There’s a new sheriff in town…

Saving Sergeant Shalit

Only a matter of time…

A modern day Churchill…

It’s all coming to a head…

For “peaceful purposes”…

Venezuela to Develop Nuclear Energy With Russian Help

Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said the South American country plans to develop a nuclear energy program with Russia and doesn’t want to build an atomic bomb.

Chavez said that the country’s oil and gas reserves won’t last forever and the government will seek alternative energy sources. Russian Prime MinisterVladimir Putin agreed to help Venezuela’s nuclear energy program during a meeting in Moscow last week, Chavez said.

“We’re not going to make an atomic bomb, so don’t bother us like with Iran,” he said on state television. “We’re going to develop nuclear energy with peaceful purposes.”

Chavez is a close ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who’s under international sanctions for continuing with the country’s nuclear energy program under suspicions by the U.S. and its allies that Iran is working toward making atomic weapons.

Robert Morgenthau, New York’s District Attorney, said last week that Venezuela may be helping Iran skirt sanctions imposed by the United Nations and the U.S. by transfering funds through the Venezuelan financial system.

Tinfoil hatters may be vindicated…

‘Protocols of Zion’ Part Deux

Iran terror suspect gets defense post

Official wanted in connection with bloody Buenos Aires bombing gets nod from Ahmadinejad; Argentina Prosecutor: Nomination not surprising, Iran has always protected terrorists

Associated Press

Published:

08.21.09, 22:49

The man Iran’s president has named to be defense minister is wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and his nomination drew an outcry Friday from Argentina and Jewish groups.

Ahmad Vahidi, who commanded a unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force at the time of the attack, was nominated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday along with others named to fill Cabinet positions. The Quds Force is involved in operations abroad, including working with Hezbollah, which is accused to carrying out the Buenos Aires attack.

Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told The Associated Press Friday that Vahidi is accused of “being a key participant in the planning and of having made the decision to go ahead with the attack against the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association.”

Nisman has led the investigation into the July 18, 1994, bombing – Argentina’s bloodiest terrorist attack. The bomb exploded inside a van outside the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association, killing 85 people and wounding 200.

“It has been demonstrated that Vahidi participated in and approved of the decision to attack AMIA during a meeting in Iran on Aug. 14, 1993,” when he led the Quds Force, Nisman said.

He added that Vahidi was never in Argentina.