April 2008 archive


4/30/2008 - "Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran.  

4/30/2008 - Iran discusses package of nuclear proposals with Russia Iran and Russia on Monday discussed the outlines of "serious proposals" aimed at assuring the international community that Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful, state media reported.  

4/30/2008 - Iran Remains World's Top Sponsor of Terrorism, says US Report A U.S. State Department report says Iran remains the world's most significant state sponsor of terrorism, and that al-Qaida is regaining strength in enclaves in Pakistan. The congressionally-mandated report says North Korea might soon be removed from the U.S. terrorism list. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department. Making the case for war.

4/30/2008 - Warships 'to remind Iran of US power' The decision to send a second US aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf should be a "reminder" to Iran of Washington's military might but was not an escalation of force in the region, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday.  

4/30/2008 - 'Provocative' Clinton angers Iran Tehran has complained to the UN about remarks made last week by Hillary Clinton on the circumstances under which the US might attack Iran  

4/30/2008 - Syria nuclear disclosure a warning to North Korea, Iran: Bush    

4/30/2008 - Ahmadinejad slams 'world powers' for spreading war, terrorism http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiaabroad/20080429/r_t_ians_wl_asia/twl-ahmadinejad-slams-world-powers-for-s-d5d6288_1.html  

4/30/2008 - Al Qaeda, cohorts remain worst terrorism threat: U.S.    

4/30/2008 - Israeli president urges world to control Iran, dreads results if Nazis had nuclear bombs The world could have faced destruction if Hitler had succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday at a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, calling on the world to shoulder today's responsibilities ? a reference to Iran's nuclear program.  

4/30/2008 - Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet    

4/30/2008 - Hamas are Iran's proxy warriors: Rice In a speech Tuesday to the American Jewish Committee in Washington that underscored growing US concerns about Tehran, Rice mentioned Iran as not just a threat in the Palestinian territories, but also in Lebanon, Iraq and even in Afghanistan.  

4/30/2008 - Cheney Lawyer Claims Congress Has No Authority Over Vice-President The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.  

4/30/2008 - Israel pullout risks Iran foothold on Golan: minister   Next we'll hear Iran was behind the grassy knoll. Israel and its minions in the US seek to scapegoat Iran for just about all of the ills in the Middle East.

4/30/2008 - UNIFIL denies Israeli charges it ignores Hezbollah activity    

4/30/2008 - The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War Under cover of the mayhem and propaganda, Israel can grab the remains of the West Bank and have another go at grabbing the water resources of southern Lebanon.  

4/30/2008 - How Daniel Pipes Destroyed a New York City Principal Pipes began his efforts to kill the school with an op/ed in the neoconservative New York Sun  

4/30/2008 - Leading article: Intelligence or propaganda? There is no independent way to verify any of this, especially since the installation has now been destroyed. We must rely on the integrity of the Israeli and US intelligence services. That is where we hit a problem.  



4/28/2008 - US accuses Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Iraq    

4/28/2008 - India and Pakistan snub US A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR gas pipeline project linking Iran, Pakistan and India that is bitterly opposed by Washington is set to go ahead after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a historic first visit to meet leaders of the new coalition government in Islamabad.  

4/28/2008 - Iran discusses package of nuclear proposals with Russia    

4/28/2008 - Iran tells Russia of plan to solve world problems    

4/28/2008 - Top UN nuclear official in Iran for more talks    

4/28/2008 - Iran says Iraq situation makes U.S. attack unlikely Iran said on Sunday a "disastrous situation" facing the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with Washington's domestic issues made any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic unlikely.  

4/28/2008 - Iran-led radicals getting stronger, Israel warns Mofaz was in Washington as part of the US-Israeli strategic dialogue which meets every six months to discuss common security concerns.  

4/28/2008 - N.Koreans may have died in Israel raid in Syria: NHK    

4/28/2008 - Hayden: Syrian site could have produced fuel for 2 weapons   BS gets thicker...

4/28/2008 - Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims    

4/28/2008 - Spy Games -- Israel Targeted Again The arrest of a New Jersey engineer on charges of conspiracy to pass U.S. military secrets to Israel Tuesday shows a consistent, continued pattern of Israeli spying on its major benefactor, the United States, according to espionage experts  

4/28/2008 - The neoconning of a nation Cheney and fellow militarists are pushing hard for attacks on Syria, Lebanon and Iran before President George W. Bush leaves office. Neocons have flocked to Sen. John McCain's banner -- in spite of Hillary Clinton's vow to "obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. They believe U.S. attacks on Arab states and/or Iran would prove decisive in winning the presidency for McCain this November. A U.S. attack on Syria could well be the first step of a broader air war against Lebanon and Iran.  

4/28/2008 - Iran-led radicals getting stronger, Israel warns    

4/28/2008 - Is War With Iran Imminent? Standing behind this developing pro-war Popular Front, the central factor in turning the U.S. toward a policy of confrontation rather than constructive engagement with Iran has been the Israel lobby.  

4/28/2008 - IAF Chief: Hitler wasn't believed, we can't make that mistake with Ahmadinejad Shkedi made these remarks in a special interview with "60 Minutes" in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary, excerpts of which aired on Channel 2 television Sunday.  

4/28/2008 - Barak defers U.S. trip in wake of CIA briefing over Syrian strike Barak made the decision a few days ago. The postponement is aimed at avoiding the impression that his meetings were in any way connected to the U.S. decision to disclosure information on the Syrian facility  

4/28/2008 - Complicity in Acts of Aggression The Israelis ? allegedly the source of this "intelligence" ? apparently believe (and want gullible members of the Best Congress Money Can Buy to believe) that ten-foot tall Korean nuclear scientists and engineers have gone into the nuclear-reactor export business.  

4/28/2008 - Assad says facility Israel bombed not nuclear: paper The Syrian site Israel bombed in September was not part of a nuclear weapons program, but was a military facility under construction, President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Sunday.....Assad said it was illogical for Syria to seek a nuclear bomb. "Where would we use it? On Israel it would kill the Palestinians. I do not see this as logical."  

