Armies of the Middle East
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And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth...
By Thomas Horn
RNU News Sr. Reporter
Small and very deadly, micro flying machines are being designed to swarm the battlefields of the future.
RNU.com – (Raiders News Update) - 2006 - Small and very deadly, micro flying machines are being designed to swarm the battlefields of the future...more below.
According to the Bible an unprecedented war will occur in the future. It will be fought on land and sea, in the heavens above, and in the earth below, in the physical and spiritual worlds. It will include "Michael and his angels [fighting] against the dragon; and the dragon [fighting] and his angels" (Rev. 12:7).
Heretics will join the battle, calling upon "idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood" (Rev. 9:20) to convene their evil powers against the Christian God. They will unite with "unclean spirits....to gather them to the battle of that great day....[to] a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon ["Mount Megiddo"]" (Rev. 16:13-14;16).
The fowl of the air will "eat the flesh of the mighty" and hybrid locusts will sting the enemies of God until the omnipotent Christ utterly repels the forces of darkness and destroys the New World Army.
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Nuclear Iran: Beware of the Russian Bear in the Middle East
By Jim Kouri
Apr 17, 2006
April 06 - As the Iranians are moving closer to developing a nuclear weapons program, the Russian government is telling the world not to worry. A Russian official is being quoted as saying the centrifuges available to Iran are not sufficient to launch industrial uranium enrichment. A Russian nuclear expert concurred.
"Uranium enrichment in Iran is not arousing concerns in Russia.There is nothing unexpected in this. The availability of 164 centrifuges in Iran is a fact that has been known for a long time," Russian Atomic Energy Agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko told China's communist party-controlled news agency.
"These centrifuges allow Iran to conduct laboratory uranium enrichment to a low level in insignificant amounts. The acquisition of highly enriched uranium is unfeasible today using this method," Kiriyenko said.
However, a senior Iranian official and former president Hashemi Rafsanjani told the Kuwait News Agency that Iran had operated the first unit of 164 centrifuges and successfully enriched uranium.
And then there's Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bragging on Tuesday that Iran had "joined the world club of nuclear technology."
However, in order for the Iranian scientists to produce their own fuel at least for the initial loading of a nuclear reactor, "one needs to have not some hundred-and-a-half centrifuges, but thousands of times more," Viktor Mikhailov, ex-minister of the Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy who leads the ministry's Institute for Strategic Stability.
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Iran: Naval Doctrine Stresses 'Area Denial'
By Bill Samii
Iranian soldiers prepare to launch a missile during military exercises, April 4
(Fars)
Iran's tests of its Fajr-3 missile, torpedoes, and other types of hardware during a week of war games from March 31 to April 6 has overshadowed the military exercises themselves. But the maneuvers, which are taking place in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Sea of Oman, are significant because they highlight the role of naval power in Iran's military doctrine.
Iran's long coastline -- approximately 2,400 kilometers in the south -- affects its military outlook, Defense Minister Mustafa Mohammad Najjar said during an early January visit to the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
"One of the strategies of the Defense Ministry is to promote our operation and combat forces' capabilities in the sea," he said. It would achieve this, he said, by building ships and submarines and through cooperation with the gulf's littoral states. Najjar went on to say that the navy applies creative and innovative methods, uses asymmetric warfare, and depends on domestically-made products.
Later that same month, an Iranian military official stressed "denial of access" and said the United States is very vulnerable at sea. Mujtaba Zolnur, a high-ranking official at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), continued: "This is another weak point of the enemy because we have certain methods for fighting in the sea so that war will spread into the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean," "Aftab-i Yazd" reported on January 23. "We will not let the enemy inside our borders."
General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, IRGC commander, said in summer 2005 that the plans of the corps' navy include confronting aggressors by using asymmetric warfare and by improving power- projection capabilities, "Siyasat-i Ruz" and "Kayhan" reported on June 8.
Protecting Bases And Oil Fields
A total of 38,000 men serve in Iran's conventional navy and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps navy, and these forces are believed to have a significant capacity for regular and asymmetric naval warfare.
Rahim-Safavi added that the navy wants to improve its missile systems and its surveillance capabilities, and it wants to strengthen its defense of Persian Gulf islands.
