September 2007 archive


9/30/2007 - US says Iranian-made missiles found in Iraq   Making the case for war.

9/30/2007 - Iran says nuclear cooperation to prevent new sanctions Iran said on Sunday it would press on with its intensified cooperation with the UN nuclear agency to prevent the imposition of further Security Council sanctions over its contested nuclear programme.  

9/30/2007 - Neocons seek to justify action against Teheran ** Some US diplomats believe the exercise ? reminiscent of attempts by vice-president Dick Cheney and the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld to build the case against Saddam Hussein before the Iraq war ? will boost calls for military action by neo-conservatives inside and outside the administration.  

9/30/2007 - US trains Gulf air forces for war with Iran ** The American air force is working with military leaders from the Gulf to train and prepare Arab air forces for a possible war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.  

9/30/2007 - Richardson says war with Iran is unwise ** "I believe it would be enormously unwise for the Bush administration to start another war before ending this tragic war we're in today and it does sound like the administration is ramping up. You can just see it," he said.  

9/30/2007 - Hersh: 'War with Iran will be about protecting the troops in Iraq' ** "They've changed their rhetoric, really. The name of the game used to be nuclear threat," Hersh said on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, adding a moment later, "They've come to the realization that it's not selling, it isn't working. The American people aren't worried about Iran as a nuclear threat certainly as they were about Iraq. So they've switched, really."  

9/30/2007 - Iraq FM fears 'tension' over Iran nuclear program Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Sunday urged Iran not to fan flames of confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, saying the conflict was leading to rising global tensions.  

9/30/2007 - U.S. Embassy rips Iraq partition plan    

9/30/2007 - U.S. Army sniper not guilty of murder A military panel on Friday acquitted U.S. Army Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval on charges he killed two unarmed Iraqis, but it convicted him of planting evidence on one of the men in attempt to cover up the shooting.  

9/30/2007 - Bolton calls for bombing of Iran **    

9/30/2007 - US considers strikes on Iran's military: report ** During a video conference over the summer, Mr Bush allegedly told Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Iraq, that he was considering striking Iranian targets across the border and that the British "were on board", Mr Hersh writes. But Israeli leaders were dismayed that the US had decided not to target Iran's nuclear program and French officials expressed doubts about the possible limited air strikes, he said  

9/30/2007 - Report: Israel unhappy with U.S. plan for Iran ** According to correspondent Seymour Hersh, the plan was shared with U.S. allies including Israel, which raised objections to the relative lack of Iranian nuclear facilities on a target roster that instead focused on military training camps.  

9/30/2007 - Dems would exhaust Iran options ** Democratic presidential candidates said they would exhaust diplomatic options before sanctioning an attack on Iran. Notice the fact that American national security isn't being threatened by Iran isn't a factor in this 'debate' about whether or not the US should attack Iran.

9/30/2007 - Stranger Than Strangelove ** Can it be that a lowly "airman" has thwarted one or more paranoids in the White House?  

9/30/2007 - The Coming 'Stab in the Back' Campaign Having exposed their country to the ignominy of certain defeat in Iraq, the Bush Administration and its neoconservative allies are seeking to salvage their crumbling reputations by blaming their critics for the catastrophe their policies have wrought.  

9/30/2007 - Palestinians in Iraq tortured, ill-treated: Amnesty "Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been subjected to gross human rights abuses including abduction, hostage-taking, unlawful killing, torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of armed militia groups," it said.  

9/30/2007 - Pentagon raises bar of intelligence-sharing A new Pentagon policy directive for U.S. military intelligence mandates information-sharing with U.S. domestic agencies and foreign partners and recognizes the leading role of the new director of national intelligence.  

9/30/2007 - Jewish leaders, Merkel to meet German officials and world Jewish leaders will discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions and the threats to Israel.  

9/30/2007 - Democrats say internal squabble won't disenfranchise Fla. voters "The events he has planned in Florida oftentimes are events that are made up of prominent members of the Jewish community," Wexler said of Obama's visits to Florida. "He has been addressing issues like Israel, like Iran and its nuclear weapons program."  



9/29/2007 - Ex-Cheney Adviser Denies Trying To Stir War With Iran   Keep in mind that the NY Sun is a staunchly pro-Israel news outfit.

9/29/2007 - US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad, Have Blood on Their Hands How American politicians can call Iran a dangerous country and claim that it poses a threat to the U.S. is a mystery. On second thought, it is not a mystery. It just tells you that the politicians think you and I are so stupid that we will fall for the exact same parade of lies and exaggerations that was used to justify the war against Iraq.  

9/29/2007 - US military 'regrets' civilian deaths in Iraq The US military said on Saturday it regrets civilian deaths, as it announced a new surge of strikes against Al-Qaeda in Iraq in which six militants were killed and a child was hit in the crossfire.  

9/29/2007 - Wounded vets also suffer financial woes "The wounded and their families no longer trust that the government will take care of them the way they thought they'd be taken care of," says veterans advocate Mary Ellen Salzano.  

9/29/2007 - Iranian lawmakers label U.S. troops and CIA as "terrorist" "They (the U.S. army and the CIA) support Israel's state terrorism in its crackdown on Palestinian and Lebanese people, trained Al-Qaida and Taliban and established secret prisons in Europe, torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib," added the statement.  

9/29/2007 - Arabs criticize U.S. Senate resolution on Iraq The Arab League and an Iraqi vice president criticized on Thursday a U.S. Senate resolution advocating the division of Iraq into federal regions.  

9/29/2007 - Anti-Iran Hawks Win Partial Victory in Congress ** its huge margin of approval, which some observers said was boosted by this week's controversial visit to New York by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, helped demonstrate once again how responsive members of both major parties are to the so-called "Israel Lobby," which has made the sanctions bill its top legislative priority this year......the first call for cross-border attacks on Iranian targets was made by the Senate's "independent" Democrat, Joseph Lieberman, who is regarded as particularly close to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)......As introduced, the amendment, which, according to several Capitol Hill sources, was drafted by AIPAC, actually went considerably further, deploying language that some senators argued could be interpreted as authorizing war against Iran.  

9/29/2007 - Democrats signal capitulation on Iraq ? and Iran    

9/29/2007 - Bush, Oil ? and Moral Bankruptcy   I disagree that it was about oil. Why are we paying nearly 3 dollars a gallon still, 5+ years on? And if you think we're paying a lot now, wait until we attack Iran. It will jeopardize the economy of the world.

9/29/2007 - Syria's Assad backs Iraq 'unity'    

9/29/2007 - Official: Iran Ordered Terrorist Bombing in the Americas   Making the case for war.

9/29/2007 - Debunking the Neocons' Iran War Measure ** The Lieberman-Kyle amendment has just passed the Senate overwhelmingly after two sections were removed to satisfy Democrats that it will not serve as a backdoor authorization for war against Iran, using U.S. forces operating in Iran.  

9/29/2007 - Syria sees warmongering in Israeli sortie Syria accused Israel of staging a strategic air raid to prepare international opinion for a future war between the countries.  

9/29/2007 - Why Did Israel Attack Syria? ** before an attack on Iran could be countenanced, Hezbollah in Lebanon had to be destroyed and Syria at the very least cowed. The plan was to isolate Tehran on these two other hostile fronts before going in for the kill. Israel's attack on Lebanon was a prelude to an attack on Iran.

9/29/2007 - Liberty Survivors Reply to Cristol's Arizona Republic Screed of July 17, 2007    

9/29/2007 - The Man Behind the Iran Curtain When asked for a one-word answer ? "yes or no" ? as to whether his government desired the "destruction of Israel as a Jewish state", Ahmadinejad responded: "And then you want the answer the way you want to hear it. Well, this isn't really a free flow of information... I'm asking you, is the Palestinian issue not an international issue of prominence or not? Please tell me, yes or no." His answer received laughter and applause.  

9/29/2007 - The Teflon Alliance with Israel In their book on the lobby, Mearsheimer and Walt provide overwhelming evidence for an Israeli link to the war that completely undermines the public myths revived by Wilkerson's and Greenspan's statements, and they build a convincing case against the notion that the war was "all about oil." They are the first who have done the extensive research necessary to bring the mountain of evidence together. KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON are former CIA officials.

9/29/2007 - U.S. gives anti-terror funds to mostly Jewish non-profit groups That Jewish organizations received the bulk of the funding does not mean there are new or heightened threats against Jewish Americans, the department said. ....."It is no secret that Jewish communities are targets, whether in the United States or in Israel," said a former FBI agent who works in counterterror. He spoke on condition of anonymity, because he is not authorized to speak publicly in his new government post.  



9/28/2007 - Iran sanctions decision delayed    

9/28/2007 - Iran invites Bush to speak at university The comments were aired on state TV Friday and signaled an unusual readiness by Iran to receive an American president after more than a quarter century with no diplomatic ties  

9/28/2007 - Jewish community in Iran slams US protest against Ahmadinejad's visit    

9/28/2007 - US: Missile defense will avert Iran war ** The chief U.S. missile defense negotiator defended plans to place anti-missile sites in Eastern Europe, saying Wednesday that the system could prevent a war with Iran by building an effective deterrent.  

9/28/2007 - Iraq Will Have to Wait By Scott Ritter **    

9/28/2007 - Attack on Iran Said To Be Imminent ** "It's not at all clear where Brown is at," Mr. Bolton told the Sun. "The question is, ?Will Britain follow in the footsteps of France?'" Either way, Mr. Bolton said he did not invest too much hope in Security Council diplomacy.  

9/28/2007 - Revealed: Saddam 'ready to walk away for $1bn'    

9/28/2007 - France to propose European sanctions against Iran at EU meet France will propose to discuss sanctions against Iran outside the UN framework at a meeting with its European Union partners next month, its foreign minister said here Friday.  

9/28/2007 - US accused of killing women and children in Baghdad raid    

9/28/2007 - US missile defence system scores intercept in test A US missile intercepted a mock warhead launched into space over the Pacific on Friday, in a successful test of the US missile defence system, a defence spokesman says.  

9/28/2007 - Weak dollar holds oil prices firm Oil prices broke the $83-a-barrel mark in Asian trade on Friday and approached their record level, as a weak dollar and supply fears boosted buying.  

9/28/2007 - Turkey-Iraq agree security pact Iraq and Turkey have signed a security agreement aimed at curbing the activities of the Turkish Kurdish separatist group, the PKK.  

9/28/2007 - Radical Syrian cleric 'shot dead' A Syrian cleric suspected of recruiting foreign militants to fight in Iraq has been shot dead in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, his aides have said.  

9/28/2007 - Saying the unsayable The links between the Israel lobby and US foreign policy are a Washington taboo. But a controversial new study is opening up a long-stifled debate  

9/28/2007 - US pledges funds for Hariri court The US has pledged $5m towards the UN-backed tribunal set up to try suspects in the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.  

9/28/2007 - Jets scrambled toward Syrian aircraft For the second time in less than a week, IAF fighter jets were scrambled to the northern border on Thursday after radar systems picked up Syrian helicopters making their way towards Israel. Israelis seem to be looking for a fight.

9/28/2007 - Palestinians prepare return to devastated refugee camp    



9/27/2007 - Russia against immediate sanctions on Iran On the eve of major power talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions, Russia's foreign minister on Thursday made clear new sanctions would have to wait until U.N. inspectors had surveyed Tehran's activities.  

9/27/2007 - Columbia Fights Off Threats; Silver Qualifies De-funding Vow One day after issuing a threat, state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver narrowed and qualified his vow to review capital funding of Columbia University in reaction to its hosting of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week.  

9/27/2007 - Soldier tells of shooting unarmed Iraqi A U.S. soldier cried Thursday as he told a court-martial that his staff sergeant ordered him to shoot an unarmed Iraqi. He said the sergeant then laughed and told the trooper to finish the job as the dying man convulsed on the ground.  

9/27/2007 - Hunt oil deal creating tension in Iraq: US A US official on Thursday criticised an oil deal between Texas-based Hunt Oil Company and Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), saying it had "needlessly elevated tensions" in Iraq.  

9/27/2007 - Iran says French FM 'apologizes' over portrayal of war remarks French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has apologized to his Iranian counterpart over a media "misportrayal" of his recent warning about bracing for war with Iran over its nuclear programme, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported Thursday.  

9/27/2007 - Kuwait says would not take part in any Iran attack Kuwait said on Tuesday it would not allow its territory to be used for any attack on Iran.  

9/27/2007 - Access Denied    

9/27/2007 - Senate Neocons Provoke Iran    

9/27/2007 - Dress Rehearsal for War    

9/27/2007 - Clinton supports Israeli 'strike' on Syria    

9/27/2007 - French FM cancels meet with Syria over Lebanese MP's killing    

9/27/2007 - Newsweek Senior Editor Says 'Israeli Lobby' Is Shaping U.S. Policy Toward Iran    

9/27/2007 - Tucker Carlson, Pat Buchanan: "Ron Paul won the debate"    

9/27/2007 - Why Does Norman Podhoretz Hate America? by Michael Scheuer Podhoretz hates every American who does not support the neoconservatives' views, the foreign policy they have devised, and the military and national security disasters to which they are leading America. Michael Scheuer is a former CIA counterterrorism official.



9/26/2007 - 2 Patriot Act Provisions ruled unlawful U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, "now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment." Score one for the good guys.

9/26/2007 - Iran condemns US House over Guards blacklisting Iran angrily condemned on Wednesday as "worthless and invalid" a vote by the US House of Representatives branding its elite Revolutionary Guards force as a terrorist organization.  

9/26/2007 - Downer flags Iran sanctions "I'm not saying that the end result of this is going to be war," he said.  

9/26/2007 - US Senate votes to support dividing Iraq on sectarian basis The US Senate approved Wednesday a Bosnia-style plan to divide Iraq on ethnic and religious lines, touted by backers as the sole hope of forging a federal state out of sectarian strife.  

