Iran Accuses U.S. of Violating Its Airspace
April 2nd, 2007The U.S. might be trying to get the Iranians to “paint” aircraft with their air defense systems. The U.S. would use this intelligence for final target selection for the initial phase of the attack. Air defense and communications systems will be hit first.
Via: People’s Daily:
Two U.S. airplanes have violated Iran’s airspace in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, Iran’s state television Sunday quoted a local military commander as saying on its website.
The airplanes on Saturday trespassed Iranian airspace from the northwest of Abadan, Khuzestan province, and disappeared from its southwest, said Colonel Aqili, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Abadan.
“The planes cast out white smoke trails, attracting the local people’s attention,” he was quoted as saying, but without giving the types of the two U.S. airplanes or their duration of the alleged violation.
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/02/eng20070402_363095.html
Remember when the UK was a world power before WWII debt cleaned them out?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bf6a00e4-e14b-11db-bd73-000b5df10621,_i_rssPage=6700d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html
“Europe has eclipsed the US in stock market value for the first time since the first world war in another sign of the slipping of the global dominance of American capital markets.
Europe’s 24 stockmarkets, including Russia and emerging Europe, saw their capitalisation rise to $15,720bn (€11,819bn) at the end of last week, according to Thomson Financial data. That exceeded the $15,640bn market value of the US.
The rise of the euro against the dollar, growth of east European markets such as Russia and stock market outperformance spurred by improving profitability have seen Europe close a long-held gap with the US. Ian Harnett at Absolute Strategy Research, who identified the move, said this marked a “seismic shift†in markets.”
>Europe’s 24 stockmarkets, including Russia and emerging Europe
Wow, so a landmass of dozens of countries, hosting some 600 million people, managed a stock valuation greater than the US?
OMG!
Khuzestan no less… what a shock.