2005 archive
3-15 - Syrian agents vacate Beirut base Syrian intelligence agents have completely vacated their last Beirut base early, witnesses say, a step that brings Damascus closer to meeting U.S. and Lebanese opposition demands.
3-15 - Iran Says Ending U.S. Sanctions Won't Stop Enrichment Program
3-15 - UN team finishes Hariri inquiry
3-15 - US sees 'positive steps' towards Syrian withdrawal
3-15 - Bush says Hezbollah must 'prove' it's not terrorist
3-15 - Iran Says Tehran Has Offered Europe a Deal
3-15 - Iran: Nuke Program Needed for Electricity
3-15 - Israelis fear Syria's Lebanon exit is no panacea
3-15 - PM focuses on Hizbullah with EU leaders Diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said this should not be interpreted as signaling a seismic shift in American policy, and that when Bush said that Israel must withdraw from the settlements, he was referring to the unauthorized settlement outposts. "This has long been US policy, and there is no change,"
3-15 - Halliburton in $108m Iraq probe
3-15 - A close Chinese ally with strong bilateral arms trade with Beijing, Moscow said it could not support Taiwan's independence
3-14 - A catastrophic strategy for Syria
3-14 - 'Record' protest held in Beirut Nearly one million people gathered for an opposition rally in Beirut, officials say - a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
3-14 - House urges E.U. to put Hezbollah on list
3-14 - Pakistan denies centrifuge report Pakistan has denied reports that it will hand uranium-enriching components to United Nations inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear programme.
3-14 - Shi'ite backing grows in Lebanon
3-14 - After Syria, a UN role in Lebanon?
3-14 - Terrorist legislation shambles Mr Blair insisted that measures to restrict without trial the liberty of terrorist suspects - British as well as foreign - were essential in order to protect the civil liberties of the vast majority.
3-14 - Apple Trade Boosts Syria-Israel Peace Hope A U.S.-brokered troop separation deal returned Quneitra to Syrian rule in 1974 but not before retreating Israelis bulldozed hundreds of houses. Israel now holds two-thirds of the Golan, or about 450 square miles, and formally annexed it in 1981.
3-14 - Russia offers to allow Israel to check missiles sold to Syria
3-14 - No green light to Israel for strikes on alleged Iran nuke sites: Rice
3-14 - The Unpredictability of Revolutions by Patrick J. Buchanan
3-13 - UN finds evidence of official cover-up in Hariri assassination As the United Nations' Irish-led special investigation team here prepares to report that the Lebanese authorities have covered up evidence of the murder on 14 February of the former prime minister Rafik Hariri, his two sons have fled Lebanon after hearing that they too are in danger of assassination.
3-13 - Report: Syria to Pull Third of Troops by March 31
3-13 - Syrian-Backed Hizbollah Rallies Against U.S. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for a Hizbollah rally against the United States on Sunday, even as a U.N. envoy met the Lebanese president to press demands for a Syrian pullout.
3-13 - N.Y. Times: Iraq Had WMD 'Stockpiles' in 2003 which was removed to "a neighboring state" Here comes the propaganda for the war with you know who
3-13 - Sustained US pressure could pose problems for Syria?s Assad "The pressure will continue until Syria achieves every US goal,"
3-13 - Iran demands more US concessions
3-13 - Pakistan to send centrifuge parts to IAEA for testing: diplomats Pakistan is to send used centrifuge parts to the UN atomic agency to help it figure out the origin of highly enriched uranium contamination found in Iran
3-13 - U.S. 'Hallucinating' Over Nuclear Talks, Iran Says
3-13 - Here is the news... from President Bush
3-13 - Israel will attack Iran 'only as last resort'
3-13 - To be Jewish in Damascus
3-13 - No terror link found in probe of money Saleh and most of those arrested are of Palestinian descent
3-12 - Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant Tehran claims that its programme is designed for peaceful purposes but Israeli and American intelligence officials ? who have met to share information in recent weeks ? are convinced that it is intended to produce nuclear weapons.
3-12 - U.N.: Assad Committed to Lebanon Pullout
3-12 - Looting at Iraq Weapons Plants After Invasion: NYT The facilities, cited by the Bush administration as a reason for invading Iraq, were left largely unguarded by troops in the months after Baghdad fell.
