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Israel: getroffen chemiecomplex Iran ingezet voor wapenproductie

TEL AVIV (ANP) - Het industriecomplex dat de Israëlische luchtmacht zaterdag aanviel in het zuidwesten van Iran, werd gebruikt voor de productie van chemicaliën voor de wapenindustrie. Dat stelt het Israëlische leger.

Iran maakte eerder al melding van de aanval in de Speciale Petrochemische Zone van Mahshahr, waarbij vijf personen omkwamen. Volgens een woordvoerder van het ministerie van Olie wordt de getroffen infrastructuur niet alleen gebruikt om elektriciteit te leveren aan de petrochemische fabrieken in Mahshahr, maar speelt deze ook een belangrijke rol in de elektriciteitsvoorziening van 500.000 mensen in de provincie Khuzestan in de zomermaanden.

Iran reageerde in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag met een raketaanval op Israël. Een raket trof een onbewoond gebied in het zuiden van het land, aldus het leger. Er zijn geen gewonden gemeld.


Iraanse aanvallen op overheidsgebouwen in Koeweit

KOEWEIT-STAD (ANP) - Na een droneaanval in Koeweit-Stad is brand uitgebroken in het complex waarin zowel het ministerie van Olie als de staatsoliemaatschappij KPC gevestigd zijn.

Ook het ministerie van Financiën, dat elders in de stad gevestigd is, was doelwit van een aanval door Iran, bericht staatspersbureau KUNA.

Het ministerie van Financiën meldt ernstige schade aan het gebouw, maar geen slachtoffers. Ook bij de droneaanval en daaropvolgende brand in het complex van het olieministerie en KPC zouden geen slachtoffers zijn gevallen. KPC laat in een verklaring weten de schade aan het gebouw in Shuwaikh, een district in Koeweit-Stad, te onderzoeken.


Libanon: zeven doden bij Israëlische aanval

BEIROET (ANP) - Bij Israëlische aanvallen op Zuid-Libanon zijn zaterdag zeven mensen omgekomen en meer dan veertig personen gewond geraakt. Dat heeft het ministerie van Volksgezondheid bekendgemaakt. Israël meldde dat een Israëlische soldaat in de regio is omgekomen.

Bij een aanval in Maaraka, nabij Tyrus, vielen vijf doden en één gewonde, meldde het ministerie zaterdagavond. Eerder had het al gemeld dat in Habboush, een dorp in de buurt van Nabatieh in het zuiden van het land, twee meisjes waren omgekomen door een Israëlische aanval, waarbij 22 anderen gewond raakten.

Het Israëlische leger vaardigde zaterdagochtend vroeg een evacuatiebevel uit aan inwoners van kustplaats Tyrus en omgeving, omdat daar volgens het leger aanvallen tegen Hezbollah zouden gaan plaatsvinden. De regio werd gedurende de dag meerdere malen gebombardeerd, waarbij volgens het ministerie een ziekenhuis schade opliep.


So much winning

I see we are at the "US Navy base in Virginia asking for donations of toiletries" stage of the victory lap.

Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.

"The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing," said Derrick Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk.

The post hosted a spaghetti dinner for some of the sailors, said Keith Shanesy, one of the post's vice commanders.

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America's CIA Recruited Iran's Nuclear Scientists - By Threatening To Kill Them

A former U.S. spy spoke to The New Yorker about "years of clandestine work for the C.I.A. — which, he said, had 'prevented Iran from getting a nuke'."

[Kevin] Chalker told me that, as he understood it, the Pentagon had suggested running commando operations to kill key Iranian scientists, as Israel subsequently did. But the C.I.A. proposed recruiting those scientists to defect, as U.S. spies had once courted Soviet physicists. Chalker paraphrased the agency's pitch: "We can debrief them and learn so much more — and, if they say no, then you can kill them." (A more senior agency official confirmed the broad strokes of his account.) The White House liked the agency's idea, and [president George W.] Bush authorized the C.I.A. to conduct clandestine operations to stop Iran from building a bomb. The C.I.A. program that Chalker described to me became publicly known in 2007, when the Los Angeles Times reported on the existence of an agency project called Brain Drain. But the details of the "invitations" to Iranian scientists have not previously been reported...

Chalker typically had about ten minutes to explain, as gently as possible, that he was from the C.I.A., that he had the power to secure the scientist and his family a comfortable new life in the U.S. — and that, if the offer was rejected, the scientist, regrettably, would be assassinated. (Chalker tried to emphasize the happier potential outcome.) Killing a civilian scientist would violate international law. The American government has denied ever doing it, and I found no evidence that the U.S. has carried out any such murders. A former senior agency official familiar with the Brain Drain project told me all that mattered was that Iranian scientists had believed they would be killed, regardless of whether the U.S. actually made good on the threat. And Israel had been conducting a campaign to assassinate Iranian scientists, which made the prospect of lethal reprisal highly plausible. Other former officials with knowledge of the project told me that the C.I.A. sometimes shared intelligence with Mossad which enabled its operatives to locate and kill a scientist. Such information exchanges were kept vague enough to preserve deniability if a more legalistic U.S. Administration later took office...

[Chalker] is confident that those who rebuffed him were, in fact, killed — one way or another... One of Chalker's colleagues told me that, against the backdrop of so many Israeli assassinations, Chalker's interactions with Iranian scientists could almost be considered humanitarian — he had been "throwing them a lifeline." Of the many scientists he approached, three-quarters ultimately agreed to coöperate.
Their 10,000-word article suggests Chalker may now be resentful the CIA didn't help him in a later unrelated lawsuit, noting it's "nearly unheard of for ex-spies to divulge their past activities."
But Chalker also says he "helped obtain pivotal information that laid the groundwork for more than a decade of American efforts to disrupt the Iranian nuclear-weapons program, from the Stuxnet cyberattacks, which occurred around 2010 [destroying 1,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges], to the Obama Administration's nuclear deal, in 2015, to the U.S. air strikes on Iranian atomic-energy facilities in the summer of 2025."

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Before Webcomics: Selling Political Cartoons On BBSes In 1992

Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writes: A year before the Web opened to the public, Texas entrepreneur Don Lokke was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to bulletin board systems. His "telecomics," as he called them, represent an overlooked early experiment in online comics. Lokke launched his main series, "Mack the Mouse" at the height of the 1992 Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential race. His mouse protagonist voiced the frustrations felt by everyday Americans about rising taxes and the recession. Lokke gave away "Mack" for free, but sold subscriptions to his other telecomics, betting sysops would pay for exclusive content. The timing wasn't crazy: enthusiasm for BBSes as an industry was surging, with conferences like ONE BBSCON promoting "BBSing for profit." But the Web soon deflated those hopes, and Lokke left BBSes behind in 1995. Decades later, about half of his nearly 300 telecomics were recovered and preserved on 16colors.

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Ocon has picked up one point so far this season, but there is an argument that he deserves far more.