Poisonous gas sprayed in Homs leaves seven people dead and scores affected, activists say

Will this be Obama’s Casus Belli? There is something really wrong with all of this.

From Al Jazeera

Seven people have died in Homs after they inhaled a poisonous gas sprayed by government forces in a rebel-held neighbourhood, activists said.

Activists also told Al Jazeera that scores of others were affected in al-Bayyada neighbourhood. Side effects reported include nausea, relaxed muscles, blurred vision, and breathing difficulties.

Residents said they did not know the nature of the gas sprayed.

“The situation is very difficult. We do not have enough facemasks. We don’t know what this gas is but medics are saying it’s something similar to Sarin gas,” Raji Rahmet Rabbou, an activist in Homs, told Al Jazeera.

We received the following videos from a field clinic in the city:

H/T Shabnam.

Iran making anthrax at secret plant

WND:

Weaponization efforts also include deadly encephalitis, ‘yellow grain’

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Reza Kahlili served in CIA Directorate of Operations, as a spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, counterterrorism expert; currently serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an advisory board authorized by Congress. He is the author of the award winning book “A Time to Betray” and regularly appears in national and international media as an expert on Iran and counterterrorism in the Middle East.More ?

Russian scientists have helped Iran master four microbial agents for bombs, which the Islamic regime has used to arm 37 launch-ready missiles so far, sources have revealed.

The secret work is being done at a plant named Shahid Bahonar on a mountaintop by the city of Marzanabad off the mountainous Chalus road to the Iranian Caspian Sea.

DigitalGlobe Image, May 2012 – Shahid Bahonar Microbial Bomb plant

The plant, under the supervision of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, is headed by Dr. Esmaeil Namazi, who oversees 28 Iranian and 12 Russian scientists, according to a source in the Revolutionary Guards intelligence division with access to the site.

There are several underground facilities at two levels with elevators reaching the lower level some 40 feet underground and where more than 100 personnel work on the microbial bomb project, the source said.

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Syria, WMD’s Obama and general hypocrisy

I wonder if the same people who were red faced with anger and hatred at Bush for launching a war on Iraq because of Saddam’s well documented use of, and threats of WMD’s will feel the same or act the same with Obama’s identical threat against Syria.

Note to angry leftists: The WMD’s that Syria likely has, almost certainly came from Iraq. This blog has published pictures of convoys of Russian trucks moving the goods for Hussein.

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Iran to boost uranium enrichment ‘with intensity’ – nuclear chief

h/t Michael Laudahn

RT:

Published: 29 November, 2012, 03:18

A general view of a heavy water plant in Arak, 320 kms south of Tehran (AFP Photo / Atta Kenare)

A general view of a heavy water plant in Arak, 320 kms south of Tehran (AFP Photo / Atta Kenare)

Tehran is set to sharply boost the number of centrifuges they use to produce nuclear fuel, the country’s nuclear energy chief has announced. This comes amid harsh Western sanctions and high tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.

“Despite sanctions, we will most likely see a substantial increase in the number of centrifuge machines this year. We will continue enrichment with intensity,” the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, said on Wednesday, as quoted by state TV. The Iranian calendar year continues till March 20.

Abbasi-Davani did not elaborate whether the Islamic Republic would step up work at 5 per cent fuel enrichment or the higher 20 per cent quality. Five per cent enriched uranium is used to produce fuel for reactors, whilst a higher grade of enrichment is needed to build nuclear weapons, which makes up the core of the West’s concerns about Iran.

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IAEA makes alarming claim about Iran nuclear capabilities

H/T Michael Laudahn

Big News Network:

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Recent IAEA findings are bound to underline the fears facing the world powers over Iran’s atomic activity.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has made a report that Iran is now capable of doubling its uranium enrichment capability.

The leaked report has suggested the IAEA is aware of the completion of centrifuge installations at the underground Fordo plant.

The Fordo facility was built for centrifuges which can assist in the development of nuclear weapons.

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Grad rockets fired from Gaza to Israel were also loaded with phosphorus.

H/T Tundra Tabloids

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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Phosphorus in Grad Rockets
Phosphorus in Grad Rockets

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 15 November 2012

Israel Radio correspondent Nissim Keinan reported this morning that some of
the Grad rockets fired from Gaza to Israel were also loaded with phosphorus.

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KHALILI: Iran preparing for nuclear war

Washington Times:

West needs harsher sanctions now

By Reza Khalili

 

Friday, October 5, 2012

  • Illustration Nuclear Iran by John Camejo for The Washington TimesEnlarge Photo

    Illustration Nuclear Iran by John Camejo for The Washington Times

Despite the statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s red line on Iran’s illicit nuclear program could be reached by next spring, Iranian officials are adamant that war is close.

In analyzing Mr. Netanyahu’s recent speech to the United Nations General Assembly, an Iranian nuclear policy strategist boasted to state media outlet irannuc.ir that Mr. Netanyahu’s red line is based on the current enrichment process to the 20 percent level at the Fordow nuclear facility. A recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report shows Iran has 90 kilograms of 20 percent enrichment, needing just 130 kilograms of such material for a nuclear bomb, which the Israelis conclude will happen by next spring.

“The first important fact is that Netanyahu has assumed that the speed of 20 percent enrichment by Iran remains the same till next year, but if the speed of such conversion then is changed, the timeline for such capacity will change, too,” said the unnamed strategist, hinting that Iran could obtain the needed material for the bomb sooner than Israel expects.

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Iran has doubled uranium enrichment machines – report

Guardian:

IAEA quarterly report shows Tehran is increasing stockpile of potent nuclear material at underground Fordow bunker

Satellite photo of what is believed to be a uranium-enrichment facility near Qom

Satellite photo of what is believed to be a uranium-enrichment facility near Qom. Photograph: Digital Globe/Reuters

Iran has doubled the number of uranium enrichment machines it has in an underground bunker, a UN report said on Thursday, showing Tehran continued to defy western pressure to stop its atomic work.

In the weeks and months when Israeli politicians increased their talk of air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, the Islamic republic was rapidly increasing the enrichment capacity of its Fordow site, buried deep underground to withstand any such hit.

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