4/28/2008 - Lebanese army: 12 Israeli jets flew over Beirut The Lebanese army reported that Israeli Air Force jets flew over Beirut on Monday. The army said in a statement that 12 "enemy" Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace before noon Monday by flying missions over Beirut and elsewhere in the country. The IDF said it will not discuss its operational activities.  

4/28/2008 - Syrian reactor capacity was 1-2 weapons/year: CIA A diplomat close to the U.N. nuclear watchdog and outside analysts have said the U.S. disclosure did not amount to proof of an illicit arms program because there was no sign of a reprocessing plant needed to convert spent fuel from the plant into bomb-grade plutonium.  

4/28/2008 - More on the Likudist Fronts    

4/28/2008 - Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea    

4/28/2008 - Running a Risk with Iran Our Israeli friends like to remind us of the danger Iran presents to them, but between the two nations, which one is the more dangerous? Iran is too far from Israel to bring its air, sea or land forces to bear against it. Iran might be able to lob ballistic missiles at Israeli cities, but any warhead it throws at Israel would pale in comparison to what Israel throws back (remember, Israel?s the nation with nukes, not Iran).  



4/26/2008 - Britons kidnapped in Iraq are 'held by Iran'   Pretext for action?

4/26/2008 - Hawks Resurgent? some analysts believe that Petraeus' promotion to Centcom was actually engineered by Gates and Mullen not only because he is likely to enjoy exceptional influence with Bush, but also because, despite his championship by neoconservative hawks, they consider him a fellow-realist who shares the conviction that war with Iran would be a major strategic error.  

4/26/2008 - Syria says will help Turk PM on mediation with Israel    

4/26/2008 - Israel Might Have Many More Spies Here, Officials Say The elderly New Jersey man arrested last week on charges of spying for Israel years ago was probably still working for the Jewish state?s espionage service in tandem with another, as yet unidentified spy, former American intelligence officials say  

4/26/2008 - Intelligence on Syria delayed to avoid fight "Our first concern was to prevent conflict and broader confrontation in the Middle East," said one of the top senior intelligence officials, who held a briefing with reporters late yesterday afternoon.  

4/26/2008 - ANALYSIS-Congressional calculus triggered Syria disclosures    

4/26/2008 - Evidence-based bombing by Scott Ritter While vexing, the Syrian position is totally in keeping with its treaty obligations, and so it is Syria, not Israel, that was in full conformity with international law at the time of Israel's September 6 2007 attack. A good read.

4/26/2008 - Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel 'They were guerrillas during the occupation but shocked Israel in the war by standing and fighting from fixed positions. Even badly outnumbered, they held territory with minimal losses even under assault from tank units,' he says. 'Now they want to expand to make sure they can stop the next invasion before the tanks reach the flat plains of the Bekaa, where Israel's armoured units will have the advantage.'  

4/26/2008 - Syrian President, Turkish PM meet on peace process with Israel Syrian President Bashar al-Assadon Saturday held talks with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on activation of the peace process in the Middle East.  

4/26/2008 - "Farewell Israel": Myth and Reality Israel's military leaders and their political yes-men don't believe, and never have believed, that Iran, if it possessed nuclear weapons, would unleash them in a first strike against the Zionist state. The real problem for its leaders is that the moment Israel ceased to be the only nuclear-armed power in the region, would be the moment it lost its ability to impose its will on the region. And actually the world.  



4/25/2008 - U.S. Weighing Readiness for Military Action Against Iran The nation's top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" as one of several options against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.  

4/25/2008 - Iranian interference a source of growing concern: military chief Making the case for war.

4/25/2008 - US found date-stamped Iranian weapons in Iraq: report   Making the case for war.

4/25/2008 - Iran reportedly says no confrontation with U.S. in Gulf Iran on Friday denied there had been any confrontation between its forces and a U.S. ship in the Gulf, Iranian media reported, after a U.S. official said a ship contracted by the U.S Military Sealift Command fired on an Iranian vessel. It was an OPEC boat, methinks. Note what happened after this 'news' came out.

4/25/2008 - U.N. Nuclear Watchdog In 'Milestone' Iran Deal The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency on Wednesday announced a "milestone" agreement with Iran that aims to provide answers about allegations Tehran tried to develop nuclear weapons under cover of a peaceful atomic program.  

4/25/2008 - Senators want oil linked to arms deal A group of senators pressed President Bush on Thursday to halt billions of dollars in sophisticated arms sales to Saudi Arabia and several other Gulf oil producers unless they agree to pump more petroleum, reflecting growing frustration in Congress over soaring energy costs. About time.

4/25/2008 - US Syria claims raise wider doubts Perhaps mindful of the mistakes of the past, the ten-minute video released by the Bush administration in an effort to prove the Syria-North Korea connection is less ambitious and more focussed. It uses still images which, it is claimed, were taken inside the facility during its construction. There is of course no independent way to verify this. This video was, according to Haaretz, provided by ISRAEL.

4/25/2008 - UN targets US over delay in Syrian nuclear evidence Why did it take the CIA seven months to reveal this information to Congress? ....Is there any directevidence of North Koreans actually at the site? The photograph of the Syrian and North Korean nuclear scientists was taken at another location.....Why did Israel act unilaterally to destroy the site before IAEA inspectors had a chance to visit?  

4/25/2008 - Many states appear to be in recession as deficits grow   Hey I know - let's attack Iran. BRILLIANT.

4/25/2008 - UPDATE 8-Oil rises to $119 on U.S., Iran tensions    

4/25/2008 - Is an Attack on Iran Imminent? According to former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter, the Pentagon has contracted for additional bunker-buster bombs and planes that carry them. Delivery is due this month.  

