Iran Announces Missile Tests Officially

After invasion on Iraq, US is on high alert with Iran. Though it is not proved that Iran is possessing nuclear weapons, missile tests pose a major security threat to other countries, and mostly with Israel.

Iran recently announced its test-fire of surface to surface missile. The range of this missile is said to be about 1200 miles, and thus it could easily target up to south-eastern Europe.

And Israel has said that they are very concerned about is, as even its territory comes under the range of test fired missile.

Meanwhile, US is also concerned about the Iranian missile tests and said it violates the UN resolutions. I think that it is concerned because of the acquisition of such high-tech missiles by a country like Iran will pose a threat to its superiority, in case of some war in future against Iran or some other countries which Iran may support.

Execution of Bali Bombers in Indonesia

The deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Indonesia occurred in 2002 in one of its Island called Bali. Indonesia at last executed the responsible terrorists for this who claimed lives of more than 200 people.

It was in 12 Oct 2002 when this worst attack took place. This attack claimed lives of 202 people. Most of the deceased were foreign nationals. Around 164 foreigners died in this attack. Also there were 209 people injured.

The responsible for this attack were three people of Jemaah Islamiyah group. These three militants were executed by Indonesian Government.

However many people turned out to welcome these bodies, calling them Martyrs. They were the responsible for the death of so many innocent people and still they are called as Martyrs. It is this blind encouragement from people that enhances these terrorists to do all sorts of bloody acts.

As the response from the supporters of these three terrorists Indonesia fears risk of revenge attacks. Though the supporters are limited to a minority of 235 million citizens of Indonesia, there are high possibilities of someone turning out to embark revenge attacks.

Opium Wars - The Legendary War Fought In The Name Of a Drug

To what extent do you know opium? Most probably many people know that opium is the crude product of harmful drugs like morphine and heroin which are very fatal drugs. An opiate or a opium abused can be find out using a drug test kit. If you have got a chance to read about Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, you will probably know much about its affects.

But how many of you know that there were two great wars taken place in history in the name of this drug, generally called as Opium wars. There was first opium war which was fought between 1839 to 1842 and second opium war fought between 1856 to 1860. Though not popular as the world wars they helped the British to take over the great China. The first opium war was between Britain and China to end China’s restrictions on foreign trade and smuggling of opium into its country by British. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou.