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Florida Man Charged For Threatening Obama
A Florida man is being held on charges that he threatened to assassinate presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Secret Service says Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. Another tipster said Geisel also threatened President Bush.
A search of Geisel’s SUV and hotel room uncovered a loaded handgun, knives, dozens of rounds of ammunition, body armor and a machete. The SUV was wired with emergency lights.
This guy sounds like a nut who definitely shouldn’t be on the loose.
Ahmadinejad: “Accept Israel’s imminent collapse”
Everyone’s favorite little dictator, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called on the West Wednesday to acknowledge Israel’s “imminent collapse.”
Speaking to a crowd on a visit to the southern port of Bushehr, where Iran’s first light-water nuclear power plant is being built by Russia, Ahmadinejad further incited his listeners to “stop supporting the Zionists, as [their] regime reached its final stage.”
“Accept that the life of Zionists will sooner or later come to an end,” the Iranian president said in a televised speech.
He added, “What we have right now is the last chapter [of Israeli atrocities] which the Palestinians and regional nations will confront and eventually turn in Palestine’s favor.”
Middle Eastern dictators seem to be short on good common sense. All a dictator has to do is look at where Saddam is right now to clearly see where all that threatening rhetoric gets you.
Ahmadinejad is truly delusional if he really believes that Israel will just back and allow his thuggish regime to complete its nuclear weapons program and continue making outrageous threats.
-Chris Jones
Pentagon Releases Video Of Iranian Boats Provoking U.S. Navy
Pentagon Has Video, Audio of Iranian Naval Incident
The Pentagon has video and audio tape of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday in which armed Iranian speedboats swarmed three US warships and radioed a threat to blow them up.
A Pentagon official, said he understood that the audio portion of the tape includes the threat radioed by one of the Iranian vessels to blow up the US ships.
He said the video consists mainly of long shots of Iranian vessels in the water, but also captures the sounds of ship horns and communications in the bridge of the US ships.
Pentagon officials said the Iranians also dropped white floating boxes into the path of the Ingraham, a guided missile frigate which passed by them without incident.
The US warships issued warnings and engaged in evasive maneuvers but no shots were fired during the encounter, which lasted less than 30 minutes, according to US defense officials.
CNN: Iranian Boats Attempt To Provoke U.S. Navy Ships
Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast.
Citing unidentified U.S. officials, CNN said the Iranian vessels came within 200 yards (meters) of the U.S. ships in international waters in the strait of Hormuz, and Sailors came very close to opening fire.
The Iranian were allegedly “attack craft” that made threating maneuvers against the Navy vessels and threatening radio transmissions.
A radio transmission from one of the Iranian ships said, “I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes.”
After the radio transmission the Navy ships prepared to fire, but at the last second the Iranian ships turned away.
Considering that the U.S. has two aircraft carriers off the coast of Iran, it’s amazing that the Iranians could act in such a provocative fashion.
-Chris Jones
Putin Makes Idle Threats Again
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday chastised the United States over its policy in Iraq and Iran, and announced “grandiose” military plans, including development of a new nuclear weapon.
In a nationally broadcast link-up with ordinary Russians across the country, Putin called the US intervention in Iraq a “dead end” and called on Washington to set a deadline for the withdrawal of troops.
Putin suggested that Iraq had been invaded because of its oil wealth and assured one caller that energy-rich Russia could not suffer the same fate. To think so, he said, was “political erotica.”
I don’t know anything about “political erotica” that must be something they only have in Russia. What I do know is that Putin is a lot of talk and little else.
In a video link-up with servicemen at the Plesetsk nuclear missile base, Putin said that Russia would build another nuclear submarine next year and was also planning a “completely new” atomic weapon.
The Soviet Union could use threatening rhetoric, because they had a powerful military. Besides, its nuclear stockpile Russia’s military is in complete tatters. The average soldier in Russia earns less than $2.00 a day and over half are serious alcoholics.
Putin likes to talk about America being bogged down in Iraq, but he should try not to throw stones when he lives in a glass house. Putin has over 100,000 troops occupying Chechnya and fighting a gruesome gorilla war with Muslim militants.
Russia’s army lives in horrible conditions and when a soldier is killed in Chechnya, the Russian Government can’t even afford to ship the corpse back. The other soldiers take up a collection if they can to pay for the shipment, otherwise it’s up to the family.
Every single branch of the Russian military is an absolute mess, so Putin just makes himself look like a jackass when he talks tough.
By Chris Jones
Putin Visits Iran, Threatens U.S.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his Iranian counterpart Tuesday and implicitly warned the U.S. not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran. He also said nations shouldn’t pursue oil pipeline projects in the area if they weren’t backed by regional powers.
Putin, whose trip to Tehran is the first by a Kremlin leader since World War II, warned that energy pipeline projects crossing the Caspian could only be implemented if all five nations that border the Caspian support them.
Putin did not name any specific country, but his statement underlined Moscow’s strong opposition to U.S.-backed efforts to build pipelines to deliver hydrocarbons to the West bypassing Russia.
The legal status of the Caspian – believed to contain the world’s third-largest energy reserves – has been in limbo since the 1991 Soviet collapse, leading to tension and conflicting claims to seabed oil deposits.
Iran, which shared the Caspian’s resources equally with the Soviet Union, insists that each coastal nation receive an equal portion of the seabed. Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan want the division based on the length of each nation’s shoreline, which would give Iran a smaller share.
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