Saudi Arabia apparently bought them. The missiles were obtained from suppliers in France and Belgium, and France had paid to ship them to the region.
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Latino drug cartels are seeking new West African client states after French military action in Mali destroyed their key smuggling route to Europe, the president of Guinea has warned.
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The Free Syrian Army could lose its fight against the regime of Bashar Assad within a few months, warned FSA chief of staff Idriss in his highly emotional speech.
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“…Some of the staunchest pro-Obama members of the liberal media were just seen entering the West Wing as a group today to no doubt receive their marching orders on how best to protect the Obama White House…”
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Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs. The seals seem to have picked up the virus while at sea, but it’s unclear how this happened.
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The H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California.
Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs. The seals seem to have picked up the virus while at sea, but it’s unclear how this happened.
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In the aftermath of the First World War, Britain and France famously created the modern Middle East by carving up what had been the Ottoman Empire. The 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty is coming unhinged in 2013.
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A surprisingly frank recap of what has happened in Syria until now from the Guardian. Then again, this paper has been attacked viciously for it’s one sided view of this conflict and it had to do something.
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“The West is interested in severing the Caucasus from Russia,” Kadyrov told Prokhanov. “The Caucasus is Russia’s strategic frontier. If they take away the Caucasus from Russia it’s like taking away half of Russia. In their time, the Americans created Bin Laden, taught him the art of terrorism. Now they are blanketing us with groups of foreigners. These are not ‘freedom fighters’ – these are brilliantly trained terrorists. We are fighting in the mountains with the American and English special services.
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Independent video of the tragic explosion that devastated the small town of West shows that the plant was likely detonated from an outside source, and/or a possible bomb or missile.
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