March 2007 archive
03-31-07 - Need outstrips beds for homeless vets
03-31-07 - Navy captives 'face legal action'
03-31-07 - Britain denies troops surrounded Iranian consulate in Basra and fired shots
03-31-07 - Bush attacks Iran over captives
03-31-07 - Iran warns Britain over politicising sailor crisis
03-31-07 - War with Iran unlikely if Gates has any say ** As a senior former U.S. intelligence official who worked with Gates said of him, "If Bob Gates is Secretary of Defense, we are not going to war with Iran.".....Gates is also on the record as being opposed to those in the White House and elsewhere in Washington who think the Iranian issue can best be resolved by working with Iranian dissidents to overthrow the current regime. We shall see if Gates' view prevails.
03-31-07 - Britain must correct attitude over captured sailors, Iran says
03-31-07 - Group Blasts Russian's White House Visit
03-31-07 - Is a U.S.-Iran War Inevitable? **
03-31-07 - Satterfield: Iraq oil law will pass
03-31-07 - Iran is a major topic at Arab League summit "We look forward to decreasing the signs of a dangerous confrontation between Iran and the West that would lead the whole region into the abyss,".....Egypt and Syria held a closed bilateral session Thursday where, officials said, envoys worked stealthily to wean Damascus from Tehran's sway.
03-31-07 - Former Iran president calls for healing Sunni-Shiite divide
03-31-07 - U.S. demands Syria release political prisoners
03-31-07 - Iran army chief warns of Israeli 'suicide attack' ** "The Zionists plan to carry out a suicide plot in the summer," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran's armed forces joint chief of staff, as saying.
03-31-07 - Iraq endorses Arab relocation for Kirkuk Iraq's government has endorsed plans to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to Kirkuk as part of Saddam Hussein's campaign to force ethnic Kurds out of the oil-rich city, in an effort to undo one of the former dictator's most enduring and hated policies.
03-31-07 - UN agency sending staff back to Baghdad Guterres said he also was encouraged by their discussions on the need to improve the security situation for the thousands of Palestinian refugees in Iraq.
03-31-07 - U.N. chief: Arms crossing Syrian border Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Ban during a stop in Israel last weekend that the cease-fire in southern Lebanon is endangered by Hezbollah militants. He accused the Iranian- and Syrian-backed guerrillas of continuing to receive arms shipments from Syria. Lebanese leaders have rejected Israeli claims that weapon smuggling continues.
03-31-07 - UN chief vows to work for permanent Lebanon-Israel truce Israel has ignored UN complaints over its continuing violations of Lebanese airspace, saying overflights were necessary because of the arms being smuggled into Lebanon.
03-31-07 - John Gibson and Michelle Malkin Whip Up Frenzy Over Rosie O'Donnell and ABC
03-31-07 - Army shoots down reports of arms smuggling "There is no hard evidence of any kind that arms or terrorists or any prohibited items are being smuggled across the Lebanese-Syrian border, as we, along with the Internal Security Forces and Customs, have full control of the borders," Hajj repeatedly told reporters. "No weapons are being transferred to Palestinian camps either,"
03-31-07 - War created revolutionary change in region, Olmert says ?The influential Arab countries are beginning to understand that Israel is not their greatest concern; this marks a revolutionary change in their outlook,? the prime minister told fellow Kadima members during a Passover toast held at his official residence in Jerusalem.
03-31-07 - War Anniversary: Israel, Palestine Links Absent That vision, an Israeli one to the core, was often presented as exclusively American, most notably by the Project for the New American Century, established by leading neocons in 1997, the same individuals who vowed allegiance to Israel for many years. PNAC was the key group behind the war in Iraq
03-31-07 - Syrian ambassador keynotes ASU dinner
03-31-07 - Steven Emerson's Disturbing Track Record "Mr. Emerson's prime role is to whitewash Israeli governments and revile their critics,"
03-31-07 - The Fantasy of American Diplomacy in the Middle East
03-31-07 - Israeli PM says open to talks with Syria
03-31-07 - Israel Will be at War by Summer, Politician Says ** Dr. Eldad explained that Israel was facing a new strategic threat, caused in part by its own failure to deal a crushing blow to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the impression of weakness last summer's failed war created in the minds of Israel's enemies......Israel has "no choice" but to launch a pre-emptive war to destroy Hezbollah as an effective fighting force, he believes......Eldad is not suggesting economic or diplomatic "engagement," as the State Department might use the term. He is talking about having Israel's military take out Iranian nuclear and missile sites if the Western nations refuse to do the job......Like most Israeli leaders, Dr. Eldad would prefer that the United States and its partners take out Iranian nuclear and missile sites, if for no other reason than the vastly superior conventional firepower the U.S. could bring to bear. Why is it up to us to 'do the job'?
03-30-07 - Britain fails to gain strong UN support in row with Iran A week after Iran captured 15 British naval personnel in the Gulf, the UN Security Council Thursday expressed "grave concern" at their detention but declined to back Britain with a call for their immediate release.
03-30-07 - Iran airs second sailor 'apology'
03-30-07 - UK receives note from Iran over captured sailors Iran's message - its first written communication to the UK since the sailors were seized - appeared to resemble a statement used to resolve a similar stand-off in 2004, when Iran seized eight British servicemen and held them for three days.
03-30-07 - US rejects Iran captives exchange
03-30-07 - EU ministers put pressure on Iran The BBC's Oana Lungescu in Bremen says the strongly-worded EU statement goes much further than the UN's expression of "grave concern" about the Iran-UK dispute on Thursday.
03-30-07 - Resist the war drive against Iran ** The capture of the British sailors has all the hallmarks of the kind of incident that has been used in the past as a reason either for war or for escalating confrontation.
03-30-07 - Saudis warned Iran not to underestimate US threat ** Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah reportedly warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he should not underestimate the US military threat on Iran.
03-30-07 - UN atomic agency calls on Iran to restore cooperation Soltanieh also said Iran had to protect its nuclear secrets as the United States and Israel "are threatening the use of force and attack against the Islamic Republic and have repeatedly stressed that military action is an option on the table," according to a copy of the letter obtained by AFP.
03-30-07 - Fate of Five Detained Iranians Unknown The continued detention of the Iranians has escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran and may even have set the stage for the seizure by Iranian forces of 15 British sailors and marines who allegedly crossed into Iranian waters over the weekend.
03-30-07 - Death chants in Tehran voice resentment of 'the little Satan' Britain and Russia occupied Iran in the early part of the 20th century. When Reza Shah refused to toe the Allied line in 1941 they occupied the country again, forcing him to abdicate. Iranians found themselves subject to foreign rule, culminating in the overthrow of a popular prime minister in 1953.
03-30-07 - White House anger over Syria trip Ms Pelosi will lead a delegation from US Congress for talks with officials.
03-30-07 - San Diego families prepare for warship's departure ** Up to five-thousand sailors and Marines will be aboard the aircraft carrier when she sets sail from Naval Air Station North Island, headed for the Persian Gulf.
03-30-07 - Iran's action: A deliberate ploy? In recent months, the eastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan has seen a series of attacks and car bombs targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
03-30-07 - Military beefs up Internet arsenal The U.S. military is quietly expanding capabilities to attack terrorist computer networks, including websites that glorify insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, military officials and experts say.
03-30-07 - Secret Briefing by Zinni Seen as Key In Aipac Duo Trial Defense lawyers have sought the testimony of those in attendance to demonstrate to the jury that meetings between administration officials and Jewish representatives were common practice, and that intelligence was frequently shared during these powwows without the participants knowing the information was classified. But, as first reported in the Forward last month, the Jewish representatives who attended the meeting are refusing to cooperate with the defense team......In Zinni, the defense team would be turning to a harsh critic of both the Iraq War and neoconservatives at the Pentagon, who according to Zinni thought the invasion would stabilize American interests in the Middle East and strengthen Israel's position. "I think it's the worst-kept secret in Washington. That everybody - everybody I talk to in Washington - has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do," said Zinni in a May 2004 interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes."
Zinni - one of the good guys :) In a nation whose media and politicians are so cowed by this lobby, it is welcome to find such a rare person that has the cojones to stand up to them. In my book, that puts them on par with the founding fathers of this nation.
03-30-07 - Greenpeace warns of nuclear mishap "Ambiguous policies about the possible existence of a nuclear program in Israel only serve to destabilize the region. A policy of honesty and transparency is in need to pave the way to nuclear free Middle-East,"
03-30-07 - Saudi king's remarks could build credibility
03-30-07 - Iran: Attack fears spurred nuclear block ** Iran, in a confidential letter posted Friday on an internal Web site of the U.N. nuclear monitor, said its fear of attack from the U.S. and Israel prompted its decision to withhold information from the agency.
03-30-07 - US, Saudi, Chinese firms announce five-billion-dollar energy deal US oil giant Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco and Sinopec announced here Friday two joint ventures worth about five billion dollars to operate 750 service stations and a petrochemical refinery in China.
03-30-07 - Ex-aide contradicts Gonzales on firings
03-30-07 - "A Great Little Racket": The Neocon Media Machine The influence of the Weekly Standard runs all the way to the top of the U.S. government. Vice President Dick Cheney's office at one time reportedly received 30 issues per week, apparently in order to remain on top of any policy recommendations advocated by AEI (where Cheney and his wife have both held positions) and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), two neoconservative groups with close ties to the management of the Weekly Standard. .....The Weekly Standard has served a pivotal role in what could be considered the neoconservative "echo chamber"?a collection of think tanks, media outlets, and advocacy groups that strengthen and repeat neoconservative policies and ideology through constant media exposure and reinforcement within organizations populated by influential policymakers.....Both the editorial pages of major newspapers and the Fox News cable channel have played pivotal roles in selling neoconservative policies to a more mainstream, conservative, and Republican audience.
03-30-07 - Rice calls Saudi ambassador after king's comments
03-30-07 - Report: ADL, BBI reps were at Rosen event Representatives of ADL and B'nai B'rith reportedly are refusing to cooperate with the defense in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers......The ADL and B'nai B'rith fear being drawn into a case that already has complicated AIPAC's mission in Washington. Haul 'em in, fellas.
03-30-07 - UN chief urges Lebanon dialogue
03-30-07 - The Real 'Existential Threat' ** The coming war with Iran will not end until the entire region is aflame ? with the fire spreading to three continents, and beyond. Is this the price the world is willing to pay to put an end to the "existential threat" to Israel?
03-30-07 - Pelosi to address Knesset Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will address the Israeli Knesset, before heading to Syria
03-30-07 - Ellison on Israel trip Others on the trip are: the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.); the Government Reform Committee chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.); the Rules Committee chairwoman, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.); the Natural Resources Committee chairman, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W. Va.); and Rep. David Hobson (R-Ohio.).
03-30-07 - House to consider 'human shield' resolution The U.S. House of Representatives is to consider a resolution condemning Hezbollah for using "human shields" during its war against Israel.
The only problem with this piece of legislation for Israel is that in its exhaustive research of that conflict, Human Rights Watch found no such evidence that Hezbollah was using human shields. In fact, Israel only recently was caught (on tape via AP) doing that very thing. Add to that the fact that Israel, knowing that a ceasefire was imminent (expected in 3 days), fired a million cluster bomblets into mainly civilian areas of Lebanon. These bomblets have continued to kill and maim Lebanese and foreign officials that are trying to find and destroy them. Israel has to this day refused to provide the UN with detailed maps of where it shot off the cluster bombs. My guess is because that would offer definitive proof that ISRAEL TARGETED CIVILIAN AREAS. Lastly, this is not a matter for Capitol Hill. So much legislation is being passed in the halls therein that has nothing to do with THIS country. In fact, it seems to be taking up increasingly more valuable time that could be devoted to matters of import to the AMERICAN people. You know, the ones that are PAYING THE $@@$%ING TAXES. Here is an older HRW report on Israel's use of human shields in Jenin.
03-30-07 - Officials: Arrow can take what Iran can give "Our Arrow operational system can without a doubt deal with all of the operational threats in the Middle East, particularly in Iran and Syria,"
03-30-07 - Farrakhan speaks to the media In a prescient moment, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan even chided Mr. Bashir on the methods used by the media to mislead the public, noting that in this almost two-hour interview, only portions would actually be viewed by the public after selective editing.
03-30-07 - Aguda supports Iraq war Agudath Israel of America declared its support for President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq.
03-30-07 - Beirut bars Israeli reporter An Israeli journalist was excluded from a press delegation accompanying U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Lebanon.
03-29-07 - Iran TV shows clip of Britons' arrest
03-29-07 - UN voices 'concern' on UK sailors The UN Security Council has agreed a statement voicing "grave concern" at Iran's capture of 15 British sailors.
03-29-07 - Iran concerns push oil above $66
03-29-07 - Problems Cited Between V.A. and Pentagon
03-29-07 - Musharraf warns of 'ominous confrontation' in Gulf
03-29-07 - Russians not leaving Iran
03-29-07 - US Senate votes for Iraq deadline
03-29-07 - European Union considers freeze on contact with Iran
03-29-07 - Capture of Britons won't stop US talks with Iran: State Dept.
03-29-07 - Zogby: Iran Poses Greatest Danger This is the poll that was in my news batch for yesterday. Notice that this one from March 19 gives different figures.
03-29-07 - Second Witness Reveals Much In Plame Leak Controversy
03-29-07 - Iraq diggers 'contaminated with radiation' TWO Australian soldiers who served in the first Iraq war have tested positive to depleted uranium (DU) contamination despite assurances from the Federal Government they had not been exposed, an anti-nuclear group said today.
03-29-07 - Iran loses High Court battle to recover 'stolen' antiquities
03-29-07 - Makiya's Malady Another War Party stalwart cuts and runs
03-29-07 - O'Donnell 9/11 Rant Reaches 30 Million Viewers "In America we are fed propaganda and if you want to know what's happening in the world go outside of the U.S. media because it's owned by four corporations, one of them is this one (ABC)." Actually, I've found that ABC is the best, in terms of truthfulness, of the main networks.
03-29-07 - Clark says Iran attack would harm Israel **
03-29-07 - Lebanon opens beneficent center for elderly Palestinian refugees Lebanon has opened a beneficent center in a bid to care for elderly Palestinians refugees in the country, local newspaper The Daily Star reported on Thursday.
03-29-07 - Rumsfeld torture suit dismissed A US court has dismissed a lawsuit against former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld over claims prisoners were tortured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
03-29-07 - Israeli experts: Hezbollah most dangerous Hezbollah poses the most immediate international terrorist danger, Israeli experts said at a conference that drew top U.S. officials. The Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an independent think tank comprising former top Israeli security officials, ran a workshop Wednesday at the Israeli Embassy in Washington on changing strategies in combating terrorism.
03-29-07 - RJC loves Lieberman The RJC routinely attacked Lieberman as soft on Israel when he was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000.
03-29-07 - The Little Saudi Surprise: So It Stings. Live With It "The Israelis want to win the lottery without paying for a ticket," said Jamal Khashoggi, a former Saudi Embassy adviser in Washington. "The lottery is normalized relations with Saudi Arabia, but first they must pay for the ticket by reaching an agreement with the Palestinians."
03-29-07 - Giuliani: Iraq pullout would be ?terrible mistake?
03-29-07 - HELENA COBBAN: How analysts in the Arab world see the Iraq war They also all saw a clear linkage between U.S. influence in the region as a whole and U.S. policy toward the Palestinians. They argued forcefully that making real progress on attaining a final Palestinian-Israeli peace could significantly help the U.S. manage the situation in and around Iraq.
03-29-07 - Arab leaders warn of Mideast arms race Wael al-Assad, the league's official in charge of preparations for the meeting, said closer nuclear cooperation was prompted by fear of Israel's nuclear weapons, and Iran's escalation of its program.
03-28-07 - Iran TV shows seized UK navy crew
03-28-07 - UK/Iran bilateral links suspended
03-28-07 - Americans Reject Attacking Iran Over Iraq Bombs **
03-28-07 - More Pork for More War by Rep. Ron Paul What might be most disturbing, however, is the treatment of veterans in the bill.
03-28-07 - Moscow warns U.S. Iran policy may spark "clash of civilizations" **
03-28-07 - Saudi King Slams ?Illegitimate Occupation? of Iraq
03-28-07 - Easter Surprise: Attack on Iran, New 9/11? or Worse **
03-28-07 - Russia and US accused of abusing men freed from Guantanamo Bay
03-28-07 - US keen to avoid 'escalation of tensions' with Iran following capture of British sailors ** The fact remains however that the massive new war games in the Gulf were brought forward because of the incident with the British, according to a spokesman for the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. The exercises, involving two carrier groups, are the largest of their kind since 2003. As Mr Bush made clear in an address on January 10 that directly blamed Iran for fomenting violence against US forces in Iraq, they are intended to send a clear message to Teheran.
03-28-07 - Zogby: Iran Poses Greatest Danger A majority of Americans (59 percent) view Iran as a threat to the United States, and 41 percent believe it is the nation that poses the single greatest danger, a new UPI/Zogby Interactive poll shows. The neocons and their friends in the MSM would have it no other way.
03-28-07 - US missile shield for Mideast threat, Bush tells Russia's Putin ** The United States is currently concerned about Iran's ballistic missiles.
03-28-07 - U.S. to keep troop levels through fall **
03-28-07 - Propaganda war over captured Brits
03-28-07 - FBI Didn?t Mean to Break the Law, Mueller Says He was addressing a series of recent reports of FBI bungling - making the agency seem sort of like Homer Simpson, but with guns - notably an inspector general?s conclusion that the bureau had improperly used so-called ?national security letters? that allow investigators to obtain private information without a judge?s approval.
03-28-07 - Interventions Without End? by Patrick J. Buchanan
03-28-07 - But Who's Against the Next War? the national-greatness conservatism advanced by neoconservative figures like William Kristol, and in large measure adopted by the Bush administration as it prepared for war in Iraq, finds its echo in a national-greatness liberalism among leading Democrats This only demonstrates that what AIPACers want - they get - no matter the political party.