An Iranian submarine participating in exercises in the Persian Gulf this month (Fars)The need to protect bases and oil facilities in the Persian Gulf makes "area denial" through mine warfare a major aspect of Iranian naval doctrine. Mines were used during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Today, Iran has three to five ships with minesweeping and mine-laying capabilities, and many of its smaller vessels can lay mines. Aircraft can drop mines, too.
Tehran has occasionally threatened to use mines to block the Straits of Hormuz, described by the U.S.'s Energy Information Administration as "By far the world's most important oil choke point." In February 2005 congressional testimony, the Defense Intelligence Agency director, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, addressed this possibility by saying that Iran would rely on a "layered strategy" that uses naval, air, and some ground forces to "briefly" close the straits. Iran's purchase of North Korean fast-attack craft and midget submarines improved this capability, he said.
Missiles are important for "area denial" as well. Iran compensates for limited air power and surface-vessel capabilities with an emphasis on antiship missiles. Four of these systems were obtained from China -- the long-range Seersucker missile, as well as the CS-801, CS-801K, and CS-802 antiship missiles. There are reports that Iran has purchased Ukrainian antiship missiles. Most commercial shipping is within range of missiles based on Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.
Iranian naval officers observing military exercises in the Persian Gulf earlier this month (Fars)In an effort to limit hostile air power in the region, Iran might target air bases to its south, or it could try to strike aircraft carriers outside the gulf. Submarines could be used for the latter assignment, and the port of Chah Bahar on the Sea of Oman is being modified to serve the kilo-class submarines Iran purchased from Russia in the 1990s.
As the Persian Gulf war games continued and Iran demonstrated new types of equipment, Tehran sought to reassure the international community of its benign intentions. Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said on April 4 that the country's military doctrine is essentially defensive, IRNA reported.
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IRAQ
TRUE COLORS:
Iraqi Leader Stirs Controversy Over Hizballah (Hezbollah)
By Andrew Tully
Al-Maliki (left) drew criticism for not denouncing Hizballah on July 25
(epa)
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Nuri al-Maliki wasted no time getting involved in controversy during his first trip to the United States as prime minister of Iraq.
During a July 25 news conference with U.S. President George W. Bush, al-Maliki was asked about the Israel-Hizballah conflict. He condemned what he called Israel's "hostile acts" in Lebanon, but avoided a question about his opinion about Hizballah. Al-Maliki belongs to Iraq's Shi'ite majority, and Hizballah is a Shi'ite group.
As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States supports Israel and has officially designated Hizballah as a terrorist group. Al-Maliki's young government, meanwhile, is fighting a bloody insurgency in Iraq that he and the Bush administration equate with terrorism.
'Debt To America'
Several members of Congress took issue with al-Maliki's comments, saying he at least should have criticized Hizballah for starting the fighting with a raid into Israel on July 12. And they questioned his stand on what Bush calls the global war on terrorism. "Iraq will not forget those who stood by it in its afflictions before and after, and those who sacrificed themselves for its liberty." -- al-Maliki
"He said he's opposed to what Israel's doing -- defending themselves. We want him [al-Maliki] to make a statement as to how he and his government feel about Hizballah, and he needs to answer that question," Senate minority leader Harry Reid (Democrat-Nevada) said on July 25.
"He's in America, America deserves that. We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq, we've lost more than 2,500 American soldiers, more than 20,000 wounded. We deserve that answer," Reid added.
Another senator, Charles Schumer (Democrat-New York), also criticized the prime minister's statement, saying al-Maliki "owes his office to those American lives and those American dollars. Where is he on the war on terror?"
Iraqis In The Vanguard
At the start of his address to Congress today, al-Maliki expressed his country's profound gratitude to the United States for the cost in money and lives to depose Saddam Hussein as president of Iraq in 2003 and helping his country establish a democracy.
"Let me start by thanking the American people through you and on the behalf of Iraqis for supporting Iraq to be free from dictatorship, and Iraq will not forget those who stood by it in its afflictions before and after, and those who sacrificed themselves for its liberty," he said.
Al-Maliki added that "it is our duty to defeat terror in the entire world, and Iraqis today stand in the forefront of this conflict, and history will witness that Iraqi sacrifices will not go in vain in the battle for human liberty, and Iraqis are united with the international counterterrorism front."
