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John Bolton: US Should Bomb Iranian Camps

Posted: 07 May 2008 02:23 AM CDT

John Bolton, America’s ex-ambassador to the United Nations, has called for US air strikes on Iranian camps where insurgents are trained for war in Iraq.

Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action.

“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”

Mr Bolton, an influential former member of President George W Bush’s inner circle, dismissed as “dead wrong” reported British intelligence conclusions that the US military had overstated the support that Iran was providing to Iraqi fighters.

A US military spokesman revealed last week that the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had drafted in personnel from Lebanon’s Hizbollah to train fighters from Iraq’s Shia militias.

Colonel Donald Bacon, a spokesman for the coalition in Baghdad, said captured fighters had told interrogators that thousands of Iraqi fighters were undergoing training in the Islamic Republic.

The main camp is located near the town of Jalil Azad, near Tehran, according to coalition officials.

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Terror Charges Filed Against Arms Dealer

Posted: 07 May 2008 02:08 AM CDT

The unsealing of the indictment against Viktor Bout could pave the way for his extradition to the United States from Thailand. Thai authorities arrested Bout March 6 in a joint operation with Drug Enforcement Administration agents under a U.S. complaint for conspiracy to provide weapons to the FARC, a Colombian rebel group has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Thai authorities dropped charges against Bout after Russia requested that he be sent to that country, although he faces no charges there. Bout has denied that he was involved in any illegal deals.

Bout has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, conspiracy to kill U.S. officers and employees, conspiracy to acquire and use an anti-aircraft missile and conspiracy to provide material support to a designated terrorist group.

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Suspicious Package Found at Sherman Oaks Center

Posted: 07 May 2008 01:47 AM CDT


A bomb squad was called out Tuesday to investigate a suspicious package left outside a Washington Mutual bank branch in Sherman Oaks.

A note on the package read, “Do not get close,” according to reports.

The package was reported at 5:40 p.m. and Los Angeles police summoned explosives experts to the shopping center at Riverside Drive and Hazeltine Avenue.

The bank was already closed, but a Trader Joe’s store and a produce market was evacuated and traffic was diverted away from the area.

“We’re still trying to figure out what it is,” the watch commander at the Van Nuys police station said of the package.

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SDSU - 75 San Diego State University Students Arrested In Massive Drug Bust

Posted: 06 May 2008 08:38 PM CDT

Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested and six fraternities were suspended after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.

A five-month investigation prompted by a cocaine overdose death last year led to the arrests of 96 people, 75 of them San Diego State students. A second drug death occurred while the investigation went on.

Twenty-nine people were arrested early Tuesday in raids at nine locations including the Theta Chi fraternity, where agents found cocaine, Ecstasy and three guns. Eighteen of them were wanted on warrants for selling to undercover agents.

Two kilograms of cocaine were seized in all, along with 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash, authorities said.

Profits may have been used to finance fraternity operations, they said. Those arrested included a student who was about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was to receive a master’s degree in homeland security.

“A sad commentary is that when one of these individuals was arrested, they inquired as (to) whether or not his arrest and incarceration would have an effect on him becoming a federal law enforcement officer,” said Ralph Partridge, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego.

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