03-28-07 - Israel boosts Golan troops as contingency -general Israel has reinforced its troops in the Golan Heights as a precautionary step, though neighbouring Syria does not appear to be planning an attack, Israel's top general was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
03-28-07 - Picking on Halliburton On an individual level, many well-known neoconservatives have moved seamlessly between the contractors and the think tanks, filling their bank accounts along the way. They include all-too-familiar names such as William Kristol, Stephen Bryen, Richard Perle, Dov Zakheim, Robert Joseph, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Frederick Kagan. Vice President (and former Secretary of Defense) Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have done the revolving door one better, moving from senior government posts to senior executive positions with the defense contractors, where they made millions of dollars before moving back into government at the highest levels.....The multilateral relationship involving U.S. contractors, Israel's defense industry, and former U.S. and Israeli government officials is both incestuous and apparently frequently beyond the rules that govern international arms sales. FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has recently said that unsealing the Bureau's investigative reports on Perle, Feith, and former State Department number three Marc Grossman would reveal that they all engaged in what she describes as treasonous activity reportedly linked to illegal weapons sales.
03-28-07 - US terrorist watchlist flags 'ordinary people' in error An increasing number of US businesses are screening their customers against a US Treasury watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, resulting in citizens with names similar to those on the list being denied services, according to a new report.
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03-28-07 - Arrow passes another test Israel's Arrow II anti-missile defense system passed another test. The Arrow, envisaged as Israel's main bulwark against any future ballistic missile attacks by Iran or Syria, was fired this week in what the Defense Ministry said was a successful test of its avionics
03-28-07 - Israel condemns testimony release Mr Olmert's office said uncensored material could still damage Israel's foreign relations. Why's that?
03-28-07 - Iran, Israel, and our Shared Security Goals Israel is facing the greatest danger for its survival since the 1967 victory. Israel maintained its dominance since 1967 even after the 1973 failure. In 1984 I wrote that WMD and terrorism would pose a threat for US national security. If two or three cities are destroyed because of terrorism both the US and Israel?s democracy will be eroded and both will become greater dictatorial societies. Has anyone informed Newt that America is NOT Israel? More: "We can?t live next to a Palestinian state that wants to destroy Israel." Who's 'we'?
03-28-07 - JINSA: Stop funding al-Hurrah The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs called on the U.S. Congress to stop funding an Arabic-language broadcaster.
03-28-07 - Bush pulls Fox nomination after Dems complain Fox, 77, of St. Louis, Mo., is national chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
03-28-07 - An interview with Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz Speaking of Iran, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is lobbying to block the requirement that the President seek Congressional approval before attacking Iran. What is your view on this?
03-27-07 - Blair: Iran must free naval prisoners in days
03-27-07 - US Navy starts war games in Gulf **
03-27-07 - UK ready to produce Iran evidence The government is preparing to release photographic evidence to support its assertion that 15 UK sailors seized by Iran were not in Iranian waters. This whole incident starts to look like what happened with Israel/Lebanon last July. Israel was planning a war on Hezbollah and waiting for the right opportunity, knowing that Hezbollah had been making efforts to capture IDF soldiers. Then, BINGO. We got a winner.
03-27-07 - UK in 'discreet talks' with Iran
03-27-07 - Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border ** "The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.
03-27-07 - Sunni extremists 'playing into Iran's hands': US colonel
03-27-07 - Cheney assures early Iraq pullout won't be allowed Cheney for his part used his appearance before the Republican Jewish Coalition in Manalaplan, Florida, to reassure allies that the current political struggle will not result in a precipitous US withdrawal from Iraq.
03-27-07 - Intelligence assets listen in to Teheran
03-27-07 - UAE will not be used in any Iran strike -president ** "We have informed the Iranian brothers ... that we are not party to its conflict with the United States and will not allow our territories to be used for any military, security or spy activities against it."
03-27-07 - Iran reduces US dollar exposure Iran has significantly reduced the amount of US dollars it holds in its foreign reserves, the head of its central bank has revealed.
03-27-07 - Iran's border muddles captivity issue Neither side has released map coordinates to prove its case. Even if one side did, it is unclear that would be enough to convince the other. "If this happened south of where the river boundary ends, knowing the coordinates wouldn't necessarily help us," said Richard Schofield of King's College in London, who is an expert on the waterway. "We have to accept the British claim with as much salt as the Iranian claim."
03-27-07 - Oil spikes $5 on rumors of Iran attack ** U.S. light crude for May delivery jumped $5.18, or about 8 percent, to $68.91 a barrel in electronic trading before giving back most of those gains to trade at $64.40 a barrel, $1.47 above Tuesday's settle price on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
03-27-07 - Russia, China sign four billion dollars of trade deals
03-27-07 - John Bolton: Bush never said Saddam was 'imminent threat' However, on more than one occasion, administration officials used the term "imminent threat" to describe Iraq in the run up to the war.
03-27-07 - US hawks see strikes on Iran as less likely now ** Mr. Rosbenberg says continued tough talk ? and the Democrat climbdown over the spending bill ? largely serve two functions: To hopefully soften up Iran in ongoing diplomatic negotiations over inspections of its nuclear facilities; and as a sop to hard-line groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which says it favors attacking Iran if diplomacy doesn't yield results soon, and whose lobbying was largely seen as leading Ms. Pelosi to take her action. I disagree with the author. It's coming, and that's why Rice is suddenly trying to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians; to get support from those not on board for military action against Iran. All of this newfound talk of diplomacy and pragmatism is a ruse.
03-27-07 - Cheney: Iraq pullout would hurt Israel A U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq would be damaging to Israel, Dick Cheney said.
Staying there is damaging to the US. Which country do you serve, Dick?
03-27-07 - China shifts to euros for Iran oil
03-27-07 - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon pessimistic Refugees in places like the Burj al-Barajneh camp in the overcrowded shantytown on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut expect the gathering will result in major changes to the 2002 Saudi initiative, including the ?removal of the right of return?.
03-27-07 - Iraq's break-up will lead to '100 Years War' The Jordanian prince warned that a possible break-up would play into the hands of Israeli "extremists," making Israel the dominant minority in a region of minorities. Divide and conquer.
03-27-07 - Kenya terrorist sent to Guantanamo An admitted terrorist involved in attacks against Israel was sent to a U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay,
03-27-07 - Israel gives in on 'road map' to grease wheels of peace push Israeli analysts conclude that unlike the neo-cons, she believes that such movement is possible and that it could strengthen the axis of moderate Arab states around U.S. leadership in the critical standoff with Iran. Bingo.
03-27-07 - Defense: Feds eyeballed AIPAC until it cut off Rosen, Weissman The U.S. Attorney in eastern Virginia at the time, Paul McNulty, "would like to end it with minimal damage to AIPAC," the document quotes Lewin as telling Lowell. "He is fighting with the FBI to limit the investigation to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and to avoid expanding it." WTF for? Read on: "When McNulty brought the indictment six months later, in August 2005, he emphasized that AIPAC was not under investigation. McNulty is now the deputy U.S. attorney general." No kidding? More: "On March 15, 2005, government officials meet with Lewin, the AIPAC lawyer, and disclose secretly obtained evidence; on March 18, McNulty's office allegedly tells Lewin that "AIPAC needed to fire Rosen and Weissman;" and on March 21, they're fired"
03-27-07 - Rashid Khalidi on Elliot Abrams' 'Hard Coup' Against Hamas
03-27-07 - Muslims share experiences with racism
03-27-07 - Secretary Rice prods Mideast players to table When George Bush entered the White House in 2001 amid the early days of the Palestinian uprising, and after President Clinton's administration failed peace summits, the administration disengaged from the nuts and bolts of peacemaking. The only times the US seeks peace initiatives between these two groups is when the neocon-driven Bush admin seeks to gain support for an attack on a Middle Eastern nation.
03-27-07 - University apologizes to its Hillel Pace Hillel President Michael Abdurakhmanov told The New York Times in January that following complaints by a Muslim student group, a dean told him not to show "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West."? If the film were shown, the dean allegedly said, police could be called in and Hillel members could be considered suspects in recent Islamophobic acts.
Hillel is a pro-Israel outfit.
03-26-07 - More Veterans Calling The Streets Home One in three homeless Americans is a veteran.
03-26-07 - Iran softens stance on British sailors Iran said Monday it was questioning 15 British sailors and marines to determine if their alleged entry into Iranian waters was "intentional or unintentional" before deciding what to do with them - the first sign it could be seeking a way out of the standoff.
03-26-07 - Iran resumes payments for power station: Russia
03-26-07 - US: Iran must not turn 'blind eye' to UN
03-26-07 - China, Russia leaders reject force on Iran, N.Korea **
03-26-07 - Iran says Marines are fit and well as family speak of their distress "We have statements from the Indian master of the boarded vessel, which was anchored in Iraqi waters, to say they were alongside it when they were detained,"
03-26-07 - Seized sailors 'held in Tehran' In order for the Britons to be released "every vested interest in Iran would need to be satisfied they had not deliberately entered Iranian waters, nor were they spying", the source said.
03-26-07 - Russia, China in appeal to Iran Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's Hu Jintao jointly said they wanted to find a "mutually acceptable solution" to Iran's "nuclear problem".
03-26-07 - Two US, one French aircraft carrier in Gulf region ** Lieutenant Commander Bertrand Bonneau, chief of press for the French navy, said the carrier group would be restricted to actions over Afghanistan. He said the carrier's deployment had "nothing at all" to do with exerting pressure on Iran.
03-26-07 - US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran ** "The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime."
03-26-07 - British backtrack on Iraq death toll British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday.
03-26-07 - The Coming War With Iran ** , recent events include the kidnapping of Iranian consular officials in Irbil, Kurdistan, by U.S. forces, reports of covert U.S. support for terrorist attacks inside Iran, the "disappearance" of a major Iranian military figure in the elite Revolutionary Guards unit, and suspicions that the Mossad may have had a hand in killing a renowned Iranian nuclear scientist.
03-26-07 - Chavez asks world to halt alleged planned US attack on Iran ** Chavez, speaking one day after the UN Security Council voted to tighten sanctions on Iran over Tehran's refusal to curtail its nuclear programme, cited a Russian press report which purportedly details the time and place of an attack on Iran by the United States, which he has dubbed "The Empire."
03-26-07 - 'We Warned the United States' Mottaki: Every country in the world sets its goals and should also be able to achieve them. On March 5, 1957, exactly 50 years ago, we signed a treaty with the United States that granted us the right to acquire nuclear power plants
03-26-07 - UN agrees to new Iran sanctions as military tensions mount in Gulf
03-26-07 - India to push for $7bn Iran gas pipeline project
03-26-07 - City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention
03-26-07 - Downer applauds UN stance on Iran
03-26-07 - Face-off with Iran takes tougher turn
03-26-07 - Advancing Freedom in Iran the advancement of freedom, democracy, and human rights in Iran should therefore be a U.S. priority Heritage Foundation = neocon 'thinktank'. And we all know the definition of neocon 'democracy' : elect Israel-friendly regime, or else. When neocons call for 'democracy', you know somebody is about to get bombed. It's laughable to see these folks feign concern for the freedom of Iranians. They care about the Iranian people about as much as they care about Arab peoples; they don't. Their only concern is for ISRAEL. And they don't care how much American blood and treasure is expended to further their agenda.
03-26-07 - Fallout fear puts deadline on nuclear sites attack ** Sources cited by The Jerusalem Post say a US or Israeli strike on the Iranian facilities would probably be carried out before Iran had enriched weapons-grade material in sufficient amounts to trigger a nuclear catastrophe if hit.
03-26-07 - Three Fired U.S. Attorneys Balked At Seeking Death Penalty The three prosecutors are among eight U.S. attorneys terminated last year in a housecleaning by the Justice Department. Their hesitation over the death penalty was not cited as a reason for their dismissals, but Washington officials have made it clear they have little patience for prosecutors who are not with the program.
03-26-07 - Syrian President meets British parliament delegation on regional situation Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Monday a delegation of the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the regional situation, particularly in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon.
03-26-07 - Fingerprints of history "I believe that a branch of Syrian Baath Party security assassinated Al-Hariri. I don?t say, however, that [Syrian President] Bashar Al-Assad was involved. I don?t think it was sanctioned from the top. I was walking on Beirut?s corniche, 400 metres away, when it happened. I got there before anyone and before the police. I saw Hariri on fire in the street. His socks were burning. And when I asked one Lebanese who was assassinated, he told me it was Hariri."
03-26-07 - Film on "Radical Islam" Tied to Pro-Israel Groups A controversial documentary on the threat of radical Islam, promoted by the two most-watched U.S. cable news networks, was marketed and supported in part by self-described "pro-Israel" groups, according to an IPS investigation Look no further for proof that Israel has very good friends in our MSM media. You think you're getting credible news? ROFLMAO. Funny, and yet thoroughly repulsive.
03-26-07 - Neighborly advice on Iraq It goes without saying that what all of Iraq's neighbors want most is an Israeli-Palestinian settlement. What all fear most is a U.S. war with Iran. It would be nice to divorce Iraq's woes from those broader conflicts, but the reality of the Middle East is that progress on all of these issues is fiendishly interlinked
03-25-07 - Seizure unjustified, Iran warned Iran's detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is "unjustified and wrong", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
03-25-07 - Angry Iran reduces nuclear access Iran's government says it will reduce cooperation with United Nations nuclear inspectors in response to new sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council.
03-25-07 - Iran considers charges against British sailors
03-25-07 - Marines face U.S. probe in Afghanistan deaths Marines accused of shooting and killing civilians after a suicide bombing in Afghanistan are under U.S. investigation, and their entire unit has been ordered to leave the country early, officials said Friday.
03-25-07 - Officials: 9 to be held to account on Tillman
03-25-07 - Cheney: Early Iraq Pullout Won?t Be Allowed
03-25-07 - An Open Letter to the President...Four and a Half Years Later By Sean Penn
03-25-07 - Senator: Some see impeachment as option "Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed - if a president really believes that, then there are - what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that," said Hagel
03-25-07 - Areva denies unit supplied Iran with enriched uranium
03-25-07 - American raid and arrests set scene for capture of marines In terms of US domestic and international politics, an American confrontation with Iran on the nuclear issue probably makes sense. Washington can rally support against Iran in a way that it cannot do when it looks for support for its occupation of Iraq
03-25-07 - US troops 'would have fought Iranian captors' Yesterday, the former First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West, said British rules of engagement were "very much de-escalatory, because we don't want wars starting ... Rather than roaring into action and sinking everything in sight we try to step back and that, of course, is why our chaps were, in effect, able to be captured and taken away."
03-25-07 - Confusion over Iran's intentions
03-25-07 - EU to seek new Iran nuclear talks
03-25-07 - US, Britain welcome sanctions on Iran
03-25-07 - Iraq's Kurds to go it alone on oil deals
03-25-07 - A Saudi-US fence around Iran
03-25-07 - Israel: Lebanon Cease-Fire in Jeopardy Israel's defense minister told the head of the United Nations on Saturday that the U.N.-brokered cease-fire in southern Lebanon is endangered by Hezbollah militants, who continue to hold two captured Israeli soldiers and receive arms shipments from Syria.
03-25-07 - How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America To justify the "war on terror," the administration has lately crafted a false historical narrative that could even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. By claiming that its war is similar to earlier U.S. struggles against Nazism and then Stalinism (while ignoring the fact that both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were first-rate military powers, a status al-Qaeda neither has nor can achieve), the administration could be preparing the case for war with Iran.
03-25-07 - Protest held over jailed professor According to the supporters and demonstrators, al-Arian also was promised in his plea that he would be deported from the U.S.
03-25-07 - TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now!
03-25-07 - ADC calls for congressional inquiry into Bolton remarks Bolton was quoted in an interview with BBC saying he was, "damned proud of what we did" to prevent an early ceasefire
03-25-07 - FEATURE-Palestinian militant leader in Lebanon spotlight
03-25-07 - Muslim activist strives to bridge cultures
03-24-07 - U.S.: Defense shield no threat to Russia ** Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mark Pekala urged European leaders to get behind the plan to put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic. He said the system would help protect the U.S. and its allies from the real menace: an Iranian airstrike.... "We consider the threat from the Middle East very real and quite urgent," Why? Because we are going to strike Iran?
03-24-07 - Former Iran president vows Iran will never build nuclear weapons "Weapons of mass destruction have never been our objective,"
03-24-07 - Ahmadinejad angrily abandons plans for UN visit "President Ahmadinejad's trip has been made impossible because of the lateness in supplying a visa by the United States,"
03-24-07 - Iran says British sailors admit illegal entry
03-24-07 - 'Wash Post' Publishes Rare Op-Ed by 'Anonymous' On FBI Abuse Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in my capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting business. The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information about one of my clients. There was no indication that a judge had reviewed or approved the letter, and it turned out that none had. The letter came with a gag provision that prohibited me from telling anyone, including my client, that the FBI was seeking this information.
03-24-07 - Islamic Jihad: Rice's visit means to campaign strike against Iran "We think this visit comes as part of preparations for war targeting Iran or Hezbollah... and maybe to strike an Arab country, "
03-24-07 - Hundreds protest US plan for Poland missile base
03-24-07 - Cheney is his own worst enemy
03-24-07 - Lebanon Islamists recruit Palestinians to fight Israel
03-23-07 - Americans support the troops with food, soap, DVDs "It builds morale for the soldier just to receive something from back home," he says. "The soldiers want to know that someone else other than their family supports them."
03-23-07 - Iran accuses West of 'psychological war'
03-23-07 - Iran kidnaps Marines at gunpoint Last night, the British and Iranian governments were locked in a diplomatic row as the dispute escalated. Britain protested that its personnel had been " kidnapped" while Iranian state television insisted that UK service members were "under arrest" for entering Iranian territory.