The war against terrorists is a battle between "true Islam" and an ideology that "wraps itself in a fake Islamic cloak," al-Maliki said.
But as he did the day before, he chose not to mention the Israel-Hizballah conflict.
Focusing On "Key" Issues
Some of the members of Congress who had criticized al-Maliki had threatened to boycott his address, but it wasn't immediately clear if any of them made good on the threat. Some critics joined in several standing ovations during the speech. And Reid was among those shaking the prime minister's hand after he spoke.
The White House has repeatedly said no one should be surprised that a freely elected government might occasionally disagree with certain U.S. policies, as many American allies do.
And Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the controversy shouldn't distract anyone's attention from the reason al-Maliki was visiting Washington, that no one misses "the opportunity to hear from this man and from his cabinet what their plan is going forward, because it's terribly important that Iraq succeed."
One of those reasons is money. In his speech to Congress -- and presumably in his conversation with Bush on July 25 -- al-Maliki asked for more assistance from the United States and other countries. He said the aid already received had been spent on security rather than the country's much-neglected reconstruction.
Al-Maliki's address was briefly interrupted by a young woman in the gallery who shouted that the United States should respect the wishes of many Iraqis and withdraw its forces from Iraq. She wore a pink T-shirt bearing the words "Troops Home Now."
The woman was escorted from the chamber without further incident.
Who is New Leader of Iraq ??
NURI KAMIL AL-MALIKI (Jawad al-Maliki is a nom de guerre) was born in 1950 in the Twayrij al-Hindiyah district of Karbala.
Commonly known as Abu Isra, al-Maliki joined the Islamic Al-Da'wah Party in 1968.
He holds an M.A. in Koran and Arabic Language Studies from Salah al-Din University in Irbil.
Following a crackdown on outlawed parties by the regime of Saddam Hussien, al-Maliki fled the country in 1980,
seeking asylum first in Iran and later in Syria.
While in Syria, he also published a magazine -- "Al-Mawqif" ("The Attitude") -- that became the mouthpiece of the Islamic Al-Da'wah Party.
For several years, al-Maliki served as the head of jihad and military operations for the party, subsequently becoming a member of its political bureau.
Following the liberation of Iraq, he served as deputy director of the de-Ba'athification commission established by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
In 2004, al-Maliki was elected deputy speaker of the interim National Assembly.
He played a leading role in settling the August 2004 crisis in Al-Najaf when supporters of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr battled coalition forces for three weeks.
In 2005, he served as chairman of the transitional National Assembly's Security and Defense Committee. He was also a member of the committe
responsible for drafting Iraq's new
constitution.
He has also served as a spokesman for transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'fari and as spokesman for the United Iraqi Alliance.
UAE - United Arab Emirates
UAE substantially upgrades its Military
ND - May 05 - The United Arab Emirates not only is purchasing jet fighters, tanks, ships and air-defense systems, but it also is beefing up its nuclear, biological and chemical defense capabilities, communications and early warning systems, while satisfying its insatiable need for trucks and armored vehicles, said Brigadier Staff Obaid Al
Ketbi, one of the top UAE armed forces procurement officials.
In order to tie all its military resources together and be capable of rapid response, UAE officials are working on a joint-service logistics concept, Ketbi told National Defense.
UAE Receiving 80 F-16 Jet Fighters
ND - May 05- A bu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates—Close to fielding one of the most advanced air forces in the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates is pushing to match the aircrews’ proficiency with their sophisticated equipment.
This need becomes even more pressing as the service fleshes out plans for ballistic missile defense, improved command and control, and readies itself for the first delivery of 80 F-16 Block 60 fighters this month.
“In the end state, systems have to be very effective, and they [become] so by people having the right training and education,” said Maj. Gen. Khalid Al-Bu
Ainnain, commander of the Emirates’ air force and
PAKISTAN
Pakistan Pushing Military Exports to become
regional player
ND - May 05 - Just last year, the father of that country’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, admitted supplying nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
On the conventional weapons side, among the products the IICS is marketing internationally is the Anza MK-II surface-to-air missile, which travels at a speed of 600 meters per second, with a range of 5,000 meters. Another system is the Baktar
Shikan, an advanced anti-tank guided missile with a range of 3,000 meters and anti-jamming capability. The system can be disassembled into four sub-units, each weighing no more than 25 kilograms, thus making the system man-portable. The weapon can also be mounted on Jeeps, armored personnel carriers and helicopters.
