Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] As more detail seeps around The Great Firewall Beijing masters once thought would suppress all dissident China blogging — and contradictory explanations emanate from Party sources — the case of Bo Xilai and his wife becomes all too familiar. For those who have tried to follow happenings over the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has been asked for data of an advanced U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured in 2011. Officials said the Iranian Defense Ministry has been approached by at least two U.S. adversaries for inspection of the RQ-170 Sentinel. The officials said China and Russia were requesting data from the advanced unmanned […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Viktor Bout, known as Russia’s merchant of death, was handed a 25-year jail sentence in New York. Moscow was offended, and called it “absolutely unacceptable” and a “politically motivated” miscarriage of justice. “It’s even more outrageous that this is not the first politically motivated sentence lacking a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has identified senior commanders of President Bashar Assad in his crackdown on the Sunni revolt. The Treasury Department has sanctioned three senior Syrian officials said to have been responsible for the Assad offensive on the opposition. One of those designated was Syria’s new defense minister, who replaced […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A former consultant has been sentenced to 13 years for trying to sell U.S. classified data to Israel. Stewart Nozette, a former consultant for Israel Aerospace Industries, was arrested in an FBI sting operation. Nozette, who is Jewish, later admitted that he agreed to supply space data to FBI undercover […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad could order weapons of mass destruction attacks to save his regime, a report said. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies asserted that Assad could employ Syria’s massive WMD arsenal against any rising Sunni revolt. In a report, the center warned that the Damascus regime could also […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s claim of a serious scientific reason for planning to fire off a long-range missile next month with a satellite for a payload is couched in such sincere-sounding lingo that one has to wonder if the North’s scientists and engineers actually may have something in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid A motion hearing in the case of United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning is scheduled for March 15 at 10 a.m., at Fort Meade in Maryland, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his backers are coming under increasing scrutiny. In the biggest release of classified information in U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A Saudi national has lost his student visa to the U.S. after triggering “several indicators of national security concerns”. “ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] special agents from our Washington, D.C., office arrested a Saudi Arabian national who was admitted as an F-1 non-immigrant student and violated the term and condition […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch On March 4th, The New York Times editorialized on the subject of the surveillance by the NYPD of the Muslim community, seeking to acquire intelligence and the efforts of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to keep New York City safe from another catastrophic attack as was […]