03-23-07 - Iran accuses Britain over sailors Tehran had made a "firm protest" about the "illegal entry" in the Gulf by the UK personnel, an Iranian official said.
03-23-07 - Seizure occurs in long-contested waters Iranians and Iraqis have been squabbling over the waterway since before the creation of modern Iran and Iraq.......British forces overran the area in the early days of the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam and quickly reopened the port of Umm Qasr. Virtually all of Iraq's oil is exported through an oil terminal near the mouth of the waterway.
03-23-07 - Navy Lacks Plan to Defend Against 'Carrier-Destroying' Missile A Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russia also offered the missile to Iran, although there's no evidence a sale has gone through. In Iranian hands, the Sizzler could challenge the ability of the U.S. Navy to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, through which an estimated 25 percent of the world's oil traffic flows.
03-23-07 - U.S. sells missile shield with Cold War tactics: Russia
03-23-07 - White House urges patience on Iran
03-23-07 - US struggles to avert Turkish intervention in northern Iraq Abdullah Gul, Turkey's foreign minister, MPs, military chiefs and diplomats say up to 3,800 PKK fighters are preparing for attacks in south-east Turkey - and Turkey is ready to hit back if the Americans fail to act.
03-23-07 - Exclusive: Embassies in Teheran prepare escape plans ** According to foreign sources, foreign diplomats believe a possible attack would take place before the end of 2007.
03-23-07 - Oil prices leap on Gulf incident
03-23-07 - Defund the War by Rep. Ron Paul Even though the administration started the subsequent preemptive war in Iraq, Congress bears the greatest responsibility for its lack of courage in fulfilling its duties.
03-23-07 - UN set to vote on Iran sanctions President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not be present because the US delayed issuing visas, Iranian officials say. The US has denied the claims.
03-23-07 - Bush calls for quick, unrestricted Iraq funding US President George W. Bush on Thursday urged lawmakers to approve his emergency spending request for Iraq in full and without restrictions on how it can be spent.
03-23-07 - Iran 'paying Iraqis' to attack Britons
03-23-07 - The rape of Iraq's oil According to documents obtained from the US State Department by BBC Newsnight under the US Freedom of Information Act, the US oil industry plan drafted early in 2001 for takeover of the Iraqi oilfields (after the removal of Saddam) was pushed aside by a secret plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, calling for the sell-off of all of Iraq's oilfields. This secret plan was crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas.
03-23-07 - Robert Fisk: The crushing fear that stalks America I flicked on the television in my Valdosta, Georgia, hotel room and there was a bejewelled lady on Fox TV telling American viewers that if "we" left Iraq, the "jihadists" would come after us. "They want a Caliphate that will take over the world," she shrieked about a report that two children had deliberately been placed in an Iraqi car bomb which then exploded. She ranted on about how Muslim "jihadists" had been doing this "since the 1970s in Lebanon". It was tosh, of course. Children were never locked into car bombs in Beirut - and there weren't any "jihadists" around in the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s. But fear had been sown.
03-23-07 - WPost Prints New Wilson/Plame Attack This new attack is contained in a column by right-wing pundit Robert D. Novak, who originally blew Plame?s CIA cover in July 2003 and has sought to add insult to the injury ever since.
03-23-07 - Report: Gates Tried to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison But Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Vice President Dick Cheney opposed Gates, and Bush ended up on the side of keeping the prison open for the time being.
03-23-07 - Norwegian delegation to visit Iran Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Olav Akselsen, says the delegation wants to meet Iranian parlamentarians to discuss the nation's controversial nuclear program.
03-23-07 - Fleeing Iraqis creating refugee 'crisis'
03-23-07 - Cheney to address RJC Vice President Dick Cheney will address a Republican Jewish Coalition event Saturday night.
03-23-07 - Court affirms former professor's contempt citation Sami al-Arian also ended his two-month hunger strike in a North Carolina federal prison. He says a plea agreement exempts him from testifying before the grand jury.
03-23-07 - "Damned Proud" of Dead Arab Women and Children
03-23-07 - Just Whom Does Congress Represent? What did Pelosi say that so enraged the AIPAC audience? Here is Pelosi in here own words: "Any U.S. military engagement must be judged on three counts - whether it makes our country safer, our military stronger, or the region more stable. The war in Iraq fails on all three scores."
03-22-07 - Iran navy launches Gulf war games ** "If the United States starts a war against Iran, it won't be the US that finishes it," the ISNA news agency quoted a Revolutionary Guards navy general as saying.
03-22-07 - Iran not worried by prospect of US strike: Ahmadinejad **
03-22-07 - UN seeks deal on Iran sanctions
03-22-07 - Gulf governments plan oil pipelines Gulf governments are planning oil pipelines that would bypass the world's most vulnerable energy choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, aiming to avoid possible Iranian threats to global oil shipments.
03-22-07 - Sensing Shift in Bush Policy, Another Hawk Leaves At the White House, J. D. Crouch, the deputy national security adviser, who headed the group that designed the administration?s strategy to increase troops in Iraq, and Elliott Abrams, who leads global democracy strategy, are known for their relatively hawkish views. Mr. Abrams has assembled a team pressing internally to step up pressure on Iran, a strategy Mr. Bush has endorsed as a way to gain leverage over Tehran.
03-22-07 - Former CIA official supports Professor's claim that official 9/11 Islamist conspiracy theory are lies
03-22-07 - Reduced sentence in works for Abramoff Former Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, sentenced to almost six years in prison for his fraudulent purchase of a South Florida gambling fleet, can receive a reduced sentence if he continues to assist prosecutors in a far-reaching Washington public corruption probe, federal officials said Wednesday.
03-22-07 - Ex-Pentagon Official Unveils Cyber Weapon In Fight To Restore Reputation: DougFeith.com "If this was not so deadly serious, and the consequences of the policy that Feith?s shop was selling so tragic, it would be comical," said Paul Pillar, who was the CIA's chief analyst for the Middle East until a year ago. "Of course vigorous questioning and challenging from consumers is a valuable part of a healthy intelligence-policy relationship, but what the shop under Feith was doing had nothing to do with that. It was striving not to improve intelligence but instead to discredit it and reduce its influence as much as possible when the intelligence community did not arrive at the preferred conclusion that there was an ?alliance? and deep, longstanding operational relationship between the Saddam regime and Al Qaeda. And the reason that was the preference was, of course, that a big part of selling the war was to link it as much as possible in the public mind with 9/11."
03-22-07 - The Dead-Enders Centered in the office of the vice president, the neocons did an end run around the mainstream intelligence agencies to manufacture the lies that lured us into war, and Christopher Hitchens did more than his part to spread these lies
03-22-07 - Israel's Peres opposed starting Lebanon war
03-22-07 - Soros Won?t Take On AIPAC (Yet) In fact, while some Jewish groups and neoconservative Jewish policy advocates lobbied for the war, there is no evidence AIPAC ever did so. Asked to cite an example of such support, Vachon acknowledged, "AIPAC took no official position on the war [but] clearly there was a perception, partly orchestrated at its 2003 meeting" of such support. It is my belief that AIPAC is a serious threat to the sovereignty of this nation.
03-22-07 - Bolton admits Lebanon truce block A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. ....Mr Bolton, a controversial and blunt-speaking figure, said he was "damned proud of what we did" to prevent an early ceasefire. John Bolton is (was)Israel's man at the UN.
03-22-07 - Analysis: Mideast: Permanent Kefuffle ** At first, the idea was to make sure president Bush could not launch air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities without prior Congressional authorization. But friends of Israel in and out of Congress swung into action, arguing that Iran, under present management, was a second "holocaust" in the making......Meanwhile, Israeli settlements keep growing illegally just below the international radar screen, house by house, in some 140 settlements. Many are strategically located to command access to the main aquifer under the West Bank. A secure road network under Israeli control interlinks the colonies.
03-22-07 - Can American Jews unplug the Israel lobby? in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, that all changed dramatically. 9/11, and the Bush administration's response to it, made it inescapably clear that America's Mideast policies affect everyone in the country: They are literally a matter of life and death. The Bush administration's neoconservative Mideast policy is essentially indistinguishable from AIPAC's. And so it is no longer possible to ignore it -- even though it is a notoriously touchy and divisive subject.
03-22-07 - Cameron stands encircled by zealous Anglo-neocons The Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) are a successful force, now claiming a large majority of Tory MPs as members.
03-22-07 - DeLay: I quit for Israel Tom DeLay says he quit the U.S. Congress to fight for Israel and conservative causes.
03-22-07 - Blue eyes, blond hair: that's US problem, says Japanese minister Japan has healthy relations with Arab countries and Iran and imports much of its oil from the Middle East. It is a big contributor of aid to the Palestinian Authority, but also has friendly ties with Israel
03-21-07 - Bolton: Only Force Will Deter Iran From Nuclear Program **
03-21-07 - Russia will not back excessive Iran sanctions
03-21-07 - Iran warns of 'illegal' steps over nukes Iran's top leader warned Wednesday his country will pursue "illegal actions" if the U.N. Security Council insists it halt uranium enrichment, an apparent reference to nuclear activities outside international regulations.
03-21-07 - Iran 'willing to act illegally' "Until today, what we have done is in accordance with international regulations," he was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying. "But if they take illegal actions, we too can take illegal actions and will do so."
03-21-07 - Bush, Congress may fight on executive privilege A possible confrontation moved a step closer on Wednesday when a Democratic-led congressional subcommittee approved subpoenas to be used if White House aides refuse to testify under oath about the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors.
03-21-07 - U.S. concerned by Russian arms sales to Iran, Syria The United States expressed concern on Wednesday about Russia's arms sales to Iran, Syria and Venezuela and accused Moscow of bullying its neighbors
03-21-07 - Lawmakers warn FBI on surveillance powers
03-21-07 - House OKs Subpoenas for Top Bush Aides A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
03-21-07 - US looks to sell arms in Gulf to try to contain Iran ** the arms sales, which would come on top of a recent upgrade of US Patriot antimissile interceptors in Qatar and Kuwait and the deployment of two aircraft carriers to the Gulf, could spark concerns that further military buildup in the volatile region would bring Washington closer to a confrontation with Iran.
03-21-07 - New doubts over Iraq intelligence On the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Baghdad experienced at least six bomb explosions, with up to 20 dead and dozens of injuries. Much of Iraq is still in a state of violence and fear.
03-21-07 - Iraqis Increasingly Pessimistic, Anti-US
03-21-07 - Bush: 'Iraq withdrawal may spark 9/11 repeat'
03-21-07 - PLO chief heaps more pressure on Fatah al-Islam
03-21-07 - Nato chief defends US missile plan
03-21-07 - Author: Shimon Peres persuaded France to backdate 1957 nuclear deal with Israel "Shimon Peres: The Biography" also says an earlier, secret agreement between the two countries pledged French co-operation on Israeli research and development of nuclear weapons, even before the French government formally decided to build its own atomic bombs.
03-21-07 - War drill fails to reassure Israelis Israel's largest-ever such drill was meant to signal to the public that the government and safety services had learned the lessons of this summer's war with Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.
03-21-07 - U.S.: Europe won't stop Iran terror funding "The major stumbling block -- the one that looms larger than all the others combined -- is that the Europeans won't recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization," Stuart Levey, the U.S. Treasury's under secretary for terrorism financing, told the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday.
03-21-07 - Hariri killing most likely politically motivated: UN investigator
03-21-07 - Grim upsurge for Lebanon prosthetics Prosthetic limb-fitting centres in southern Lebanon are struggling to cope with the rising toll from the one million unexploded munitions left over from last year's war with Israel. .....The UN has said that clearing them has been made more difficult by Israel not revealing the precise areas they targeted.
03-21-07 - UN Hariri probe 'to be extended'
03-21-07 - Calling out Satterfield Next opportunity: March 27 at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, when Satterfield speaks on "Iraq: Prospects for Peace at Home and Progress with its Neighbors." WINEP was, after all, spun off from AIPAC back in the late 1980s, its events are attended by the pro-Israel community's best and brightest and I know that a lot of its staff's attitude toward the Rosen-Weissman case can be summed up in the unexpandable acronym, WTF?
03-20-07 - Defense Spending Soars to Highest Levels Since World War II As the Iraq war enters a fifth year, the conflict that President Bush's aides once said would all but pay for itself with oil revenues is fueling the highest level of defense spending since World War II
03-20-07 - UN nuclear inspectors visit Iranian enrichment facility: diplomats UN inspectors visited the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz on Tuesday, diplomats said, but it was not clear if they resolved a dispute over monitoring a strategic underground bunker.
03-20-07 - Russia, Iran deny ultimatum over enrichment program
03-20-07 - Nations propose Iran sanction amendments
03-20-07 - Gulf states can respond to any Iran attack: Bahrain
03-20-07 - Germany warns US on missile shield plan
03-20-07 - "U.S. Funding Armed Groups to Overthrow Iranian Govt "the United States is officially funding armed groups to overthrow the Islamic government" in Tehran.
03-20-07 - Officials: Russian experts leaving Iranian nuke site Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Rosatom, Russia's Federal Nuclear Power Agency, confirmed that the number of Russian workers at the Bushehr plant had dwindled because of what he said were Iranian payment delays.
03-20-07 - World 'ignoring Iraqi refugees' UNHCR spokesman Peter Kessler said: "There has been an abject denial of the impact, the humanitarian impact, of the war, the huge displacement within Iraq of up to 1.9 million people who are homeless because of the war, and those people who are homeless and never got back to the homes after Saddam Hussein was overthrown."
03-20-07 - U.S. 'Surge' in Iraq Is To Prepare Attack on Iran**
03-20-07 - US Air Force Col.: Bulgaria - Option for Military Base aganst Iran ** The forces are in place to conduct a strike right now. The US has moved an additional carrier group, has deployed additional missile defense assets, has deployed an additional mine sweeping ship to the gulf. The US is in the process of adding oil to a strategic petroleum reserve. All of these are the steps that would be taken if one were going to conduct a strike in Iran.
03-20-07 - White House Searching for Gonzales' Replacement, Source Says The Washington Post reported late Monday that a Justice Department official's early ranking of undistinguished prosecutors included U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago. A March 2005 Justice Department memo from Sampson ranked Fitzgerald, who was responsible for the recent perjury conviction of former I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, with other prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves."
03-20-07 - More than 100 Arrested in SF, NYC Iraq Protests Police arrested more than 100 Iraq war protesters in San Francisco and New York City on Monday as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
03-20-07 - The case against Conrad Black: 'A bank robber in a suit and tie' Mr Genson said that Lord Black's image was the public image of Hollinger, and his private and business expenditures were inseparable. The use of the corporate jet, he said, was mandated by the board, which believed that Lord Black's pro-Israeli views made him a terror target if he travelled on commercial flights.
03-20-07 - Iran, Armenia open gas pipeline Armenia has been building closer ties with Iran following economic sanctions imposed by Azerbaijan and Turkey over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
03-20-07 - Bush will fight congressional subpoenas on attorney firings
03-20-07 - Healing Waters: A Soldier's Recovery, via Fishing Project Healing Waters takes injured veterans from Walter Reed Medical Center out fishing, both for recreation and for recovery
03-20-07 - PLO denies relations with suspects in Lebanon bus bombings
03-20-07 - Palestinian factions clash in lebanon
03-20-07 - Report: France urged Israel to hit Syria Army Radio reported that in the message, which was delivered by Chirac to Israel via a secret channel, the French president suggested that Israel invade Damascus and topple the regime of Bashar Assad. In exchange, Chirac assured Israel full French support for the war.
03-20-07 - Lebanese MPs rally to call for Hariri murder trial Anti-Syrian MPs gathered in the Lebanese parliament on Tuesday to demand the holding of a session to ratify the creation of a court due to try suspects in former premier Rafiq Hariri's murder.
03-20-07 - Assad admit secret talks "Various figures visited Israel and came to Syria and conveyed to us the Israeli points of view, but there was nothing serious on the ground,"
03-20-07 - Unafraid to tackle other issues, Jewish groups avoid Iraq war Foxman said the Walt-Mearsheimer fallout was inhibiting Jewish activism in favor of confronting Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, a cause that has broad support in the Jewish community.
03-20-07 - Dennis Ross in the spotlight You?ve asked for Jonathan Pollard to be released. What are your arguments and do you believe it will happen soon?
03-20-07 - Gulf Arabs boost aid to Sunni militants in Lebanon
03-20-07 - Conflict with Iran inevitable, Ya'alon says **
03-20-07 - Bad intelligence blamed, but look who supplied it It is obvious that there was a cabal of Israel supporters who wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, for his aid to the Palestinian families whose members were killed by Israel, and to destroy Iraq as an enemy of Israel.
03-20-07 - Iraq steps up anti-Israel boycott US law bars American firms from complying with boycott-related requests and requires them to report any such incidents to the authorities. These might include demands made of companies to verify that their products do not contain components made in the Jewish state or signing forms attesting that they do not do business with Israel.
03-20-07 - Israel: Lebanon conflict was a war
03-19-07 - Report: Sexual assault of women soldiers on rise in US military In the online magazine Salon, Helen Benedict reports that every female veteran she interviewed for a book she is writing on women in the US military said that "the danger of rape by other soldiers is so widely recognized in Iraq that their officers routinely told them not to go to the latrines or showers without another woman for protection."
03-19-07 - Iran stops inspectors visiting nuclear site: diplomats Iran's blocking access definitively to Natanz would be a violation of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
03-19-07 - US approves Ahmadinejad UN trip The 15-member Security Council is to meet on Wednesday to discuss the sanctions.
03-19-07 - U.S. Attorney's Firing may be Connected to CIA Corruption Probe Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday.
03-19-07 - S. Africa asks delay on Iran sanctions South Africa called Monday for a 90-day "time out" on sanctions against Iran and said a resolution drafted by six world powers should drop an embargo on arms exports and financial sanctions targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guards and an Iranian bank.