3-12 - Converging U.S. Navy aircraft carrier groups in Middle East send strong message to Iran and Syria
3-12 - Leaders of Venezuela, Iran blast US again
3-12 - Iran Defiant in Face of United US, EU Approach
3-12 - Lebanon plunged into turmoil, Syria squeezed after Hariri killing
3-12 - Lebanese President warns of 'catastrophe'
3-12 - Move Up the Date For Armageddon In 2003, Bolton was poised to testify to Congress that Syria was developing weapons of mass destruction and threatened the entire region. This assertion provoked a widely reported ?revolt? by U.S. intelligence analysts, who insisted there was no evidence for such a conclusion
3-12 - Russia backs Syrian withdrawal But Moscow is reluctant to take punitive action against Syria if it does not pull out quickly
3-12 - In Lebanon, Syria Is Not 'Foreign'
3-12 - Iran Nuclear 'Nightmare' Very Close, Israel
3-12 - Hughes to Head Efforts to Improve U.S. Image Abroad In her new post, Hughes would lead the Bush administration's efforts to counter the negative image of the United States in many Muslim countries that was spurred by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and a perceived anti-Palestinian bias in Washington's Middle East policy.
3-12 - Earnest Hypocrisy: The U.N., Lebanon, and Israeli Exceptionalism
3-11 - Syrians quit north Lebanon
3-11 - Iran says US incentives offer 'insignificant'
3-11 - Showdown Shapes Up for Both Lebanon and Bush
3-11 - 'Stronger' US action if Iran does not end nuclear weapons ambitions: Cheney
3-11 - US held youngsters at Abu Ghraib Children as young as 11 years old were held at Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison at the centre of the US prisoner abuse scandal, official documents reveal.
3-11 - EU3 say Iran faces UN if nuke enrichment resumes
3-11 - Troops will be protected from radiation: Army chief The Chief of the Army says Australian troops going into southern Iraq will be protected against depleted uranium ammunition.
3-11 - Syria's exit may mean more power for Hezbollah in Lebanon
3-11 - US in policy shift on Iran trade The move brings the US into line with the EU policy of offering economic incentives for Iran's compliance
3-11 - Top U.N. Envoy to Present Syria With Ultimatum A top U.N. envoy will tell President Bashar Assad that Syria will face political and economic isolation if he does not completely and quickly withdraw from Lebanon, U.N. and U.S. officials said yesterday.
3-11 - Assad wins street victory but not the war As Syria's leader faces renewed pressure to withdraw from Lebanon, even allies admit he will have to acquiesce
3-11 - Measuring the ripples It is premature to talk about the triumph of democracy and freedom in the Middle East, argues Ian Black
3-11 - Behind Scenes, Israelis Press for Syria to Leave Lebanon
3-11 - Syria kept in a sorry state by old guard clinging to a fading power
3-11 - Syrian Accuses U.S. of Bias in Mideast The Syrian ambassador to the United States said Thursday that President Bush was unfairly criticizing Syria for having troops in Lebanon when he should speak out more forcefully about Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory
3-11 - Hezbollah blames US, Israel for European Parliament resolution
3-10 - Comeback for pro-Syria Lebanon PM Shortly after his reappointment, Omar Karami called on all parties to join a government of national unity
3-10 - Syrian press sees trouble ahead as US maintains pressure
3-10 - U.S. Denies Major Shift on Hizbollah
3-10 - Lebanese Shiites draw strength from Syria, suspicious of US motives "We don't want foreign intervention and we don't trust US policies. It's neither for the United Nations nor (US President George W.) Bush to say what is good for us. Let us determine our fate ourselves."
3-10 - Egypt scorns US 'democracy' claim "What model are we talking about in Iraq? Bombs are exploding everywhere and Iraqis are killed everyday,"
3-10 - US interrogation methods cleared "This looks like another whitewash. Almost a year after the Abu Ghraib pictures, we still haven't had an independent investigation into the widespread prison abuse by someone not appointed by or subordinate to [Defence] Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld,"
3-10 - Israel, U.S. begin military exercises eyeing Iranian missiles Israeli security sources said that the operation is aimed at preparing the Jewish State to defend itself against possible Iranian aerial attacks
3-10 - Human remains found at blast site raise more questions of incompetence
3-10 - Jumblatt seeks Russias help in probing Hariris death "The official authorities are not investigating and are keeping evidence from us. We do not trust them,"
3-10 - Iran 'given Pakistan centrifuges'
3-10 - The invisible wounded Injured soldiers evacuated to the U.S. never arrive in the light of day -- and the Pentagon has yet to offer a satisfactory explanation why.
3-10 - Mideast duty for U.S. troops may include Israel
3-10 - Patriot crews heading to exercise in Israel ?The symbolic thing is this signals the American commitment to Israeli security,?
