Wednesday, September 23, 2009 TEHRAN: Iran says it has built a new generation of centrifuges for enriching uranium, and is testing them. The head of Iran's nuclear agency made the announcement but did not say when they would be ready to go into production at the Natanz atomic plant. Centrifuges can be used to produce fuel for nuclear power and also to make nuclear weapons. The announcement comes a few days before Iran enters fresh talks on its controversial nuclear programme. "Our scientists have built a new generation of centrifuges, and cascades with 10 centrifuges each are now being tested," said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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