03-19-07 - Bush calls for patience on Iraq
03-19-07 - Uh Oh, the President's Reading Again What is remarkable about all of these books is ? much like the cherry-picked and manipulated intelligence stovepiped to Bush in the run-up to the Iraq War ? both their extraordinary ideological narrowness and their utility in the pursuit of a neoconservative agenda, especially in the Middle East.
03-19-07 - Inter-Palestinian clash wounds two in northern Lebanon The sources said two Fatah members were wounded in the legs when an armed member of the new Fatah al-Islam movement opened fire on them in the Naher al-Bard Palestinian refugee camp.
03-19-07 - Report: U.S. shuns Israel on Iran plans ** according to Ma'ariv, the Olmert government is in doubt about whether President Bush is capable of mustering domestic support for anything other than diplomatic pressure on Tehran.
03-19-07 - Novak's 'Outings': Damage Control
03-19-07 - Netanyahu Issues Call to World From Jerusalem Conference Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking at the 4th Annual Jerusalem Conference Monday morning, repeated his call for the world to prove that now is not like the 1930s and that the world knows how to respond this time.
03-19-07 - Groups launch Ahmadinejad campaign The World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel launched an Internet campaign against Iran's president.
03-19-07 - Lebanese army boosts security around Palestinian camp
03-19-07 - Coalition Announces Launch of ?Jews Against the War? to Give Voice to Growing Anti-War Jewish Majority On the fourth anniversary of the war on Iraq, a coalition of Jewish leaders announced the launch of "Jews Against the War" (JAW), an organization dedicated to ending the Iraq war and preventing one with Iran What about the war on Palestine?....
03-19-07 - The political ideas competing for support in the Arab world all these worldviews contain a strong pro-Palestinian component. Adherents of any might enter a tactical alliance with the US, but so long as Washington is seen as blocking the Palestinians' hopes, such alliances will be hard to maintain.
03-19-07 - Only 10% in U.S. See Iran as Immediate Threat Only 10 per cent of respondents think Iran is a threat to the United States that requires military action now, down 11 points since mid-February. Sorry Netty. Americans aren't buying the propaganda.
03-19-07 - Soros: AIPAC needs reform Soros claimed that by allying itself with neoconservatives backing the Iraq war and opposing any dialogue with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas, "AIPAC under its current leadership has clearly exceeded its mission, and far from guaranteeing Israel's existence, has endangered it."
03-19-07 - Patrick Fitzgerald: The 47-Year-Old Virgin No comment...
03-19-07 - PLO distances Palestinian cause from suspects in Ain Alaq bus bombings Zaki said the presence of the militant group in Nahr al-Bared, a refugee camp outside Tripoli, "bothers us all."
03-19-07 - Outside View: Why Muslims hate the U.S.
03-19-07 - Jordan blasts Israel's Olmert The Jordanian government Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for reportedly stating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will threaten the kingdom.
03-19-07 - Maker: Israeli 'drones' fly over Iraq
03-19-07 - Robert Fisk: US power games in the Middle East Now it has to be said that there's a lot of scepticism about this story. Not because Syria has, inevitably, denied any connection to Lebanese bombings but because in a country that has never in 30 years solved a political murder, it's pretty remarkable that the local Lebanese constabulary can solve this one - and very conveniently so since Mr Sabeh's pro-American government continues to accuse Syria of all things bestial in the state of Lebanon.
03-19-07 - Iraq, Iran, and the Lobby
03-18-07 - Russia warns US not to use nuclear issue to change Iran ** Russia's security chief issued a veiled warning to Washington on Sunday not to use the Iranian nuclear issue to try to change Tehran's political course.
03-18-07 - Congress eyes lost billions sent to Iraq Overall, the Defense Contract Audit Agency has found $4.9 billion in overpricing and waste in Iraq contracts since 2003. US auditors have identified another $5.1 billion in expenses charged without documentation.
03-18-07 - EXCLUSIVE: Major New Problems At Walter Reed
03-18-07 - British nuclear plans "serious setback": Iran envoy
03-18-07 - Congress Investigates Walter Reed's 'VIP' Ward
03-18-07 - As an Economic Partner, Iran Builds Its Role in Iraq The economies of Iraq and Iran, the largest Shiite-majority countries in the world, are becoming closely integrated, with Iranian goods flooding Iraqi markets and Iraqi cities looking to Iran for basic services.
03-18-07 - FBI insisted on using questionable methods for getting records: report The US Federal Bureau of Investigation ignored warnings by lawyers and continued using questionable procedures to obtain the telephone records of thousands of Americans as part of its counterterrorism probes, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
03-18-07 - Israel, U.S. test missile defense ** Israel and the U.S. are concerned that Iran could be developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles able to threaten Israel When did it become our job to defend the nation of Israel, I wonder? Soon it will be written into the Constitution. Thanks to these folks, that actually isn't necessary.
03-18-07 - U.S. says new Palestinian government must recognize Israel The United States will not deal with the new Palestinian government unless it agrees to give up violence and fully recognize Israel, President George W. Bush's national security adviser Stephen Hadley said on Sunday. Hadley = neocon.
03-18-07 - IRAQ: Police raids spread panic among Palestinians
03-18-07 - Exclusive: Pearl Family Doubts KSM Confession
03-18-07 - israelis planned kidnapping of soldiers in Lebanon
03-18-07 - Permission to Speak Freely? I received the following disturbing message from Tom Feeley, the editor of Information Clearing House, a widely recognized source of alternative news: Great newsletter. I was wondering why it went missing for a few days there.
03-18-07 - Israel's Last Chance
03-18-07 - Forget Israel, Befriend Russia
03-17-07 - Iran's military warns U.S. against "stupid move" ** Iran's army commander has warned the United States and other Western powers not to make any "stupid move" over Tehran's nuclear work, and suggested they would be surprised by Iran's military response if they attacked.
03-17-07 - Worldwide protests mark 4th anniversary of Iraq war Thousands of US anti-war demonstrators, some carrying yellow and black signs reading "US out of Iraq now!" marched toward the Pentagon.
03-17-07 - Qatar voices Gulf fears of military action against Iran **
03-17-07 - Four years on, war costs Bush at home and abroad "The impact has been devastating," Eichenberg said. "American standing abroad is by all measures at its lowest point in history. This is true in Europe, this is true in other parts of the world. Whether this can be reversed in a new administration, Republican or Democrat, we will have to see."
03-17-07 - US soldier guilty in Iraq killing A US soldier has been found guilty on three charges of negligent homicide in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees.
03-17-07 - The Original American Foreign Policy by Rep. Ron Paul
03-17-07 - Lebanese army boosts security around Palestinian camp, base of militants blamed in bus bombings
03-16-07 - Iran condemns UN draft sanctions Mr Ahmadinejad vowed to pursue his nation's nuclear future despite the sanctions, at a rally central Iranian town of Khatam.
03-16-07 - Plame: My cover was 'recklessly' abused "If our government cannot even protect my identity, future foreign agents who might consider working with the Central Intelligence Agency and providing needed intelligence would think twice," Plame said in response to a question.
03-16-07 - Valerie Plame Speaks--Finally--About CIA Leak Case Plame was able to tell the committee, "I was a covert officer." She said she helped to "manage and run operations." She noted that prior to the Iraq war she had "raced to discover intelligence" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "I also traveled to foreign countries on secret missions," she said under oath, "to find vital intelligence."
03-16-07 - US will expedite Iranian leader's visa, hope he will accept UN demands
03-16-07 - Iranian president: sanctions won't work President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Friday that new sanctions won't force Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium, and he blasted the U.N. Security Council as an instrument used by "bullying" Western nations against Tehran.
03-16-07 - Report: Iran army loses touch with senior officer based in Iraq A senior source in the Iranian military told the newspaper that it is possible that Shiradi has been arrested by American forces.
03-16-07 - Officials: Mohammed exaggerated claims
03-16-07 - Coroner says 'friendly fire' killing of British soldier was a criminal act The killing of Lance Corporal Matty Hull in an American air strike in Iraq was a "criminal, unlawful act" by pilots who opened fire "with disregard for the rules of engagement", a coroner ruled yesterday.
03-16-07 - Soldier testifies killings were planned A staff sergeant gave soldiers the option of taking part in the shooting of three Iraqi detainees before the killings took place, a soldier testified Wednesday.
03-16-07 - US rejects coroner's findings on 'friendly fire' death
03-16-07 - Analysis: Attacking Iran -- Part 1 **
03-16-07 - Analysis: Attacking Iran -- Part 2 **
03-16-07 - French prime minister says U.S. should pull out of Iraq within one year "It shattered America's image. It undermined the image of the West as a whole. It is time for the United States and Europe to regain together the respect and admiration of other peoples,"
03-16-07 - Syria welcomes latest Hariri probe report Syria on Friday welcomed the latest interim report by the UN commission of inquiry into the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, describing it as "professional."
03-16-07 - Senate accepts proposals of 9/11 panel The Senate passed legislation yesterday on a 60-38 vote to implement recommendations of the September 11 commission, despite the threat of a presidential veto over a provision to allow airport screeners to unionize
03-16-07 - UNHCR condemns deadly Iraqi raid on Palestinians in Baghdad The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday it was deeply disturbed by a raid conducted by the Iraqi security forces earlier this week in a Palestinian area of Baghdad that left at least one person dead.
03-16-07 - Abbas: Protect Palestinians in Iraq Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to intervene to protect the Palestinians in Iraq.
03-16-07 - E-mails show Rove role on prosecutors' future
03-16-07 - Pelosi's Disastrous Misstep on Iran Under pressure from some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists associated with neoconservative groupings that want war with Iran and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC), Pelosi agreed on Monday to strip the Iran provision from the spending bill that has become the House leadership's primary vehicle for challenging the administration's policies in the region.
03-16-07 - Tomgram: The Seymour Hersh Mystery
03-16-07 - Hariri probe 'progress on motive'
03-16-07 - U.S. official: Israeli investors should pump money into Iraq
03-16-07 - AIPAC rejects Pollard motion AIPAC officials spoke against the motion, arguing that involving the organization in efforts on behalf of Pollard, currently serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, would complicate the lobby's mission to promote a close U.S.-Israel relationship.
03-16-07 - Olmert defiant as calls grow for resignation ahead of war report Mr Olmert is in an uncomfortable position. His popularity ratings have sunk, with an Israeli public disillusioned by what is widely perceived as a failed war against Hizbullah last July and by corruption allegations against Mr Olmert and several other scandals involving members of his government.
03-16-07 - Inside America's powerful Israel lobby Many rank-and-file members of AIPAC seemed to be spoiling for military action against Iran -- "We have to do to them what we did to Saddam," one delegate told me........."Our commitment to Israel defines us as a nation," said Republican Norm Coleman of Minnesota, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, adding that the AIPAC lobbyists "help make sure that we don't forget." ........."I don't sit behind my desk and come up with this stuff," Coleman said, stressing that he often consulted AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr for policy advice. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, said that she, too, often spoke to Kohr and others in the AIPAC leadership. "They're like daily phone calls," she said, as other Democratic and Republican members of Congress onstage nodded in agreement. Read the entire article.
03-16-07 - AIPAC judge calls hearing on secret evidence The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers ordered hearings on whether to keep evidence secret at trial.
03-16-07 - U.S. failed to give Israel all drafts of UN Resolution 1701 The United States usually represents Israel's positions in the Security Council, and did so during the war as well No kidding? Well I never would've guessed that.
03-16-07 - Yes, Barack, But How Much Do You Hate the Palestinians? AIPAC is a right-wing body, even on the Jewish-American political spectrum ? in Israeli terms, its orientation is strongly Likudnik, aligning it with the right-wing fringe in Israel, too. Close to 80% of American Jews, according to surveys see the Iraq war as a mistake. (As opposed to the AIPAC crowd and Israeli government, which continues to support it.)
03-15-07 - Iran sanctions go to UN council
03-15-07 - Iran seeks U.N. OK to make nuclear case
03-15-07 - U.S. acting against Kurdish rebel group The United States is dealing with Turkish complaints about Kurdish separatists operating in northern Iraq and has not ruled out military action against the rebels, the U.S. official assigned to handle the problem says.
03-15-07 - Iran, U.S. back off from confrontation
03-15-07 - German Official Adds to Mystery of Iranian Missing in Turkey
03-15-07 - US looks at plan to oust Musharraf Reports yesterday quoting highly placed US diplomatic and intelligence officials - previously rusted on to the view that General Musharraf was an indispensable Western ally in the battle against terrorism - outlined a succession plan to replace him.
03-15-07 - Washington affirms Sadr still in Iran, refuses to mark him as wanted US forces were keeping tracking Muqtada Al-Sadr and believed he was in Iran, a US general said on Wednesday, yet he declined to state whether the Shiite cleric was a wanted man.
03-15-07 - Treasury casts a wide net under Patriot Act Although Congress has yet to examine the Treasury's use of Section 311, the provision is likely to add to the controversy over other sweeping powers the executive branch of government acquired under the Patriot Act. According to a recent audit, the FBI used the act illegally to obtain personal information about U.S. citizens, and the administration has agreed to abandon a provision that it used to replace eight U.S. attorneys for what Democrats charge were partisan political reasons.
03-15-07 - Key 9/11 figure 'beheaded Pearl' "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 'confession' was not made in a court of law but in a secret screening process that bars lawyers," said Amnesty UK spokesman Mike Blakemore.
03-15-07 - Iranians sought for B Aires bomb
03-15-07 - Apocalypse Now: Iran Threat Dominates AIPAC Confab ** just under the surface, support was clear for a military attack if sanctions failed. Indeed, AIPAC supported a move to smooth the way for such an attack during the conference itself. House Democrats fashioning a supplemental appropriations bill for the Iraq war this week had hoped to include a provision requiring President Bush to get authorization from Congress for any attack on Iran. But late Monday, the provision was kept out of the bill, according to several Capitol Hill sources, due to vehement opposition from AIPAC and pro-Israel members of Congress, including Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-L.I./Queens) and Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.).
03-15-07 - After visiting Israel, fire chiefs wonder about U.S. preparedness Harmes was among 14 chiefs from 13 states who toured Israel in February on a mission co-sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation through AIPAC and the International Association of Fire Chiefs. They visited Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other locations......The trip was intended to encourage relations between the U.S. and Israeli homeland security and first-responder communities.
03-15-07 - Anti-Zionist Rabbi Beaten by Jews in Poland for Attending Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran "With every blow I felt like I was speaking in the name of the Jewish people,"
03-15-07 - Israel seeking name for Lebanon war Operation Bomb Fleeing Refugees? Operation Cluster Bomb Civilian Areas? Operation Level Lebanon?
03-15-07 - Coffee-klatch campaigningCandidates court Jewish voters at AIPAC fete Earlier in the evening, Biden stood on a chair ? instead of using a podium like Clinton and Obama ? and ripped those who have questioned the close ties between the United States and the Jewish state.
03-15-07 - Cheney urges Hill to OK funds for surge While none of the 2008 White House hopefuls spoke at the AIPAC conference, several hosted receptions last night to schmooze with Jewish voters -- and potential donors -- following a gala dinner. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, held a dessert event and Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois Democrat, planned a soiree for the same hour
03-15-07 - Taming Leviathan The lobbyists had every reason to feel proud of their work. Congress has more Jewish members than ever before: 30 in the House and a remarkable 13 in the Senate. (There are now more Jews in Congress than Episcopalians.) Both parties are competing with each other to be the ?soundest? on Israel. About two-thirds of Americans hold a favourable view of the place.
03-15-07 - U.N.'s al-Hariri inquiry finds out more about bomber
03-14-07 - Iranian envoy says Iranians may be freed
03-14-07 - Senator calls on Treasury to investigate if Halliburton move to Dubai linked to Iran deals
03-14-07 - US rules of war blamed for 'friendly fire' death British pilots must read back to their air controllers the location and coordinates of their target, their direction of attack and the location of friendly forces in relation to the target, before they can open fire. The American military is thought to have no such rules in place
03-14-07 - 9/11 mastermind confesses in Guantanamo Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon. According the the findings of the 911 Commission in July of 2004, Mohammed was motivated to mastermind the attacks because of US support for Israel.
03-14-07 - Waxman to Rice: Answer 11 ignored letters on Iraq claims
03-14-07 - Poll: 69 percent oppose pardon for Libby in CIA leak case Just 18 percent said they would support a pardon for Libby
03-14-07 - Military and Gold Star Families, Iraq War Vets, Active Duty Troops, and Veterans of other Wars to Hold Press Conference on Capitol Hill on 4th Anniversary of Iraq War When: Monday, March 19, 2007 at 10:30 a.m.
03-14-07 - Conrad Black trial jurors scrutinized Mentioned as potential witnesses for or against Black are former Pentagon official and fellow neoconservative Richard Perle, Illinois Republican powerhouse and former governor James Thompson, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
03-14-07 - Fitzgerald not talking about CIA leak "I do not believe it would be appropriate for me to offer opinions, as your letter suggests the committee may seek, about the ultimate responsibility of senior White House officials for the disclosure of Ms. Wilson's identity," Fitzgerald wrote.
03-14-07 - Israel not 'enthusiastic' about strike on Iran: Olmert Israeli officials are making a concerted effort to backpedal away from previous strong language about Iran so as not to be seen as the instigators of an attack on Iran.
03-14-07 - 'US acted like witch hunter in making case for war on Iraq' "They wanted to see anything as evidence that the Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction,"
03-14-07 - Solana backs Syria on Golan "We would like to work as much as possible to see your country, Syria, recuperate the territory taken in 1967,"
03-14-07 - Stop Funding for Attack on Iran! Last night, Rep. Pelosi and the democratic leadership decided to pull language from the Supplemental Appropriations bill which stated that no funds may be authorized for military operations in or related to Iran unless specifically authorized by the Congress.
