Iran nuclear work reported
VIENNA, Austria - Iran has linked hundreds of centrifuges - machines to enrich uranium - reflecting a possible intention to speed up the process, diplomats linked to the International Agency for Atomic Energy said in interviews here this week. All of them asked for anonymity.
One diplomat said more than 300 centrifuges had been linked up in two separate units in an underground enrichment plant and a third unit was being assembled. He said the machines apparently are the sophisticated IR-2 centrifuge Tehran recently acknowledged testing.
But a second diplomat said that although the new work appeared to include advanced centrifuges, they were not IR-2s. A third said the machines were not running. Uranium enrichment can produce both fuel for power plants and the fissile core of nuclear warheads. - AP
TOKYO - Japanese police arrested a U.S. sailor yesterday in the stabbing death of a taxi driver near an American naval base outside Tokyo, fueling anger here over crimes allegedly involving U.S. troops.
Olatunbosun Ugbogu, 22, a Nigerian national, was arrested on murder and robbery charges, and had confessed, a local police spokesman said. Japanese officials reacted sharply to the arrest.
Public anger over the U.S. military presence is mounting after a series of allegations against U.S. servicemen. A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a U.S. Marine in February on Okinawa, sparking protests. Prosecutors dropped charges against the Marine after the girl withdrew her complaint. In Yokosuka, a Japanese court convicted a U.S. sailor of robbing and fatally beating a 56-year-old Japanese woman and sentenced him to life in prison. - AP
DUBLIN, Ireland - The path quickly cleared yesterday for Finance Minister Brian Cowen to become Ireland’s next prime minister after the entire cabinet backed him to replace Bertie Ahern.
Cowen, 48, who is also deputy prime minister, was poised to be the only candidate after nominations close tomorrow for the next leader of Fianna Fail, Ireland’s perennial No. 1 party.
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So for all those that have been arguing for a preemptive strike against Iran - your intelligence just ran out on you. Now you’re left in the war room with only Prejudice, Profit and Paranoia to keep you company and to justify your being there. I’ve little doubt that this will prevent the ratcheting against Iran but it is nice to have it on record before an attack as opposed to after, which was the case when CIA whistle blowers announced the Saddam-WMD argument amongst the intelligence community was always considered ‘hooey’.
yeah, all those Apple Rumors, interesting….indeed
The Fox news side of the story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314708,00.htmlwith the title:”Report: Iran Blinked in ‘03, Halted Nuke-Bomb WorkLatest intel suggests U.S. succeeded in pressuring Tehran into 2003 shutdown of weapons program — but nuke enrichment continues, bomb still possible by late 2009″
a week ago i had 1 karma as well. I had been trying to submit for a couple of weeks. i never had problems with any script auto-downmodders.The best strategy is to submit something you know people will like for your first story, to build your karma up past the unlimited submittal threshold. Yeah, it’s annoying, but it theoretically prevents spam, while in the process making a lot of new users frustrated.If you do have a story you really want to submit, but you’re worried people will downmod it, and you’re worried about your karma, submit it from a different account, or delete the story if it’s getting downmodded to oblivion. the key is to use the system to your advantage.
When it became clear that reddit was only going to be a mere shadow of its former self from now on, I assumed that I would finally be able to get back to coding.Sometimes, I underestimate my own ability to procrastinate.