Wednesday, April 20, 2011

France and Italy follow UK to send Military advisers to Libyan rebels


Sarkozy meeting with Libyan Rebel Commander Abdel Jalil
France and Italy are joining Britain in sending Special military commandos and spies to carry out special operations against Libyan forces and train Libyan rebels in technical, logistical and organisational issues.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, offered assistance to Abdel Jalil, the leader of the Libyan Transitional National Council, when they met in Paris on Wednesday.

Japan’s nuclear emergency and its effects on Humans and Nature

Damage at a nuclear power plant has made leaking radiation the primary threat facing a country grappling with devastation from a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami

Water from units 1-4 has contaminated adjacent seawater with iodine-131 and cesium-137. Engineers 

are processing about 60,000 tons of contaminated water found in the turbine buildings of units 1, 2 and 3,
 diverting it to reactor condensors and temporary storage tanks, with plans to send it to a radiation waste
 treatment facility before discharging the water into the sea

India launches three satellites on single rocket




BANGALORE: India has launched a rocket which is carrying three satellites into orbit in its to gain a share of the global commercial space market.

The main satellite in the launch from the Sriharikota space centre in Andhra Pradesh was the remote-sensing Resourcesat-2, which will study the effect of human life on the Earth’s natural resources.

Lal Masjid cleric indicted in Rangers murder case



ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court, on Wednesday, indicted the cleric of Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz in the Rangers murder case.

Aziz was indicted along with 21 others, including his wife Umme Hassan and his daughter Tayyaba, in a case involving the murder of a Rangers official during the 2007 Lal Masjid operation.

Syria is to lift 48 years Old Emergency Law



Syrian Government has announced that it has lifted emergency laws in the countries which were in place for 48 years, just hours after security forces fired on protesters.

Tuesday's move is a key demand of pro-reform demonstrators who have been holding protests across the country for weeks.

A senior lawyer said Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, was yet to sign the legislation, but that  

More tornadoes to set to Rage across the United States


More Tornadoes are set to rage across the US after this years severe storms have claimed at least 40 people in just three days.
After barreling through Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, the system significantly worsened on Friday, producing an incredible 113 tornado reports.
Worst hit was North Carolina, which saw its deadliest day for tornadoes since 1984.

U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show


The State Department has secretly funded Syrian opposition groups, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million since 2006 to a group of Syrian exiles to operate a London-based satellite channel, Barada TV that beams anti-government programming into the country, and finance activities inside Syria, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables, the Post said.

United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N. Wikileaks cables revealed



In the aftermath of Israel's 2008-2009 intervention into the Gaza Strip, Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, led a vigorous campaign to stymie an independent U.N. investigation into possible war crimes, while using the prospect of such a probe as leverage to pressure Israel to participate in a U.S.-backed Middle East peace process, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables provided by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
The documents provide a rare glimpse behind the scenes at the U.N. as American diplomats

CIA recipe for invisible ink among newly released WWI-era documents



CIA has revealed six oldest classified documents in her possession since WW-I. according to WP.
So you want to open sealed envelopes without getting caught?
Here’s the secret, according to one of the six oldest classified documents in possession of the Central Intelligence Agency:
“Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath — steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.”

UK to send Spies and SAS Troops in Libya despite Gaddafi's warning




UK has announced that it will send a team of experienced military officers including spies and SAS troops to Libya to help support and advise the country's opposition council, the UK foreign minister has said.

William Hague said on Tuesday that military advisers would join a group of British diplomats already co-operating with the Libyan National Transitional Council, based in the rebel stronghold

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