4/25/2008 - Is US Trying To Force Nuke Standoff? U.S. claims that North Korea may have assisted in developing a covert nuclear reactor in Syria could be a bid by White House hardliners to derail talks with Pyongyang and force confrontation, says CNN?s Christiane Amanpour.  

4/25/2008 - Israelis split on keeping Golan    

4/25/2008 - Syrian Ambassador to U.S. Says CIA Fabricated Photo Evidence of Nuclear Reactor    

4/25/2008 - Clinton stakes new ground on confronting nuclear Iran While Israeli officials and pro-Israel activists in the United States stress the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, many of them also share Clinton's view that Iran's theocracy may be sensitive to threats of massive military strikes and long for explicit declarations along the lines issued by the New York senator.  

4/25/2008 - Syria says nothing to hide over alleged atomic reactor Syria's UN envoy has said Damascus is "not afraid" to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog, which has pledged to look into whether Syria secretly built an atomic reactor with North Korean help.  

4/25/2008 - Syrian Nukes: the Phantom Menace Cirincione told the BBC that "This appears to be the work of a small group of officials leaking cherry-picked, unvetted 'intelligence' to key reporters in order to promote a preexisting political agenda." The preexisting political agenda may be promoting a war with Syria and/or Iran, or torpedoing negotiations between the US and North Korea. Finally, Cirincione adds ominously "If this sounds like the run-up to the war with Iraq, then it should."  

4/25/2008 - Cheney camp 'behind Syrian reactor claim' "Everything I'm hearing from my own sources in Washington is that what you have now is a kind of push back by Vice-President [Dick] Cheney and his office and other hardliners who are opposed to diplomatic dealings with North Korea," he said. One more time, Israel provided us with the video.

4/25/2008 - Rice to make trip to Britain, Israel, West Bank US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Britain, Israel and the West Bank for talks on Iran's nuclear program, Kosovo and Middle East peace efforts, the State Department said Friday.  

4/25/2008 - IAEA Slams US On Syria Bombing; Will Probe Reactor Report Carefully "The Director General deplores the fact that this information was not provided to the Agency in a timely manner, in accordance with the Agency's responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to enable it to verify its veracity and establish the facts," ElBaradei's office said. Additionally, "the Director General views the unilateral use of force by Israel as undermining the due process of verification that is at the heart of the non-proliferation regime," it said.  

4/25/2008 - Pollard's Ghost   There are likely numerous others like Kadish still in prominent positions in and around the government as we speak. That's the scary part. Most are not tied to any organizations and act on their own - because they have a passionate attachment to Israel.

4/25/2008 - Dyer: America benefits little from its alliance with Israel    

4/25/2008 - Syria accuses U.S. of aiding Israel in strike on nuke facility According to a report by The Washington Post on its Web site Thursday, the U.S. has video footage - which the report says was obtained by Israel - that shows that the similarities in design between the Syrian site and the North Korean nuclear reactor in Yongbyon. The key words here being - 'obtained by Israel'. We are still relying on Israel to provide us with 'intelligence', to our own detriment.

4/25/2008 - Cluster bomb left from 2006 war wounds 4 children in S. Lebanon    

4/25/2008 - Syrian vows to cooperate with IAEA over US nuclear charges    

4/25/2008 - An Act Of War - Interview: Seymour Hersh Seymour Hersh, one of the world's best known investigative journalists, has turned his attention to the mysterious and controversial bombing of a Syrian facility by Israel last year.  



4/24/2008 - VA faulted in diagnosing suicide candidates Former soldiers are killing themselves at three to seven times the rate of the general population and the Department of Veterans Affairs is failing to diagnose or treat them effectively, a suicide expert testified Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the VA's mental health system.  

4/24/2008 - Iran nuclear ambitions are major Gulf threat: NATO    

4/24/2008 - Cheney camp 'behind Syrian reactor claim'    

4/24/2008 - Iran agrees to discuss alleged nuclear weapons program    

4/24/2008 - Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran Fallon's resignation announcement on March 11 was followed less than a week later by a 10-day Cheney trip to the Middle East in which the vice president talked explicitly about the military option against Iran during visits to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. That suggested that Cheney felt freer to wield the military threat to Iran with Fallon neutralized.  

4/24/2008 - U.S. to demand Jerusalem acknowledge Kadish was an Israeli agent    

4/24/2008 - What's behind Kadish arrest? For now, only speculation The president?s lame-duck status has hobbled his effectiveness, and he is eager for progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks he helped relaunch last November in Annapolis, Md. "It's not easy trying to conduct policy in Washington when you know that there is a powerful pro-Israel constituency out there that says otherwise," said Lenny ben-David, a former Israeli diplomat and a former AIPAC staffer  

4/24/2008 - Clinton's Iran tone 'imprudent' A BRITISH foreign minister said US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's threat to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons was imprudent.  

4/24/2008 - Israel's Air Force Chief: Iran Threat Real    

4/24/2008 - Did the Israelis Leak New Spy Info to Thwart War? Over at the American Conservative magazine?s blog, Antiwar.com columnist and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi reports that Israeli sources have indicated to him that the recent leak to the FBI about the new-old Israeli spy case came from inside the Israeli government toward the end of thwarting Ehud Olmert, Dick Cheney and the War Party?s plans to expand the Middle Eastern slaughter to Iran ? and that there are more spies to be revealed?.....The leak of the information at the present time is believed to be linked to proposed closed congressional hearings at the end of this month in which the White House had planned to use several Israeli intelligence officers to provide evidence on the alleged Syrian nuclear program that was bombed on September 6, 2007  

4/24/2008 - Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes Cheney's minions are pushing Congress to sponge up Israeli intelligence assessments about purported Syria-North Korea cooperation on a now destroyed, alleged nuclear site. There are many who doubt Israel's assessments in the U.S. intelligence community  

4/24/2008 - Liberty City 6 face third terrorism trial ''I'm in disbelief they are going for a third trial,'' said the foreman, who contacted The Miami Herald after the government's announcement was reported on the paper's webpage on Wednesday. ''I'm afraid if they go for a third trial the jurors will hang or they will have the same issues we did.''  