03-14-07 - Syria denies link to group accused of Lebanon bombs Syria denied on Wednesday Lebanese allegations that it had links to a group accused of bombing two buses near Beirut last month and said it was hunting the group down for ties to al Qaeda.
03-14-07 - The AIPAC Caucus Hawkish "pro-Israel" organizations, on the Jewish and Christian right, have been leading advocates of a more confrontational Iran policy. Thousands of supporters are in town for AIPAC's star-studded convention, which as usual drew half of the Senate and a third of the House, including members of both parties' leadership.
03-14-07 - Bloggers vs. the Lobby On New Year's Day, Israeli superhawk Benjamin Netanyahu called for an "intense international public relations front" to persuade Americans of the need for military confrontation with Iran. See yesterday's news batch for Netty's change of tack. It is clear that Israel, the neocons and the Bush admin are all seemingly pursuing the path to negotiations and are giving the appearance that they've relaxed their sphincters a bit. Won't last long.
03-14-07 - Media coalition intervenes in lobbyist case The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 12 other groups, including The Associated Press and the Washington Post, asked Wednesday to enter the case for the limited purpose of challenging the government's apparent request to close the upcoming trial in this matter.
03-14-07 - U.S.-Israel energy act introduced The American Jewish Congress applauded the introduction of the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Act to the U.S. Senate.
03-14-07 - Libby Guilty Verdict Spurs Fundraising for Legal Defense Bill Wealthy supporters including actor Fred Thompson, publisher Steve Forbes and Wayne Berman, a Washington lobbyist and leading Bush donor, plan to raise much more.......Other participants are Martin Peretz, former owner of the New Republic magazine; former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp; and R. James Woolsey, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia, and a director of central intelligence under President Bill Clinton.
03-14-07 - From 2002: Selective Memri Its work is subsidised by US taxpayers because as an "independent, non-partisan, non-profit" organisation, it has tax-deductible status under American law. .....The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel......Evidence from Memri's website also casts doubt on its non-partisan status.....Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence.
03-14-07 - 'Israel will never return Golan Heights' Land grabbers say 'Return stolen loot? No way!'.
03-14-07 - Ban concerned over arms smuggling in Lebanon, Israeli overflights The UN secretary general noted that Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora had expressed his country's "frustration with continuing Israeli overflights, the rising civilian toll caused by Israeli cluster bombs and slow progress on the issue of the (disputed) Shebaa Farms."
03-14-07 - AIPAC backed removal of Iran war provision AIPAC lobbying helped remove a provision from a bill that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval for war against Iran. No kidding?
03-14-07 - Lieberman invokes Czechoslovakia "There are elements in Europe that are willing to sacrifice Israel in exchange for their security, for their trade interests," Lieberman told Israel Radio
03-14-07 - Right-Wing Academic Values FrontPageMagazine.com features regular denunciations of academic sinners by Horowitz, appearing side-by-side with frothing rants against various other enemies, domestic and foreign. Alan Dershowitz and Daniel Pipes publish there, along with Christopher Hitchens and a lesser constellation of would-be freedom fighters, terrorism experts and expatriate authors based in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
03-14-07 - Liberal Zionists denounce AIPAC "The new approach aligns AIPAC more closely with neoconservatives, placing it in sharp opposition both to the Bush administration and the Israeli government." The positions of AIPAC, neocons, and the Bush admin are virtually identical - and have been for some time (to the detriment of Americans).
03-13-07 - Petraeus: Iran training, arming militants The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops in Iraq. Gen. David Petraeus also told ABC News that suicide bombers are streaming across Iraq's border from Syria and making their way into the country's volatile western Anbar province. Mmm k.
03-13-07 - Tensions between Russia, Iran ratchet up over nuclear program
03-13-07 - White House Said to Prompt Firing of Prosecutors Within a few weeks of the president?s comments to the attorney general, the Justice Department forced out seven prosecutors
03-13-07 - Pelosi: Iraq pullout bill makes region safer
03-13-07 - Halliburton: From Bush's favourite to a national disgrace
03-13-07 - 9/11, Iraq: Cheney Again Claims Tie Cheney linked Iraq and al Qaeda even though post-invasion reports by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the presidential Commission on Intelligence Capabilities found no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda before the U.S.-led invasion on March 19, 2003. Thus does Cheney continue to 'throw sand in the eyes' of the American people.
03-13-07 - UN agency appeals for $1.7 million to feed 30,000 impoverished Iraqi refugees in Syria Among the beneficiaries are 650 Palestinian refugees living in dire conditions in two locations along the Syria-Iraq border
03-13-07 - No logistic support to US for Iran attack: Rao Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal said on Sunday Pakistan would never provide logistic support to the US in case it attacked Iran.
03-13-07 - After Libby, All Roads Lead to Feith Feith's actions are comprehensible if one connects them to his Likud loyalties
03-13-07 - FM Livni: U.S. must stand firm on Iraq Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned the U.S. yesterday not to show weakness in Iraq, during an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington. "If the American
people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms.
Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on." - the late Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
03-13-07 - Plame suit puts heat on Cheney Mr Cheney and his wife Lynne were greeted with a standing ovation when they arrived on friendly turf at the American Enterprise Institute's black-tie dinner last week.
03-13-07 - Former Crossville resident part of historic delegation to Iran
03-13-07 - Saving Feith by Philip Giraldi It has been reported that during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Israeli military officers and diplomats had virtual carte-blanche access to Feith?s offices and those of his boss Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. (Both were investigated earlier in their careers on suspicion of passing secrets to Israel?Feith in 1982, Wolfowitz in 1978.)
03-13-07 - The possibility of easing tension between the US and Iran
03-13-07 - Hagel Against the War Party Can the GOP be saved from the neocons?
03-13-07 - Iran says Israel, U.S. threaten Mideast
03-13-07 - Iran condemns Hollywood war epic Javad Shamqadri, a cultural advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said it was "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting this civilization".
03-13-07 - House Leaders Support Israel, Differ Over Iraq at AIPAC Conference "Who doesn't believe that failure in Iraq is not a direct threat to the very existence of Israel?" Boehner said.
03-13-07 - Many guests at AIPAC event, but one is most unwanted --- Iraq "When America succeeds in Iraq, Israel is safer," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said late Monday in a live satellite address from his Jerusalem home that capped the gala dinner. "The friends of Israel know it, the friends who care about Israel know it. They will keep the Americans strong, powerful and convincing."......It did not help AIPAC's case for bipartisanship that the lobby this week successfully pressed for the removal of a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have required the president to get congressional approval for war against Iran. Well well well. Et tu AIPAC. Look at the very last sentence of the article. 'Limited time'? Was he referring to the limited time remaining in the Bush administration to strike Iran?
03-13-07 - House passes resolution for soldiers The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the three Israeli soldiers being held captive by Hamas and Hezbollah.
I refer back to the Moorer quote.
03-13-07 - U.S. envoy: We won't stop Israel talking to Syria Ambassador Jones, who participates in the meetings of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visits to Israel, told the crowd of academics that in all the meetings in which he took part there was never a demand that Israel avoid contacts with Syria. Thought so.
03-13-07 - Syria sees Mideast peace process as inseparable whole After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Shara told a press conference that Syria is keen on restoring the Golan Heights and all the occupied Arab lands along with setting up an independent state of Palestine, noting that Syria is not seeking a barter deal with the U.S. for establishing peace on the Syrian track.
03-13-07 - Israel, U.S. storm out of UN nuclear forum The Israel and U.S. delegations walked out of the United Nations' disarmament forum in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday after Iran said Israel was the "real source of nuclear danger in the Middle East" and had a "dark record of crimes."
03-13-07 - PM's AIPAC speech surprises delegates Prime Minister Ehud Olmert waded into the thick of America's messy political debate on Iraq late Monday night when he told thousands of AIPAC supporters that "premature" withdrawal from the country could harm Israel and efforts against Iran. .....He referred to the US as the only country that could effectively confront the Iranians
03-13-07 - 'We are not threatening to use nukes' It was not the first time Peres, considered the father of Israel's nuclear program, has hinted that Israel has nuclear weapons capability
03-13-07 - Syrians confess to Lebanon bus bombs: minister
03-13-07 - Olmert's leaked testimony reveals real goal of summer war we were offered variations on the theme that ended the fighting: the need to push Hizbullah (and, incidentally, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians) away from the northern border with Israel. That was the thrust of UN Resolution 1701 that brought about the official end of hostilities in mid-August. It also looked suspiciously like the reason why Israel chose at the last-minute to dump up to a million tiny bomblets -- old US stocks of cluster munitions with a very high failure rate -- that are lying in south Lebanon's fields, playgrounds and back yards waiting to explode.
03-13-07 - Olmert: Back U.S. in Iraq Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on U.S. Jews to back a continued U.S. presence in Iraq
03-13-07 - Dead Russian Spy was israeli Double Agent
03-12-07 - The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.
03-12-07 - Halliburton's Dubai move sparks US political ire "This is an insult to the US soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years,"
03-12-07 - Bush urges Iran, Syria to back up words with action on Iraq US President George W. Bush called on Iran and Syria Sunday to follow up positive statements with concrete action after an international conference on Iraq, urging the two governments to stop the flow of weapons and foreign fighters into Iraq.
03-12-07 - Russia foresees two month delay for Iran nuclear station Earlier Monday, the three main Russian news agencies quoted an unnamed source close to the authorities saying that Moscow was losing patience with Iran.
03-12-07 - Khatami urges Iran to compromise on nuclear "We can prevent a crisis with discretion and courage. In nuclear and regional issues, especially Iraq, we should act with prudence and not provoke," said Khatami,
03-12-07 - Missing Iranian official was kidnapped: relatives ** "Personally I am sure that Iran's main enemies America and Israel have kidnapped my father," Asgari's daughter Elham told state radio after lodging a complaint at the Turkish embassy in Tehran over Asgari's disappearance.
03-12-07 - West faces resistance on scope of Iran sanctions
03-12-07 - 'Substantial progress' on UN Iran sanctions: British envoy "We've made substantial progress,"
03-12-07 - Syria urges broader US dialogue Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad made the call after welcoming US refugees official Ellen Sauerbrey, the most senior US visitor in two years
03-12-07 - Why Libby's Pardon Is a Slam Dunk
03-12-07 - Secret hearing for 9/11 suspect
03-12-07 - Dems abandon war authority provision ** Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. By coincidence, AIPAC - which admittedly has Iran as its top priority - opened its annual conference today. Imagine.
03-12-07 - George McGovern to Cheney: Resign
03-12-07 - Hamas armed wing denies reports of training in Iran
03-12-07 - One Bullet Away From What?
03-12-07 - Netanyahu: Attack on Iran 'last resort' Earlier, US Vice President Dick Cheney warned 6,000 supporters gathered at AIPAC's annual policy conference on Monday that failure in Iraq would endanger Israel. Notice how the Israelis and AIPACers have toned down the language with regard to action on Iran. I foresee that they will then point to this in an attempt to exonerate themselves of blame after we have done the deed.
03-12-07 - Agencies Violate Law on Online Information
03-12-07 - Legal expert: President Bush may have ordered torture of terror suspects
03-12-07 - EU optimistic after Lebanon talks EU officials say when Mr Solana goes on to Syria he will ask President Bashar al-Assad to take constructive steps in the Middle East, especially in Lebanon.
03-12-07 - Israel urges world to isolate, confront Iran "The Middle East is a tough neighbourhood, and when there is a
bully in this neighbourhood there are only two choices: to beat it or
to join it," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a major pro-
Israel gathering in Washington Oh it has a bully alright.
03-12-07 - Holocaust denial conference attendee beaten A fervently Orthodox Austrian Jew who embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly was assaulted by a group of Israelis in Poland.
03-12-07 - Israeli minister calls for tougher UN sanctions on Iran Hours before her arrival in Ottawa, Livni also singled out the threat posed by Iran in a major speech in Washington
03-12-07 - Behind Burqa, Student Gets An Education In Bigotry The hateful and abusive comments she endured that day horrified teachers, the teen and many of her classmates.
03-12-07 - House Republicans Don't Want Muslim Group Using Capitol Conference Room The House Republican Conference referred to the Council on American-Islamic Relations as "terrorist apologists" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday.
03-12-07 - AIPAC: States should disinvest from Iran AIPAC is launching a 10-state effort to get public employee pension funds to divest from companies that deal with Iran
03-12-07 - AIPAC: Everything short of force on Iran The United States must "do everything possible short of contemplation of the use of force" in dealing with Iran?s nuclear threat, AIPAC?s policy chief said Why the US?
03-12-07 - Lantos urges AIPAC on Iran U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos implored delegates at AIPAC?s policy conference to lobby members of the Congress to pass a bill he introduced to toughen sanctions against Iran and bar the White House from waiving them.
03-12-07 - Opposing Iran, pacifying Iraq go together, Cheney tells AIPAC Speaking at the session Cheney opened, AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr told delegates that the next day they would lobby for new legislation, the Iran Counterproliferation Act of 2007, proposed by Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the top Democrat and Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
03-12-07 - Bombing attempt thwarted in southern Lebanon
03-12-07 - Remarks by Vice President Cheney at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2007 Policy Conference The war on terror is more than a contest of arms and more than a test of will, it is also a battle of ideas. We know now to a certainty that when people across the Middle East are denied freedom, that is a direct strategic concern of all free nations. And therein lies your quandary, Dick. You, and the AIPAC crowd, support Israel's policies that deprive Palestinians of freedom and of basic human rights, but equally important: JUSTICE. Alas, this must be rocket science. A prediction: when Cheney leaves office, he will rejoin Halliburton and possibly move to Dubai (Halliburton's new hq).
03-12-07 - Profiling questionable tool to ID terrorists In "Dying to Win," Mr. Pape concluded that "there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world's religions... . Rather, what nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland."
03-12-07 - Top Israeli politician visits as Conservatives woo Jewish vote Livni said she planned to have a long meeting Tuesday with MacKay to discuss such concerns. Her visit comes as the Conservatives continue to reach out to Jewish voters. Harper heated up those efforts in a speech to the Canadian Council for Israel last month. He noted that his party alone endorsed Israel's month-long bombing campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer.
03-11-07 - Halliburton will move HQ to Dubai "The chairman, president and CEO will office from and be based in Dubai to run the company from the UAE.".....Federal investigators last month alleged Halliburton was responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq.
03-11-07 - U.S., Iran spar over detainees at Baghdad meeting
03-11-07 - Iran frustration mounts over Russia nuclear delays
03-11-07 - Missing Iranian general was Western spy: report The Sunday Times said Ali Reza Asghari, who once commanded the Revolutionary Guards, was recruited by a foreign intelligence officer during an overseas business trip around four years ago.
03-11-07 - Bush presses Iran, Syria on Iraq weapons
03-11-07 - Iran president seeks UN audience
03-11-07 - U.S. military: Censorship was justified Afghan witnesses and gunshot victims said U.S. forces fired on civilians in cars and on foot along at least a six-mile stretch of road from Barikaw following the suicide attack against the Marine convoy. The U.S. military said insurgents also fired on American forces during the attack. One Marine was wounded.
03-11-07 - US to accept at least 7,000 Iraqi refugees: envoy
03-11-07 - Neocons Are Down But Might Not Be Out
03-11-07 - News media falling short in watchdog role, critics say The Libby case especially illustrates that too many elite members of the media are more interested in cultivating Washington power brokers than in maintaining skeptical, independent and arms-length relationships with them, challenging their assertions and holding them to account for their failings.
03-11-07 - Top Gun aircraft are seized from US museums in 'paranoia' raids Federal US agents have seized disabled F14 fighter jets from museums in California because of fears that parts would be sold to Iran.
03-11-07 - Mystery of former Iranian minister deepens ** "Although massive speculation by the foreign media about the fate of Ali-Reza Asgari has a special exaggeration, the latest evaluation more than anything else underscores [the likelihood of] his being kidnapped by Mossad [the Israeli intelligence agency] or the CIA,"
03-11-07 - Baker hopes for new beginning in region
03-11-07 - More Sand In Our Faces Within hours of the verdict that Lewis "Scooter" Libby had "obstructed justice" ? had prevented Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from finding out whether a crime had been committed in the "outing" of CIA Non-Official Cover operative Valerie Plame and her cover, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, and if so, who had committed it ? the Cheney Cabal and its media sycophants were vehemently attacking Fitzgerald, accusing him of prosecutorial misconduct for even attempting to find that out.
03-11-07 - US missile shield could split Europe, Chirac says
03-11-07 - Arabic speakers monitor Net chats The State Department has hired two native Arabic speakers to monitor Arabic political discussion forums on the Internet and to overtly participate in them in an effort to correct misperceptions about U.S. policy in the Middle East.
03-11-07 - Syria deploying rockets on border, say Israeli sources The report comes two weeks after Israel held war games on the occupied Golan Heights.
03-11-07 - Conrad Black's U.S. trial hinges on executive graft Upon buying newspapers, Black and his former partner David Radler would cut costs and put Black's neoconservative stamp on the publications' editorials. Radler has pleaded guilty and will likely be the prosecution's star witness.
03-11-07 - 'World must act to stop Ahmadinejad' Iran could achieve nuclear weapons capability in one to two years, and the world must act collectively to stop Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "sick boast" that he will wipe out Israel, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, nationally syndicated columnist and policy adviser to US President George W. Bush, told The Jerusalem Post.
03-11-07 - AIPAC Pushes to Eliminate Anti-Iran-War Language from Pelosi Iraq Bill
03-11-07 - Peretz goes to Washington But Ma'ariv reported that unlike his predecessors, Peretz would not be meeting with either the vice president or the secretary of state. The newspaper described the unavailability of Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice as a "show of disrespect" toward Peretz, whose popularity in Israel has plummeted since last year's Lebanon war
03-11-07 - No Syrian troop movements on border, says IDF IDF sources denied Saturday an Associated French Press report that Syrians had moved thousands of troops towards their border with Israel.