9/26/2007 - Saudis worried Iran nuclear issue headed to 'confrontation' "Definitely what we are seeing is a confrontation in the making,"  

9/26/2007 - Senate to vote on Iraq division plan The US Senate is expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a Bosnia-style plan to subdivide Iraq on ethnic lines, touted by backers as the sole hope of forging a federal state out of sectarian strife.  

9/26/2007 - Pentagon seeks $190bn war funds US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has asked Congress for nearly $190bn to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  

9/26/2007 - Ahmadinejad lauded in Iran for "Lion's Den" visit President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have faced ridicule in the United States by suggesting there were no homosexuals in Iran, but he won praise at home on Wednesday for taking his country's case to "the Lion's Den."  

9/26/2007 - Turkey, Iraq in 'Kurd rebel deal'    

9/26/2007 - Russia defends weapons sales to Syria "We are doing exactly what many other arms producers are doing," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in New York.  

9/26/2007 - Webb: Lieberman And Kyl?s Hawkish Iran Amendment Is 'Cheney?s Fondest Pipe Dream' ** On the Senate floor today, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) made an impassioned appeal to his fellow senators, declaring that the Lieberman-Kyl amendment on Iran should be "withdrawn" because the "proposal is Dick Cheney?s fondest pipe dream." Webb cautioned that the "cleverly-worded sense of the Congress" could be "interpreted" to "declare war" on Iran  

9/26/2007 - Peace Churches Host Dialogue with Iranian President and 100 Religious Leaders More than 100 religious leaders today participated in an hour-long, interfaith encounter with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Church Center for the United Nations  

9/26/2007 - Syria said ready to cede disputed area to U.N. Syria has indicated it is willing to allow the United Nations to take custody of the disputed Shebaa Farms area claimed by Lebanon but which is under Israeli occupation, a Spanish diplomat said on Wednesday.  

9/26/2007 - Iranian President: If Holocaust happened, why must Palestinians pay? In an address before students and faculty at Columbia University in New York on Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that if the Holocaust really happened, the Palestinian people mustn't be forced to pay the price.  

9/26/2007 - Paul not welcome at RJC event There was time only for leading candidates; and Paul's record of consistently voting against assistance to Israel and his criticisms of the pro-Israel lobby.  

9/26/2007 - Homeland Security leaders meet Jewish reps On Tuesday, the directors met with Secure Community Network , a group that provides safety and security training to Jewish organizations. Representatives of the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and many major synagogues attended.  

9/26/2007 - Merkel harsh on Iran, anti-Semitism Angela Merkel delivered a stern rebuke of Iran and promised to stay vigilant in confronting anti-Semitism.  

9/26/2007 - Evangelical Split Seen Fueling Giuliani Bid "It's a win-win for him," said a longtime Jewish Republican who is supporting another GOP contender. "The more hawkish he is on Israel, the better he does with some important Evangelicals, despite his views on their other big issues. And it doesn?t hurt him with Jewish Republicans either, although it could prove to be more of a problem if he wins the nomination and then has to appeal to a wider group of Jewish voters."  

9/26/2007 - Congress Throws Covert Israeli Attack on Syria Out Into the Open Ranking minority member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen also took on the issue of the Israeli attack on Syria, which according to reports was aimed at nuclear devices that Syria received from North Korea.....According to Wexler, who is a strong backer of Israel and a member of the foreign affairs committee, congressional support for the Israeli attack is needed, since it will pose ?an obvious contrast? to the lack of action on behalf of Congress when Israel attacked an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981, effectively putting an end to the Iraqi nuclear program.  

9/26/2007 - House committee congratulates Israel on U.N. gain It also backs Israel's efforts to join the Security Council, the U.N.'s only body with powers of legal enforcement, by 2019. The resolution will now be considered by the full House.  

9/26/2007 - Children are also casualties in world's wars Those children in Palestine and Iraq and all those other "trouble spots" around the world know little, perhaps nothing, about such childhood adventures. What they do know is that big people don't get along and killing each other is a perfectly normal thing.  



9/25/2007 - Iran leader defiant in UN speech Iran's president has criticised "illegal" UN Security Council sanctions against his country, in a speech to the General Assembly in New York.  

9/25/2007 - Scornful Ahmadinejad says issue of Iranian nuclear programme closed    

9/25/2007 - Nuclear Iran could cause war: Sarkozy    

9/25/2007 - Bush at U.N. calls out 'brutal regimes' President Bush called on the United Nations to uphold the fight for freedom and decried "brutal regimes" such as Syria and Iran.  

9/25/2007 - Iran shuts border with north Iraq Iran has closed its major border crossings with the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, in protest at the arrest of an Iranian by US forces there.  

9/25/2007 - Iran bails last US dual national    

9/25/2007 - What World War III May Look Like by Philip Giraldi **   That's former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi.

9/25/2007 - Top neocon urged Bush to bomb Iran during private White House meeting ** One of the few remaining neoconservatives in America was recently granted a private audience in the White House to deliver a 45-minute sales pitch to convince President Bush, accompanied by political deputy Karl Rove, to bomb Iran.  

9/25/2007 - Iran warns foreign banks over US pressure    

9/25/2007 - Infantile Nation by Patrick J. Buchanan Why does Iran want nuclear weapons if it doesn't want to use them? For the same reason Israel wanted them: deterrence.  

9/25/2007 - Israeli air strike did not hit nuclear facility, intelligence officials say Vincent Cannistraro, Director of Intelligence Programs for the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan and Chief of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center under President George H. W. Bush, said Sunday that what the Israelis hit was "absolutely not a nuclear weapons facility."  

9/25/2007 - Israel seeks exemption from atomic rules Israel is looking to a U.S.-India nuclear deal to expand its own ties to suppliers, quietly lobbying for an exemption to non-proliferation rules so it can legally import atomic material, according to documents made available Tuesday to The Associated Press.  

9/25/2007 - House votes to sanction Iran The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee strongly praised the bill's passage as a step toward discouraging Iran's suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.  

9/25/2007 - Ahmadinejad adresses U.N. General Assembly "The era of darkness will end," he concluded. "Prisoners will return home, the occupied lands will be freed, Palestine and Iraq will be liberated from the dominion of the occupiers and the people of America and Europe will be free of the pressures exerted by the Zionists."  

9/25/2007 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP Transcript for 09/21/07 ** MR. BUCHANAN: Everything you read about Cheney is he's saying, "Condi Rice has failed. Let's get on with it." I think the Israelis are pushing it. We don't know what that strike in Syria was about. The neoconservatives are pushing it; the AEI. They're holding their little sessions there, promoting this idea. It is the biggest issue in D.C. right now.  

9/25/2007 - Rabbis Say Iran Seeks Peace, Respects Judaism - Calls for True Dialogue With Ahmadinejad    

9/25/2007 - Israeli in Lebanon jail not a spy-family    



9/24/2007 - Brzezinski: U.S. in danger of 'stampeding' to war with Iran ** "I think the administration, the president and the vice president particularly, are trying to hype the atmosphere, and that is reminiscent of what preceded the war in Iraq," Brzezinski told CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday.  

9/24/2007 - Weapons left by US troops 'used as bait to kill Iraqis' US soldiers are luring Iraqis to their deaths by scattering military equipment on the ground as "bait", and then shooting those who pick them up, it has been alleged at a court martial. The highly controversial tactic, which has hitherto been kept secret, is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of a number of Iraqis who were subsequently classified as enemy combatants and used in statistics to show the "success" of the "surge" in US forces.  

9/24/2007 - Ahmadinejad attacked as 'petty dictator' In a sometimes testy question-and-answer session, Mr Ahmadinejad told the moderator: "You ask the questions but you ant the answers the way you want to hear them. This is not a free flow of information. In Iran when you invite a guest, you respect them, that is our tradition."  

9/24/2007 - Iranian 'Ground Zero' visit would be travesty: Rice    

9/24/2007 - Talk of war is 'propaganda': Iranian leader ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday dismissed talk of war against Iran as "propaganda" and combatively took on US critics who accuse him of denying the Holocaust and backing terrorism.  

9/24/2007 - UN nuclear officials hold new talks in Iran    

9/24/2007 - Cheney mulled luring Iran into war with Israel: report ** the weekly said the steady departure of neoconservatives from the administration over the past two years had helped tilt the balance away from war.  

9/24/2007 - Turning Ahmadinejad Into Public Enemy No. 1 The neoconservatives are even claiming that the United States has been at war with Iran since 1979. As Glenn Greenwald points out, this assertion is absurd. In the ?80s, the Reagan administration sold substantial numbers of arms to Iran. Some of those beating the war drums most loudly now, like think-tank rat Michael Ledeen, were middlemen in the Reagan administration?s unconstitutional weapons sales to Tehran.  

9/24/2007 - Ahmadinejad: No attack on Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country.  

9/24/2007 - Syria set to reject peace talks offer Syria is expected to rebuff an invitation from the US to attend a grand Middle East peace conference later this year because it does not believe that either the Bush administration or Israel wants to reach a comprehensive regional settlement.  

9/24/2007 - Former Syrian official: Report on IDF commandos is psychological warfare    

9/24/2007 - IAF dispatches jets as Syrian plane disappears from radar The Israel Air Force dispatched several fighter jets toward Syria Saturday, after a Syrian airplane disappeared from the Israeli radar screens, army sources said.  

9/24/2007 - Just How Powerful is the Israel Lobby?    



9/23/2007 - Iran doesn't need the bomb: Ahmadinejad    

9/23/2007 - UN envoy doubts U.S. assertion Iran arming Afghan insurgents A top United Nations diplomat is rejecting repeated claims from the Bush administration that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.  

9/23/2007 - Iran confirms shelling Kurdish militants in Iraq The militant Kurdish separatist group PJAK - linked to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - is believed to be behind a string of deadly attacks on security forces in north-western Iran in recent months.  

9/23/2007 - Military chief: 'No war' with Iran **   Mm k.

9/23/2007 - US starts late manning Iran-Iraq border    

9/23/2007 - Ahmadinejad's US visit overshadowed by campus furore Before leaving Tehran, Mr Ahmadinejad said the American people had been denied "correct information" and his visit would give them a chance to hear a different voice.  

9/23/2007 - Iran smuggling missiles into Iraq: US military   Making the case for war.

9/23/2007 - Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike **    

9/23/2007 - Iran says no obstacle for French FM visit Iran said on Sunday there was no obstacle for French Foreign Minister to visit Tehran to clarify his comments that raised the specter of war over the country's atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to obtain atomic bomb.  

9/23/2007 - Is Steve Clemons Right? ? Will Bush Bomb Iran? **    

9/23/2007 - Haniya discusses lifting siege with Iranian President    

9/23/2007 - Generals Opposing Iraq War Break with Military Tradition In op-ed pieces, interviews and TV ads, more than 20 retired U.S. generals have broken ranks with the culture of salute and keep it in the family. Instead, they are criticizing the commander in chief and other top civilian leaders who led the nation into what the generals believe is a misbegotten and tragic war.  

9/23/2007 - Ron Paul is blowing up real good The rambunctious GOP candidate wants to drag the U.S. out of Iraq, can the war on drugs, and overturn the Patriot Act. No wonder Republican power brokers want to boot him off the stage.  

9/23/2007 - Cheney seeks pretext for war as US reestablishes elite Air Force wing ** The group is led by Brigadier-General Lawrence Stutzriem, and assisted by a former Israeli military officer and cyberwarfare expert.  

9/23/2007 - Progress on Mideast talks, Iran vital: Miliband The world must act now to keep alive the prospects of a two-state solution in the Middle East or see the opportunity disappear, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Sunday.  

9/23/2007 - From 2004: No End to War By Patrick J. Buchanan Fear is what Perle and his co-author David Frum are peddling to stampede America into serial wars. Just such fear-mongering got us into Iraq, though, we have since discovered, Iraq had no hand in 9/11, no ties to al-Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction, no nuclear program, and no plans to attack us. Iraq was never "the clear and present danger" the authors insist she was.....The neocons do not want to narrow our list of enemies. They do not want to confine America's war to those who attacked us. They want to expand our list of enemies to include Israel?s enemies...... if we allow the neoconservatives to morph our war on al-Qaeda into Israel's war for Palestine, our war will never end. And that is the hidden agenda of the neoconservatives: permanent war for their permanent empowerment......because Israel is a friend does not mean that the Sharonites have preemptive absolution to settle or seize Arab lands or permanently to deny Arab peoples the rights we preach to the world. In our own national interests, we must say so?in the clear......With the end of the Cold War, an alliance with Israel has ceased to be central to U.S. interests. Indeed, our reputation as armorers and allies of Israel only damages us as Sharon rampages through the West Bank and Gaza walling off Arab land and denying to Palestinians that very right of self-determination we Americans espouse. Sharon is making hypocrites of us, and we are cowards for permitting it. Powerful truth by the venerable Patrick J. Buchanan.

9/23/2007 - Israel raises alert level in north after electronic alarm activated    

9/23/2007 - Americans warned on travel to Syria The department has urged Americans to stay away from Syria amid threats of Islamic insurgency attack. Officials said the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad might be unable to stop attacks on Americans in the country. Attacks by Israeli commandos dressed as Syrians?....

9/23/2007 - At State Dept., Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate The postings, are an effort to take a more casual, varied approach to improving America?s image in the Muslim world. Want to improve our image? Get Israel out of our government (foreign policy).

9/23/2007 - Israel's Right of Self-Defense Raw foreign "intelligence," withheld from our zillion-dollar multi-agency intelligence community, chock-full of skilled professionals who evaluate satellite imagery for a living, stovepiped directly to the White House where "some" members of the Cheney Cabal ? proven neophytes when it comes to evaluation of satellite imagery of any industrial process ? have concluded the facility under construction could be used to produce material for nuclear weapons.  