3-10 - It is not democracy that's on the march in the Middle East
3-10 - Syria's Jews With reference to Professor Geoffrey Alderman's letter (March 5), and before the myth becomes set in stone - the Jewish community was not "ethnically cleansed" from Syria. Many left in the early 90s because pressure was put on them to do so by Jewish groups in the US
3-10 - The enemy within How an Americanist devoted to destroying international alliances became the US envoy to the UN
3-10 - The Swiss treatment for Syria?
3-10 - ISRAEL HEADS FOR WAR WITH SYRIA
3-9 - US threatens to take actions against Iran The United States warned of Iran on Tuesday that it will consider possible actions against Iran if Iran does not fulfill its obligations to stop its sensitive nuclear activities.
3-9 - Bush says allies weigh further action on Syria
3-9 - Intelligence about Iran for Bush is called weak One person who described the panel's deliberations and conclusions characterized the state of American intelligence on Iran as "scandalous" given the importance and relative openness of the country.
3-9 - Iran reacts angrily to new Bush broadside
3-9 - Lebanon May Reinstate Pro-Syria PM
3-9 - Legislation Seeks to Increase US Pressure on Syria Over Lebanon
3-9 - Bush demands Syrian withdrawal by May
3-9 - After the War Comes Cancer In the two US-led wars on Iraq, missile warheads containing the depleted uranium-238 were used.
3-9 - Middle East a Topic at Terror Conference Resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is key to any hope of curtailing global outbursts of violence, panelists at a summit on democracy, terrorism and security said Wednesday
3-9 - US planes near Israeli test area were in international airspace: Pentagon
3-9 - U.S. blasts Israel over Lebanon remarks The Americans are also displeased with reports that Israel is demanding that the United States and Europe not reduce their pressure for a complete withdrawal of both Syrian forces and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards
3-9 - Many Terror Websites are U.S. Based - Study "In other countries there are more strict laws against the incitement of hatred," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Los Angeles based Jewish human rights group.
3-8 - Mass Beirut rally says "Thank you Syria"
3-8 - 1.5 Million pro-Syria demonstrators gather in Beirut
3-8 - US shrugs at pro-Syria rally in Beirut
3-8 - Iran confirms nuclear plant is underground Ali Akbar Salehi, a nuclear affairs adviser to the Iranian foreign minister, said that U.S. and Israeli threats to attack Iran?s nuclear facilities forced Tehran to take precautions to protect its technology.
3-8 - The Lebanese Puzzle
3-8 - From Syria's Retreat to Civil War? Lebanon's Nightmare
3-8 - Does Hizbullah get to stay "special"?
3-8 - Many Overseas Worried by Bush's U.N. Pick
3-8 - Don't Stop With Syria's Occupation
3-8 - Khatami warns of increased pressure against 'anti-Zionist' countries "The groups and governments which oppose the interests of Zionists and their occupation policy will be put under more pressure and described as problematic,"
3-8 - Reining In Damascus on Behalf of Israel Without fail, since his first day in office, but most notably following the attacks of Sept. 11, the Bush administration?s foreign policy in the Middle East has been consistent with Israel?s regional objectives, politically and militarily.
3-8 - Israeli firm wins US weapons contract in Iraq Israeli company Palsen Sasa has won a contract to armour US military vehicles in Iraq, company sources said Tuesday.
3-7 - Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
3-7 - US demands 'action' from Syrians
3-7 - Bush Appoints Right-Wing Extremist to UN Post
3-7 - US unsatisfied as Assad pledges Lebanon pullback by end of month
3-6 - Syria pullback 'to start Monday'
3-6 - Syria's Assad: 'I am not Saddam Hussein' Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, under pressure to withdraw troops from Lebanon, insisted he should not be compared to Saddam Hussein and that he wanted to cooperate with international demands, according to an interview.
3-6 - US sent hundreds of terror suspects to foreign prisons Among the countries to which detainees have been sent are Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, all named in the State Department's annual report on human rights worldwide as countries that use torture in their prisons.