4/24/2008 - Georgetown University Terminates Douglas Feith    

4/24/2008 - Jewish leader: German firms ignoring Shoah "Business with Iran is booming, while morality is wasting away. German companies, of all things, are doing business with a country that advocates a new Holocaust," Graumann said at an event on Tuesday celebrating Israel's 60th birthday.  

4/24/2008 - Foreign Ministry: Israel doesn't spy in US "I assume that the timing is not coincidental, and is aimed at sending a warning signal to the White House ? and particularly to President Bush ? that he should not dare consider releasing Pollard before he leaves office in January," Haber said.  

4/24/2008 - US claims North Korea helped build Syria reactor plant The video, made public last night after Congress had been briefed, is a collection of material from various sources, in addition to Israeli intelligence. Israeli intelligence? Whodda thunk it?

4/24/2008 - Syrian president ready to talk to Israel once Bush term ends    

4/24/2008 - Spy case poses questions on size of Israeli ring Official ties are unlikely to be affected, said David Kimche, president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations and a former senior Mossad official. "There won't be any dramatic ramifications in the sense that any sort of actions will be taken against Israel, in my opinion," Kimche said.  

4/24/2008 - Residents: Golan belongs to the Jewish people Heads of Israeli towns in the Golan Heights convened Thursday for an emergency meeting following reports in recent days that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had agreed to relinquish the Golan Heights to Syria. The land was unlawfully seized in the Six Day War and subsequently colonized by Israel. It never 'belonged to the Jewish people'.

4/24/2008 - Sarkozy admits 'mistakes' during first year he vowed that as head of state he would not hold talks with the Hamas in the Palestinian territories, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Taliban militia in Afghanistan.  



4/23/2008 - Iran says IAEA nuclear talks were "positive"    

4/23/2008 - Gates calls Iran 'hell bent' on getting nuclear arms    

4/23/2008 - U.S. Military, Critics at Odds over 'Special Groups' In the ongoing conflict in Iraq, U.S. military commanders stress that their main enemies are the so-called "Special Groups," Shiite militants who receive training and equipment from Iran. U.S. officials say the special groups are loosely connected to the militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr. Critics, however, argue that the focus on special groups is part of a crafted political strategy that wholly exaggerates their role.  

4/23/2008 - Italy joins EU drive for more Iran sanctions    

4/23/2008 - House Dems, Ron Paul targeted over surveillance votes New radio ads are running in districts of several Democratic members of Congress, as well as Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, targeting the lawmakers for their opposition to a White House-backed surveillance bill. The ads play on national security fears in an attempt to spur these lawmakers to give in to the administration's demands....The ads come from the ostensibly nonpartisan group Defense of Democracies The Defense of Democracies is a neocon 'thinktank'. Go figure.

4/23/2008 - IAEA, Iran agree on process to clarify Iran's nuclear programs    

4/23/2008 - Bush: US not in recession    

4/23/2008 - Israel downplays US spy affair    

4/23/2008 - Oil pauses for breath near $120    

4/23/2008 - Syria hands over 700 looted artifacts to Iraqi authorities Syria handed over a trove of some 700 looted artifacts to Iraq on Wednesday after seizing the items from traffickers since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.  

4/23/2008 - US 'war on terror' backfiring, says thinktank    

4/23/2008 - Gen. Petraeus picked to lead Mideast command Central Command, whose headquarters is at Tampa, Fla., is responsible for U.S. military operations throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, and thus oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  

4/23/2008 - Japan freezes Iranian assets over nuclear activities    

4/23/2008 - Israel downplays US spy affair    

4/23/2008 - N.J. man accused of spying for Israel The Pollard case for a short time devastated U.S.-Israel relations. In its aftermath, Israel swore never to run a spy again, and Americans broadened their information sharing with Israel to keep the Israelis from temptation. Yeh, that makes sense. Reward the thieves.

4/23/2008 - Israel says no spying on US since 1985   HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hilarious! I bet the Justice Department isn't buying it either.

4/23/2008 - FBI Claims a Confession in Israel Spy Case    

4/23/2008 - Former prosecutor says new spy case shows that Pollard case was bigger than thought DiGenova says the similarities are eerie. He says it clearly indicates the case is bigger than these two.  

4/23/2008 - US man 'gave secrets to Israel' A military engineer has appeared in court in the US on charges of passing classified information to Israel. Kudos to the US Justice department - score one for the good guys!

4/23/2008 - Clinton warns Iran of U.S. nuclear response Clinton said it was vital that the United States create a new "security umbrella" to reassure Israel and its other allies in the region that they would not be threatened by Iran. She said she would tell them that "if you were the subject of an unprovoked nuclear attack by Iran, the United States, and hopefully our NATO allies, would respond to that."  

4/23/2008 - Ross Issues Urgent Warning on Iran The U.S. and its allies probably have no more than a year to take action against Iran before that nation acquires nuclear weapons, warns Dennis Ross, an architect of the Mideast peace process. Why? Has Iran threatened us (in the absence of any threats we've made towards them) ,ATTACKED us? NO. So, why is it our job to disarm Iran of any purported nuclear weapons? Who made it so? ISRAEL. And not coincidentally, Dennis Ross is a staunch Israel-supporter.

4/23/2008 - Dreary verses of the Bush-Cheney years Many of Cheney's hard-line allies from the first term are gone: the discredited Rumsfeld; Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq war; Douglas Feith; Scooter Libby. The vice president's office may be the last power center in Washington that wants war with Iran.  

4/23/2008 - Al-Qaeda accuses Iran of 9/11 lie Correspondents say the comments underline al-Qaeda's increasing public hostility towards Iran.  

4/23/2008 - US Takes Counterinsurgency Lessons From Israel Iraq, it seems, is surging toward Gaza. This fact is not missed by average Iraqis..... What we are seeing in Iraq today has much less to do with the declared shift in U.S. military doctrine than with a deeper and more far-reaching "Israelization" of U.S. military strategy and tactics over the past two decades that was only heightened by America's misadventures in the Middle East after Sept. 11, 2001.  

4/23/2008 - ANALYSIS: New espionage affair may be old story, but will greatly damage Israel    

4/23/2008 - Iran seeks to block Canadian NGO Ezrin said Iran is objecting in part because the Canadian Council is not involved in anti-racism or anti-discrimination work.  

4/23/2008 - US to release Syria nuke details 'soon' Asked when the public would be told about what US intelligence has picked up, Defence Secretary Robert Gates would only say "soon". Who provided the US with this 'intelligence', is the real question.

4/23/2008 - Al Qaeda deputy criticises Muslims for not backing insurgencies Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant also blasted Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas over their reported readiness to consider a peace deal with Israel.  

4/23/2008 - From Dec. 2001: The Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring in America    

4/23/2008 - Turkey reassures Syria on Israel peace feelers: reports Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has assured Syria that Israel is ready to return all of the Golan Heights, reports said on Wednesday amid renewed peace feelers between the bitter foes.  

4/23/2008 - Bill Kristol, great man of sacrifice, on the duties of Passover People continue to be slaughtered and Americans sent to die so that his ideological dreams of an America-dominated Middle East and an Israel unconstrained by anyone or anything can be realized. As the wars and "sacrifices" rage on, his career as a War Commentator consequently flourishes, with more appearances on Fox, more readers for the war-loving Weekly Standard, and now even a column in the New York Times, itself the by-product of nepotistic connections, from which he preaches to the little people of their need to continue to sacrifice for his wars.  

4/23/2008 - Report: Olmert ready to cede Golan Israel reportedly has agreed to withdraw from the Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria  

4/23/2008 - Jimmy Carter Gets the Point by Philip Giraldi Carter was also lacerated by the U.S. media, which did not report the visit in detail except to criticize it. The Washington Post's neocon-dominated editorial page was the most strident, denouncing Carter for embracing Hamas' terrorists. According to the Post, Hamas engages in "deliberate targeting of civilians," such as the Israeli town of Sderot, which "suffers daily rocket attacks." The Post seems unaware of Israeli targeting of civilians when it can't find an actual "militant" to kill......It is particularly ironic that the Israelis killed 20 Palestinians on April 16, all civilians and including five children, the day on which Obama made his speech and the White House was criticizing Carter's efforts.  

4/23/2008 - UN chief calls for immediate presidential elections in Lebanon and disarming of Hezbollah Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Monday for immediate presidential elections in Lebanon without foreign interference and told Syria and Iran they must support the disarmament of Hezbollah's well-armed militia.  

4/23/2008 - Turning the Page on US Foreign Policy, Part 2    

4/23/2008 - Israel 'ready to return Golan'    

4/23/2008 - Israel Sees Iran Threat Recede    

4/23/2008 - Study: Muslim anti-Semitism threatens Israel The study singled out Iran as a country whose anti-Semitism poses a potential threat to Israel's existence, given Tehran's supposed nuclear program. Wow. The BS being spewed forth gets ever thicker.



4/21/2008 - Russian shipment for Iranian nuclear plant blocked    

4/21/2008 - Iran dismisses Bush, Brown nuclear charges    

4/21/2008 - Rice joins Gulf regional meeting Ms Rice repeated calls for Arab states to open full diplomatic ties with Baghdad to counter Iranian influence in the region.  

4/21/2008 - Distressed U.S. war veterans get day in court Veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere who say they have systematically been denied proper medical care will get their day in federal court starting Monday in San Francisco.  

4/21/2008 - Pentagon propaganda over torture and Iraq revealed The Pentagon and the US media have been exposed for using pre-programmed ?military analysts? to win hearts and minds of Americans over the war in Iraq, torture and detentions in Guantanamo Bay.  

4/21/2008 - Hezbollah: U.S. claims we use terror against civilians are baseless Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement on Sunday dismissed as "baseless" recent remarks made by U.S. President George W. Bush accusing the group of using terror and violence against innocent civilians.  



4/20/2008 - Iran groups offering extra aid to Iraq rebels: US A US general said on Sunday that the increasingly sophisticated attacks carried out by Shiite extremists in Iraq were evidence they were getting extra aid from Iranian groups in the country. Making the case for war.

4/20/2008 - Iran foreign ministry backs Ahmadinejad Sept 11 doubts    

4/20/2008 - British dealers supply arms to Iran    

4/20/2008 - Iran discloses nuclear package soon    

4/20/2008 - Iranian ambassador denounces US operation in Baghdad Iran's ambassador to Iraq on Saturday denounced U.S. military operations in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, saying they had led to the deaths of innocent people and threatened to aggravate an already tense situation.  

4/20/2008 - Iran fighting proxy war against U.S.? by Patrick J. Buchanan Needed now are congressional hearings to determine if President Bush has authorized a proxy war against Iran ? by funding or arming guerrillas to attack the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and if that is what is behind the IRG-backed attacks on U.S. forces.  

4/20/2008 - McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ?Al Qaeda?    

4/20/2008 - Few Clear Wins in U.S. Anti-Terror Cases Jurors appear to be particularly troubled by a controversial element in the Miami case, part of several other early prosecutions, in which FBI informants encouraged others to perform acts they otherwise may not have done.  

4/20/2008 - Carter discusses Iraq, Gaza developments with Syria's Assad (Extra)    

4/20/2008 - 37 Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq fly to Chile A group of Palestinian refugees stranded on the Iraq-Syria border since 2006 flew to Chile Sunday under a resettlement plan sponsored by the Catholic Church in the South American country and the U.N. agency for refugees.  

4/20/2008 - Efforts under way for Israel-Syria talks: Assad    

4/20/2008 - Obama Channeling Cheney Can there be any doubt that the premeditated destruction of dozens of IAEA Safeguarded facilities in Iran ? which the Likudniks again claim to be a threat to Israel ? will be anything less than cold-blooded murder of the IAEA-NPT nuke proliferation regime?  



4/18/2008 - Nearly 1 in 5 troops has mental problems after war service    

4/18/2008 - Iran progress on atom centrifuges slow: IAEA    

4/18/2008 - Bush and Brown Share Impatience on Iran    

4/18/2008 - Report reveals Iran seized British sailors in disputed waters Fifteen British sailors and Marines were seized by Iran in internationally disputed waters and not in Iraq?s maritime territory as Parliament was told, according to new official documents released to The Times.  

4/18/2008 - Oil reaches $117 for first time    

4/18/2008 - Rice to shun Iran at meeting of Iraq's neighbors Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has no plans to meet Iran's foreign minister at a conference of Iraq's neighbors next week, amid increasing U.S. complaints about Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents.  

4/18/2008 - Iran's mission rejects US allegations of role in Iraq Iran's U.N. Mission said allegations by U.S. officials that the country is supporting the insurgency in Iraq are "unfounded" and "baseless."  

4/18/2008 - IAEA official to fly to Tehran for more nuclear talks: spokeswoman The so-called alleged studies are the one outstanding issue that the IAEA insists still needs to be cleared up.  

4/18/2008 - Pentagon institute calls Iraq war 'a major debacle' with outcome 'in doubt' The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.  

4/18/2008 - Brown seeks tighter Iran sanctions British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday called for tightening European sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program, specifically targeting investments in liquefied natural gas.  

4/18/2008 - Rice says Arabs must shield Iraq from Iran's sway Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she would press Iraq's Arab neighbors hard next week to do more to support Baghdad's government and shield it from Iran's "nefarious influences."  

4/18/2008 - Rice marks 25th anniversary of Beirut embassy attack Rice used the commemoration to hint at Washington's accusations of interference by Syria into the affairs of neighboring Lebanon, with politicians in Beirut "afraid for their very lives" as the embattled government remains locked in a long-running standoff with the Hezbollah-led opposition.  

4/18/2008 - http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Netanyahu_Warns_World_/2008/04/18/89102.html    

4/18/2008 - Arrow successfully simulates intercept of mock Shihab missile Israel is talking with Boeing about manufacturing the new and improved Arrow 3. Israel hopes the U.S. Congress will approve funding for the project. US funding?

4/18/2008 - Could Israel use submarines against Iran? Anticipating a showdown with Iran, Israel decides secretly to deploy a submarine off its arch-foe's coast.  

4/18/2008 - 'Iran smuggling arms into Gaza by sea' Iran has stepped up its efforts to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip by using floatable devices that it drops near the waters off the Gaza coast to be picked up by Palestinian fisherman, senior defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.  

4/18/2008 - Dude, Where... Is Osama bin Laden? A young Palestinian man laments that "9/11 legitimized the American presence in the Middle East" and insists that "We are fighting to make our homeland. It's none of their [al-Qaeda's] business."  

4/18/2008 - Syria and US at Odds Over Hariri Probe In asking the U.N. Security Council for an extension of the mandate of his probe, investigator Daniel Bellemare said recently that evidence pointed to a "criminal network" being responsible for the "politically motivated" killing of Hariri. The network had pre-existed Hariri's murder, Bellemare said, and it continued to exist for some period afterward.  

4/18/2008 - Professor in Deadlocked Terrorism Case Could Face a New Indictment Sami al-Arian, a computer science professor imprisoned for more than five years after pleading guilty to a single terrorism-related charge when his trial deadlocked, is back in legal limbo this week. He faces either deportation or a new indictment that could extend his incarceration for years.  

4/18/2008 - Clinton vows 'massive' U.S. retaliation if Iran attacks Israel    



4/16/2008 - Iran says U.S. aids rebels at its borders A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran's borders may be impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the U.S., according to security experts and officials in the U.S., Iran and Iraq.  

4/16/2008 - Iran and U.S. said to have been holding secret talks for 5 years    

4/16/2008 - Oil price passes $US115 The price of New York oil has crossed $US115 a barrel for the first time after the US Government reported falling energy inventories and as the US currency hit an all-time low against the euro.  

4/16/2008 - Ahmadinejad: 9/11 'suspect event' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York as a "suspect event" and queried the death toll.  

4/16/2008 - Pentagon seeks authority to train and equip foreign militaries    

4/16/2008 - McCain vows massive pressure on Iran Normally a proponent of hawkish policies, McCain told MSNBC's "Hardball" on Tuesday that it would be difficult to convince the American people to go to war against Iran.  

4/16/2008 - Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. No sh@t? Never would've guessed that....

4/16/2008 - Source: U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing    

4/16/2008 - U.S.: Iranian threats to 'eliminate' Israel justify int'l sanctions Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff Mohammed Rada Ashtiani was quoted earlier by the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr as saying: "If Israel wants to take any action against the Islamic Republic, we will eliminate Israel from the scene of the universe... Our answer to any military attack against Iran will be strong."  

4/16/2008 - Lawmakers Want FBI Access to Data Curbed    

4/16/2008 - How the War Party Captured the Right The domination of the American Right by the neoconservatives has hung the Iraq albatross around the GOP's neck, and the party is now in danger of being strangled by the sheer weight of the burden  

4/16/2008 - US national security advisor in Israel for talks on Iran: radio Stewart Tuttle, the spokesman for the US embassy, said Hadley's talks with top Israeli officials would cover "issues of mutual interest, and a good guess is these will include Iran." Hadley is a neocon.

