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Sorin Adam Matei

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Pakistan – “The Ally From Hell” – moves nuclear warheads in unmarked vans, exposes them to jihadi highjack (Atlantic Monthly article)

The Altantic Monthly publishes a terrifyingly insightful article about Pakistan’s nuclear shell game. According to it,  what keeps the Pakistani leaders up at night  is a highly unlikely US air strike, not a predictable (by past incidents) Jihadi suicide rush on the…

Improvised DIY weapons of Libyan civil war turn the movie Mad Max into reality (video)

Al Jazeera filed this video report on the DYI armament mini factories set up by the Libyan rebels in Misrata. Improvisation is the name of the game and some contraptions are truly dumbfounding. My favorite: the pick up truck mounted airplane rocket…