The FBI and Moldovan investigators
have broken up a major effort by Eastern European organized crime gangs to sell
radioactive materials for a “dirty bomb to ISIS.” A "dirty bomb" can contaminate a city and kill thousands of people.
The smugglers were arrested in Moldova after they provided the undercover
agents with samples of the radioactive material and expressed their intention
to peddle bomb-grade materials to ISIS and other Islamic extremist
groups.
Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Moscow is putting its ties with
Ankara at risk. "Our positive relationship with Russia is
known. But if Russia loses a friend like Turkey, with whom it has been
cooperating on many issues, it will lose a lot, and it should know that,"
he said at a news conference in Brussels with the Belgian prime minister.
Erdogan also said that his country would not stay patient regarding future
intrusions by Russia.
Four Russian warships in the Caspian
Sea Tuesday fired at least 26 cruise missiles against 11 Islamic
State targets in Syria, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has just disclosed. The missiles flew 1,500 kilometers to their
targets over Iran and Iraq, after coordination between Moscow and both
governments. “All targets were destroyed and no civilians hurt,” the Russian
minister said.
The terror attacks in Israel are getting worse. PM Binyamin Netanyahu has
reduced his scheduled trip to Berlin Thursday to a few hours in order to return
home to deal with the terror crisis. He will only open the annual two-day
government-to-government session attended by senior German and Israeli
ministers taking place this week, before flying home. The session will continue
without him. The meeting was to have been one of the events this year to mark
the 50th anniversary of the establishment of
German-Israel diplomatic ties.
Another miracle occurred in
Israel when an Israeli soldier was stabbed by a terrorist as he got
off a bus in the city of Kiryat Gat early Wednesday afternoon. The
terrorist then grabbed the soldier's assault rifle and fled into a nearby
building, where he tried to shoot a woman. But the weapon jammed. He was shot and killed
by police who arrived on the scene. The soldier, who was lightly
wounded, was taken to a local hospital along with another Israeli injured in
the attack.
Another miracle occurred
when two Israeli drivers were wounded on Wednesday when Palestinians stoned
their vehicles on the road between Jerusalem and Tekoa, adjacent to Beit
Sahour. One of them, a woman in her late 30s, said she was ambushed by a
group of Palestinians who broke through the windows of her car,
started kicking her and attempted to pull her out by force, but she was able to escape.
The spokesperson of the
upper house of Russia’s parliament, Valentina Matviyenko, said Wednesday that
Moscow will contemplate carrying out airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq if a
formal request is made by the Iraqi authorities, but no such request has been
made yet. The spokesperson, who is currently visiting Jordan. My
military sources reported that Russia and Iraq
reached an agreement under which the Russian air force may use the Al
Taqaddum Airbase, 74 kilometers west of Baghdad, for airlifts of forces to
Syria as well as the bombing of ISIS targets in northern areas of Syria and
Iraq.
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