4/16/2008 - New Group Using Web to Counter AIPAC While a broad spectrum of Jewish and pro-Israel groups continue to support the Bush administration?s efforts to isolate Iran diplomatically, J Street is putting diplomacy with Iran near the top of its agenda ? a decision that could ultimately produce more controversy than its lobbying for a stronger Israeli-Palestinian peace process  

4/16/2008 - Hezbollah denies report of planning to launch war inside Israel    

4/16/2008 - Israel says Syria arming Hezbollah despite UN resolution    

4/16/2008 - Attitudes Toward US Worsen in Arab World The new survey also found that fears regarding both U.S. and Israeli designs in the region have also increased over the past 17 months, despite the length of time that has passed since the summer 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, which inflamed anti-Israeli and anti-Western opinion throughout the region.  

4/16/2008 - Tough New Iran Sanctions Could Backfire, Experts Warn As Washington tries to bolster international cooperation over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program, the domestic push for congressionally mandated sanctions has been spearheaded by lobby groups such as the Israel Project, the neoconservative think-tank Center for Security Policy (CSP), and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  

4/16/2008 - Poll: 82% of American Christians support Israel A new survey conducted by a Washington DC-based evangelical organization among American Christians has found that 82% of them believe they have a moral obligation to support the Jews and Israel. The poll, conducted among Catholics and Protestants alike, tested their stance on Jerusalem's future and ways to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat.  

4/16/2008 - PM: Iran will not be nuclear    



4/14/2008 - US and Iran holding 'secret' talks on nuclear programme    

4/14/2008 - Livni to tell Gulf leaders in Qatar: Iran the threat, not Israel    

4/14/2008 - Iran top nuclear official to meet ElBaradei-IRNA A top Iranian official will discuss his country's disputed nuclear programme with the U.N. atomic watchdog boss Mohamed ElBaradei in Vienna this week, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.  

4/14/2008 - Iraq, U.S. to pressure Iran with diplomacy, force Iraq is prepared to pressure Iran diplomatically to stop supporting violence, while the United States helps the military effort to halt aid to "surrogate" forces, the White House national security adviser said Sunday.  

4/14/2008 - Iran - The New Motivation for US War in Iraq The US rationale for war in Iraq has morphed from ousting strongman Saddam Hussein, to countering Al-Qaeda militants to its latest incarnation ? facing down what officials in President George W. Bush?s administration call the Iranian ?threat?.  

4/14/2008 - IAEA, Iran meeting abruptly canceled    

4/14/2008 - Kurd rebels threaten to attack Iran A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country.  

4/14/2008 - McCain seeking to assure Americans, "I detest war"    

4/14/2008 - Israel hopes for Arab consenus on Iran nuclear drive Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will visit Qatar for the first time on Sunday and hopes there is a chance to build a consensus among Arab nations against Iran's nuclear ambitions, which worry many Gulf states.  

4/14/2008 - Arab world sees U.S. in poor light: poll In contrast to U.S. government views, most Arabs did not see Iran as a major threat and 67 percent considered Tehran had the right to a nuclear program.  

4/14/2008 - Brief incursion by Israeli soldiers into Lebanon: army "A group of five Israeli soldiers on Sunday evening entered 150 metres (yards) inside the area of al-Shaal, east of Kfar Shouba (in southeastern Lebanon) and remained in the area for 10 minutes before leaving," an army statement said.  

4/14/2008 - Hamas and Syria must be included in peace deal: Carter    

4/14/2008 - Hizbullah militants regroup amid war jitters Over the past few weeks, military activity on both sides of the border has contributed to war jitters as both Israel and Hizbullah are seemingly poised to strike.  

4/14/2008 - Israel to connect to US missle early warning system: report The United States has agreed to connect Israel to its ballistic missile early warning system to warn of any missile attack from archfoe Iran, a senior Israeli defence official said on Monday.  

4/14/2008 - Israel can stand up for itself Washington's performance should concern anyone who cares about long-term U.S. influence in the Islamic world. But for Israel (and Israel's supporters), this is an urgent problem. It is Israel, after all, that has been set by the Iranian leadership as the target for annihilation.  

4/14/2008 - Israel fears US will sell F-35 to Saudis while this could pose a major challenge for the IDF, defense officials told the Post on Sunday it also presented Israel with a unique opportunity to ask the Americans for new advanced technology that would not be sold to the Saudis, to enable Israel to retain its qualitative edge in the region.  

4/14/2008 - Israel fears Iran may ship Hezbollah arms via Beirut port Israel is concerned that Iran might start moving weapons to Hezbollah by means of ships that anchor in the Beirut port, government sources in Jerusalem said  

4/14/2008 - US to send $7.2 mln worth of military equipment    

4/14/2008 - Arab world sees U.S. in poor light: poll    



4/12/2008 - Navy ship encounters Iranian boat The USS Typhoon tried unsuccessfully to establish radio contact with the Iranian boat after it came within an estimated 200 yards of the Typhoon on Thursday, outside Iranian territorial waters. A Navy official said the ship then fired the flare and continued on its way without incident.  

4/12/2008 - U.S. sceptical about Iranian nuclear advances Gregory Schulte, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, told reporters they should take "with a grain of salt" comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday.  

4/12/2008 - Report: Iran says Gulf encounter with US not confrontational There has been no confrontation between Iran and United States in the Persian Gulf, official news agency IRNA reported Friday.  

4/12/2008 - Iran cleric rejects Bush's accusations on Iraq    

4/12/2008 - US confrontation with Iran unlikely in Iraq: US defense secretary    

4/12/2008 - Iran-UN nuclear talks postponed A meeting between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency has been postponed, Iranian media have said.  

4/12/2008 - Gates: Iran boosts support for militias   Making the case for war.

4/12/2008 - Hadley: Iran a Threat in Iraq With al-Qaida's influence diminishing in Iraq, U.S. troops have much work to do in stemming Iranian support for militias, President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday.  

4/12/2008 - Cheney cold-shouldered Dick Cheney's belligerence and aggressive anti-Iran rhetoric is driving Arab nations into the arms of Russia  

4/12/2008 - Cheney on the Warpath Again? Cheney also notably refused to comment about any recent conversations he may have had with Israeli leaders about the possibility of their bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. Some observers suspect Cheney of encouraging Israel to attack Iran as a proxy.  

