Military
After insisting for days that a Boeing 737-800 – Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 – crashed due to engine problems, Iran finally admitted on Saturday (Jan 11) that it was its own military that had accidentally shot down the civilian jetliner. Iranian officials had initially denied claims by the U.S., Britain and Canada that the jet […]
... written on Jan 12 2020Iran had no intention of killing a single American soldier in what appeared to be a staged attack to save face. As a show of force, the drama would involve firing 22 ballistic missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq. To ensure absolutely no American would be harmed, the Iranian deliberately tipped off Iraqi […]
... written on Jan 10 2020Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S. bases in Iraqi early morning Wednesday local time. Some pro-Iranian websites claimed at least 30 missiles had been launched in what appeared to be “fast and furious” revenge over the stunning assassination of Iranian top military commander Qassem Soleimani. But there’s just one problem with the retaliation […]
... written on Jan 08 2020Qassem Soleimani was considered the second most powerful man in Iran, after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. At the same time, he was Iranian’s most powerful military and intelligence figure. According to the Pentagon, an approximate 603 American soldiers killed in Iraq were attributed to proxies sponsored by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). […]
... written on Jan 05 2020Last August, China raised global eyebrows when it successfully tested Starry Sky-2, the Hypersonic aircraft capable of travelling at 4,563 mph (7,344 km/h). During its flight, the aircraft maintained speeds above Mach 5 (3,806 mph) for 400 seconds and reached a top speed of Mach 6, or 4,563 mph. At such speed, it could penetrate any […]
... written on Dec 29 2019There are many ways to skin a cat, especially a fat cat like former Prime Minister Najib Razak. Already hit with 42 charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT), money laundering and abuse of power – a world record for a former prime minister – he was also slapped with a tax bill for an […]
... written on Dec 17 2019As Trump administration scrambles to shield Saudi Arabia from an unexpected attack by a Saudi national at a U.S. Navy base in Florida, the memory of September 11, 2001 attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States re-emerges. Of the 19 hijackers of the 9/11 attacks, 15 of them were from Saudi […]
... written on Dec 09 2019London Bridge Terrorism – UK Was Naive To Think Radicalized Terrorists Could Be Easily Rehabilitated
Will they ever learn? In yet another terrorist attack, two innocent people were killed at the north end of London Bridge on Friday by 28-year-old Usman Khan, a man who was convicted in 2012 for terrorism. Three others – a man and two women – were also injured and remain in hospital. The terrorist, armed […]
... written on Dec 02 2019As the grand plan to form a new “Malay only” government fails to take off, the opposition continues their search for new racial and religious issues to play. The intention is to ensure ethnic Malays keep on hating the ethnic Chinese. The fallen Barisan Nasional coalition, after losing the government for the first time in […]
... written on Nov 29 2019Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once said – “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt. He commented that back in 2010, when the federal debt totalled US$13 trillion. Nine years later today, Donald Trump has taken over from Barack Obama. But the debt continues its […]
... written on Nov 02 2019