The IICS handheld laser rangefinder has found success with the Saudi military, said
Salman. The system designates static and moving targets from 150 meters to 10,000 meters. A lightweight version of the rangefinder can acquire multiple targets simultaneously. A larger system is used in artillery guns.
Egypt
U.S. Military Facilitates 24 Million Dollar Contract to provide for Egypt Guided Missile System
Raytheon Co., is being awarded a $24 Million
firm-fixed-price contract for production of three Rolling Airframe
Missile (RAM) MK 49 Mod 3 Guided Missile Launcher Systems (GMLS) in support of
the Egyptian Fast Missile Craft program. RAM is a missile system designed
to provide anti-ship missile defense. The MK 49 Guided Missile Launcher
Systems procured by this contract are designed to fire MK 44 Guided Missile
Round Packs, which feature an image scanning infrared seeker that allow the
missile to counter advanced anti-ship threats that do not employ active radar
guidance. This effort is for the Government of Egypt (100 percent)
under the Foreign Military Sales Program.
Work will be performed in Louisville,
Ky. (50 percent) and Germany (50 percent), and is expected to be
completed by March 2009. The contract was not competitively procured. Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea
System Command is the contracting activity
Source: Public / # 1313-05 FOR RELEASE AT Dec 21, 2005
Lockheed Wins Egyptian Missile Boat Sub-contract
DID- Dec 05 - Shortly after landing a $28.9 million design contract for a new class of Egyptian corvettes/fast missile boats based on the Ambassador Class
FAC, VT Halter Marine has issued a contract of its own. Lockheed Martin has been sub-contracted for $14.3 million to perform electronics and combat system design and integration.
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IRAN
Iran Buying SA-15/Tor M-1 SAM Systems from Russia
DID - Dec 05 - Novosti in Russia and western media outlets like Reuters are reporting that Russia will sell about 30 Tor M-1 (SA-15 Gauntlet) surface-to-air missile systems. Greece had bought 21 of the systems and had the right to another 29, but scrapped the deal in the late 1990s. Those missiles will now find their way to Iran, where they will be emplaced between 2006-2008 around the Bushehr nuclear power plant. That reactor is due to be completed by Russia in
2007 [or sooner], and is widely seen as a component of Iran's atomic bomb program.
Iran becoming a World Leader in Anti-Tank
Technology
DID - Dec 05 - Back on December 8, 2005, DID ran a story about Forecast International's market forecast for the $5.33 billion man-portable anti-armor and bunker buster weapons market over the next decade.
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RPG
Threat From Iran known for a long time
Jordan, Malaysia
US Facilitates 50 Million Dollar Contract to provide for Missile Vehicles
Raytheon Co. Missile Systems is being awarded a $50 Million dollar fixed price contract modification
to provide for 102 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile Air Vehicles under the foreign military
sales program for the following countries: Jordan and Malaysia.
This work will be complete in July 2008. Headquarters Medium Range Missile Systems
Source: Public / # 1330-05 FOR RELEASE AT Dec 28, 2005
JORDAN
ND - May 05 - While this equipment, in many cases, answers the needs of the Jordanian armed forces, the center, known as the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau, also is determined to expand its reach in the Middle East and North Africa,
ISRAEL
Legendary Israeli Tank Threatened With Extinction
Other Nations
Singapore (Now China) & Egypt
Singapore (China)+ & F15s
Jan 06 - The government of Singapore has selected the GE F110 fighter engine to power its 12-20 new Boeing F-15SG Strike Eagle aircraft. Engine deliveries for the firm order of 12 aircraft will occur in 2008-2009. The Singapore selection of the F110-GE-129 (rated at 29,000 pounds thrust) is the second F-15 aircraft selection for the popular fighter engine.
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China
China Is Pursuing Unmanned Aircraft
China & Military Growth
Chinese Arms Industry Improving
Military Alliances
Multi-National Brigade Set to Deploy in Balkans
Southeastern European nations train together for peace operations in the region
MEXICO
Is U.S. using Border issues to merge countries ?
Six working groups formed (US-Mexico)
George Bush's War on Language ?
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