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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates AP ?Israel attacked multiple Iranian nuclear and military s stanley cana ites on Friday as tensions reached new heights over Tehrans rapidly advancing nuclear program.Israeli leaders said the attack was necessary to head off what they claimed was an imminent threat that Iran would build nuclear bombs. Iran long has insisted its program is peaceful and U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Tehran was not actively pursuing the bomb.The attack came one day after the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors censured Iran for the first time in 20 years for not working with its inspectors. Iran immediately announced it would establish a third enrichment site in the country and swap out some centrifuges for more-advanced ones.The U.S. and Iran had been in talks that could have stanley termos resulted in the U.S. lifting some of its crushing economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran drastically limiting or ending its enrichment of uranium.Heres a look at some major Iranian sites and their importance in Tehrans program.Nat stanley termo anz enrichment facilityIrans nuclear facility at Natanz, located some 220 kilometers 135 miles southeast of Tehran, is the countrys main enrichment site.Part of the facility on Irans Central Plateau is underground to defend against potential airstrikes. It operates multiple cascades, or groups of centrifuges working together to more quickly enrich uranium.Iran also is burrowing into the K奴h-e Kolang Gaz L膩, or Pickax Mountain, Ahjh Gangs in Haiti open fire and hit a UN helicopter midair as violence surges
ROCKLAND, Maine ?The stories of two young Rockland men who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War I were recalled on this Veterans Day as medals were presented to their family members by a grateful state and nation.The ceremony was held in the downtown square named in honor of the two men, 2nd Lt. Albert Holbrook and Pfc. Arthur Winslow, who died fig stanley thermobecher hting in the war.One of the family members to whom the award was presented i stanley deutschland n honor of Holbrook was hi stanley cup s 94-year-old sister, Roberta Holbrook Best. Best was born two years after her brother died.Holbrook was born in Rockland and grew up in a house that is still standing at 22 Camden St. near the intersection with Cedar Street. He enlisted in June 1917 after completing his sophomore year at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in Plattsburgh, New York, in November 1917 before being shipped overseas to France.According to a news account of the June 1918 battle in France, Holbrook led a platoon into murderous machine gun and artillery fire in an attempt to take out a German machine gun encampment. He was reported missing in action after the firefight.There was no word of his whereabouts until September, when the family received a telegram from the military that the 23-year-old died in a German prison camp. Later information would reveal he died in a French hospital under German control in Fismes, northeast of Paris.Winslow left Maine in September 1917 for training in Massachusetts and was ship
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