20 June 2008

Flat, black and glows in the dark

Israel has carried out an exercise that appears to have been a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, US officials have told the New York Times.

"They wanted us to know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know," a Pentagon official is quoted as saying by the newspaper. "There's a lot of signalling going on at different levels."

The helicopters and refuelling tankers flew more than 1,400km (870 miles), roughly the distance between Israel and Iran's main uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.
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Afghan government officials took reporters to see piles of rotting corpses, some that were missing limbs. Officials said 56 Taliban died in the fighting, along with two Afghan soldiers and one civilian.
You guys might wanna practice that uprising thing a little bit.

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