9/23/2007 - US feared N Korea-Syria link before Israeli strike Universities have larger nuclear programmes than Syria.?Most experts have suggested that Israel was much more likely to have targeted some a facility related tofor conventional weapons or missiles, over which North Korea and Syria have co-operated in the past.  

9/23/2007 - Snatched: Israeli commandos ?nuclear? raid ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit ? almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms ? made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria. They were looking for proof that Syria and North Korea were collaborating on a nuclear programme. The point being here that Israeli commandos are quite capable of impersonating and mixing in with Arabs in that part of the world.

9/23/2007 - ?The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy? Excerpted from The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer Stephen M. Walt ....This situation, which has no equal in American history, is due primarily to the activities of the Israel lobby. While other special interest groups-including ethnic lobbies representing Cuban Americans, Irish Americans, Armenian Americans, and Indian Americans-have managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions that they favored, no ethnic lobby has diverted that policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest. The Israel lobby has successfully convinced many Americans that American and Israeli interests are essentially identical. In fact, they are not.  

9/23/2007 - Israel discussed by Scheuer and Garofalo Realtime 9/21/07   Whoa. Minute 4:00 on for the next few seconds. Former CIA counterterrorism official Michael Scheuer will now get reamed (for being a true patriot). And minute 05:00 on the dot. Garafolo at the end was spot on. Must watch.

9/23/2007 - Israeli army launches 'early warning' website The Israeli army unveiled a new website on Sunday that will be used to warn Israelis of impending attacks after the "lessons learned" from the 2006 war in Lebanon.  

9/23/2007 - Come clean on nukes, Rice tells Koreans    



9/22/2007 - Iran leader warns West over perils of attack ** "Military aggression against Iran is no longer a case of 'you hit and you run away,'" said supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "Anyone who launches an aggression will seriously suffer the consequences of this aggression."  

9/22/2007 - US dismisses Iranian pledge to help unite Iraq Iran pledged at UN talks Saturday to help national reconciliation in Iraq but the assurance was immediately brushed aside by the Islamic republic's archrival the United States.  

9/22/2007 - US, Iranian ministers have no contact at Iraq talks    

9/22/2007 - US urged to free Iranian 'guest' US officials said the man belonged to Iran's Revolutionary Guards and that he was involved in smuggling explosives. Both the Iraqi Kurds and Tehran insist the man was an Iranian trade official in Iraq on the invitation of the Kurds.  

9/22/2007 - Kurds denounce U.S. detention of Iranian the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement called the arrest "illegitimate," said the man was a member of a trade delegation that had been invited to Sulaimaniyah by the local government and demanded that he be released.  

9/22/2007 - Report says longterm troops in Iraq would cost more than $10...    

9/22/2007 - Ahmadinejad: How Is WTC Visit Insulting?    

9/22/2007 - Two million displaced inside Iraq since US invasion: report Nearly two million Iraqis have fled their homes for other parts of Iraq since the US invasion, creating a "unprecedented human tragedy," the country's Red Crescent said in a report.  

9/22/2007 - Iran shows off new missile, taunts Israel    

9/22/2007 - Argentina asks Iran to help in 1994 bombing probe    

9/22/2007 - US security firms warned of Iraq risks months ago The official concern that tense encounters could easily escalate into lethal exchanges emerged amid a row over the conduct of the American PSC Blackwater, after 11 Iraqis were killed when its guards opened fire in a Baghdad square last Sunday.  

9/22/2007 - Jewish groups expect thousands to protest Iranian's visit to N.Y.    

9/22/2007 - Israeli Raid on Syria Fuels Debate on Weapons Mr. Bolton wanted to include information in a public speech about a Syrian nuclear program that could not be corroborated by intelligence agencies. In recent interviews, Mr. Bolton has suggested that the Israeli strike may have partly vindicated his view.....It is unclear to what extent the secrecy about the Israeli strike has been motivated by American doubts about the intelligence or by an effort to protect sources and classified information. Was Bolton vindicated, or was Israel's intel that they supplied to our government as evidence, bogus?

9/22/2007 - Janeane Garofalo: 'Bush is a War Criminal,' 'O'Reilly Can Kiss My Fat A**' Our support of Israel to the detriment of the Palestinian people and the American people is not wise, and it's been responsible for a lot of problems. And the way the mainstream media portrays the Palestinians is totally unfair...Our Israeli policy is very dangerous for us, and for them. I don't think the Knesset, the rightwing of the Knesset, represents the Israeli people any more than the rightwing of this government represents the American people.  



9/21/2007 - Powers to discuss Iran sanctions The US is hoping to persuade the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany of the need for more sanctions against Iran.  

9/21/2007 - Bush and Sarkozy demand new Iran nuclear sanctions    

9/21/2007 - U.S. commander: Iran supplying Taliban   Making the case for war.

9/21/2007 - Is terrorism really a mortal threat? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** For all the blather of a restored caliphate, the "Islamo-fascists," as the neocons call them, cannot create or run a modern state, or pose a mortal threat to America. The GNP of the entire Arab world is not equal to Spain's. Oil aside, its exports are equal to Finland's. .......And why would Tehran, which has not launched a war since the revolution in 1979, start a war with an America with 10,000 nuclear weapons? If the Iranians are so suicidal, why have they not committed suicide in 30 years by attacking us or Israel?  

9/21/2007 - Bush may bypass UN with tough sanctions against Iran    

9/21/2007 - Syria strike: US shared intelligence with Israel However, there is considerable scepticism of the intelligence that prompted Israel's attack, with some proliferation experts querying whether Syria is even attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. The quality of the Israeli intelligence is also unknown, as is the extent of North Korean co-operation. Some people have suggested that a North Korean ship merely unloaded items it no longer needed.  

9/21/2007 - Israel consulted US before Syria strike, report says **   We are getting much closer to another Middle East war that's going to involve several countries. And if you think the price of gasoline is high NOW...

9/21/2007 - Egypt hits at EU for U.N. nuclear vote abstention Egypt criticised the European Union on Friday for failing to support a U.N. atomic watchdog resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons ? a clear reference to Israel's undeclared arsenal.  

9/21/2007 - Iran cleric hears "death knell" for Mideast peace plan A senior Iranian cleric said on Friday the "death knell" had sounded for a U.S.-sponsored Arab-Israeli peace conference, which has drawn skeptical remarks from some Arab countries that are expected to take part.  

9/21/2007 - Crowds attend Lebanese MP funeral    

9/21/2007 - Palestinian plight in Lebanon worsens    

9/21/2007 - US, Israel shared intel before Syria raid: report    

9/21/2007 - Iran and Israel face off over nuclear weapons Iran called for UN inspectors to be dispatched to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, in a heated showdown with the Jewish state at a meeting of the UN atomic agency Friday.  



9/20/2007 - Iranian officer 'seized in Iraq' "This individual has been involved in transporting improvised explosive devices," the American military said.  

9/20/2007 - US to push for support on new Iran sanctions The US and European states are preparing to consider additional sanctions against Iran to punish Tehran for failing to comply with UN demands to allow more time for negotiations on a possible third round of UN measures, diplomats said.  

9/20/2007 - Iran after nukes, but we don't want war: Sarkozy President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted Thursday that France did not want a war with Iran over its nuclear programme, while directly accusing Tehran of seeking to develop atomic weapons.  

9/20/2007 - Making a killing: how private armies became a $120bn global industry A high-ranking US military commander in Iraq said: "These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force. They shoot people."  

9/20/2007 - Israel can beat any enemy: defence minister "We can win in every situation, even when the sound of war comes from Syria or when Iran readies its weapons," he said.  

9/20/2007 - Arabs push through U.N. watchdog vote against Israel    

9/20/2007 - Pressure to arrest Ahmadinejad Israel's friends are calling for the arrest of Iran's president in advance of his arrival next week in New York City  

9/20/2007 - Carter: Iran No Threat to Israel Now "Iran is quite distant from Israel," said Carter, 83. "I think it would be almost inconceivable that Iran would commit suicide by launching one or two missiles of any kind against the nation of Israel."  

9/20/2007 - 'Dozens died in Syria-Iran missile test'   This 'report' sounds like more propaganda in the effort to include Syria when the US attacks Iran.

9/20/2007 - NY university urged to cancel Ahmadinejad speech    

9/20/2007 - MIDEAST-US: The Long Propaganda War Wittes suggests that the U.S. use the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as an opportunity to build a coalition to counter Iranian clout that would include Israel and moderate Arab states allied or friendly with the U.S. Again, the current administration's bumbling efforts to hastily set up a meeting for mid-November between Israel and some Arab states is already mired in doubt about what specific progress will be made, dimming hopes for a lasting and effective coalition  

9/20/2007 - U.S. talking about isolating Iran "The reason why is, is because it's very important for us to take the threats coming out of the mouth of the president of Iran very seriously," Bush said, adding that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad constantly talks about using force on Israel, "and Israel is our very firm and strong ally."  

9/20/2007 - Bush warns N. Korea on nuclear export In a press conference Thursday, Bush refused four times to comment on allegations that Israel struck deep into Syrian territory two weeks ago, targeting nuclear material shipped to Syria by North Korea. However, the president said he was willing to comment in general on allegations that North Korea exports its nuclear know-how, contrary to an emerging agreement in its talks with the international community. Israel to Bush: "Bark like a dog". Bush: "Woof!"

9/20/2007 - Jewish congressmen slam Moran Sixteen Jewish Democrats in Congress slammed a colleague who blamed AIPAC for the Iraq war.  

9/20/2007 - Iranian visit to Ground Zero denied Jewish leaders welcomed a decision to deny Iran's president a visit to Ground Zero.  

9/20/2007 - Fury as Netanyahu confirms Syria strike An anonymous official said to be close to Mr Olmert was quoted in the Haaretz newspaper as saying: "Bibi's slip of the tongue borders on national irresponsibility. Once again Netanyahu couldn't restrain himself and he ran to tell the guys."  

9/20/2007 - Giuliani says NATO should admit Israel, Japan   Giuliani for President...of ISRAEL!

9/20/2007 - Brazil offers hope to Iraq refugees It is the second time in 60 years that they and their families have been refugees. They fled British-mandate Palestine after the formation of Israel and eventually ended up in Iraq, where they were welcomed by the former government and given generous financial support  

9/20/2007 - Moran Should 'retract His Remarks' About Israel Lobby, Hoyer Says Moran, a Virginia Democrat, got himself in hot water last week telling a Jewish magazine that the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was enormously influential in pushing for war in Iraq. He also said AIPAC's "ties to certain newspapers and magazines and individuals in the media are substantial and intimidating."  



9/19/2007 - US Senate rejects anti-war bill The US Senate has blocked the latest bid by anti-war Democrats to derail President George W Bush's Iraq strategy, rejecting a bid to limit the numbers of troops available for deployment.  

9/19/2007 - State Dept. in crisis mode after Blackwater accused in deaths The 15-minute call came after Iraq's Interior Ministry said it had revoked the license of the firm, Blackwater USA, to work in the country, a move that could severely curtail the ability of U.S. diplomats to operate outside the heavily fortified "Green Zone."  

9/19/2007 - Bush calls for expansion of spy law President Bush said Wednesday he wants Congress to expand and make permanent a law that temporarily gives the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on suspected foreign terrorists.  

9/19/2007 - Iran leader denied on WTC wreath request "President Ahmadinejad intended to lay a wreath at the site of ground zero in order to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorists attack of Sept. 11, 2001. We are hopeful that we can still work something out with the police department,"  

9/19/2007 - US vows 'serious' Mid-East talks   This is a dog and pony show to get the Arab countries to support another war in their neighborhood - this time, Iran.

9/19/2007 - Iran issues Israel attack warning Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian soil first, military officials say.  

9/19/2007 - The Iran offensive builds **    

9/19/2007 - Oil hits new high at $US82 Oil struck a new record over $US82 overnight as falling US inventories and the threat of a storm gathering near Florida renewed supply concerns in the world's biggest energy consumer.  

9/19/2007 - China, Russia spying in US 'at Cold War level'    

9/19/2007 - US military inspect Russian radar in Azerbaijan A team of US military experts have inspected a mammoth Soviet-era radar station in Azerbaijan that Russia is pushing as an alternative to contentious anti-missile defence sites in central Europe.  

9/19/2007 - Russia says no progress on U.S. missile shield Moscow and Washington are no closer to resolving their differences over U.S. plans for a missile shield in Europe despite talks on a compromise, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday.  

9/19/2007 - Egypt opposes military action against Iran    

9/19/2007 - Egypt, Syria press for IAEA resolution against Israel Egypt and Syria urged the UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday to pass a resolution condemning Israel for possessing nuclear weapons.  

9/19/2007 - Netanyahu says Israel carried out Syria air raid, he backed it Opposition leader and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that the Jewish state had carried out an air strike in Syria two weeks ago and that he had backed it.  

9/19/2007 - Anger at new Lebanon MP killing World leaders and Lebanese politicians have condemned the bomb attack that killed an anti-Syrian Lebanese MP in a mainly Christian suburb of Beirut  

9/19/2007 - Act won't allow domestic spying Jewish organizations were among those that had expressed concerns about the law passed this summer with vague language that could be interpreted as allowing searches without warramts of U.S. individuals and organizations in communication with suspected spies and terrorists overseas.  



9/18/2007 - Adm. Fallon presses case against Iran ** The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East is pressing Arab allies to form a more united front against Iran, seen by Washington as the region's long-term threat.  

9/18/2007 - Petraeus not seeking military operations in Iran **    

9/18/2007 - Egypt and Iran to hold talks on renewing ties    

9/18/2007 - Drift into war with Iran out of control, says UN **    

9/18/2007 - Russia, China worried by Iran attack talk **    

9/18/2007 - Marine cleared of Haditha charges The US military says a marine corps officer accused of failing to properly investigate the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha has been cleared of wrongdoing.  

9/18/2007 - US to give Jordan 78 mln dlrs in extra aid The US government will give Jordan 78 million dollars in extra aid to help its ally accommodate hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees and fight terrorism, the US embassy said on Sunday.  

9/18/2007 - Neocon hawks go all-out for Giuliani Many of its leaders now see Giuliani as the made-to-order candidate, or at least the best chance to perpetuate their influence, experts say By coincidence (not really), Israel has him pegged in first place in terms of his support for that nation.

9/18/2007 - 'Ground forces were operating in Syria' According to the report, at a rendezvous point on the ground, a Shaldag air force commando team waited to direct their laser beams at the target for the approaching IAF planes. The team had arrived a day earlier, taking up position near a large underground depot. Soon the bunkers were in flames. I wonder how often Israeli commandos have been inside Lebanon conducting ops in the past few years? ....

9/18/2007 - 'Israeli warplanes raid' Lebanon It was reportedly the first time that Israeli planes have flown at supersonic speeds in Lebanon's airspace, causing sonic bangs. More psyops.

9/18/2007 - N Korea denies Syria nuclear ties Syria has formally complained to the United Nations about the alleged raid by Israeli aircraft over its territory.  

9/18/2007 - Report: Israel to launch satellite India Defense magazine reported this week that by month's end, Israel will launch a TechSar satellite from the Indian air base of Sriharikota.  

9/18/2007 - Bolton: U.S. backs Israeli pre-emption The United States would stand behind any pre-emptive attack by Israel on neighboring countries believed to have nuclear weapons programs, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said in an interview published Tuesday in the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot.  

9/18/2007 - Israel, Iran cooperate in crash probe    



9/17/2007 - Journey's end for a paralyzed soldier One of Jensen's last actions in life was to look out for other wounded soldiers at the VA Hospital in Seattle. Before his death, he designated that a $10,000 fund established in his name should go to help offset the housing costs of other families who travel far to be near their wounded loved one's bedside. One heartbreaking story of many.

9/17/2007 - IAEA Chief Warns Against Striking Iran ** Saying only the U.N. Security Council could authorize the use of force, ElBaradei urged the world to remember Iraq before considering any similar action against Iran.  

9/17/2007 - Abizaid: World could abide nuclear Iran ** "Iran is not a suicide nation," he said. "I mean, they may have some people in charge that don't appear to be rational, but I doubt that the Iranians intend to attack us with a nuclear weapon.".....Abizaid suggested military action to pre-empt Iran's nuclear ambitions might not be the wisest course. Neocons and the rest of the Israeli lobby will now attack Abizaid.

9/17/2007 - Britain cannot fight a new war in the Gulf ** General David Petraeus may be heading an American push to get Britain's forces more engaged along the Iraq/Iran border, but any major shift of British military priorities is effectively out of the question. The British may likely fall into a trap there on the border in order to draw them into a conflict with Iran.

9/17/2007 - 'War' talk heightens Iran nuclear dispute France followed up a warning that the Iran nuclear crisis could lead to war by calling on Monday for European sanctions against Tehran.  

9/17/2007 - Ban Iran's President from UN : 'O8 Republican Romney US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be banned from the UN General Assembly next week and indicted for genocide.  

9/17/2007 - Iran convinced West will not attack    

9/17/2007 - Iran scorns French warning of war    

9/17/2007 - US contractors in Iraq shootout Officials are investigating a shooting incident in Baghdad in which at least eight civilians were reported killed by private US security contractors.  

9/17/2007 - Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil   Red herring. Whose War?

9/17/2007 - Still Alive but PNG?d at AEI    

9/17/2007 - Iran threatens Israel, U.S. interests Iran threatened to fire hundreds of missiles at Israeli and U.S. targets if its nuclear facilities are attacked.  

9/17/2007 - Ron Paul NH Straw Poll Win    

9/17/2007 - Israelis vacation in Golan Heights despite tensions with Syria    

9/17/2007 - Olmert: I respect Assad Ehud Olmert voiced respect for Bashar Assad and reiterated Israel's desire for peace with Syria. Umm, they say this right after they buzzbombed the place?

9/17/2007 - Orthodox Jew tapped to replace Gonzalez Mukasey's Jewishness became an issue when a defendant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing filed a motion to remove the judge, arguing that his allegiances to fellow Jews and Israel would create a bias against Muslim defendants. The motion was dismissed as "utterly irrelevant."  

9/17/2007 - Syria reopens Lebanon border posts    

9/17/2007 - Lawmaker prods Olmert over Syria An Israeli lawmaker demanded Ehud Olmert provide an accounting of Israel's alleged airstrike inside Syria.  

9/17/2007 - Experts: Syria may have violated non-proliferation treaty   Hey pot, this is the kettle calling..



9/16/2007 - Bush setting America up for war with Iran ** Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.  

9/16/2007 - US says 'all options' on table with Iran, but prefers diplomacy The United States will stick to diplomatic and economic pressure to force Iran to halt its nuclear drive, but "all options are on the table," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.  

9/16/2007 - Iran's Ahmadinejad wants Bush debate, 'global referendum' Ahmadinejad confirmed in an interview with Iranian television he would be visiting Iran's arch enemy the United States for the third time to take part in the General Assembly next week.  

9/16/2007 - France warning of war with Iran **    

9/16/2007 - Iranian weapons intercepted in Afghanistan: report Citing unnamed officials from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the newspaper said the shipment seized on September 6 included armour-piercing bombs, which have been especially deadly when used as roadside bombs against foreign troops in Iraq.  

9/16/2007 - Israel says deterrent ability recovered after Syria strike    

9/16/2007 - Shock and Horror The U.S. government always discourages publication of the full text of bin Laden's messages. That's because what bin Laden says does not match the lies American politicians utter ? to wit, al-Qaeda hates us because we are rich or free. Bin Laden's complaints are quite specific.  

9/16/2007 - The Bully of the Middle East Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and in their most recent book. But they have had to spend a great deal of words and time assuring their readers that they are not anti-Semites, an accusation that has been the main force of the attack on them by the Israel Lobby.  

9/16/2007 - Syria raid a 'clear message to Iran' An air strike Syria accuses Israel of staging on its territory was a warning both to Damascus and to Iran, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said.  



9/15/2007 - Proxy war could soon turn to direct conflict, analysts warn ** Hawks led by the vice-president, Dick Cheney, are intensifying their push for military action, with support from Israel and privately from some Sunni Gulf states.......Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA counter-terrorism chief who is now a security analyst, said: "The decision to attack was made some time ago.  

9/15/2007 - Protesters in Washington demand end to Iraq war    

9/15/2007 - Bush rallies troops to avert revolt in Congress Hours after a televised address in which Mr Bush offered the American public updated reasons for a prolonged military commitment in Iraq, the president took to the road to try to build support for a plan that will pass on the responsibility of the war to the next US president.  

9/15/2007 - Russia rejects tougher stance on Iran    

9/15/2007 - 'We Can?t Go Back Until the Shells Stop' A long-running battle in Kurdistan's hills flares up. Will it trigger a larger conflagration between the U.S. and Iran?  

9/15/2007 - Talks with Russia on atom plant row progress:Iran The fuel is ready for Iran's first atomic power plant being built by Russia and talks with Moscow to resolve a dispute that has held up work are moving forward, Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday.  

9/15/2007 - Was Israeli raid a dry run for attack on Iran? ** The opaqueness surrounding the nature of what may have been hit in Operation Orchard has been compounded by claims that US knowledge over the alleged 'agricultural site' has come not from its own intelligence and satellite imaging, but from material supplied to Washington from Tel Aviv over the last six months, material that has been restricted to just a few senior officials under the instructions of national security adviser Stephen Hadley, leaving many in the intelligence community uncertain of its veracity. Red flag.

9/15/2007 - Bush administration dogged by NKorea-Syria nuclear links The reports, citing unnamed sources, were based on intelligence information supposedly from Israel's flyover and apparent raid last week on targets inside Syria. There's your problem right there.

9/15/2007 - Long Division The brewing confrontation with Iran isn?t just about nukes or neoconservative ambition. It?s about regional hegemony.  

9/15/2007 - Syria won't go to war with Israel, Kassem says    

9/15/2007 - Giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages Daniel Pipes?who, as I first reported here, has signed on as a foreign policy advisor to Rudy Giuliani?s campaign?essentially argued for war crimes against Palestinians, and there was no cry of protest from the media or anywhere else.  

9/15/2007 - Lebanon seizes fugitive militants Lebanon's military says it has captured four Islamist militants two weeks after the army stormed a Palestinian refugee camp, ending a bloody 105-day siege.  

9/15/2007 - Palestinians in Lebanon are haunted by history 'Sep 16 marks a black day for us Palestinians in Lebanon. It is today 25 years, but we still live in fear that something like this massacre will take place again after the recent clashes in north Lebanon,' he said.  



9/14/2007 - Stopping the next war by Patrick J. Buchanan ** As for the "cakewalk" crowd that accused opponents of the war of lacking in patriotism, they never repented of their demagoguery. Despite the pre-invasion propaganda they pumped out about Saddam's awesome weapons and ties to 9/11, or their assurances that U.S. troops would be welcomed with candy and flowers, like Paris in '44, and their prediction that a democracy would arise in Iraq to which Islamic nations would look as a model, they have never been called to account. Now they are back with a new enemy for America to attack.  

9/14/2007 - Franco-German split emerges on Iran sanctions "Germany is ready, if necessary, to take the necessary steps against Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said. But as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Germany was also open to "giving Iran a chance to recover the international community's lost confidence in its nuclear program," Jaeger said at a regular news conference.  

9/14/2007 - Iranian supreme leader slams Bush Speaking at Friday prayers, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he was sure President Bush would be tried in an international court for what had happened in Iraq.  

9/14/2007 - Rice says U.S. needs to keep Iraq safe from Iran The United States wants to ensure Iraq's territorial integrity, including from "very troublesome neighbors" like Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday. Talk about spin.

9/14/2007 - War Against Iran and the Logic of Dominance ** Tom Donnelly was the main author of the neoconservative September 2000 blueprint for military policy in the Bush administration, "Rebuilding America's Defenses" which involved four prominent figures on the neoconservative right who would take prominent positions in the administration: Libby, Wolfowitz, Stephen A. Cambone, and John Bolton.  

9/14/2007 - Dollar's retreat raises fear of collapse    

9/14/2007 - Powell shares advice with students "People around the world know the Declaration of Independence better than we do," he said, "and they keep looking to America to see that we haven't turned away from those words."  

9/14/2007 - U.S.: Syria on Nuclear Watch List **   Thus will Syria be added to the US's hitlist based on dubious Israeli intel. Syria will get whacked when we hit Iran.

9/14/2007 - Articles of faith "We were surprised by how nasty it got," says the Harvard professor. "The David Duke reference, the neo-Nazi websites - these were intended to smear us and swing attention on to us rather than to what we were saying. It wasn't pleasant, but it never made me doubt what we had written or doubt myself." Standing tall in the face of attack is one thing; to raise your head above the parapet for a second round is quite another. But that is what the Mearsheimer/Walt double act are doing: they have gone on the offensive with the publication of a book-length version of their original treatise. "When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier" - Gandhi

9/14/2007 - UNHCR lays on free meals for Iraqi refugees during Ramadan "It is so good to see this large number of people gathered to share food. We are all brothers ? Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi, and we all help each other. Solidarity is our strength, our tradition. When Iraqis eat this meal at home, it is with a message that we welcome and support them,"  

9/14/2007 - US claims Hezbollah still smuggling arms through Syria    

9/14/2007 - Mystery deepens over Israeli strike on Syria Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported this week a US official as saying that recent satellite imagery, mainly provided by Israel, suggested that Syria may building some form of nuclear facility with the help of material unloaded by North Korea. The operative words here being "provided by Israel".

9/14/2007 - China emerges as leader in cyberwarfare an expert with the SANS Technology Institute, pointing to Israeli hacks against the US, and French hacks against European Union partners  

9/14/2007 - The Israel Lobby: Mearsheimer & Walt on Tour    

9/14/2007 - Syria denies U.S. media reports on Israeli warplanes attack    



9/13/2007 - Pentagon Censors 9/11 Suspect's Tape "It was determined that the release of this portion of the spoken words of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would enable enemies of the United States to use it in a way to recruit or encourage future terrorists or terrorist activities," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. "This could ultimately endanger the lives and physical safety of American citizens and those of our allies." In a word, bullshit. This was censored to prevent Americans from learning the real reason why these terrorists attacked us on 9/11.

9/13/2007 - China welcomes Iran-IAEA nuclear plan    

9/13/2007 - INTERVIEW-US says talk of strike against Iran is nonsense ** The State Department's Iraq coordinator said on Thursday that Washington is studying how to push back against Iran over its atomic program and its actions in Iraq, but dismissed talk of military action as nonsense.  

9/13/2007 - West puts Iran in dock at U.N. rights forum    

9/13/2007 - Ron Paul tells Bill O'Reilly US policy, not Iran, is the real problem "This has been the plan by the neoconservatives, to have this major overhaul, this revamping of the whole Middle East -- precisely the reason the al Qaeda is growing. ... Our national security is threatened because of our policy." Though they berate and ridicule him every chance they get, the mainstream media is grudgingly giving Ron Paul some airtime. Ron Paul is a true candidate of the people - putting the genuine interests of the American PEOPLE above all else. He is the only one that I would vote for.

