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Special points of interest: United Kingdom. RUSSIAN AND IRA- Russian and Iranian engi- Israel on Friday warned it NIAN ENGINEERS LOADING IRAN’S neers have begun loading Former George W. Bush adviser would use "all necessary NUCLEAR POWER fuel into Iran's first nuclear John Bolton commented that means under international PLANT 1 law" to prevent Lebanese power plant. The plant is once the rods are in place Israel MYSTERIOUS INCI- can no longer attack this reactor vessel Miriam from sailing DENTS NEAR IRAN’S located in the southern city this Sunday to the Gaza NUCLEAR REACTOR 1 of Bushehr. because of spreading radiation. port via Cyprus in an at- Jerusalem is also worried by the tempt to break the blockade U.S. MILITARY CROSSES INTO KU- In an irreversible step, Iran news that Russia has stationed S- of the Strip, and urged Bei- WAIT ENDING COM- and Russia began putting BAT INVOLVEMENT IN 300 anti-missile batteries in rut to act responsibly and IRAQ 1 nuclear fuel into the reactor Abkhazia on the Black Sea. dissuade the organizers of Tehran's first atomic from this "provocative" ISRAEL VOWS TO USE ALL NECESSARY power station. Today spe- move that would possibly FORCE AGAINST lead to escalation. LEBANESE VESSEL cialists from both countries IRAQ MIRIAM 1 loaded uranium packed fuel Letters to Secretary- rods into the reactor. The US 4th Stryker Brigade and General Ban Ki-moon and 2nd Infantry Division crossed the Security Council Presi- Earlier this year, Washing- into Kuwait last Thursday morn- dent- "Given the ongoing ton criticized Russia for go- ing ending the U.S. combat armed conflict between the ing ahead with the planned involvement in the Iraq war. ADDITIONAL READING Hamas terrorist organiza- opening of the plant amid Facing Iraq is the potential of at tion and the State of Israel, global disagreement and least two civil wars- two Muslim http://www.scribd.com/ compounded by the fact concern over Iran's alleged factions and the Kurds of the doc/34445968/Middle- that these ships originate nuclear weapons program. North.. The oil fields to the from Lebanon that remains There have been concerns of south are a major concern. http://www.scribd.com/ in a state of hostility with an Israeli attack on Iran sup- doc/33865967/Middle- Israel, Israel reserves its TOR-M1 air-missile defense right under international batteries guarding the reactor. http://www.scribd.com/ law to use all necessary doc/32272465/ IRAN means to prevent these Another incident on August 1 ISRAEL%E2%80% ships from violating the A mysterious incident was included three unidentified http://mexidata.info/ reported in the start-up to the drones that were believed to blockade.” id1185.html fueling-up of Iran's first nu- have killed five people in the The belief is that the ves- clear reactor Saturday. Four area. sel is to violate the existing http://www.scribd.com/ days earlier an Iranian F4 A logical concern was how naval blockade of Gaza, doc/33806087/Dismantled Phantom fighter jet was the Phantom jet penetrated and some of its organizers -Russian-Intelligence- claimed by Tehran to have within a distance of 6 kilome- with "suspected ties to the Jbrewer@cjiausa.org crashed 6 kilometers north of ters from the reactor when its Hezbollah terrorist organi- the Bushehr nuclear reactor skies, up to a 20-kilometer zation"- a belief Lebanese Twitter: cjiausa in southern Iran. radius are a no-fly zone? authorities had offered http://www.scribd.com/ Military sources report it was their approval of this jbrewer31 shot down by Russian-made "provocative act.”