3-6 - Hizbollah Throws Weight Behind Syria in Lebanon "The aim of America and Israel is to spread chaos in Lebanon and bring back Lebanon to a state of chaos to find excuses for foreign intervention and to push some Lebanese to call for international intervention,"
3-6 - Israel Seeks Support for Syrian Withdrawal
3-6 - Israel has transcript of Jihad attack order Israeli intelligence agents have provided U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with a phone transcript in which Damascus-based Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah authorized the suicide bombing at the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv last month.
a phone transcript
3-6 - Israel demands withdrawal of Iranian Guard Israel's official position is that the Syrian forces deployed in Lebanon are not the only foreign army in that country
3-6 - Arab world warms ties with Israel Meanwhile, the replacement of Saddam Hussein's regime with a democratic government in Iraq, and intensified international pressure on Syria, including demands that it withdraw from Lebanon, has boosted Israel's security.
3-6 - Israel accuses Syria of being involved in terrorism
3-6 - Israel jacks up pressure on Syria amid fears over Lebanese border
3-6 - Is the Bushraeli administation about to stage another terror attack?
3-6 - Hezbollah chief confident Israel will soon pullout of Shebaa farms "the (Hezbollah) resistance's mission and role is not just for the liberation of the Shebaa Farms, but to join the Lebanese army in defending Lebanon as long as Israel agresses and violates its sovereignty."
3-6 - Former Sen. Boschwitz appointed to U.N. post He said he would try to steer the Commission on Human Rights in a direction more favorable to the United States.
3-5 - Iran warns of oil crisis over nuclear issue
3-5 - Syria to redeploy Lebanon troops
3-5 - Syria an obstacle to Middle East peace: Bush
3-5 - Syrian-Lebanese relations
3-5 - Israel sees peace with Lebanon after Syria exit
3-5 - Syria is forced to expel Palestinian extremists
3-5 - PM: Partial Syrian pullout not enough Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants Syria to withdraw completely from Lebanon, and will not be satisfied with only a partial pullout.
3-5 - U.S.: Syria Pledge Not Enough "President Assad's announcement is not enough," the State Department (search) said in a statement issued hours after the Syrian leader made the pledge in a speech to parliament.
3-5 - Israel Dismisses Syria's Plan for Lebanon "Israel demands a full implementation of U.N. Resolution 1559 , meaning a complete withdrawal of all Syrian troops from Lebanon,"
3-5 - Mideast peace impossible without return of occupied lands: Assad Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that Middle East peace will not be possible without the return of Syrian land occupied by Israel.
3-5 - Israel Sees Peace with Lebanon After Syrian Exit The Israeli cabinet minister, a leading deputy of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s rightist Likud party, added however, that Syrian President Bashar Assad's remarks still did not meet Israeli or world demands.
3-5 - Israel Pumps Sewage Into Lebanese Village
3-4 - Bush Demands Total Syrian Troop Withdrawal
3-4 - Bush offers to help EU over Iran
3-4 - The White House Stage Manages the ?Get Syria? Move Logically, Bush should have fired this gang for involving the country in the Iraqi morass. Instead, their disastrous Iraqi performance brought the neo-cons even more clout in the second Bush Administration. Using their spin-mastery to inflame opinion, the neo-cons invented new "black hats" Iran and Syria.
3-4 - Syria's crumbling Arab support
3-4 - Lebanese opposition contacts Israel about Syrian withdrawal Senior officials at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office were in touch with Lebanese leaders even before the current crisis.
3-4 - Britain and EU move to outlaw Hizbollah Israeli and American attempts to isolate Hizbollah are making headway after signs that Britain and the EU may impose new proscriptions on the Iranian-backed Lebanese guerrilla group.
3-4 - Israeli Air Force Training for Long-Range Bombing Missions
3-4 - If Syria Is Expected To Withdraw from Lebanon, Shouldn?t Israel Withdraw From the Occupied Territories? So, we are told that somehow Syrian troop deployments in Lebanon are bad, while Israeli troops and settlements on Palestinian territory are either acceptable or are to be treated with respectful silence.
3-4 - Is the Potential AIPAC/Neocon Scandal About to "Blow Up"?
3-4 - UN should confront Iran, says Israeli President "All of us should be standing very strongly against this," Mr Katsav said. "Iran is not a democracy, it is totalitarian. Secondly, it backs international terrorism. If it has nuclear weapons, these three elements together would be a disaster for the world."
3-4 - Lebanon crisis deepens as Syria pressed to pull out troops Syria has long argued that it needs to retain troops in Lebanon because of Israel's continued occupation of the Golan Heights, seized from Damascus in the 1967 war.
3-4 - Blix Urges Nuclear-Free Middle East
3-3 - Diplomats: Iran Building Nuclear Storage Iran is using reinforced materials and tunneling deep underground to store nuclear components ? measures meant to deter "bunker busters" and other special weapons in case of attack, diplomats said Thursday.