03-11-07 - AIPAC forum opens in Washington Delegates will have the opportunity to meet presidential candidates. On Tuesday, delegates will lobby on Capitol Hill for tougher measures in dealing with Iran and the Palestinians.
03-11-07 - Letter: U.S. should convene Mideast conference
03-10-07 - Democrats set Iraq pull-out plans Democrats in the US Congress have proposed legislation requiring all US troops to leave Iraq by August 2008.
03-10-07 - Iraq plea to help tackle violence Iraq's PM calls for support in ending violence, as world powers including the US, Syria and Iran attend key talks
03-10-07 - Young says he told Army of care lapses
03-10-07 - Iran risks isolation over nuke programme: French FM
03-10-07 - U.S., Iran trade barbed words at Baghdad talks
03-10-07 - Ex-Weapons Boss: Iran War on Way ** "Don't believe the BS that you get out of Washington. Be good citizens; a good citizen thinks for his or herself."
03-10-07 - FBI to look into doctor, daughter poisoning
03-10-07 - How an article in the 'IoS' led to the conviction of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby
03-10-07 - The Scandal at Walter Reed by Rep. Ron Paul
03-10-07 - U.S. Soldiers Accused of Shooting Civilians in Sadr City
03-10-07 - Veterans Face Vast Inequities Over Disability For Mr. Curry, the reservist from Chicago who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments, his previous life as a $60,000-a-year postal worker is a fading memory. "It's just disheartening," he said. "You feel like giving up sometimes."
03-10-07 - Syrian, Iranian defence ministers discuss cooperation
03-10-07 - No news is bad news The news is fast becoming just another commodity. Rising competition from online sources mean cut backs and an increasing ill-informed public
03-10-07 - Church coalition to Rice: repudiate attack Iran claims ** A coalition of U.S. mainstream churches urged Condoleezza Rice to assuage concerns in the Middle East that Israel or the United States is planning to attack Iran.
03-10-07 - Iranian defector huge coup for Americans ** That allegation was denied by a U.S. government official who, in the Post story he Asgari disappeared on his own volition but suggested the Israelis helped him jump ship, according to the Washington Post. Asgari is willingly cooperating, another official told the Post, but would not disclose where he was being questioned or who was interrogating him. But a report in Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said he was in the United States. Something stinks here.
03-10-07 - Iranians lose access to unlimited cheap fuel Pump prices, frozen for three years at 80 tomans (or 9 cents) a litre, have boosted consumption far beyond the capacity of Iran?s oil refineries and meant that 40 per cent of petrol has had to be imported.
03-10-07 - Non-Profit Takes on Big Media Kevin Martin, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, wants to loosen existing ownership limits on newspapers and broadcasters to allow them to own both in most markets. But his efforts have stalled, the result of a surprisingly energetic grass-roots opposition campaign guided by Free Press, a nonprofit with offices in Washington and Northampton, Mass
03-10-07 - A predator becomes more dangerous when wounded ** By an accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in largely Shia areas of the Middle East: southern Iraq, adjacent regions of Saudi Arabia and Iran, with some of the major reserves of natural gas as well. Washington's worst nightmare would be a loose Shia alliance controlling most of the world's oil and independent of the US. Chomsky, while he makes an interesting point here, always wants to keep your attention away from the Israeli factor, seems.
03-10-07 - Hizbullah: Olmert confirmed what we knew
03-10-07 - The Israeli "art student" mystery Reports of the mysterious Israelis with an inexplicable interest in peddling art to G-men came in from more than 40 U.S. cities and continued throughout the first six months of 2001. Agents of the DEA, ATF, Air Force, Secret Service, FBI, and U.S. Marshals Service documented some 130 separate incidents of "art student" encounters. Some of the Israelis were observed diagramming the inside of federal buildings. Some were found carrying photographs they had taken of federal agents. One was discovered with a computer printout in his luggage that referred to "DEA groups." That was Israel's way of telling us "we own you".
03-10-07 - What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? What is perhaps most damning is that the Israelis' celebration on the New Jersey waterfront occurred in the first sixteen minutes after the initial crash, when no one was aware this was a terrorist attack. In other words, from the time the first plane hit the north tower, at 8:46 a.m., to the time the second plane hit the south tower, at 9:02 a.m., the overwhelming assumption of news outlets and government officials was that the plane's impact was simply a terrible accident. It was only after the second plane hit that suspicions were aroused. Yet if the men were cheering for political reasons, as they reportedly told the FBI, they obviously believed they were witnessing a terrorist act, and not an accident. It has been my belief since I came across the story of that particular incident, that these guys knew what was going on, and that's why they were seen cheering after the first plane went into the WTC. These 2 articles by Ketcham should clue you in to the unprecedented influence that the Israeli lobby wields over our government and also in the mainstream media.
03-10-07 - The Kuala Lumpur Deceit
03-10-07 - Placing Libby Above The Law
03-10-07 - Larger CIA and DoD Privatization Scandal Emerging from Walter Reed Story, US Attorneys Firing Let's recap: a corrupt Israeli PM - has a stake in a corrupt Israeli bank- owned by a corrupt Wall Street global hedge fund - which owns a corrupt US defense contractor - which contributes to corrupt GOP Congressmen - who also receive money from another corrupt defense contractor - that defense contractor produced faulty intel under contract to a corrupt CIA Assn't Director - that faulty intel was used to justify a corrupt US Administration's case for invading Iraq - that was planned and executed by corrupt neocons inside DoD who had written a proposal years earlier to wage wars to privatize the Israeli economy. Nice investigative work!
03-10-07 - Under fire, Israel lobby rallies US backers By Tony Czuczka Two US political scientists sparked a furious debate last spring
with an essay that portrayed Washington as slavishly devoted to
Israel And ironically, the forthcoming AIPAC conference, among other things, will prove just that.
03-10-07 - Israel can face Iran nuclear threat alone: Lieberman Israel considers Iran's nuclear programme to be an "existential threat" after its hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map Did he really?
03-10-07 - Syrian-American in 'secret talks' to brief Israel MPs A Syrian-American businessman who is said to have taken part in unofficial peace talks with Israeli counterparts is to appear before a top parliamentary panel next month, an official said Thursday.
03-09-07 - Iran official criticizes IAEA move
03-09-07 - No deal on UN sanctions for Iran Russia and China have said they have reservations with some of the proposed UN Security Council sanctions to punish Iran for continuing to enrich uranium.
03-09-07 - Iranian general 'hands over vital documents after defecting to US' ** A former Iranian deputy defence minister, Ali Rez Asgari has documents and maps detailing the relationship between the elite Revolutionary Guards and Islamist groups such as Hizbollah and Islamic Jihad, the London-based Asharq Alawsat newspaper said. The newspaper said the general was also briefing Western intelligence on Iran's links to groups in Iraq. These include the Mehdi Army of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr organisation We all know in what direction this thing will go.
03-09-07 - Iraq will urge U.S., Iran not to use it as pawn Iraq wants action not words from a regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday and will urge Iran and the United States not to use it as a playing field to settle their scores, Iraq's foreign minister said on Friday.
03-09-07 - U.S. has met discreetly with Iran over years
03-09-07 - EU plans to re-engage with Syria
03-09-07 - Iran cleric says US shares blame for Iraqi bloodshed
03-09-07 - U.S. may discuss Iraq with Iran, Syria
03-09-07 - White House bows on attorney reforms Just hours after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the hubbub as an "overblown personnel matter," a Republican senator Thursday mused into a microphone that Gonzales might soon suffer the same fate as the canned U.S. attorneys.
03-09-07 - Senior US official heads for refugee talks in Syria A senior US official headed to Syria Thursday for talks on the Iraq refugee crisis that will mark the highest-level contact between the two governments in two years.
03-09-07 - Analysis: Intelligence summit takes flak ** Old pros from America's secretive world of espionage and counterterrorism emerged temporarily from the shadows to convene for a three-day "Intelligence Summit" in a downtown hotel in St. Petersburg, Fla., earlier this week. They were joined by a handful of allies from friendly countries -- mostly from Israel -- to discuss what they see as the number one threat facing Western democracies, the ever-increasing form of militant Islam and its indiscriminate use of terrorism......Many would rather "not waste time" talking with governments they say will never keep its word. Instead, they would prefer to simply "kick butt," as one speaker put it, and making realistic plans to enable regime change in Syria and Iran through assassinations and intimidation. His comments were received with applause and cheers from the audience.
03-09-07 - Tests To Reveal Levels Of Depleted Uranium In Army Personnel
03-09-07 - Justice Dept.: FBI misused Patriot Act The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday.
03-09-07 - China: U.S. violated Iraqis' rights
03-09-07 - Iranian-Russian power station talks fail: source
03-09-07 - Lantos wants to kill Bush's Iran waiver U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would keep the president from waiving sanctions against Iran
03-09-07 - Bush nominates Rabkin to USIP He has been an outspoken advocate against the U.N. International Court of Justice How does that make one an ideal candidate for an institute for peace, mewonders? Daniel Pipes, a neocon extremist, is a former member of said institute.
03-09-07 - Giffords moves to ban F-14 sales A Jewish congresswoman joined a Jewish Senate colleague in introducing legislation to end backdoor combat jet parts sales to Iran.
03-09-07 - Ohio reps initiate Iran divestment
03-09-07 - Report: Israel behind Iranian's disappearance U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Israel was involved in the disappearance of a retired Iranian general. The Washington Post on Thursday quoted an unnamed U.S. official as suggesting that Israeli agents "orchestrated" the defection of Ali Reza Asgari, a former Iranian defense minister who went missing last month while on a visit to Turkey.
03-09-07 - Heavy imprint of Libby verdict
03-09-07 - End of Cowboy Diplomacy, Part II? Bush not only spurned the pleas of Washington's European and Arab allies to press the Jewish state for a ceasefire, but his top Middle East aide, Elliott Abrams, reportedly encouraged it, to the horror of both his State Department colleagues and his Israeli interlocutors, to expand the war into Syria.
03-09-07 - Rice's Hiring of Neocon Leaves Observers Puzzled Cohen, named as counselor to the State Department, was an ardent advocate of going to war with Saddam Hussein as part of a wider war on terrorism and militant Islam?what he has argued constitutes "World War IV." In December 2001, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal: "After Afghanistan, what? Iraq is the big prize." He was a founding member of the Project for the New American Century?a group that helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the attack on Iraq as well as efforts to weaken Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority. He has urged regime change in Iran
03-09-07 - Netanyahu urges tough sanctions on Iran over nuclear issue During his visit to the United States, Netanyahu said he planned to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions with Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic and Republican presidential candidates
03-09-07 - Fitzgerald's folly: A textbook case for a speedy pardon By Charles Krauthammer Krauthammer = neocon extraordinaire.
03-09-07 - Israel 'Worse Than Iran' A spokesperson for BICOM said the poll "reinforces our need to remind people of Israel's historical desire to find peace with its neighbours and its willingness to give up land for peace. This is the main message that will ultimately help shift public opinion towards Israel". You're kidding me right? When has Israel stopped building settlements on Palestinian land? Was I absent that day?
03-09-07 - Empty chair in Baghdad We can assume that Israel would expect the American Administration to refrain from holding talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Baghdad, and officially this would certainly be the case. But is it not likely to see opportunities to converse outside the meeting halls about any issue out there? Even if the beginning is resistant and difficult, this conference may become a constitutive regional event in the Middle East; a sort of "clearing house" for all the conflicts and clashes in our region, with no exceptions. Oh dear. Imagine - the US won't be able to to take its orders from Israel, as is most often the case.
03-09-07 - Israel unveils portable hunter-killer robot The VIPeR, roughly the size of a small television, was invented as part of Israel's efforts to develop weaponry that could reduce the risks to its forces from hand-to-hand fighting against Palestinian or Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.
03-09-07 - Lebanon arrests arms dealer with SAM 7 missiles
03-09-07 - Hate Crime Legislation Will Target Your Freedom of Speech The main force supporting the bill is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). This group was behind passage of the British law. The ADL is a radical organization, which routinely charges organizations more to its right, of hate speech. It appears that nearly any organization that does not accept the ADL's worldview is marked for advocating hate.
03-09-07 - Novak sees 'hope' of Libby pardon after '08 election
03-09-07 - Oligarch fears Russian 'hit' A Russian oligarch who fled to Israel fears that he could be targeted by assassins sent by Moscow
03-08-07 - UN nuclear agency cuts aid to Iran
03-08-07 - Iran looks to ease U.S. tensions with Baghdad meet
03-08-07 - Flurry of diplomatic consultations as Iran sanctions talks falter
03-08-07 - House to push ban on F-14 parts sale
03-08-07 - Syrian officials meet Iranian vice president on regional issues
03-08-07 - Webb Introduces Bill Barring Funding For Military Action Against Iran ** A Democratic senator on Monday introduced legislation that in some cases would deny funding for the Bush administration to take military action against Iran without first getting congressional approval.
03-08-07 - Leveraging the Surge ** Skeptics believe the administration's recent decision to "surge" U.S. military strength in Iraq by at least 22,000 troops is related more to a strategy of increased pressure on Iran than to stabilizing the situation in Baghdad. The surge decision could be seen as putting the U.S. military in a better position to respond to Shiite attacks on U.S troops in retaliation to a possible U.S. strike against Iran.
03-08-07 - For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict On a personal level, friends of the vice president say the trial has been deeply painful for him. Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney were all but inseparable - Ms. Matalin has called the former aide "Cheney's Cheney" - and often started their days by riding to work together. Mr. Libby accompanied the vice president almost everywhere he went, and Mr. Cheney made clear his high professional and personal regard for his aide, even playing host to a book party for him in 2002 at his official residence.
03-08-07 - Clueless in Gaza by Philip Giraldi Karen Hughes and the collapse of American public diplomacy
03-08-07 - Valerie Plame to testify before Congress Also invited to testify March 16 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is Patrick Fitzgerald, who this week won conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of obstruction and perjury in the case, said Chairman Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif.
03-08-07 - UN agency debates Israel's nuclear programme Iran and Arab states complain that it is unfair to scrutinize Tehran for allegedly developing nuclear weapons when Israel has them and is not under IAEA monitoring, as it has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
03-08-07 - Syria, Iran unveil car on Baath birthday
03-08-07 - Cheney Exit, Rice Entry Could Alter 2008 Race
03-08-07 - A Corrupt Endeavor The Cheney coup d'etat that made the invasion of Iraq possible is, finally, overthrown: that's the larger significance of this verdict, and, as such, it is a cause for celebration. But let's not rest on Fitzgerald's laurels: it is time, now, for Congress to follow up the plentiful leads provided by the prosecution in this case and expose the neocons' corrupt endeavor to the light of day....NOTES IN THE MARGIN I'm pleased to announce that Philip Giraldi is our newest columnist, and you can check out the first installment here Excellent. When Giraldi speaks, I listen too. Giraldi's Aug. '05 Deep Background column comprised the message forum 'post heard around the (cyber)world', one of them anyway.
03-08-07 - Libby set to win pardon and escape jail term A White House official said last night that there was a "strong expectation" that President George W Bush would pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the disgraced aide.
03-08-07 - Martyr of the War Party by Patrick J. Buchanan That larger issue is this: Were we misled, were we deceived by our government, as the White House made the case for invading and occupying Iraq? Did neoconservatives at the Pentagon cherry-pick the intelligence, stovepipe it to the vice president's office and Libby, and then feed it to sympathizers and collaborators in the media to stampede our country into a war against a nation that, no matter how odious its regime, did not threaten us, did not attack us and did not want war with us?
03-08-07 - How Rice's Posse Struck Back "They've all been tested on the front lines," Rice told TIME. "I tend to like people around me who served in really difficult posts. It's a mark of character. It's a mark of toughness. It's a mark of being able to operate under difficult circumstances and not lose your perspective." Rice just appointed another neocon to the post of State Department Counselor.
03-08-07 - Patrick Fitzgerald Gets Maligned on PBS by One of the "Good Guys" Lowell Bergman, Professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, made four false and misleading claims about the law and about Judith Miller's case.
03-08-07 - Israelis Want US Aid to Come Without 'Political Strings' The results of a new public opinion poll suggest that Israelis will resist further pressure from the Bush administration for Israel to pursue "land-for-peace," notwithstanding the United States' generous backing of the Jewish state......"It should be added that these strings exist, not just for outright aid, but also for the whole gamut of relations with the U.S., including export-import trade relations, access to technology, U.S. tax exemption for charities raising funds for Israeli causes and NGOs, etc."
It's ridiculous the notion that Israel abides by the wishes of the US and not the other way around.
03-08-07 - Defense for Aipac Duo Says Groups Refuse To Testify The defense would like to call several high-profile witnesses, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and senior officials from the State Department, the National Security Council and the Pentagon. The goal would be to prove that the government routinely passed information to Aipac and that the practice was seen by all sides as legitimate
03-08-07 - AIPAC: Isolate Iran, P.A. AIPAC?s draft action agenda for this year includes as priorities the isolation of Iran and the Palestinian Authority.
03-07-07 - Nebraska Senator Hagel to announce 2008 plans
03-07-07 - EU offers olive branch to Iran on nuclear issue The European Union urged Iran on Wednesday to take up an offer to suspend its nuclear enrichment in return for suspending sanctions on Tehran
03-07-07 - ElBaradei: Iran nuclear stand 'one of a kind' Iran's persistent failure to clear up concerns about its nuclear activities after concealing them for almost 20 years sets it apart from all other nations, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Monday. Does it? Has Israel come clean about ITS nuclear weapons program?
03-07-07 - IRAQ: 4.5 million children undernourished
03-07-07 - Iran to attend conference on Iraq Iran will attend the international conference on Iraq that will be held in Baghdad on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday
03-07-07 - CIA Rushing Resources to Bin Laden Hunt
03-07-07 - Greenwald: State Department promotion sends Iran war signal ** "The Cohen appointment," he says, "is clearly another instance where neoconservatives place a watchdog in potential trouble spots in the government to ensure that diplomats do not stray by trying to facilitate rapproachments between the U.S. and the countries on the neoconservative War hit list."