9/13/2007 - BADIL Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2006 ? 2007 Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) are the largest and longest-standing unresolved case of refugees and displaced persons in the world. In 2006-2007, there were appoximately 7 million Palestinian refugees and 450,000 internally displaced Palestinians representing 70 percent of the entire Palestinian population worldwide (10.1 million  

9/13/2007 - Russian envoy describes ties with Syria as "very good" On the Palestinian issue, Sultanov said he discussed with the Syrian leaders means to accomplish the basic aim in this regard, which is establishing a Palestinian state.  

9/13/2007 - Ron Paul for President 2.0?    

9/13/2007 - Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak? ** Consequently, there is considerable circumstantial evidence to argue that the nuclear armed B-52 was part of an apparent covert operation, outside the regular chain of constitutional military command. The alleged authority responsible for this was Vice President Cheney. He very likely used the Secret Service to take charge of a contrived National Special Security Event involving a nuclear armed B-52 that would be flown from Minot AFB. The B-52 was directed to Barksdale Air Force base where it would have conducted a covert mission to the Middle East involving the detonation of one or more nuclear weapons most likely in or in the vicinity of Iran. This could either have occurred during a conventional military strike against Iran, or a False Flag operation in the Persian Gulf region. Or the leak may have been psyops aimed at Iran in order to further their cooperation with the nuclear inspections.

9/13/2007 - Hit and Myth: Poll Shows 1 in 3 Americans Still Believe Saddam Involved in 9/11    

9/13/2007 - Israel urgers tougher sanctions on Iran    

9/13/2007 - Paul Poses Serious Threat to Hillary Clinton in a General Election Match up Ron Paul sets himself apart from other Republicans by being decidedly antiwar. In a general election this may actually put Paul at a decided advantage over Hillary Clinton and most of her Democratic rivals. Paul will likely steal the thunder from Clinton?s antiwar rhetoric since he voted against the Iraq war that Hillary Clinton voted for.  

9/13/2007 - Turkish intelligence assisted IDF in attack on Syria ? report Turkish intelligence provided Israel with information on the Syrian targets allegedly attacked by the Air Force last week without the Turkish government's authorization, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jareeda reported Thursday  

9/13/2007 - Chile accepts 100 Palestinian refugees displaced from Iraq    

9/13/2007 - Antiwar March in DC Saturday - Ron Paul Supporters Contact Info    

9/13/2007 - Two Cheers for Putin Let?s take it from the top. When communism collapsed, a few smart crooks?now they go by the name oligarchs?grabbed most of the state assets and moved their ill gotten gains to Britain and Israel, where they laundered their billions by buying football teams, palaces, yachts, planes and what have you. (Ninety percent of the oligarchs are Jewish). They charge that Putin has appealed to voters through tacit anti-Semitism. This is a blatantly false accusation, but it plays well among the neocon crowd  



9/12/2007 - 2 soldiers who wrote op-ed died in Iraq Two sergeants who helped write a New York Times op-ed article sharply critical of the Pentagon's assessment of the Iraq war were killed in a Baghdad crash this week, and one grieving mother wants the Army to explain their deaths.  

9/12/2007 - EU and U.S.: Iran's IAEA deal may be recipe for delay    

9/12/2007 - Iran warns nuclear cooperation at risk if sanctions Iran warned on Wednesday that its policy of increased cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog would be at risk if a third set of UN sanctions were imposed on the Islamic republic.  

9/12/2007 - Iranian FM, Russian nuclear chief hold talks on Bushehr    

9/12/2007 - U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan ** A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday. Thus does the neocon-led administration attempt to extort European support for more Iran sanctions.

9/12/2007 - Iran dismisses US Iraq report and wants serious talks Iran on Wednesday dismissed the latest US strategy report on Iraq as "unrealistic" and warned it would not take part in future talks on Iraqi security unless Washington was serious.  

9/12/2007 - US accuses Iran over Iraq attacks US President George W Bush is due to address the nation on Thursday evening.  

9/12/2007 - Brown faces domestic pressure over 'proxy war' ** Gordon Brown faces anger over the deployment of UK troops to Iraq's border with Iran and warnings that the strategy could drag Britain into confrontation with Tehran.  

9/12/2007 - U.S. urges Iran to cooperate with probe The U.S. urged Iran on Monday to cooperate with a probe into past suspicious nuclear activities but said even full compliance would not be enough to ease international concerns over Tehran's possession of bomb-making technology.  

9/12/2007 - Powers to hold Iran nuclear talks    

9/12/2007 - GOP's Ron Paul wants all troops home "We should only send U.S. forces abroad when our security is directly threatened. Right now, nobody threatens our national security."  

9/12/2007 - Baghdad residents protest at wall Many Iraqis reacted angrily in April when US troops began building a barrier around the Baghdad Sunni enclave of Adhamiya to prevent it being attacked by Shia militants.  

9/12/2007 - Oil hits record on supply fears Oil prices have risen above $80 a barrel for the first time, a day after Opec moved to boost its output of crude in an effort to ease cost pressures.  

9/12/2007 - Daily Telegraph: US Officers Have Regular Meetings with PKK Terrorists    

9/12/2007 - Surging Toward Iran ** A proxy war is being fought in Iraq, but it isn't one pitting the Iranians against the Iraqis: the U.S. is the proxy, fighting on behalf of Israel against Iran and Syria.  

9/12/2007 - Chertoff: We're Preparing for Nuclear Attack    

9/12/2007 - Kurds Launch Secret War In Iran    

9/12/2007 - US Govt mislead Americans over Sept 11 attacks: Castro    

9/12/2007 - UN experts enter Lebanon battle camp The group visited Nahr al-Bared refugee camp to assess damage to buildings of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) inside the shantytown still off-limits to civilians and the media, Hoda Samra said.  

9/12/2007 - Advocacy Corner the Jewish Policy Center has organized a panel of experts -- including Daniel Pipes, Cliff May and David Horowitz, and moderated by radio commentator Michael Medved -- to address "The Fight Against Radical Islam and the New Anti-Semitism on Campus." The event will take place at 7 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El in Wynnewood.  

9/12/2007 - Israel, China form strategic forum    

9/12/2007 - Remembering Sabra and Shatila We might have accepted evidence of a few murders; even dozens of bodies, killed in the heat of combat. Bur there were women lying in houses with their skirts torn torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart, children with their throats cut, rows of young men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall. There were babies - blackened babies babies because they had been slaughtered more than 24-hours earlier and their small bodies were already in a state of decomposition - tossed into rubbish heaps alongside discarded US army ration tins, Israeli army equipment and empty bottles of whiskey. ......When is a massacre not a massacre? When the figures are too low? Or when the massacre is carried out by Israel?s friends rather than Israel's enemies?  

9/12/2007 - The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla I am sorry to report that today in Lebanon, the families of the victims of the Massacre daily sink deeper into the abyss. No where on earth do the Palestinians live in such filth and squalor. ?Worse than Gaza!? a journalist recently in Palestine exclaims.  

9/12/2007 - AIPAC lobbies for Iran sanctions About 100 top AIPAC activists lobbied Congress to pass Iran sanctions bills.  

9/12/2007 - Israel keeps up blackout on mystery Syria air strike    

9/12/2007 - Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by North Korea, Israeli Arab newspaper claims target of alleged raid last week was Syrian missile base financed by Iran Suurrre.

9/12/2007 - Whose Human Rights Matter? NYT on Hezbollah and Israeli Attacks On Civilians The Times' news judgment also fails to reflect the civilian death toll on each side. Human Rights Watch estimated that Israel killed about 900 Lebanese civilians, out of about 1,200 total Lebanese deaths, while Hezbollah killed 43 Israeli civilians along with about 80 Israeli military personnel. It is difficult, then, to avoid the conclusion that Israeli lives are considered significantly more important by the Times than Lebanese lives.  

9/12/2007 - U.S. officials confirm Israel strike on Syria "They saw a weapons flow," one official said, referring to weapons caches intended for Hezbollah, which fired thousands of rockets into Israel during a 36-day conflict last year.  



9/11/2007 - Thousands of GIs cope with brain damage The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers.  

9/11/2007 - Report: VA distorts record on wait times The Department of Veterans Affairs repeatedly understated wait times for injured veterans seeking medical care and in many serious cases forced them to wait more than 30 days, counter to department policy, an internal investigation shows.  

9/11/2007 - New York - and Bin Laden - remember 9/11    

9/11/2007 - The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border ** British forces have been sent from Basra to the volatile border with Iran amid warnings from the senior US commander in Iraq that Tehran is fomenting a "proxy war". In signs of a fast-developing confrontation, the Iranians have threatened military action in response to attacks launched from Iraqi territory while the Pentagon has announced the building of a US base and fortified checkpoints at the frontier.  

9/11/2007 - UN nuclear chief walks out on EU speech on Iran: diplomats UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei walked out on an afternoon session Tuesday of his IAEA to protest an EU speech which did not fully support his deal for new inspections in Iran, diplomats told AFP.  

9/11/2007 - Iran warns over 'US weak points' in Iraq, Afghanistan The new head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the United States Tuesday that Tehran has identified its "weak points" in Iraq and Afghanistan and would launch a crushing response to any attack.  

9/11/2007 - New bin Laden video shows 9/11 hijacker A new Osama bin Laden videotape released today on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks shows one of the suicide hijackers speaking his last will and testament into the camera as his image is superimposed upon an image of a burning World Trade Centre.  

9/11/2007 - Reports Iranian arms reaching Taliban worry U.S. The United States is concerned over reports that Iranian-made weapons are crossing the Afghan border and reaching Islamist Taliban insurgents, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.  

9/11/2007 - Iranian Raises Possibility of an Intrusion Into Iraq In a sharp escalation of a dispute over border fighting, an official Iranian delegation at a diplomatic conference here warned Sunday that if the Iraqi government could not stop militants from crossing into Iran and carrying out attacks, the Iranian authorities would respond militarily.  

9/11/2007 - Lieberman blames Iran for Iraq attacks, asks if invasion should be authorized ** Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, who is among the Senate's fiercest hawks, blamed Iran for the deaths of "hundreds of American troops," and claimed the US has evidence that Iran is training insurgents outside Tehran before sending them to Iraq. He asked whether the US should expand its invasion into Iran.  

9/11/2007 - Russia tests superstrength bomb, military says    

9/11/2007 - Bush 'to announce Iraq troop cut' President George W Bush will this week announce he plans to reduce US troops in Iraq by about 30,000 by next summer  

9/11/2007 - US general's plan means 10 more years of war: Democrats    

9/11/2007 - Rally to protest Ahmadinejad visit    

9/11/2007 - Retreat of the anti-war Democrats by Patrick J. Buchanan    

9/11/2007 - Opec agrees to raise oil output    

9/11/2007 - Anti-Iran hype reaches fever pitch ** With strong links to US Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the White House, Washington-based AEI has, since the attacks of September 11, 2001, enjoyed unparalleled influence in shaping US interventionist policy in the Middle East. The think-tank helped lead the drive to war in Iraq, and more recently has assumed a prominent role in rallying for regime change in Iran. These neocons are the biggest threat to this nation.

9/11/2007 - The Mystery of al-Qaeda Perhaps bin Laden knows whereof he speaks when he raises the overlapping interests of the neocons and the world's most wanted terrorists. This odd parallelism was noted in a BBC documentary made a couple of years ago, The Power of Nightmares, and bin Laden himself adds a whole new dimension to this in his recent video. He is, it seems, quite aware of his ideological doppelgängers and their power in the U.S  

9/11/2007 - 9-11, Six Years Later   Contrary to popular belief, we were not attacked because of our freedoms, because we're 'infidels' or because of our lifestyle/clothing. Our unconditional support of Israel's policies against the Palestinians was the primary motivation behind the attacks of September 11.

9/11/2007 - Israel tried to attack ground targets in Syria, says Bishara "This could also have been an attempt to expose a breach in Syrian radar, allowing somehow to make way to Iran. This, of course, was impossible without Turkey's cooperation which the Israelis didn't seem to have. Either that or Turkey was flustered when IAF fuel tanks were found in its territory, prompting it to ask for an official explanation.  

9/11/2007 - Wife of Islamist chief in Lebanon insists he is dead The wife of Fatah al-Islam chief Shaker al-Abssi insisted on Tuesday that her husband is dead and that a body she viewed at a morgue was his, despite DNA tests that have proved otherwise.  

9/11/2007 - Henry Kissinger: Realist, or Neocon? by Philip Giraldi One of the most disturbing attributes of the neoconservatives is their willingness to subordinate the United States' national interests to those of Israel. To be sure, the attempt is frequently made to demonstrate that the two nations' interests are identical, but a careful analysis of the impact of Israel's domestic and foreign policies can only conclude that the relationship has been detrimental to the United States.  

9/11/2007 - Chile and Brazil to receive Palestinian refugees UNHCR welcomes a decision by the Chilean government to receive 100 Palestinian refugees who had been living in Iraq, and who have been forced to live in destitute conditions on Iraq's borders over the past few years.  

9/11/2007 - Syria struggles with Iraqi influx what the United Nations calls the biggest refugee crisis in Middle East since the flight of the Palestinians is still getting little attention from the outside world. Western (including Israeli) policies have made millions of Arabs refugees.

9/11/2007 - Syria visas 'halt fleeing Iraqis'    

9/11/2007 - Jimmy Carter steps into the Hollywood spotlight Taking part in the film festival's first geo-political talk, taped for television, Carter called for Washington to hold "direct talks" with Iran, laid out his vision for Mideast peace and lamented the "unwarranted and unprecedented" religious fundamentalism that has crept into US politics. In a stinging attack on US President George W. Bush and his Christian supporters, he said: "I worship Christ who was the prince of peace, not pre-emptive war."  

9/11/2007 - U.S. Supports Israel Because Of Americans, Not Lobby   The Lobby is crying long and hard over the new book by Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt.

9/11/2007 - US says Israel jets struck Syria ** Israeli jets carried out an air strike in Syria last week, a US defence official has said. Dry run.

