“A Hezbollah operative who bribed a nuclear power plant employee in Argentina to steal plutonium conspires with a rogue Mexican cartel jefe to smuggle the materials into the U.S. to be used to blow up MacDill Air Force Base. Steven Sin’s nightmare scenario is a spy thriller come true — a jihadi getting ahold of nuclear material and then being able to smuggle it into the United States to be used as a weapon. The bad news, says Sin, is that al-Qaida, Hezbollah and groups like it really, really Read more [...]

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Recalling a conversation between a European diplomat friend of his with his Argentinian counterpart, Sola noted that the senior Argentinian diplomatic official openly told his friend that Russia and China are now Argentina's only remaining global strategic partners. Sola noted that "my friend was very surprised" that an Argentinian diplomatic official "would be so bold as to say" such a thing. Sola argues that Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner is to blame for the supposed sharp shift Read more [...]