03-07-07 - Afghan children die as US drops one-tonne bombs Nine civilians, including four children, were killed in Afghanistan when US planes dropped two 2,000lb bombs on their mud home. Their deaths came after at least eight civilians were killed by US Marines a day earlier.
03-07-07 - Top US Official Warns Arab Businessmen Over Trade With Iran In a stark contrast to Levey's bluntness, Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former ambassador to Washington, on Wednesday called for "rapprochement and cooperation" between Arabs and Iran and urged Gulf leaders to deepen economic and cultural ties with Tehran.
03-07-07 - Feds test new data mining program Called ADVISE ? for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement ? the program is capable of linking and cross-matching material from websites and blogs to government records and personal data.
03-07-07 - Missing Iranian "founded" Hezbollah: Israeli spy "He lived in Lebanon and, in effect, was the man who built, promoted and founded Hezbollah in those years," Igra said. "If he has something to give the West, it is in this context of terrorism and Hezbollah's network in Lebanon." Well, I bet we can guess who's got him now, eh?
03-07-07 - Analysts: Iran's military poses little threat ** Cordesman also contended that tensions in the Gulf were being worsened by U.S. and Israeli leaders overstating the Iranian threat.
03-07-07 - Key lawmakers complain of weak intelligence American intelligence agencies are not providing adequate information for Congress to make policy decisions on key foreign-policy areas including Iran and North Korea, according to the top House Republican on the issue.
03-07-07 - Libby's conviction is just the beginning At the White House, press secretary Tony Snow brushed off questions about whether Bush would entertain a pardon for Libby, saying the case remains under legal review. Snow also said Cheney's stature within the administration has not changed or waned as a result of the verdict.
03-07-07 - BRAVO! One Down, More to Go If Libby turns state?s evidence to reduce his prison sentence, the White House could need roof repair real quick Cheney will make sure that a Bush pardon is in order before anything like that happens.
03-07-07 - US pressurizing Pak to get its support for attack on Iran: Gul **
03-07-07 - Group alleges FBI abused wiretaps to spy on government officials
03-07-07 - Jordanians 'planned to kill Bush'
03-07-07 - Israel-Syria Breakthrough Anticipated The Jerusalem Post quoted a senior State Department official Wednesday as saying it is a "myth" to believe the U.S. is "blocking the path to Syrian-Israeli discussions." It's more like an 'excuse' so that Israel does not have to make peace with Syria. For, making peace with Syria would entail giving back land that Israel has unlawfully held on to for nearly forty years.
03-07-07 - US refuses to join UN rights council, citing its actions against Israel Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns linked the decision to remain off the year-old council to the 47-member panel's stance on Israel, which he said had "discredited" the body.
03-07-07 - Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out
03-07-07 - MoveOn Calls on Congress to Stop Escalation into Iran ** MoveOn will deliver more than 200,000 MoveOn petitions signed by members urging Congress to support a bill that would discourage military escalation into Iran
03-07-07 - US ally Musharraf in a tangle over Iran The moot point is to what extent Musharraf is willingly cooperating with US regional policy against Iran. He is skating on thin ice. He may endear himself to Washington as a brave leader in the Muslim world, but Pakistani public opinion is averse to serving the US agenda over Iran.
03-07-07 - St. Patrick Fitzgerald
03-07-07 - Seven Countries In Five Years "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
03-07-07 - What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? "One story was that [the Israelis] appeared at Liberty State Park very quickly after the first plane hit. The other was that they were at the park location already". Either way, investigators wanted to know exactly what the men were expecting when they got there.
Before such issues had been fully explored, however, the investigation was shut down. Following what ABC News reported were "high-level negotiations between Israeli and U.S. government officials", a settlement was reached in the case of the five Urban Moving Systems suspects. Intense political pressure apparently had been brought to bear. The reputable Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that by the last week of October 2001, some six weeks after the men had been detained, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and two unidentified "prominent New York congressmen" were lobbying heavily for their release.
Now we know why they were not charged, and then subsequently deported. It is my contention that these men knew in fact what was going to happen, and that's why they were cheering when the FIRST plane went into the WTC. That they would cheer such an event at all, is telling. Meanwhile, the sheeple continue being fed pro-Israel propaganda via the mainstream American media. It's working.
03-07-07 - Aipac Will Press for Hard Line on Iran Regime Mr. Block stressed that the annual policy conference this year was evidence of the "bipartisan nature of American support for Israel throughout the past and into the future regardless of which party is in control of the House or Senate, and the history, breadth and diversity of America's centuries of support for the Jewish homeland in Israel." Is this really what the founding fathers like George Washington had in mind for this country?
03-07-07 - A Barack-star no more Just like Hillary Clinton, who was stalked for years by conservative pro-Israeli groups for expressing some mild sympathy but is now probably on the hawkish end of Israeli politics, Obama has been to burn incense on the altar of AIPAC.
03-07-07 - Report: Missing Iranian official being questioned in N. Europe
03-07-07 - Hardline Pastor Gets Prime AIPAC Spot ** And a time when pro-Israel forces are being accused of beating the drums for war with Iran, Rev. Hagee seems to believe such a conflict is both inevitable and necessary...... Congressional observers say AIPAC remains a legislative powerhouse, ?but more lawmakers will now feel free to ask questions, especially about routine and nonbinding resolutions praising Israel and criticizing the Palestinians,? said a longtime pro-Israel lobbyist.
03-07-07 - AIPAC speaker hopes US gets nuked after Israel provokes war with Russia
03-07-07 - Analysis: Al-Qaida in south Lebanon said a well-informed Arab politician who spoke on condition of anonymity.....the source said, this deployment of Islamist militants to south Lebanon is being carried out "with the discreet approval of Iran and Syria." Then we must attack Iran and Syria!
03-07-07 - Israeli MK predicts attack on Iran ** Eitam told The CJN that Israel may have to act alone against Iran within "a window" to two to three years, but he suggested Israel would move before Bush leaves office. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama, the leading Democratic presidential candidates, have the stomach to tackle Iran militarily, Eitam said, and he wasn?t sure how Republican contenders Rudy Giuliani and John McCain would act...... "It would be a strategic tragedy if the United States stabilizes Iraq, but is so weakened by that operation that the credibility of the president is so low that they couldn?t strike Iran."
03-07-07 - Israeli PM says Lebanon war was pre-planned: report In testimony apparently aimed at dismissing any notion he acted recklessly, Olmert told the commission he asked army commanders in March 2006 if a contingency plan for military action existed in the event soldiers were abducted along the Lebanon frontier, Haaretz said.
03-06-07 - Liar in the White house: Cheney aide found guilty in CIA leak case Score one for the good guys.
03-06-07 - In CIA leak trial, Libby found guilty Tuesday, speaking to reporters after the verdict, Fitzgerald called the investigation finished and said he had no plans to pursue any other officials, unless new facts came to light.
03-06-07 - Libby jurors defend guilty verdict "There were good managerial type people on this jury who took everything apart and put it in the right place," juror Denis Collins said after he and his colleagues convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI. "After that, it wasn't a matter of opinion. It was just there."
03-06-07 - Iran to conduct air defense exercises Iran will conduct air defense exercises Tuesday in preparation for a possible air strike on its uranium ore conversion center at Isfahan, the IRNA news agency said Tuesday.
03-06-07 - Iran starts building home-made atomic plant: agency Iran has started construction of a domestically built nuclear power plant, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
03-06-07 - IAEA: Iran may have halted nuke program Iran seems to have at least temporarily halted the uranium-enrichment program at the heart of its standoff with the U.N. Security Council, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday.
03-06-07 - Sen. Joe Biden Calls Iranian Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'Madman' Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "madman" and raised the possibility that he could be assassinated by foes within his country.
03-06-07 - Fired U.S. attorney cites threat
03-06-07 - Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story In his first broadcast interview, which can be seen tonight on World News and Nightline, Klein describes how he stumbled across "secret NSA rooms" being installed at an AT&T switching center in San Francisco and later heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle.
03-06-07 - Analysis: Verdict puts focus on Cheney
03-06-07 - Syria denies arms crossing border into Lebanon Syria denied on Tuesday allegations that arms are making their way over the border into Lebanon and warned against any moves to station international troops along the frontier in Lebanon.
03-06-07 - Iran seeks closer naval ties with oil-starved India Iran on Monday urged India to forge closer military ties, especially between their two navies, officials told AFP
03-06-07 - Russia questions missile defense plans "We are discussing this with our American colleagues and we are asking them to answer our questions, the concerns that we have, which are absolutely fair and justified," Lavrov told reporters.
03-06-07 - Will President Bush Pardon Scooter Libby? pardoned by the first Bush president over the same scandal: Elliott Abrams, currently the Middle East expert on the White House National Security Council. Already talk of a pardon.
03-06-07 - How Blair has stood by Niger claim The now notorious Niger claim first surfaced in Britain, where the Blair government circulated the September 2002 dossier warning of the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
03-06-07 - Can We Expect an Attack on Iran Next? ** An invasion of Iran would at least initially distract attention from the escalating failure of the Iraq occupation. And, unfortunately, even after the Iraq intelligence fiasco, Bush could probably count on the mainstream media to fall in line. The New York Times has already without embarrassment chimed in with new articles about Iranian weapons being used to kill U.S. troops, a piece filled with anonymous quotations.
03-06-07 - Rescinding the Bush Doctrine In 2003, Saddam Hussein posed no immediate threat to the United States; arguing that he might one day do so, the administration depicted the invasion of Iraq as an act of anticipatory self-defense The policy of pre-emption was crafted in Israel and thrust upon us by the neocons.
03-06-07 - Doubts over KGB link to US shooting A former senior KGB officer who met a Russia intelligence expert just hours before his shooting in the US, on Sunday expressed doubt that the incident was related to the case of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer poisoned last year in London.
03-06-07 - AIPAC meeting a chance to stake ground on Iran, Mideast The agenda for the policy conference reads like a wish list for what the pro-Israel powerhouse expects from the candidates --- and members of the U.S. Congress.
03-06-07 - Olmert calls special cabinet session over Iranian nuclear threat Stuart Levey, U.S. undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, who is coordinating the drive for an economic boycott on Iran, visited Jerusalem on Sunday. Levey spoke to Olmert and Livni on the difficulties his initiative is encountering in European states that trade with Iran.
Levey should stay there, and start getting his paycheck from Israel. What's the diff?
03-06-07 - It Doesn't Matter If Hillary Apologizes for Her Iraq War Vote By Scott Ritter
03-06-07 - EU to condemn Iran for not heeding UN nuclear resolution Meanwhile, the IAEA circulated to the board Tuesday a letter Oman had sent last month to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei on behalf of the Arab League expressing "deep concern and great disquiet" over Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's comments in December that seemed to confirm that Israel has the bomb.
03-06-07 - Iran says West may have seized ex-defense official "A man with nuclear information would be a valuable asset for the CIA and Mossad," said Alon Ben-David, Israel analyst for Jane's Defense Weekly, referring to U.S. and Israeli foreign spy services. "He could be worth kidnapping, despite the risks."
03-06-07 - Arabs protest Israeli nuclear hint Arab nations have protested over Israel's first hint of a nuclear arsenal to the U.N. atomic watchdog, saying this flouts international commitments to a nuclear arms-free zone in the Middle East, diplomats said.
03-06-07 - Israel claims that Hamas is sending fighters to train in Iran Therefore, we must attack Iran, right?
03-06-07 - Iran urges Hamas to keep up Israel resistance Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday urged visiting Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal to keep up resistance against Israel and end political infighting in the Palestinian territories.
03-06-07 - Libbygate: Now Let's Get to the Real Story Perhaps now that Libby has gone down for his part in this grotesque crime, some editor will ask the obvious question: Why did the White House and the Office of Vice President go to such extraordinary lengths to attack Wilson and his wife? And more importantly, who was behind those Niger embassy burglaries and the forged uranium ore sale documents? And what was OSP doing meeting in Rome in December 2001 with the head of Italian intelligence?
03-06-07 - All the Endorsement He Needs Rep. Ron Paul receives the ultimate recommendation: David Horowitz?s condemnation.
03-06-07 - Scholar gets silent treatment Pipes' views are considered controversial by some people because he is a strong and vocal critic of Muslim extremism. He told the audience of about 150 on?Monday that Palestinians should acknowledge that they have lost their battle against Israel.
03-06-07 - Mofaz addresses Iranians on nukes An Israeli Cabinet minister denounced Iran's nuclear program in a Farsi-language radio address.
03-06-07 - Indict Ahmadinejad, B'nai Brith urges Representatives of B'nai Brith Canada have prepared an indictment against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on charges of incitement to genocide against the Jewish people.
03-06-07 - Israel Project launches Iran campaign The Israel Project is launching a campaign to educate Americans on the dangers of Iran's nuclear program. In a statement the group said the campaign will include mass mailings, television advertisements and a Web page titled the Iran Press Kit. Why Americans? What are they trying to accomplish here?
03-06-07 - Syria agreed to cut off Iran -- negotiator "They understood they cannot get the Golan Heights as long as they are allies of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas," Alon Liel said Tuesday in a conference call organized by the Israel Policy Forum, a U.S. Jewish group.
03-06-07 - Hil & Bam gear up for battle over Jewish vote The leaders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 plan dueling receptions Monday when an influential pro-Israeli lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, holds its major Washington policy conference.
03-06-07 - Syria seeks to gain from regional tumult The country that the Bush administration says helps terrorists, and which has been treated with barely disguised irritation by fellow Arab states in recent years, is seeking to trade on the impression it can provide at least partial solutions to some of the region's most pressing problems.
03-06-07 - Bill Maher: Better If Cheney Is Dead
03-06-07 - Former Lebanese president calls for int'l actions to end Lebanese crisis
03-06-07 - AIPAC can't stand the Light of Day
03-05-07 - Minister: Iran will attend talks in Iraq Iran's foreign minister indicated Monday his country would take part in at least part of an international conference on Iraq in Baghdad, which would be the first U.S.-Iranian contact in more than two years.
03-05-07 - Attack on Iran would backfire, warns report ** Advocates of military strikes against Iran - largely confined to hawks in and around the Bush administration and the Israeli government - argue that Tehran has made a strategic decision to develop a nuclear weapon, which it would then readily use against Israel or the US itself, perhaps contracting a terrorist group to smuggle the warhead to its target.
03-05-07 - Wounded Soldiers Detail Poor Living Conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center Wounded soldiers told lawmakers on Monday that the Walter Reed Army Medical Center gives troops "less than what they deserve" in care and quality of living conditions to recover from traumatic injuries suffered in the line of duty.
03-05-07 - The Wider War Iran is the keystone of the terrorist edifice. Should there be free elections, no one wearing a turban would be elected to anything, and there is good reason to believe the country is ripe for a pro-Western democratic revolution....Regime change in Iran does not require an invasion, or even the sort of bombing so many are now advocating in order to thwart the mullahs' program to build atomic bombs This from the neocon Michael Ledeen of the AEI.
03-05-07 - Afghan media: U.S. troops deleted images Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan Sunday said U.S. troops deleted their photos and video and warned them not to publish or air any images of U.S. troops or a car where three Afghans were shot to death.
03-05-07 - FEATURE: US Navy: aircraft carrier for Afghanistan, not Iran
03-05-07 - Would Israel attack Iran? Depends who you ask "It is becoming increasingly clear that Israel has no viable military option on Iran, and is pinning its hopes on some sort of solution by the Americans," said Alon Ben-David, Israel analyst for Jane's Defence Weekly.
03-05-07 - Contractor could lose $400 million Military contracting giant KBR Inc. could be docked up to $400 million for improperly using private security companies in Iraq, the company disclosed this week.
03-05-07 - Libby Trial Exposes Neocon Shadow Government Whether or not Mr. Fitzgerald gets a conviction, he has created a trial record that establishes the administration's guilt. Sprinkled throughout are the names of most of the neoconservatives who had been planning the current Iraq War ever since the 1991 Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in power.
Even if Fitzgerald fails to get a conviction, America has still won. If you don't know what I mean, then you haven't been paying attention.
03-05-07 - Assad discusses Mideast affairs with Venezuelan foreign minister
03-05-07 - Tehran in U-turn to back Mid-East peace plan By securing Tehran's apparent backing for the peace plan, which dates from 2002 and envisages a Palestinian state on land occupied in 1967, diplomatic pressure will mount on Israel.
03-05-07 - Libby jury ends day with more questions There was no way to tell from the court discussion Monday how far along the jury has come in weighing its verdicts on the five felony counts against the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
03-05-07 - It's only a wargame! Arabs reject US army bit-part
03-05-07 - Fool Me Thrice?
03-05-07 - Cheney keynoting at AIPAC This will be the second year in a row that the vice president is the keynote speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's benchmark event
03-05-07 - Israel urges international community to shun Iranian leader Israel on Monday called on the international community to shun Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of his vision of "wiping Israel off the map."
03-05-07 - Israel, U.S. accused in general's disappearance a veteran of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, went missing while on a visit to Istanbul last month
03-05-07 - A Horse of a Different Color For a moment, there, Obama must have gotten confused and thought he was running for prime minister of Israel
03-05-07 - King meets Cheney, Gates King Abdullah also called upon the US Administration to support the Arab Peace initiative and help achieve tangible progress in the peace process in accordance with the two-state solution and international legitimacy.
03-05-07 - Israelis to supply vehicles for Iraq An Israeli state-owned corporation has won a contract to supply the U.S. Marine Corps with state-of the-art armored vehicles for use in Iraq, the latest in a long line of Israeli defense sales for use in the war.
