Two Cuban exiles who have vehemently opposed Fidel Castro will avoid a trial on weapons charges after each pleaded guilty to a single criminal conspiracy charge.
Mr. Mekdad exuded confidence that President Bashar al-Assad's government had taken the upper hand against the rebels and said that even as it pledged to give up its chemical weapons to avoid a United States airstrike, the government had achieved diplomatic and military victories.
21, according to U.S. estimates, Assad agreed to surrender his poison gas arsenal and production equipment to international chemical weapons inspectors and thus avoid a threatened retaliatory attack by the U.S. military.
Mr Assad believes he's winning, particularly after trading his chemical weapons to avoid an American military strike.
We have seen the power of American diplomacy with the leadership of President Obama and Secretary Kerry in securing a historic deal with Iran to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon and avoid an unnecessary war.
Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's Defence Minister, had claimed that the plane could fly low to avoid radar, carry a weapons payload and was constructed of "high-tech materials".
Barack Obama, who has called several key legislators over the last 24 hours to convince them of the merits of the deal outlined in Switzerland, insists it will cut off every pathway that Iran could take to a nuclear weapon, and avoids a military conflict.
While I don't trust the Iranians, either, promising though the new presidency in Tehran may or may not be, I also haven't heard a realistic scenario for a war with Iran that both succeeds in wiping out any prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon and avoids a terrible backlash, economic and otherwise.
Even if the U.S. and the world wanted to avoid these weapons, we may not have much of a choice.
Metal Gear placed a greater emphasis on stealth than other games of its time, with the player character Solid Snake beginning without any weapons (requiring him to avoid confrontation until weapons are found) and having limited ammunition for each weapon.
