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Thu February 16, 2012
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Five Qassam missiles fired from Palestinian Gaza Wednesday night • They exploded harmlessly on open ground in the Eshkol district, Hof Ashkelon and Sdot Hanegev • Israel’s defense cabinet airs tactics for thwarting Iranian-Hizballah attacks on Israeli targets • Iranian president loads first homemade nuclear fuel rods into Tehran reactor Wednesday • Oil ministry in Tehran denies state TV announcement of oil cutoff to six European countries - Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Portugal - in response to EU sanctions • Assad sets Feb. 26 as date for national referendum on a new constitution • Netanyahu tells Knesset that world must set red lines for Iran’s nuclear program and denounce Iranian terrorist activity or it will spread • Gulf military sources: Iran tightly controlled USS Abraham Lincoln carrier’s Gulf of Hormuz passage Tuesday • It was tracked by an Iranian warship with missiles in launch position, a reconnaissance plane, a drone and assault helicopters • Pakistan admitted letting NATO fly food supplies to Afghanistan through its air space despite two-month blockade • Two Iranians arrested after the three Bangkok blasts which occurred the day after bombing attacks targeted Israelis in India and Georgia. A third is still at large • One of the detained men wass seriously wounded by his own bomb • Special security measures at all Israel’s embassies • The Indian and Georgian police are working the investigations together assisted by Israeli officials • Talya Koren, the Israeli woman injured when a magnetic bomb blew her car up, is recovering in a New Delhi hospital •

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