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Iran has signed the NPT. As a signatory to the NPT, Iran may rightfully, legally, use nuclear technology for peaceful energy purposes. Iran has submitted to and passed repeated IAEA inspections. The US intelligence community (NIE) does not consider Iran a nuclear threat. Israel refuses to sign the NPT. Israel has an estimated several hundred undeclared nuclear weapons. Russia and China have warned that an attack on Iran will have global consequences. That's the situation in a nutshell. Where to next, people? Where to?

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? - Galatians 4:16

11.28.2008

Thai protestors brace for raids on Bangkok airports

Excerpt:

Thailand's political crisis pits the electorally popular government, which draws its support mainly from the rural poor, against an elite in Bangkok, the army and the royal palace who fear a threat to their traditional power.

The anti-government protest movement, which calls itself the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), has said it would welcome a coup.

Protests by the PAD preceded the last coup, which overthrew the populist government of Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006.

Dr Giles Ungpakorn, a Thai political scientist, pointed out that the army is responsible for security at Suvarnabhumi airport and that Don Muang is located inside an air force base, yet the military did nothing to stop the PAD taking them over.

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