Bah Humbug from Christ-less Foes,
Cold War Is Officially Here To Grow!
On a planet where a fiend is a fiend,
Weapons For Sale To Muslims Mean!
The Seas are Filled with Combatants,
Islamic Jihad Has NOW Circled Planet!
World prepared for war 1922 to 1939,
Now Moving Again Determined To Win,
Twixt 2010 and 2015 it will likely Begin,
Cold War gets Hot as Gentile Age Ends!
Dece
mber 23, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from BBC News
December 23, 2008
Russia boosts military spending
Russia has set out plans to increase its military procurement over the next three years and commission 70 new strategic nuclear missiles.
A government official said there would also be more short-range missiles, combat planes, helicopters, tanks and naval vessels.
In all, Russia will spend nearly $140bn (£94.5bn) on buying arms.
Higher oil revenues in recent years have allowed the Kremlin to increase the military budget, analysts say.
The move comes months after the war with Georgia, which exposed problems with outdated equipment and practices within Russia’s armed forces and led to calls for military modernisation.
Missile row
The comments came from Vladislav Putilin, whose department oversees weapons industries, after a government session chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
“More than 70 strategic missiles will be bought and delivered to troops in the next three years, more than 30 short-range Iskander missiles and a large number of booster rockets and aircraft,” Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
The military would also purchase 14 naval vessels, 48 combat jets, more than 60 military helicopters and almost 300 tanks, he added.
The move comes amid tensions with the US over its plan to deploy elements of a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
Last month President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, a Baltic enclave near Nato member Poland, if the US went ahead.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Moscow sends warships on Mediterranean tour, offers Lebanon heavy weapons
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 7, 2008, 10:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that, four months after the Georgian war, Moscow is again testing the limits of its Mediterranean reach. Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo announced that two flotillas from the Barents Sea and the Black Sea are heading for the Mediterranean:
One, based in the Barents sea near Finland, is led by the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier accompanied by two guided missile destroyers, the Admiral Chabanenko and Admiral Levchenko, with two supply ships in tow, one a tanker.
The second is the guided nuclear-powered missile cruiser Peter the Great, one of the biggest warships afloat, with three accompanying ships. They come from a joint Caribbean exercise with Venezuela.
According to the Russian Navy spokesman, the two groups will merge upon entering the Mediterranean and spend several months calling in at various ports.
Another Russian military initiative which should worry Jerusalem is the arrival in Beirut Saturday Dec. 6 of Mikhail Dimitriev, head of the Russian military cooperation department, to prepare the visit to Moscow next week of Lebanese defense minister Elias Murr.
After greeting his Russian visitor, Murr said: “There are no obstacles in terms of equipping the army. We prepared for my visit to Russia next week.
I will discuss… with the Russian defense minister what could be provided to the Lebanese Air Force.”
Clearly, Moscow and Beirut are preparing the way for their first important arms transaction.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that on the table are sales of Russian tanks, missiles, helicopters, and possibly warplanes. Murr’s statement about no obstacles signals Washington that with Moscow ready and willing, Beirut is prepared to flout US opposition to the Lebanese army’s acquisition of heavy weapons for fear they may fall into Hizballah’s hands.
Gen. David Petraeus, head of the US Central Command, raised this concern during a surprise three-hour visit to Beirut last Tuesday, Dec. 2. His trip was prompted by intelligence that Lebanese president Michel Sleiman had been bidding in Tehran, Moscow and Paris, for heavy arms – tanks, warplanes and self-propelled artillery – for the army of which he was formerly chief of staff.
Gen. Petraeus warned prime minister Fouad Siniora and the new chief of staff Gen. Jean Qahwaji that the United States would not allow heavy weapons to reach Lebanon, irrespective of the source. It now looks as though Sleiman and Siniora are prepared to go out on a limb and defy Washington with Moscow’s help.
Begin Excerpt 3 from Jerusalem Post
‘Iran rocket arsenal tripled in 2008’
December 8, 2008
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
In a sign that Iran is taking military measures to ward off the threat of an attack on its nuclear facilities, the country has tripled the number of long-range rockets in its arsenal, Channel 10 reported on Monday.
According to the report,
Iran possessed 30 Shihab-3 missiles at the beginning of 2008. Currently, the country claims to have over 100 over long-range missiles capable of hitting Israel.
While the ability of the Islamic Republic to strike any point in Israel has long been known, this latest build-up potentially points to an Iranian intent to launch a protracted counter-strike against those who seek to destroy its nuclear program.
The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report.
Last summer, Iran held a massive missile exercise during which it claimed to have launched an improved version of the Shihab-3, known to have a range of 1,300 kilometers. The Iranian Fars News Agency Web site reported that the Shihab-3 had recently been equipped with an advanced guidance system that significantly improves the missile’s accuracy and can correct its flight plan in midair.
Begin Excerpt 4 from DEBKAfile
Iran test-fires new surface-to-surface missile from warship
December 7, 2008, 10:15 PM (GMT+02:00)DEBKAfile’s military sources report that mock air strikes “which sank big enemy vessels” were said to be part of the war game, a clear reference to American air carriers, three of which are now present in waters opposite Iran. Navy chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari boasted Wednesday: “Iran has pushed back the frontiers of naval capabilities to become the decisive maritime force in the region.”
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that the exercise is part of Tehran’s preparations for a US and/or Israeli attack on its nuclear installations and Revolutionary Guards bases, which its political, military and intelligence strategists are convinced is on the way ahead of Barak Obama’s January 21 inauguration as US president.
Begin Excerpt 5 from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
I Don’t Doubt the “Hoot” Exists!
But is the “Hoot” really a “Hoot!”
Or only a little ‘Hoot’ that ‘Toots?’
December 3, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
IRAN’S “HOOT” TORPEDO DOCUMENTED
SECRECY NEWS – from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2008, Issue No. 114
December 3, 2008
Secrecy News Blog: www.fas.org/blog/secrecy
In April 2006, Iran successfully test-fired a new high-speed torpedo called
Hoot. It was test-fired again last July, along with various other missiles.
“The torpedo is capable of destroying the largest warships and any other
vessel on the surface or beneath the water, and split it into two parts,”
according to an Iranian Naval Forces official.
Technical specifications www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/hoot.pdf (pdf)
for components of the Hoot torpedo are presented in an Iranian document (in
Farsi) that was provided to Secrecy News. The document appears to have been
produced by a subunit of Iran’s Aerospace Industries Organization, according
to a colleague who reviewed it.
“Only Iran and another country possess the technology to build this
[torpedo],” the Iranian press reported after last July’s test, apparently
referring to Russia and its Shkval torpedo. On 4 April 2006, Izvestiya
Moscow said that the Hoot resembles the Shkval technically and in
appearance, and that Shkval torpedoes may have found their way to Iran via
China, where they were delivered in the mid-1990s. But Iranian officials
insist the Hoot is a completely original production.
“From a tactical point of view,” said Rear Admiral Morteza Safari of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps naval forces, “what is of critical
importance is that we are everywhere, while we are nowhere!” (Fars News
Agency, July 10, 2008, via OSC).
“Let me briefly say that the intelligence that the Americans have about us
is very different from the intelligence that they do not have about us,” he
went on. “What I mean is that they have only little information, and there
is a lot of intelligence that they are not aware of.”
Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation
of American Scientists.
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