news.bbc.co.uk - 2/3/2009
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Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit, state media reports. TV commentary said Monday's night-time launch on a Safir-2 rocket was "another achievement for Iranian scientists under sanctions". The satellite was designed for research and telecommunications purposes, ...
longwarjournal.org - 2/4/2009
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Eighteen of the 85 terrorists wanted by Saudi
Arabia. Reuters photo. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia released a list...
of 85 "most-wanted" terrorists. The list includes 11 former Guantánamo detainees who were placed in Saudi Arabia's ...
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Saudi Arabia's most-wanted
commentarymagazine.com - 2/2/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
Results are still being tallied in Iraq’s provincial
election, but preliminary returns, as reported by Dubai’s Al-Sharqiyah...
television, sound on the whole like good news from the standpoint of the United States — and bad news from ...
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Encouraging Results in Iraq
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... Results Show Iraq Leaning Toward a Strong Central Government Washington Post: Nonviolent Inmates Could Get Out Early Va. Senate Drafts A Budget Assist Worth $50 Million BBC: Alzheimer's 'is brain diabetes' BBC: Saudis issue overseas wanted list BBC: Venezuela marks decade of Chavez Fox News/AP: Md. College Removes Professor Accused of Genocide Fox News: CIA Director: Al Qaeda is Job 1 of Top 10 Security Challenges in 2009 BBC: Iran launches homegrown satellite Chicago Sun-Times: Malia, Sasha dolls shelved by Ty after Obamas ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Barack Smoot-Hawley Obama
Doug Ross @ Journal —
[image] Jim Cramer on Obama: 'We Heard Lenin' : NewsBusters How Government Prolonged the Depression : WSJ Here comes the Health Care Trojan Horse : AT (J. Smith) Iran launches first satellite into orbit : BBC Ice Storm : Anchoress Novice-in-Chief : Crittenden How can the world be so blind? : Michael Yon El Baradei won't take sides on destruction of Israel : LGF Obama to meet with President-for-Life Hugo Chavez : Fausta The War on Terror lawyers up : QandO Obama's White House: Like Carter's, only ...
The WonkLine: February 3, 2009
Wonk Room —
... On Monday night Iran launched its first domestically-made satellite into orbit. “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread ‘monotheism, peace and justice’ in the world.” ...
Mullahs In Space!
Jules Crittenden —
... Iran’s new presence in space is about spreading “monotheism, peace and justice.” A’jad via BBC : President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the launch had been successful and that with it Iran had “officially achieved a presence in space”. The satellite, carried on a Safir-2 rocket, was meant for telecommunication and research purposes, state TV said. France has expressed concern, saying the technology used was “very similar” to that used in ballistic missiles. Iran insists its intent is peaceful. I guess the big question is, given ...
Iranian Satellite Alarms West, Arab Neighbors
Informed Comment —
... Iran put a satellite into low earth orbit on Tuesday, in honor of the anniversary of the revolution that brought the Islamic Republic to power in 1979. ...
Double Feature
Moonbattery —
... are two halves of a whole, and should be published as a pair.
Story One:
The new White House Web site puts the administration of President Barack Obama on record as favoring a "worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites."
This is consistent with liberal hostility toward "weaponizing space," which has motivated moonbats to oppose space-based antimissile defense systems since Reagan days.
Story Two:
Iran says it has launched its first domestically made ...
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Iranian Regime Launches Its First Homemade Satellite
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 2/3/2009 — ( ISNA ) The Iranian regime announced it launched its first homemade satellite into orbit today. FOX News reported: Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, state radio reported Tuesday, another development in ...
Iran Launches Satellite Into Orbit? North Korea Next? —
A Blog For All
The BBC and other outlets are reporting that Iran successfully launched a satellite into orbit. France is concerned.
The BBC report notes several earlier satellite launches, but doesn't note that Iran has repeatedly run into technological problems, including multiple failures of its rocket and ...
Iran's Unspoken Threat —
Righteous Rantings
My father must get the credit for pointing this one out: The launch of a domestically made Iranian satellite is a dangerous thing in and of itself. "Omid" ('Hope' in Farsi) is a satellite. What kind it is has yet to be specified ( C orrections W elcomed). "So what? Sputnik just beeped; ...
Hope, Iranian Style —
Rhymes With Right
That's what they call their new satellite. Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the country's president announced Tuesday, claiming a significant step in an ambitious space program that has worried many international observers. The satellite,...
Iranian Satellite —
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Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany
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Iran Claims Satellite Launch, Don't Panic —
Newshoggers.com
By Cernig
When Iraq launched a three-stage rudimentary satellite booster into space in December 1989, probably based upon the Argentinian "Condor" ballistic missile, hawks in the West went crazy, declaiming that this proved Iraq was after an intercontinental WMD ability. We all know how that ...
Let's play "Spot the Racism" —
Left I on the News
Iran launched its first satellite into space today. Let's play "Spot the Racism" [Hint: it's not hard]: In Jerusalem, the head of Israel's Space Agency, Zvi Kaplan, said initial reports show that a satellite was launched. "From what I have been investigating it is true," he said. "We are not ...
Raw video of Iranian satellite launch —
Israel Matzav
Iran joined an exclusive club of countries who have satellites in space early Tuesday morning. Let's go to the videotape to watch the launch and then I'll have more.
Israel Radio reported earlier that Israeli scientists believe that the satellite was launched and is in orbit. That has not yet ...
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