3-3 - Diplomats: Iran Building Tunnels for Arms Whose diplomats?
3-3 - Bush Edges Toward Europe on Iran Nuclear Crisis "Iran has laid the foundations for the research reactor at Arak," a Western diplomat close to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna told Reuters.
3-3 - Bush Keeps Fueling the Fire "[T]he Bush administration has almost completely adopted Israel's view of events in the Middle East ? rightly or wrongly ? and made all of Israel's enemies ? America's enemies as well, and branded them as terrorists."
3-3 - Young Syrians: Lives in limbo As pressure grows on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, its young people are facing their own struggle to forge lives in a country that is stagnating and offers its young people few opportunities
3-3 - Saudi ruler urges Syrian pullout The prince said withdrawal would ease the international pressure on Syria and help defuse the Lebanese crisis
3-3 - An Israeli dispute on the Syrian question All the interlocutors should be reminded that the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon must include the removal of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, dozens of whose officers are active in Lebanon. This subject has been shoved to the sidelines, and Israel must bring it up at every opportunity.
3-3 - Wolfowitz No Longer in World Bank Race -- Wolfensohn
3-3 - The buzz on the Syrian street: Let's leave Lebanon
3-2 - Bush Demands That Syria Leave Lebanon
3-2 - Rice: Syria has a lot to answer for TA blast "We don't know the degree of Syrian involvement, but certainly what is happening on the territory of Syria, in and around Damascus, is clearly threatening to the different kind Middle East we're trying to grow,"
3-2 - Quick Syrian Pullout Has Substantial Risks Syria has long acted as a buffer, mediating political disputes and sending security forces to back Lebanese troops. They have also curbed Muslim militants as they did in Syria, a nation ruled by a secular Baath party that sees militant Islam as a threat.
3-2 - U.S. Official Says Iran, Syria 'Against All of Us' "State sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Syria are with the terrorists and therefore against all of us," said Frances Townsend, homeland security adviser to President Bush
3-2 - Lebanese opposition courts Hezbollah to win Syrian troop pullout "Hariri was engaged in contacts with his European friends to prevent them from putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations," as requested by Israel, said Nasrallah.
3-2 - U.S. gives Israel ?go-ahead? to strike Syria
3-2 - Iran nuclear plans under pressure
3-2 - Russia says Syria should withdraw troops 'cautiously' from Lebanon
3-2 - Israelis Welcome Lebanese Uprising "This is a most important development, its something we have been hoping for," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told Army Radio
3-2 - A June Attack on Iran? Year Four in the Five Year Plan
3-2 - A Republic, Not a Democracy by Patrick J. Buchanan
3-1 - Syria to Pull Troops Out of Lebanon in Months-Assad
3-1 - Iran blocks UN nuclear inspections
3-1 - Straw backs Abbas with call for full peace conference Israel left no doubt that it blamed Syria for the Tel Aviv bombing which killed five Israelis outside a disco. Israeli intelligence officers briefed ambassadors of the European Union, the G8 and the UN Security Council. They read from a transcript of an intercepted telephone call in which Ramadan Shallah, Islamic Jihad's Damascus-based leader, ordered a West Bank commander to go ahead with the bombing. The West Bank activist was not named. Officials said they hoped to make more arrests in co-operation with the Palestinian security services.
3-1 - Israel ups pressure on Syria "We don't think Syria should remain in Lebanon. Their occupation should come to an end," said Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, speaking in Hungary.
3-1 - U.S.: Terrorists in Syria Bombed Tel Aviv "We do have firm evidence that the bombing in Tel Aviv was not only authorized by Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus, but that Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus participated in the planning."
3-1 - Syria fails to guarantee complete withdrawal "[Bekaa] is very important strategically and we feel many Lebanese, including members of the opposition, realise this. The Israel military threat is there and we cannot forget that fact,"
3-1 - Blair hails 'ripple of change' in Middle East Syria has one last chance, warns PM
3-1 - ISRAEL POLICY BECAME US POLICY In the Perle-Feith-Wurmser strategy, Israel?s enemy remains Syria, but the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad. Their plan, which urged Israel to re-establish ?the principle of preemption,? has now been imposed by Perle, Feith, Wurmser & Co. on the United States.
3-1 - Wolfowitz on shortlist for World Bank top post
3-1 - Source of Tel Aviv Bombing Remains Unclear
3-1 - The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (and War) the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs role as a pro-war pressure group with an annual budget of $2.5 million, is rarely mentioned by the U.S. media.
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