9/11/2007 - Syria complains to U.N. Syria filed a complaint with the United Nations over Israel's apparent violation of its airspace.  

9/11/2007 - CNN: U.S. pleased by Israel's Syria flyover The United States reportedly is pleased by Israel's alleged incursion of Syria last week.  

9/11/2007 - Obama: Walt-Mearsheimer 'dead wrong' "Although Mr. Obama had not read the book, he was familiar with its arguments and disagreed with them," a statement from the campaign said, referring to the book "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University. What an utter ass-kisser.

9/11/2007 - German official downplays Iranian threat ?The key interest of Iran is not destroying Israel,? said Roland Koch, president of the German state of Hesse. ?They want to be a respected member of society.?  

9/11/2007 - 'War was Israeli-Iranian'    

9/11/2007 - Democratic Party Arm Calls Walt & Mearsheimer's Ideas 'Downright Dangerous' According to the JTA (my favorite wire service), the National Jewish Democratic Council has said that Walt and Mearsheimer's ideas are "irresponsible" and "downright dangerous."  

9/11/2007 - Local people against rebuilding of Palestinian refugee camp problems of unexploded ordnance, unsafe buildings and the danger of disease inside the devastated camp will take many months to overcome before reconstruction can even begin, and the government is now facing a growing chorus of anger from local residents such as Rawa Fiyad, who say they do not want to see Nahr al-Bared rebuilt at all.  



9/10/2007 - US plans base on Iraq-Iran border ** The US military is planning to build its first base near Iraq's border with Iran in order to curb the alleged flow of weapons to Shia militants in Iraq.  

9/10/2007 - UN chief: Iran has to meet all demands U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday Iran had to meet Security Council demands to suspend its enrichment programs and not only cooperate with U.N. nuclear inspectors.  

9/10/2007 - Colin Powell: Terrorists are not greatest threat to nation "What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it's terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?"  

9/10/2007 - FBI cast wide net when targeting phone records The Federal Bureau of Investigation used national security letters to request information on the wider ?community of interest? linked to individuals under suspicion, according to the documents.  

9/10/2007 - Rogue Regulator? members of the Cheney Cabal ? in and out of government ? have charged that Iran?s roadmap agreement with ElBaradei is "a transparent attempt to distract from its true intentions and from its continued development of the capabilities to produce a nuclear weapon."  

9/10/2007 - Netanyahu: We can't wait for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons    

9/10/2007 - Life Sentence Urged in Hamas Funding Case Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, who once ran for unsuccessfully for president of the Palestinian Authority while under house arrest in Virginia, was convicted of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice earlier this year following a trial in Chicago.  

9/10/2007 - Lebanon militant 'escaped siege'    

9/10/2007 - Hezbollah could attack US if it felt threatened: spy chief ** "We assess Lebanese Hezbollah, which has conducted anti-US attacks outside the United States in the past, may be more likely to consider attacking the homeland over the next three years if it perceives the United States as posing a direct threat to the group or Iran," Doubtful. Hezbollah only attacked US forces when we were on Lebanese soil, as horrible as that attack was. Hezbollah, like Hamas, is largely a territorial-based organization. I think that this may be an effort to set the stage for the three-pronged US attack on Iran/Syria/Lebanon(South).

9/10/2007 - Donors offer $20m to Palestine refugees International donors have pledged about $20 million to help Palestinian refugees made homeless by a 15-week battle between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants holed up inside their refugee camp.  

9/10/2007 - Why Did Israeli Planes Enter Syria? "There seems to be a consensus here that the Israelis were testing Syrian air defense systems," Andrew Tabler, Damascus-based editor of Syria Today, told TIME.  

9/10/2007 - On two fronts, Israel faces prospect of military escalation In the North, Syria has warned that it will retaliate at a time of its choosing against the alleged Israeli penetration of its airspace on the night between Sept. 5 and 6. In the South, Defense Minister Ehud Barak says a major Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip is "only a matter of time."  

9/10/2007 - Rabbis see Clinton as top Israel backer A plurality of rabbis named Hillary Clinton as the presidential candidate most supportive of Israel.  

9/10/2007 - Turkey demands Israeli answers on flyover Israel agreed to investigate charges that its air force illicitly entered Turkish territory.  

9/10/2007 - Clinton commits on borders, Jerusalem Hillary Clinton committed to an Israel with "defensible borders" and "an undivided Jerusalem as its capital" in her Israel position paper......Clinton also said the United States should "do everything it can to deny nuclear weapons to Iran" and that "no option can be taken off the table."  

9/10/2007 - US aid to Israel clears Senate Moran reportedly told Tikkun Magazine that the pro-Israel lobby pushed for the war in Iraq, saying, "AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning ? because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful - most of them are quite wealthy - they have been able to exert power." Forman called on Moran to retract the "irresponsible" and "dangerous" false statements. Go get 'em, Moran.

9/10/2007 - Syrian paper says U.S. silence over Israeli overflight encourages Jewish state A Syrian government newspaper accused the U.S. on Saturday of encouraging Israel's reported violation of Syrian airspace by remaining silent on the issue.  

9/10/2007 - Israel wants US pension funds to shun Iran-linked firms: Netanyahu Israel is aiming to get powerful US pension funds to sell their holdings in European companies doing business with Iran as a way to pressure Tehran over its nuclear programme, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.  

9/10/2007 - Norway gives 1.46 million dollars to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Norway said Monday it would give 10 million kroner (1.26 million euros, 1.46 million dollars) to help Palestinian refugees who have fled a camp destroyed by fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamists.  



9/9/2007 - Iran's nuclear foes 'racing to hell': Ahmadinejad "The Iranian people have climbed over difficult mountain passes on their path of progress. The enemies need to step aside from our path and give up their satanic ideas," he said, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency  

9/9/2007 - Iran rejects 'impossible' nuclear suspension Iran's top nuclear negotiator says it is "impossible" for Tehran to yield to the key Western demand over its nuclear program, even if the UN Security Council imposes further sanctions.  

9/9/2007 - U.S. sees potential merit to Iran cooperation plan The United States said on Friday there was potential merit to Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher U.N. sanctions.  

9/9/2007 - Iran says seeking clues over missing American Iran said on Sunday it was seeking clues over the fate of a US former FBI agent who reportedly disappeared while visiting the Islamic republic six months ago.  

9/9/2007 - Bin Laden: We're no Nazis In his latest video, the al-Qaida leader cites Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, who wrote of the terrorist threat in 2004: "There is no middle way for Americans: It is victory or holocaust." Bin Laden called this "unjust" and said in his video released last week and addressed to Americans, "The morality and culture of the Holocaust is your culture, not our culture  

9/9/2007 - Iran, Russia still talking on nuclear plant completion    

9/9/2007 - Iraq chides 'meddling' neighbours The US has accused Syria and Iran of failing to stop the infiltration of militants or arming them.  

9/9/2007 - US says wargames not aimed at China, Iran A top US navy commander involved in Indian Ocean wargames said Friday the exercises were not aimed at sending a message to either China or Iran.  

9/9/2007 - Lieberman Rejects New Democratic Compromise on Iraq Senator Joseph Lieberman opposed a compromise measure suggested by top Senate Democrats that would mandate a starting date for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq while imposing no deadline for completing the pullout.  

9/9/2007 - No missile deal for Putin, Bush US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin showed no sign of progress after talks in Sydney today to defuse tensions over US missile defence plans that have angered Moscow.  

9/9/2007 - Iran accuses US of supporting rebel groups    

9/9/2007 - Israeli minister accuses Syria of encouraging terror An Israeli minister accused Damascus of "encouraging terrorism" on Sunday, three days after Syria said Israeli warplanes violated its airspace. Just who is terrorizing whom?

9/9/2007 - Neocons Put on a Surge-Stravaganza On Thursday, the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) ? which has generally supported the George W. Bush administration's decisions in Iraq ? put on a marathon three-and-a-half hour series of panel discussions to promote AEI resident scholar Frederick Kagan's new report, "No Middle Way: The Challenge of Exit Strategies From Iraq."  

9/9/2007 - 'A Traditional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy': Ron Paul at Johns Hopkins The prestigious Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., has invited Ron Paul to make a keynote policy address on September 11.  

9/9/2007 - Syria threatens Israel over sortie Syria hinted at imminent retaliation for an alleged Israeli violation of its airspace.  

9/9/2007 - Army: Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese air space    

9/9/2007 - It?s Lobbying, But Is It Really Pro-Israel?    

9/9/2007 - Will the US Really Bomb Iran? ** Israel wants an attack on Iran, and the Israel lobby calls the shots in US foreign policy. What Israel wants, Israel gets.  

9/9/2007 - Young Democrats, Republicans agree on two things: Israel and drink specials Calls for a proactive approach against a nuclear Iran was a common theme at the conference. AIPAC listed Iran mobilization as one of its fall 2007 campus initiatives, encouraging students to emphasize to their peers what a nuclear Iran means for the Middle East and the world.  

9/9/2007 - 'US needs face-to-face talks with Iran' The former NATO commander said he was intimately aware of Israel's security needs, an awareness gained through frequent visits.  

9/9/2007 - Domestic terror linked to our Mideast policies The hostility that leads to terrorism is not a product of personal difficulties in which individual Muslims may find themselves. It is more plausibly explained as a response to our own policies in the Middle East ? what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what we have done over the years on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That hostility is widely shared through the Middle East and leads some to resort to violence.  

9/9/2007 - Poisoned by war, Lebanon reaps meagre harvest "Look at this field, Israeli planes dropped 30 bombs on it," said the elderly man. "Seventy years of work destroyed.".....This year, the family was forced to abandon part of its land because of the cluster bombs dropped by the Israelis, which spread more than a million bomblets  

9/9/2007 - Va. congressman accuses AIPAC on Iraq "AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning," U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said in this month's Tikkun magazine. "Because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -- most of them are quite wealthy -- they have been able to exert power."  



9/8/2007 - Officials: Sen. Hagel will not run again The officials also said Hagel does not plan to run for the White House in 2008, despite earlier flirting with a candidacy. Bummer. Hagel is one of the good guys.

9/8/2007 - Outside View: A Sept. rollout for Iran war ** On Sept. 10 the American Enterprise Institute, a sort of neoconservative administration-in-waiting, will debut the newest book by its ?Freedom Scholar? Michael Ledeen, one of the foremost proponents of the military adventure in Iraq. Titled ?The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots? Quest for Destruction,? it is a rehash of neocon arguments for ?regime change? -- by military force, if necessary -- in Tehran.  

9/8/2007 - EU ministers duck Iran nuclear issue for now The United States has begun to signal impatience with the Europeans' patience with Iran.  

9/8/2007 - Bin Laden video 'may signal new attacks' Osama bin Laden's latest video message makes no specific threats, but security analysts warn that it may be a signal for new Al Qaeda attacks.  

9/8/2007 - Iran rejects U.S. ruling on 1983 attack Iran on Saturday rejected a U.S. federal judge's ruling that the Islamic Republic must pay $2.65 billion to the families of the 241 U.S. service members killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.  

9/8/2007 - Spy Satellites Turned on the U.S.   Let's all collectively moon them.

9/8/2007 - US troop numbers in Iraq at all-time high US force levels in Iraq had grown to an all-time high of 168,000 troops, a senior Pentagon official said today as the US administration geared up to defend its surge strategy before Congress.  

9/8/2007 - Iran Nuke Moves Hint at Interest in Deal    

9/8/2007 - Rafsanjani urges talks with West The former President of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani, has called on the West to engage in talks on the nuclear issue.  

9/8/2007 - German suspects had deadline for attacks: report    

9/8/2007 - It's Iran we're fighting, says Basra commander British forces in southern Iraq have been fighting a "proxy war" against Iran, the commander of the troops who withdrew from Basra Palace has said.  

9/8/2007 - Israeli Jets Run Iran Attack Drill ** Israeli warplanes may have been testing air routes for a possible attack against Iran when they were fired on by Syrian forces, experts said yesterday. Israeli psyops.

9/8/2007 - Ron Versus the Huckster By the way, thanks to Fox News for their brazen hostility to Paul, which blew right back in their faces. The refusal to even acknowledge him until a good twenty minutes into the debate, and Chris Wallace's consistently sneering tone when a question finally came Paul's way, didn't stop the Texas troublemaker from stealing the show anyway.  

9/8/2007 - National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation    

9/8/2007 - Turkey quizzes Israel on warplane fuel tanks Turkey has asked Israel for clarification after finding two fuel tanks on its territory near the Syrian border allegedly belonging to Israeli warplanes, a diplomatic source said on Saturday.  

9/8/2007 - Lebanon tensions rise as siege ends most Lebanese see the fight in Nahr al-Bared as a betrayal of support for Palestinian rights and expect the long-simmering tensions to reignite.  

9/8/2007 - Donors to meet on rebuilding of destroyed Lebanon camp Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is to chair a meeting of donors on Monday for the reconstruction of a Palestinian refugee camp destroyed in 15 weeks of battle between the Lebanese army and Islamists.  



9/7/2007 - UN nuclear inspection deal with Iran is necessary: ElBaradei The UN atomic agency's deal for inspections in Iran is necessary in trying to defuse a confrontation that could lead to war, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Friday while answering critics of the plan.  

9/7/2007 - US strikes in Baghdad kill 14 civilians: officials    

9/7/2007 - U.N. nuclear head urges Western patience on Iran plan ** "We don't see based on evidence we have that (Iran poses) a clear and present danger requiring you to go beyond diplomacy," he said, alluding to military action mooted by U.S. hardliners. "I see war drums (being beaten) by those basically saying the short solution is to bomb Iran, which makes me shudder because the rhetoric reminds me of pre-Iraq war," he said.  

