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.........
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
No. 376-07 April 03, 2007DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Brian E. Ritzberg, 24, of New York, died April 2nd in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit during combat operations in Kirkuk, Iraq. Ritzberg was assigned to the 977th Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
For more information in regard to this release the media can contact the Fort Riley public affairs office at (785) 239-3410.
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
No. 375-07 April 03, 2007DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Bradley D. King, 28, of Marion, Ind., died April 2nd in Al Amiriyah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. King was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 152nd Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Brigade, Marion, Ind.
For more information in regard to this release the media can contact the Indiana Army National Guard at (317) 247-3105.
DoD Identifies Army Casualties
No. 374-07 April 03, 2007DoD Identifies Army Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died April 1st in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle during combat operations. They were assigned to the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. David A. Mejias, 26, of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Staff Sgt. Eric R. Vick, 25, of Spring Hope, N.C.
Sgt. Robert M. McDowell, 30, of Deer Park, Texas.
Spc. William G. Bowling, 24, of Beattyville, Ky.
For more information in regard to this release the media can contact the Fort Drum public affairs office at (315) 772-8286.
Taking A Moment To Remember Our Fallen Heroes
Some of our bravest gave their all these last few days...Take a moment to read their names,
(in the posts below/above this one,) and in your own way
thank them for all they have done and were
(in the posts below/above this one,) and in your own way
thank them for all they have done and were
willing to do for you -- me and this great country of ours…
God bless each and every one of them and their
families, friends and loved ones.
AubreyJ.........
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
No. 373-07 April 03, 2007DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Olsen, 20, of Eagan, Minn., died April 2nd while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Olsen was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Media with questions about this Marine can contact the Twentynine Palms public affairs office at (760) 830-5476.
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
No. 371-01 April 03, 2007DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
1st Lt. Neale M. Shank, 25, of Fort Wayne, Ind., died March 31st in Baghdad, Iraq, from a non-combat related incident. His death is under investigation.
Shank was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
For more information in regard to this release the media can contact the Fort Drum public affairs office at (315) 772-8286.
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
No. 370-07 April 03, 2007DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sgt. Joe Polo, 24, of Opalocka, Fla., died March 29th in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. Polo was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
For more information in regard to this release the media can contact the Fort Carson public affairs office at (719) 526-3420; after hours (719) 526-5500.
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