Iran has successfully test-fired a new generation of long range surface-to-surface missile using solid fuel, making them more accurate than its predecessors, the defense minister announced Wednesday.
Mostafa Mohammed Najjar said on state television that the Sajjil was a high-speed missile manufactured at the Iranian Aerospace department of the Defense Ministry. He said it had a range of about 1,200 miles.
At that range it could reach Greece and Bulgaria in southeastern Europe, as well as easily strike arch-foe Israel...
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Meanwhile, back in the US...."The Religious Left Celebrates":
Has the Millennium arrived? Maybe Barak Obama's election to the presidency is giving the Religious Left at least a foretaste of it. After stewing with anger across 8 years in the wilderness, liberal prelates are shouting Hosanna in expectation of spiritual enlightenment during the Obama reign.
"We at the National Council of Churches urge all Americans to come together to uphold you with our hands, our hearts and our prayers," the NCC's chief, Michael Kinnamon wrote his congratulatory letter to Obama. The NCC, previously the voice of America's premier religious denominations, once truly walked in the corridors of power. It has never fully accepted its transition from mainline to sideline in America's religious demographic. As recently as 1995, the NCC was invited to the White House to "pray" for President Clinton as he was resisting the new Republican Congress. No doubt, the NCC is praying that its White House visitation rights will soon be restored...
Read it HERE
Pres elect Obama will certainly be tested by the likes of Iran. Israel and the West are heading for interesting times.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Iran says new missile tested successfully
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