9/7/2007 - NATO head urges closer ties with Russia NATO called for closer ties with Russia on Friday, a day after British warplanes scrambled to intercept Russian bombers on patrol, and said it was up to the Kremlin to spell out whether it had a "different view."  

9/7/2007 - Bin Laden says US should convert The speaker makes no overt threats to the US and did not directly call for attacks, according to transcripts of the tape obtained by several media organisations in the United States.  

9/7/2007 - Bin Laden reportedly to release tape by Sept. 11   Uhh, did you happen to notice in the pictures there that Bin Laden's beard is now totally lacking grey hair? Did they give him some 'Just for Men' out there in Pakistan? WTF is up with that? Odd.

9/7/2007 - US reaffirms commitment to catching bin Laden   6 years later.

9/7/2007 - DHS Ends Criticized Data-Mining Program The Homeland Security Department scrapped an ambitious anti-terrorism data-mining tool after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without required privacy safeguards.  

9/7/2007 - A Real Old-Fashioned Debate REP. PAUL: The American people didn?t go in. A few people advising this administration, a small number of people called the neoconservative hijacked our foreign policy. They?re responsible, not the American people. They?re not responsible. We shouldn?t punish them. (Cheers, applause.)  

9/7/2007 - Iran: Israel will be responsible for escalation in region Tehran's ambassador to Damascus says violation of Syrian airspace by Israeli aircraft is 'intolerable attempt to create tension in the region'. He adds that 'Israel must act reasonably and not cause another war'. Syrian vice president: Israel proves it does not want peace  

9/7/2007 - Russia calls on Israel to honor int'l law The country expressed "exteme concern" in the wake of Syrian claims that its military fired on an Israel Air Force warplane that had entered its airspace and "dropped munitions."  

9/7/2007 - Iran faces $2.65bn US bomb award A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $2.65bn (£1.3bn) to the families of 241 marines killed in a 1983 bombing of their Beirut barracks.  

9/7/2007 - Video shows Bin Laden 'in false beard' "It does look oddly as if he is wearing a false beard," Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorism official, said. "If we go back to the tape three years ago, he had a very white beard. This looks like a phoney beard that has been passed on." Ok, glad I wasn't the only one that caught that.

9/7/2007 - US markets slump amid job losses US stocks have fallen sharply in response to news that American employers shed 4,000 jobs last month. Let's attack Iran. While we're at it, let's give Israel another 30 billion. Brilliant!

9/7/2007 - Syria-Israel bombing incident shrouded in mystery "This is the beginning of a Syrian-Israeli conflict," said Sateh Noureddine, columnist with Lebanese newspaper as-Safir. He saw it as a follow-on from Israel's war in Lebanon a year ago.  

9/7/2007 - Senate passes bill on cluster bomb use The U.S. Senate has moved to restrict the sale or transfer of U.S. cluster bombs, the munitions blamed for the deaths of Lebanese civilians in a conflict with Israel last summer.  

9/7/2007 - Lebanese army kills militant near battle camp    

9/7/2007 - AL chief says alleged Israeli violation of Syrian airspace "unacceptable"    

9/7/2007 - U.S. may cut off aid to UN rights group Since its creation last year, the council has only criticized one country ? Israel, for its military actions in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon  

9/7/2007 - Muslim groups want off of indictment Muslim groups asked to be removed as unindicted co-conspirators in the U.S. case against the Holy Land Foundation.  

9/7/2007 - Senate approves aid package The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a foreign aid package that included $2.4 billion in military assistance to Israel.  

9/7/2007 - New twist to Syria-Israel tension That it apparently happened in the country's north, close to the Turkish border - and not in the south, where Syria and Israel share a border - has taken many people here by surprise.  

9/7/2007 - In aftermath of Nahr al-Bared battle, Palestinian refugees despair over ruined lives    

9/7/2007 - Syria and Iran: The Threats That Aren't by Michael Scheuer our Israeli friends and their Israel-first American supporters have long harped on the idea ? and thereby have misled Americans ? that Syria is a military threat to the United States..... the threat to the United States comes from two sources. First, the relentless "Iran is the new Nazi Germany" propaganda pushed by Israel and the American citizen Israel-firsters, and, second, the multi-decade failure of the U.S. Congress to seriously address the national-security issues of energy, borders, and immigration. Michael Scheuer - former CIA counterterrorism official.

9/7/2007 - UN cartographer to plot disputed Shaba Farms' border boundaries    

9/7/2007 - The Occupation Within    

9/7/2007 - Kucinich tours south Lebanon Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) toured areas of south Lebanon marked by Israeli cluster bombs that fell in last year's war. ....The candidate, who met with Lebanese and Syrian leaders during his trip this week, also called for a more "even-handed" U.S. approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  



9/6/2007 - Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act A federal judge struck down a key part of the USA Patriot Act on Thursday in a ruling that defended the need for judicial oversight of laws and bashed Congress for passing a law that makes possible "far-reaching invasions of liberty." 'They that would trade liberty for security deserve neither'

9/6/2007 - Salon: Former CIA officers report Bush 'didn't give a fuck about intelligence' Months before the Iraq invasion, President Bush apparently ignored a 2002 Oval Office briefing in which CIA director George Tenet provided the president with intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, according to former Clinton advisor and Salon columnist Sidney Blumenthal.  

9/6/2007 - Russian Leader Calls For Urgent Delivery Of Anti-aircraft Missile Systems To Iran **    

9/6/2007 - US strikes in Baghdad kill 14 sleeping civilians: residents    

9/6/2007 - US report calls for troop cuts in Iraq The US military should cut its presence in Iraq to look less like an "occupying force" but Congress should not impose a withdrawal deadline, a new report on the unpopular war said Thursday.  

9/6/2007 - U.S. Staging Nukes for Iran? ** Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can?t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?.....Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? Sounds like a case of American psyops on Iran.

9/6/2007 - US more eager than Europe for military strikes on Iran: survey ** Far more Americans than Europeans believe that military force could prove necessary against Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Islamic state's nuclear drive, a major opinion poll said Thursday. That's because we are being prepped for an attack on Iran.

9/6/2007 - Iran says Russia committed to finishing nuclear plant Iran said on Thursday that Russia remains committed to completing construction of its first nuclear power plant, despite strings of delays and setbacks, state media reported.  

9/6/2007 - A New Hampshire mom walks her talk for Ron Paul    

9/6/2007 - Most yanks say Bush 'too eager' on Iraq NEARLY two-thirds of Americans feel President George W. Bush was too eager to wage war in Iraq and is handling the conflict there badly, a poll released today suggested.  

9/6/2007 - Most people 'want Iraq pull-out' Most people across the world believe US-led forces should withdraw from Iraq within a year, a BBC poll suggests.  

9/6/2007 - Oil price up on US supply slump    

9/6/2007 - Ron Paul wins 'text messaging vote' at Fox News debate    

9/6/2007 - Russia-US talks on missile defence set for Paris Russian and US diplomats will meet in Paris on Monday to discuss Washington's plans for an anti-missile defence system in central Europe, a Russian foreign ministry official told AFP Thursday.  

9/6/2007 - Syrian fire at Israeli aircraft ratchets up tensions, fears Alon Ben-David, Israel analyst for Jane's Defence Weekly, a United Kingdom-based defense magazine, suggested that Thursday's incident might have occurred when a routine Israeli surveillance flight over Syria encountered an unexpected sophisticated radar system.  

9/6/2007 - Syria Says Israel Bombs Territory Another Syrian official said: ?They dropped bombs on an empty area while our air defenses were firing heavily at them.?  

9/6/2007 - Republicans, Paul Clash Over Iraq War We should take our marching orders from our Constitution,'' Paul shouted back, pointing his pen at Wallace for emphasis. ''We should not go to war without a declaration'' by Congress.  

9/6/2007 - Israel censured over Lebanese civilian toll In a scathing report issued Thursday, the New York-based watchdog said its investigators had determined that Israeli air force and artillery shelling caused most of some 900 Lebanese civilian deaths during the July-August conflict. It rejected Israel's argument that Hezbollah invited the heavy toll by operating among non-combatants and thus turning them into "human shields".  

9/6/2007 - Lebanese army kills two militants near battle camp Lebanese soldiers killed two Fatah al-Islam militants and captured seven near a bombed-out refugee camp on Thursday, as they hunted down other Islamists on the run, an army source said.  

9/6/2007 - Israel Urged to Prepare for Iranian Nuclear Attack Former Israeli Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit said the big question facing Israeli intelligence and other Western intelligence agencies is whether Iran would use nuclear weapons if it acquires them. Nevertheless, he said, Israel must be prepared, although he did not offer specifics on what kind of preparations Israel should take.  

9/6/2007 - Wiesenthal Center pushes Web battle on Hill The presentation on Capitol Hill Wednesday was sponsored by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), its ranking member.  

9/6/2007 - Pentagon praises Israeli arms controls Pentagon official Beth McCormick said Wednesday that Israeli defense officials, after suffering several spats with U.S. counterparts over attempted arms deals with China in recent years, have satisfactorily tightened up export policies.  

9/6/2007 - More Money for Israel? They're richer than ever, and they don't need it ? so why are we giving it?  

9/6/2007 - Six Palestinians charged in attack on UN Six Palestinians were charged on Thursday for their alleged role in a roadside bombing against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, the official news agency ANI reported.  

9/6/2007 - BOOKS-US: Outing the "Israel Lobby"    

9/6/2007 - Iraq, Israel, Iran the chief orchestrater of the second neoconservative war of aggression is Elliott Abrams. Convicted for deceptions around Iran-Contra, as Lewis Libby was convicted for deceptions stemming from Iraq--and pardoned by the elder Bush just as Libby had his sentence commuted by the younger--Abrams now presides over the Middle East desk at the National Security Council.  

9/6/2007 - Hizbollah 'did not use civilians as cover' In its strongest condemnation of Israel since last summer's war, Human Rights Watch said yesterday that most Lebanese civilian casualties were caused by "indiscriminate Israeli air strikes".  

9/6/2007 - Israel accused of indiscriminate attacks during Lebanon war Although it found some instances where Hizbullah fired rockets from civilian areas, or mixed with the civilian population it said: "Such violations, however, were not widespread: we found strong evidence that Hizbullah stored most of its rockets in bunkers and weapon storage facilities located in uninhabited fields and valleys, that in the vast majority of cases Hizbullah fighters left populated civilian areas as soon as the fighting started, and that Hizbullah fired the vast majority of its rockets from pre-prepared positions outside villages."  

9/6/2007 - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy official web site    

9/6/2007 - A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters Uncritical American support for its closest Middle East ally has damaged American credibility in the Arab world, encouraged terrorism, stymied the search for a solution to the Palestinian problem, and in every way made America?s international position weaker and more dangerous.  



9/5/2007 - US forces arrest Iranian-linked agent US soldiers have detained a "highly sought individual" suspected of links to senior officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in a predawn raid in Iraq.  

9/5/2007 - Seven Iranian police killed in clash with "bandits" Seven Iranian policemen were killed in an overnight clash with bandits in a western province bordering Iraq, the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.  

9/5/2007 - German police foil plot to unleash 'massive' attack on US military base Germany said yesterday it had arrested three Islamic militants suspected of planning "imminent" and "massive" bomb attacks on Frankfurt's international airport and a nearby US military base, preventing what would have been the most devastating terrorist attack on an American target since 11 September 2001.  

9/5/2007 - B-52 Mistakenly Flies with Nukes Aboard A B-52 bomber mistakenly loaded with five nuclear warheads flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, resulting in an Air Force-wide investigation, according to three officers who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss the incident.  

9/5/2007 - US general, two officers sanctioned in Haditha killings probe A two-star general and two other officers have been censured for failing to promptly investigate the killings of 24 civilians at Haditha, Iraq, but were cleared of a cover-up, the military said.  

9/5/2007 - Surrender Should Not Be an Option By Congressman Ron Paul The neo-cons claim surrender should not be an option. In the same breath they claim we were attacked because of our freedoms. Why then, are they so anxious to surrender our freedoms with legislation like the Patriot Act, a repeal of our 4th amendment rights, executive orders, and presidential signing statements? With politicians like these, who needs terrorists  

9/5/2007 - Bush, Howard defend Iraq war US President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday said they saw progress in Iraq and rejected heavy pressure to set a timetable to bring home troops fighting there.  

9/5/2007 - China denies its military hacked into Pentagon network China denied charges Tuesday that its military had hacked into a Pentagon computer network, the second time in a week that the nation has fended off accusations of cyber-attacks from within its borders.  

9/5/2007 - The case for pragmatic idealism By James A Baker    

9/5/2007 - Pattern Cited in Killings of Civilians by U.S. Newly released documents regarding crimes committed by United States soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.  

9/5/2007 - Iran, Belarus in deal to develop oil field    

9/5/2007 - War Party Pushes California Divestment From Iran AIPAC alerts us to the fact that the California Iran Divestment Bill will be voted on in the next couple days in the State Senate.  

9/5/2007 - When Bush Comes to Iran On my last visit to Tehran I asked Kamran what the United States could do to foster democratic reform in Iran. "Just leave us alone," he said wearily.  

9/5/2007 - Iran to host Palestinian talks The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday that a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates named those expected to attend the Thursday talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

9/5/2007 - Kristol: Another Dishonorable Chicken-hawk Now Mr. Kristol is safe behind his desk and computer calling for another attack against Iran. I think he hears the non-existent cries of the Iranian people to be liberated from their regime.  

9/5/2007 - MIDEAST: Hamas Flag Goes Up in Lebanon Camps many Palestinians here are angry with Fatah and the PLO for failing to protect civilians.  

9/5/2007 - Who Are the Fanatics? Think tanks have well-funded Middle East programs, the purpose of which is to spread Islamophobia. Fear and loathing pour out of the Middle East Forum and the American Enterprise Institute.  

