take on the story ... The timeframe here -- a bomb by 2009 -- isn’t the news here. A British think tank said that was theoretically possible earlier this year. The newsflash is that they’re on track right now to actually do it...
Read the rest HERE

And I just had to add this take to the mix from the huffingtonpost.com website. It starts off like this... Seriously, the article has one source, and one source alone that says an Iranian nuke could be possible by 2009. And what does this one source base this completely unrealistic claim on? 1,000 new centrifuges Iran is installing at Natanz, which the articles notes, are not even operational...
Read the rest of this take HERE

Update: Tuesday evening, April 3, 2007
NewsBusters.org website has this update that starts off like this... A night after leading with an “exclusive” about the more imminent than thought horrific threat posed by Iran's nuclear weapons capability, ABC's World News began Tuesday with another Brian Ross “exclusive” in which he exposed a clandestine “secret war” inside Iran, a revelation that seemingly could undermine U.S. efforts to prevent Iran's extremist leaders from using those weapons of mass destruction...
Click the story out in full at link below...
Day After Highlighting Iran's Nuclear Threat, ABC Exposes 'Secret War' to Avert It

Anyway... let’s see if this story gets any legs under it over the next few days...
AubreyJ.........