03-05-07 - Israel, Iran top 'negative list' A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests
03-04-07 - Report warns against Iran attack ** Military strikes against Iran could speed Tehran's development of nuclear weapons, according to a UK think tank.
03-04-07 - Iran rejects US talks at Iraq conference Iran on Sunday said it was still considering whether to take part in a conference next month on Iraq's security and had no intention of holding bilateral talks with the United States at the meeting.
03-04-07 - Who Will Stop The Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan **
03-04-07 - Strike on Iran would destabilize region: France **
03-04-07 - How Far is Iran from the Bomb? ** Both Sen. Levin and ranking member John Warner (R, VA) picked up on this, to the dismay of Sen. Graham, who sounded as if he had just come from a briefing by the Israeli extreme right who, with Cheney, are pushing hard for a U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Graham said he thought economic sanctions might work but that, in any case, they were "the only thing left short of military action."
03-04-07 - Sen. Carl Levin Calls for Hitting Syria
03-04-07 - RJC launches anti-Reform Iraq resolution The Republican Jewish Coalition launched an effort opposing the Reform movement's call for withdrawal from Iraq.
03-04-07 - Israeli, U.S. officials to meet In addition to Livni, Levey will meet with senior officials in the Mossad secret service agency, the National Security Council and the Atomic Energy Commission, Haaretz and Israel Radio said....Levey will detail for the Israelis the U.S. efforts to get international businesses to stop working with Iran, Haaretz said US foreign policy - crafted in Tel Aviv.
03-04-07 - U.S. appeals court dismisses CIA torture lawsuit
03-04-07 - Iran sanctions, Palestinian government to top EU agenda European Union foreign ministers will meet Monday to take stock of Iran's continued failure to halt uranium enrichment and how close the Palestinians are to forming a long-awaited unity government.
03-04-07 - Hawke lashes Bush on Iraq war Mr Hawke told the dinner that whatever else was done to address terrorism would be in vain unless the Palestinian issue was resolved.
03-04-07 - Gambling with death in south Lebanon fields The United Nations has asked Israel for months -- in vain -- to tell it where the Jewish state's aircraft unleashed their deadly cargoes. "If the Israeli government had provided us with this information it would have greatly helped our work,"
03-04-07 - AL foreign ministers meeting reflects unified Arab stance on regional issues The Middle East resolution called on all states in the Middle East to join the NPT and put their nuclear facilities under the inspection.
03-04-07 - South Lebanon villagers slam French troops, policy
03-04-07 - Israel to complain to U.N. about mines Israel will file a complaint with the United Nations forces in Syria after six mines thrown from Syria were found in the southern Golan Heights, the Israeli army said Sunday. The Golan Heights - another Israeli-OCCUPIED territory.
03-03-07 - US expert on Russian intelligence shot in Washington US authorities were Saturday investigating the shooting of a US expert on Russian intelligence who was shot outside his house in a Washington suburb, an FBI spokeswoman said.
03-03-07 - Mid-East vow to curb sectarianism Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah have agreed to work together to fight sectarian strife in the Middle East.
03-03-07 - Report: National Guard unprepared for domestic missions Stretched thin by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the National Guard is less prepared now than it's ever been to respond to a major terrorist attack, a natural disaster or another domestic crisis, a congressionally appointed panel has found.
03-03-07 - Iran touts nuclear prowess with new banknote The new 50,000 rial note -- at around five dollars worth more than twice the value of any other note in circulation -- sports a picture of the standard nuclear insignia of electrons in orbit around an atom.
03-03-07 - Clinton doesn't support attack on Iran ** Former President Bill Clinton said Friday sanctions against Iran were working better than people think and questioned whether a military strike would work to end its nuclear program
03-03-07 - Iran war weapons fuel Iraq insurgency Risking their lives, Iraqi shepherds are increasingly venturing into these deadly fields to dig up mines planted during the Iran- Iraq war two decades ago, according to U.S. soldiers, who say insurgents then use the mines to fashion roadside bombs that kill American troops.
03-03-07 - US Sen. Reid favors bill restricting attack on Iran ** Reid, in his remarks to reporters on Thursday, acknowledged the Pentagon's assurances. But he added, "There are many out there much smarter than I am who believe the administration is ramping up to have the same thing happen in Iran that happened in Iraq."
03-03-07 - 'Threat to the world' Iran's nuclear weapons program poses the "most serious threat to the world," Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor warned. "There is limited time (to stop Iran), and the question is, 'What will be done with that time,' " he said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program.
03-03-07 - Transcript of remarks by Senator Barack Obama at the AIPAC Policy Forum, Chicago, Illinois, March 2, 2007 It is far too dangerous to have nuclear weapons in the hand of a radical theocracy.....Last summer Hezbollah attacked Israel. By using Lebanon as an outpost for terrorism and innocent people as shields, Hezbollah has also engulfed that entire nation in violence and conflict and threatened the fledgling movement for democracy there.
You don't say? Then why isn't Israel's nuclear program being forced to undergo the same scrutiny. Notice that Obama repeats Israel's claim that Hezbollah used 'innocent people as shields'. Not only did Human Rights Watch debunk that myth in its exhaustive research of that conflict, but just the other day, ISRAEL was caught on film by the AP USING INNOCENTS AS HUMAN SHIELDS.
03-03-07 - Judge rejects request by Muslim charity He refuses to declassify FBI evidence despite a recently unsealed document that falsely accused officials of anti-Jewish slurs.
03-03-07 - Israeli economy bounces back from war Israel's economy has more than recovered from the setbacks of the Lebanon war, new data revealed. Then it doesn't need our taxpayer aid.
03-02-07 - Murphy's view from Mideast: 'Frustrated' "The fact is that our military is being asked to do too much," Murphy said Tuesday. "The reality of it is that the military men and women over there are doing their job, but a whole heck of a lot pulled me aside and said, ?Keep up the fight.? They are frustrated."
03-02-07 - 'Progress' in Iran sanction talks The countries have agreed to hold a further conference call on Saturday and their UN ambassadors "could begin drafting the text of a resolution next week".
03-02-07 - Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey Resigns Amid Walter Reed Hospital Scandal Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey abruptly stepped down Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for war-wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
03-02-07 - New UN sanctions on Iran to be "incremental": US
03-02-07 - Bush Backing Into Baker-Hamilton After All? Tuesday?s statements came amid growing public and Congressional concern about the administration?s intentions toward Iran, particularly in light of its recent deployment of two aircraft carrier groups to the Gulf and charges by Bush and other senior officials that Tehran is secretly providing deadly explosive devices to its allies in Iraq that have allegedly killed some 170 U.S. soldiers there since 2004.
03-02-07 - No change in policy towards Iran, Syria: White House "The United States in a number of forums in the recent years has been at the table along with Iran and Syria on issues of regional concern ... so this is not a crack in the wall, it is another example though of the United States working diplomatically," Snow said.
03-02-07 - Sunnis - not Shiites - biggest threat to U.S. troops
03-02-07 - Gray weapons market clouds Iran role ** There are also visible differences between 81mm mortar shells known to be made by Iran and those displayed Feb. 11 by the U.S. military at a Baghdad briefing. The Iranian mortar shell has four horizontal ribs below the lettering and no date; the one shown in Baghdad has three ribs above the lettering and the date 3-2006.
03-02-07 - An Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq The Appeal for Redress provides a way in which individual service members can appeal to their Congressional Representative and US Senators to urge an end to the U.S. military occupation
03-02-07 - Rice Picks Neo-Con Champion of Iraq War as Counselor A close friend and protege of former Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz and advisory board member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Cohen most recently led the harsh neo-conservative attack on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton. You have got to be kidding me.
03-02-07 - Iran cleric says Pakistan becoming 'terrorist sanctuary' A top Iranian cleric accused Pakistan on Friday of becoming a "terrorist sanctuary," following an upsurge of violence on the two nations' border area that Tehran blames on plots by arch foe the United States and on Pakistan's inability to control its border.
03-02-07 - Iraq s U.N. ambassador criticizes Syria The Syrians could do more to prevent terrorists from crossing their border into Iraq, an issue that will be on the agenda of an upcoming security conference in Baghdad, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.
03-02-07 - Saudi-Iran meet seen likely to benefit Lebanon and Iraq "Saudi Arabia and Iran concur that a civil war pitting Sunnis against Shiites in Lebanon cannot be allowed to happen,"
03-02-07 - Pentagon's number two suggests terror war will end in Oct. 2008
03-02-07 - US, Canada Diverge on Terror War Tactics In stark contrast to last week's U.S. court decision upholding the Military Commissions Act, Canada's court has unanimously struck down a law that would allow the Canadian government to use secret evidence to detain foreign-born terror suspects indefinitely without charges or open court hearings.
03-02-07 - Panel to Ponder War Powers ?The Commission?s principal goal is to produce a bipartisan report that makes recommendations about how Presidents and Congresses could best exercise their respective war powers,?
03-02-07 - US lawmakers hail 'overdue' talks with Iran, Syria
03-02-07 - Libby jurors: Define 'reasonable doubt'
03-02-07 - Israel fears possible Russian arms sale to Syria Israel expressed concern Friday about a potential Russian sale of advanced anti-tank weapon systems to Damascus amid persistent fears in the Jewish state about a future conflict with its enemy.
03-02-07 - Golan's apples blossom in Red Cross hands The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) said that it regularly transports the season's apples back across the frontline between arch-enemies Israel and Syria to help the Syrian farmers sell them back home.
03-02-07 - Russia wants israel to join NPT israel is now accusing Russia of selling its most advanced anti-tank missiles to Syria.
03-02-07 - Lebanon discovers network spying on Hezbollah: report
03-02-07 - Obama: Engagement, sanctions with Iran The Bush administration, backed by AIPAC, favors only limited, multilateral engagement with Iran until that country achieves nuclear transparency.
03-02-07 - False quotes shake up terror trial The mystery of how and why a government wiretap summary falsely attributed anti-Jewish slurs to officials of a Muslim charity remained unanswered Tuesday as federal prosecutors pledged to look into the matter.
03-02-07 - Captive soldiers resolution in Senate Two U.S. senators introduced a resolution calling for the release of three captive Israeli soldiers.
03-02-07 - Hillel launches online petition against Iran The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life launched an online petition urging the U.S. government to work with allies in tightening sanctions against Iran
03-02-07 - Rupert Murdoch: Fox in the henhouse Today, Fox Broadcasting and allied enterprises are deeply into the henhouse of America and the world, reaching over 96 percent of US households, owning more than 175 international newspapers and magazines on three continents, publishing 40 million papers a week, virtually controlling print markets in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.....While Murdoch doesn?t speak openly of his roots, he nevertheless has been open about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu Murdoch's Fox news is notoriously pro-neocon. Note in the article his ties to the Israeli lobby.
03-02-07 - U.S. to Send Top Refugee Official to Damascus
03-02-07 - The White House, like the White Paper The flood of Israeli visits to the U.S. capital is unceasing......Prime Minister Olmert will meet with Abbas in another two weeks, and Rice's pal, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, will visit Washington to speak at the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC
03-02-07 - Israeli army briefly detains man at Lebanon border Lebanese security sources said the man was gathering scrap metal in an area near the border with Israel when he was detained. They identified him as Mahmud Hussein Hajj, a resident of Hula.
03-02-07 - Neocon Zionist's Iran-Syria blame game in USA Today column
03-02-07 - Jewish Group Will Commend Schakowsky As 'Ally Of Israel' In addition to presenting the congresswoman with a plaque in a private ceremony today, Kleiner said group members plan to take advantage of their meeting with Schakowsky to express their concerns about the Iranian nuclear program, which they believe threatens Israel
03-02-07 - Ahmadinejad impresses church leaders The Anti-Defamation League blasted a meeting between a U.S. Christian delegation and the Iranian president as a ?betrayal.?
03-02-07 - A Long Enough Sentence The NY Sun gives space to those advocating for Jonathan Pollard's release. Here is a reminder of what Pollard did. And again.
03-01-07 - Americans Have Lost Their Country This extraordinary aggressiveness toward the US Constitution, international law, and the Islamic world is the work, not of a vast movement, but of a handful of ideologues ? principally Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Philip Zelikow, and Attorney General Gonzales.
03-01-07 - Progress made on new Iran sanctions: U.S. official
03-01-07 - Russia warns U.S. against striking Iran ** "We are concerned about the possibility of a military scenario," Lavrov was quoted as saying, in the government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. "We are observing a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf. Such a buildup of forces always threatens to trigger a military conflict, even by accident."
03-01-07 - Top Army General Relieved of Command at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
03-01-07 - Regime Change Is the Reason, Disarmament the Excuse ** One of the big problems is the Israelis refuse to provide equality to their Arab neighbors. Israel wants to have a situation where five million people get to dictate regional terms of coexistence to hundreds of millions of people. That calculus just doesn't work in the long run. It creates a situation where inevitably Israel is going to find itself in increasingly dangerous situations.
03-01-07 - Iran's president to visit Saudi Arabia
03-01-07 - New signs of US-Syria thaw as senior official sets visit in a sudden policy shift, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced this week that she and other US officials would join their Syrian and Iranian counterparts in coming weeks at conferences on Iraq's future.
03-01-07 - Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet
03-01-07 - Analysis: U.S. intel on nukes in doubt New doubts are arising about the accuracy of U.S. intelligence on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, only a few years after faulty warnings about weapons of mass destruction helped President Bush justify the invasion of Iraq.
03-01-07 - NATO approval not needed for missile shield says U.S. ** The United States vowed on Thursday to press ahead with a plan for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe to guard against attack from Iran, with or without the approval of NATO allies.
03-01-07 - Hezbollah denies U.S. claim on training Iraqis Hezbollah on Thursday denied a U.S. intelligence claim it was training Iraqi militants in Lebanon on how to operate armor-piercing munitions which have been used against U.S. forces in Iraq.
03-01-07 - Ahmadinejad blames U.S., Israel for wars Iran's president blamed the United States and Israel for the world's problems Thursday in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan.
03-01-07 - Snow at CPAC: We didn't create the war in Iraq, We didn't create the war on terror
03-01-07 - Jordan tightens Iraqi immigration
03-01-07 - British opposition leader: Time for massive pressure on Iran This is Cameron's first visit to Israel, but the man who the polls predict will win Britain's next election, scheduled to take place in about three years, already has several strong opinions. He does not rule out military action against Iran
03-01-07 - Stated Clerk sends letters to Presidents Bush and Ahmadinejad
03-01-07 - US representatives approve cooperation with Israel Sources in Israel and AIPAC worked for two years to advance this bill
03-01-07 - Bolton Says U.S. Should Seek 'Regime Change' in Iran Here are a few paragraphs from an article from Feb. 2003: "In a meeting with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton yesterday, Sharon said that Israel was concerned about the security threat posed by Iran, and stressed that it was important to deal with Iran even while American attention was focused on Iraq. Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials that he had no doubt America would attack Iraq, and that it would be necessary thereafter to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea." From the Israeli Haaretz.
03-01-07 - Israeli Firm Tapped To Provide U.S. Marines With New Armored Vehicles
03-01-07 - Syrian Envoy Rips U.S. and Israel for Rejecting Overtures From Damascus
03-01-07 - Obama to offer pro-Israel views at Chicago gathering AIPAC, whose sole interest is U.S.-Israel relations, is one of the most influential lobbying groups in the nation. Its annual policy conference starts March 11 in Washington. The gathering provides fertile territory for Obama to schmooze with well-connected backers and donors. Though no 2008 presidential candidates are on the program, Obama is hosting a reception for AIPAC members -- as is archrival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
03-01-07 - Obama looking for Jewish support Since he was voted into the Senate, Obama has backed the Palestinian anti-terrorism bill, voted to defend Israel during the war and supported the foreign-aid bill. Despite these pro-Israel deeds, Jews in the US are concerned about his standpoint on Israel. Among his democratic supporters are left-wing
bloggers who tend to criticize Israel.
03-01-07 - Factor notes: Why Clinton trumps Edwards The Israel Factor panel ranks the two senior Democratic and Republican representatives from New York at the top of the list. Rudi Giuliani is the preferred candidate from among the Republicans, as is Hilary Clinton among the Democrats. This is no coincidence. The constant interest in, and the open sympathy for, Israeli affairs that is required of all important elected officials in the most Jewish of states in the U.S. has had its effect on them both. Note the source.
03-01-07 - Israel exports fruit to Iran: face the music How can ?Zionist? mandarins be allowed into one of the spokes of the Axis of Evil? Bazaris (merchants) explain the situation easily: the produce comes from Occupied Palestinian Territories.
However, Israel does not allow Palestinians to directly export (or import) goods.
03-01-07 - We can deal with Iran, boasts Israeli minister Then stop bugging the hell out of my country to take care of them.
03-01-07 - The rhetorical war against Iran As much as we believe our media to be fair and balanced, we only get one side of the news on issues such as Iran, which dangerously provides us with false and misleading information. It has only been four years since Americans were misled into a war in Iraq, and we should not allow ourselves to be misled again.
03-01-07 - JCPA Delegates Spurn Israel Demands Delegates to this week?s Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) plenum in Washington defied the Israeli government when they refused to adopt a last-minute resolution calling for tougher action against Iran and for its leaders to be indicted for inciting genocide....Israeli diplomats from the embassy in Washington, in a rare show of active involvement in the internal deliberations of an American Jewish group, actively worked the floor, lobbying delegates in favor of the resolution and, in some cases, calling top organization leaders......Israel's big slice of U.S. aid, which once provided pro-Israel lobbyists with an annual challenge in Congress, has become so routine that the debate over the money is all but inaudible.
03-01-07 - Lebanon's Hariri accuses Syria of blocking political agreement
03-01-07 - The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian Pro-Israel hawks had resented this computer professor at the University of South Florida long before Atta and the hijackers flew their planes into the Trade Towers because they saw Al-Arian, a Palestinian born in Kuwait of parents kicked out of their homeland in 1948, as an effective agitator here for the Palestinian cause
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