9/5/2007 - Lebanese troops scour refugee battle camp for fugitive fighters Lebanese soldiers are continuing to hunt down fugitive fighters after crushing their Islamist militia in fierce gunbattles that ended a 15-week standoff, military sources said Wednesday.  



9/4/2007 - Britain warns Iran of new UN resolution British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reiterated Tuesday that London will support a new UN resolution against Iran if Tehran does not curb its nuclear programme.  

9/4/2007 - No proof Iran running 3,000 centrifuges: diplomats Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that Iran has 3,000 centrifuges running is not backed up by evidence, diplomats familiar with U.N. inspections said.  

9/4/2007 - Rafsanjani urges Iran to beware of the US "They (the United States) made a big issue of the nuclear issue and they are mobilising public opinion, their Greater Middle East plan is still on the table," Rafsanjani told the opening session of Iran's Assembly of Experts.  

9/4/2007 - Selling War with Iran: Next Week at AEI **   It's getting to the point where we may need to be ultra wary of any new threats that would implicate Iran.

9/4/2007 - Chinese military hacked into Pentagon The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.  

9/4/2007 - War With Iran Looks More Likely **    

9/4/2007 - The next war? ** the Bush administration and Israel are painstakingly fashioning a casus belli with Iran.  

9/4/2007 - Israeli pullout means ceding land to Iran's extensions - Netanyahu    

9/4/2007 - Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal    

9/4/2007 - Iran builds cultural centre for Jews Iran started building a huge new cultural and sports complex for its Jewish minority in central Tehran on Sunday, billing the project as proof of the freedoms enjoyed by its religious minorities.  

9/4/2007 - Mearsheimer, Walt and the Erudite Hysteria of David Remnick Like the tech-bubble and real estate-bubble, Washington?s ?Israel bubble? is unhealthy and dangerous ? in fact, it not only jeopardizes U.S. interests throughout the region and beyond (by serving as Exhibit A for any anti-American element anywhere in the Islamic world to win the political contest with America?s friends), but it is also exceedingly bad for Israel: Particularly over the past decade, the U.S. has essentially enabled Israeli behavior so self-destructive that it may have already precluded any chance of it being able to live at peace with its neighbors.  

9/4/2007 - Lebanon army 'killed 222 rebels' Lebanese troops killed at least 222 Islamist militants in three months of fighting at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the defence minister says.  

9/4/2007 - America's Craig-like credibility gap What further widens the credibility gap is the United States' strong support for authoritarian governments in places such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. As a result, many Muslims around the world are justifiably cynical when they hear Americans exhort them to become more democratic.  

9/4/2007 - Danoch makes historic TV outreach to Iranians in Iran Los Angeles' Israeli Consul-General Ehud Danoch made history on Sunday, Sept. 2, by becoming the first Israeli official in more than 25 years to directly address the people of Iran via live television.  

9/4/2007 - Ex-diplomat testifies for Muslim charity Edward Abingdon, who served as U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem during the 1990s, said the Israelis had an "agenda" and provided "selective information to try to influence U.S. thinking."  

9/4/2007 - Arabic school opens in New York amid controversy Critics gathered later on the steps of City Hall. Groups including the Catholic League and Stop the Madrasa accused authorities of stonewalling about the school's curriculum. "At the moment, we have to go on the basis on what we know about the people who have brought us this institution," said Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, adding that those involved included imams, or Muslim religious leaders.  

9/4/2007 - 'Big Brother' was watching Orwell   Irony of all ironies.

9/4/2007 - EU wants Lebanon presidential poll free of interference European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Tuesday Syria should stand well back from Lebanon's upcoming presidential election which he hoped would be held in line with the constitution.  



9/3/2007 - Bush holds 'war council' in Iraq    

9/3/2007 - Iran will outsmart West on nuclear issue: supreme leader Khamenei Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged on Monday that Iran would never yield to Western pressure over its nuclear programme, and it would outsmart "drunken and arrogant" Western opponents in the standoff.  

9/3/2007 - Iran's Ahmadinejad has 'proof' US won't attack    

9/3/2007 - U.S. specialist favors Putin's missile logic Russian President Vladimir Putin, a harsh critic of the original U.S. basing plan, has strongly pushed for the Azerbaijan site. U.S. officials cite a potential missile strike from Iran ? thought to be seeking nuclear arms ? as a key reason a shield is needed.  

9/3/2007 - The Next Quagmire    

9/3/2007 - Do We Have the Courage to Stop War With Iran? **    

9/3/2007 - Welcome to the new US embassy This is the largest US Embassy built ? roughly the size of Vatican City ? and at $600 million (£300 million) the most expensive.  

9/3/2007 - Released US academic leaves Iran A leading Iranian-American academic who was jailed for three months in Iran on spying charges has left the country.  

9/3/2007 - Russia to deploy more new ballistic missiles The deployments come at a time of strained relations between Russia and Nato over US plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe. Moscow argues this would threaten its security while Washington insists it is designed only to defend against attack by what it sees as ?rogue nations?, such as Iran.  

9/3/2007 - Fake Photos Helped Lead US to War in Iraq    

9/3/2007 - Will President Bush bomb Iran? ** for those who fear war with Iran, the less happy news is that the officials were real. The simulation, which took four months, was run by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close links to the White House. Its conclusions, drawn up last month and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, have been passed on to military and civilian planners charged with drawing up plans for confronting Iran......Mr Bush's escalation of the rhetoric was deliberate. A former White House aide said that the reference to a "nuclear holocaust" was a precise attempt to bracket Mr Ahmadinejad's quest for nuclear weapons and stated desire to wipe Israel off the map with Hitler's destruction of the Jews. Neocons (Heritage Foundation) and Israel are behind this charade (too).

9/3/2007 - Azerbaijan and Israel pursue partnership While Israel sees Azerbaijan as a potential ally among Muslim countries and a key energy supplier, Azerbaijan is interested in investments by Israeli companies and in support from Jewish communities abroad to promote Azerbaijani interests with Western governments.  

9/3/2007 - The Wrong Way to Debate In the book, Walt and Mearsheimer submit that the enormous, and enormously effective, pro-Israel lobby is ultimately harmful to U.S. foreign policy. Already, the two men have faced a backlash. A number of the authors' events have been cancelled. As in President Carter's case, there have been requests that someone with an opposing view be present to rebut the scholars' positions, as if the authors were running for public office and their opponents deserved equal time.  

9/3/2007 - New explosions rock Lebanon camp    

9/3/2007 - Ex-US diplomat pleads not guilty to threatening Lebanese, Arabs "This is Patrick Syring," he said in a voicemail to the AAI on July 17, 2006, at around 11:17 p.m., according to the indictment. "The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab. Long live the IDF. Death to Lebanon and death to the Arabs." US diplomat? Or Israeli?

9/3/2007 - Fatah al-Islam leader killed in gun battle: Report The leader of militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam has been killed in a Lebanese Army attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, reports said.  

9/3/2007 - Bush to Bomb Iran to Distract World from Sub-Prime Mess "The Iran war will also distract people from my failed oil wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Zionists and Big Oil and Halliburton and Carlyle had ordered me to do. We will murder at least another 100,000 ragheads in Iran."  



9/2/2007 - Iran 'reaches key nuclear goal' Iran has met a key target for its nuclear programme and now has 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.  

9/2/2007 - UK general attacks US Iraq policy    

9/2/2007 - IAEA-Iran Resolving Outstanding Questions    

9/2/2007 - Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent Regarding whether Israel would join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Peres responded: "Well, that?s another story. Israel never said we should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Middle East, but people are suspicious. And if the suspicion is a deterrent, it?s good enough. We are satisfied with the suspicion. We don?t want anything more."  

9/2/2007 - The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy Reviewed by Max Hastings ?Although we deplore the Palestinians? reliance on terrorism and are well aware of their own contribution to prolonging the conflict, we believe their grievances are genuine and must be addressed. We also believe that most Americans would support a different approach . . . if they had a more accurate understanding of past events and present conditions.?  

9/2/2007 - US Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War    

9/2/2007 - Bush Plans War on Iran ** Lieberman is closely affiliated with American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. ?AIPAC leverages its power by an alliance with the Christian Right, which has adopted a bizarre ideology of ?Christian Zionism,?? according to University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. ?It holds that the sooner the Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, the sooner Christ will come back. Without millions of these Christian Zionist allies,? Cole added, ?AIPAC would be much less influential and effective.?  

9/2/2007 - BMD Focus: Israel's BMD two-front war The Jerusalem Post reported Aug. 24 that the country's Air Defense Forces were also carrying out exercises with the U.S. armed forces "in an effort to increase coordination between the two countries and to prepare for the possibility that Washington will send U.S. missile defense systems to Israel if and when they are needed."  

9/2/2007 - Inside Track: Stifling the Debate? Mearsheimer and Walt pay special attention to the events of 2002, when the Bush Administration?supported by neoconservatives, the Christian Right and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)?advanced its argument for war with Iraq. The authors believe that just when ?one would have expected the United States to focus laser-like on al-Qaeda, the author of 9/11, the Administration chose to invade a deteriorating country that had nothing to do with the attacks.?  

9/2/2007 - A New Motto for America Isolationism, as defined by George Washington, is an exceedingly good policy. Washington warned us in his "Farewell Address" to steer clear of entangling alliances, foreign quarrels and feuds. They don't concern us, he said. Our only concerns, vis-ą-vis foreign powers, should be friendship and commerce. We should treat all countries equally, granting neither favors nor trying to harm anyone.  

9/2/2007 - Lebanon PM welcomes end of siege Thousands of people flocked to the camp after news of the end of the siege broke.  

9/2/2007 - Militants try to flee Lebanon camp, 31 killed    



9/1/2007 - Iran changes Revolutionary Guards commander:TV Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday replaced the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, a force U.S. officials have said Washington may label a terrorist group.  

9/1/2007 - Iran may hire others to finish Russian nuclear plant: report Iran is considering alternative builders to finish its first nuclear power plant amid disputes with Russia, which now heads the project, a Russian daily quoted an Iranian official as saying Friday.  

9/1/2007 - Underdog Paul inspires political passion    

9/1/2007 - Phase III of Bush's War by Patrick J. Buchanan ** What is to prevent Bush from attacking Iran and widening the war, at a time and place of his choosing, and sooner than we think? Nothing and no one.  

9/1/2007 - The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran    

9/1/2007 - Nuclear watchdog chief warns of 'last chance' for Iran    

9/1/2007 - Gulf Arabs accept Iran offer for talks on free trade pact Pro-Western Gulf Arab monarchies have agreed to an Iranian offer to launch talks on a possible free trade pact, the secretary general of their oil-rich bloc said on Saturday.  

9/1/2007 - Showdown Over Iran **    

9/1/2007 - The U.S.-Israeli Draft In a recent press release, PNAC called on the U.S. government to institute the military draft, and induct U.S. servicemen and women directly into the Israeli Defense Force.  

9/1/2007 - Rice, Hadley subpoenas resisted in AIPAC case Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists facing espionage charges have subpoenaed Miss Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams and several others to testify at their trial next year. If their testimony is allowed by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, the trial could offer a behind-the-scenes look at the way U.S. foreign policy is crafted.  

9/1/2007 - Can We Win the Ideological War? by Patrick J. Buchanan    

9/1/2007 - Outsourcing the Case for War With Iran ** On the heels of President George W. Bush?s latest threats against Iran for its ?murderous activities? in Iraq, the Weekly Standard has obligingly published a 30-page report by Kimberly Kagan, spouse of Surge co-architect and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Frederick Kagan and director of an entity called The Institute for the Study of War, entitled ?Iran?s Proxy War Against the United States and the Iraqi Government?  

9/1/2007 - Bush Puts Iran in Crosshairs ** Not another warning about war with Iran! Well, suck it up. President George W. Bush's speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being "fixed around the policy."  

9/1/2007 - Underdog Paul lights political passion    

9/1/2007 - They Did Not Attack Us for Our Freedoms    

9/1/2007 - Bush Indictment of Iran Tops Usual Rhetoric    

9/1/2007 - Pentagon 'three-day blitz' plan for Iran ** THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians? military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.....Israel, which has warned it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own preparations for airstrikes and is said to be ready to attack if the Americans back down.  

9/1/2007 - Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.  

9/1/2007 - Moscow denies involvement in Israel-Syria tensions "The Israeli government knows very well that in our dealings with Syria and Israel we invariably follow the line of reducing tensions in the region, preventing a new conflict and re-launching the peace process,"  

9/1/2007 - Lebanon refugees yearn to return home once fighting ends Nahr al-Bared was home to 31,000 Palestinian refugees when the fighting broke out but most residents fled the camp shortly afterwards, mostly to Beddawi camp.  

9/1/2007 - Editor's Notes: Jeopardizing American interests   This clearly pro-Israel writer states that the work of Mearsheimer and Walt works against US interests, a laughable notion, and that Iran is a threat to America (which it is not).

9/1/2007 - Call for a Coalition Against Arming Theocratic States By Lenni Brenner In 1948, Democrat Harry Truman, needing campaign funds from wealthy pro-Zionist Jews, recognized officially Orthodox Jewish Israel. He loaned it money used to buy weapons to drive hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians into exile.  

9/1/2007 - Strange Goings-On Here in Lebanon .. Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah's leader, boasts of new weapons. The Lebanese suspect that these include anti-aircraft missiles. If this is true ? and many Lebanese who have spent their lives under Israel's cruel air attacks, assaults which have often been war crimes, hope it is ? then the next war will be anticipated with dark but keen anxiety. Since the Israeli army is incapable of fighting the Hizbollah on its own ground ? its collapse when faced by Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon last year proved this ? what happens if their awesome air power is also neutered?  

9/1/2007 - Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof That 'Tail Wagged the Dog' Points American Jews to a Universalist Ethos    




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