4/12/2008 - New Iran incentives, sanctions unlikely now -Rice    

4/12/2008 - It's Occupation, Not War by Charley Reese As for al-Qaeda, it has been virtually wiped out in Iraq ? not by us, but by Sunni tribesmen who turned against it because of its murderous fanaticism. McCain keeps confusing al-Qaeda with Shia and trying to link it to Iran, but al-Qaeda is a fundamentalist Sunni group way outside the mainstream of Islam.  

4/12/2008 - Bush says no plans to attack Iran: interview "The message to the Iranians is: we will bring you to justice if you continue to try to infiltrate, send your agents or send surrogates to bring harm to our troops and/or the Iraqi citizens," he said.  

4/12/2008 - Crocker: Room at the table for Iran The United States would enter trilateral talks with Iraq and Iran if the Iraqis wanted a round of security talks, the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said.  

4/12/2008 - Spy photos 'show Iran missile site'    

4/12/2008 - More Americans Want to End Iraq War Next Year    

4/12/2008 - Powell: Troops in Iraq must be reduced Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that President Bush's successor will have to come to grips with the reality that the United States cannot continue to keep such large numbers of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.  

4/12/2008 - Iranian, Lebanese officials to skip Doha Forum over Livni's participation    

4/12/2008 - Al-Assad immunity proposal rejected Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday rejected suggestions to offer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad immunity in a U.N. probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in exchange for his help in reining in the militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas.  

4/12/2008 - History brings tourists to Syria Syria has become increasingly popular as a holiday destination in recent years with annual growth in visitor numbers of up to 15%, double what it witnessed in the 1990s.  



4/10/2008 - Petraeus points to war with Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East.....Israel has been hurling invective at Iran and conducting security drills to prepare its population for rocket barrages worse than those Hezbollah delivered in the Lebanon War. Adm. William "Fox" Fallon, the Central Command head who opposed war with Iran, has been removed.  

4/10/2008 - Iran and al Qaeda among greatest threats to U.S.: Bush   Making the case for war. And, according to recent polls, the American sheeple are buying it up (again).

4/10/2008 - Iran says installing 6,000 centrifuges President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, in a new snub to the West which fears Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons.  

4/10/2008 - US-Iran conflict likely to deepen As the Bush administration draws closer to the end of its tenure in office, the prospect of a US military strike against Iran is increasing, partly caused by the serious misjudgment of each other's strategies.  

4/10/2008 - McCain won't rule out pre-emptive war    

4/10/2008 - Lieberman, Bennett, And Kristol See Petraeus Hearing As ?An Argument? For ?Going Into Iran?»    

4/10/2008 - U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.  

4/10/2008 - Petraeus says withdrawal from Iraq would drive up gas prices    

4/10/2008 - Secret US plan for military future in Iraq A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.  

4/10/2008 - Onward the Revolution! by Patrick J. Buchanan What threat did Saddam ever pose comparable to the cataclysm McCain says we face if we pull out? Who, Senator, put American on the horns of so horrible a dilemma?  

4/10/2008 - Netanyahu: 'We won't be able to deter nuclear Iran' "Nothing will stop the Iranians - not the use of force and not a fear of being hit in retaliation," he said, adding that "every Israeli withdrawal from territories it controls leaves room for Iranian terror to enter." Riiight.

4/10/2008 - Iran FM backs Yemen effort to broker Fatah-Hamas thaw    

4/10/2008 - U.N. Official Urged Commission To Study Neocon Role in 9/11 "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don?t think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."  

4/10/2008 - Endless Enemies    

4/10/2008 - Petraeus Says Iranian-Backed Groups Are Greatest Threat to Iraq Shiite militia groups backed by Iran are the greatest long-term threat to Iraq's stability, according to Army General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.  

4/10/2008 - Documents prove FBI has national eavesdropping program that tracks IMs, emails and cell phones The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court.  

4/10/2008 - 2 Camps Trying to Influence McCain on Foreign Policy now one component of the fractious Republican Party foreign policy establishment ? the so-called pragmatists, some of whom have come to view the Iraq war or its execution as a mistake ? is expressing concern that Mr. McCain might be coming under increased influence from a competing camp, the neoconservatives, whose thinking dominated President Bush?s first term and played a pivotal role in building the case for war.  

4/10/2008 - Barak: We have our eyes on Syria, Lebanon    

4/10/2008 - UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border UN peacekeepers in Lebanon began on Friday erecting a barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel to prevent breaches of the "Blue Line" aimed at keeping peace between the two neighbours  



4/8/2008 - Report: US no closer to Iraq goals    

4/8/2008 - Iran signals willingness to talk with US Iran says it's willing to enter another round of talks with the U.S. over security in Iraq.  

4/8/2008 - Iran says US requests more Iraq talks Iran announced on Monday that it had received a "request" from its arch-foe the United States to hold a fourth round of talks on security in Iraq.  

4/8/2008 - Iran signals backing for Iraqi PM in crackdown Iran voiced support on Monday for Iraq's prime minister in a crackdown on a Shi'ite militia but blamed U.S. forces for civilian deaths in the fighting.  

4/8/2008 - Ahmadinejad: US used September 11 as 'pretext' for invasions    

4/8/2008 - Greenspan says US in recession    

4/8/2008 - US veterans have mental health problems: study US military leaders are reported to be concerned by a survey which shows that soldiers who have been sent to Iraq three or four times suffer from mental health problems such as anxiety, depression or acute stress.  

4/8/2008 - Iran 'installing new centrifuges'    

4/8/2008 - Iran condemns Iraq Green Zone attacks Iran's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned for the first time rocket and mortar attacks against the U.S.-controlled Green Zone in Baghdad by supporters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.  

4/8/2008 - Blackwater contract renewal sparks anger in Iraq Iraqis have expressed anger at news the United States has renewed the contract of Blackwater, a private security firm blamed for killing up to 17 people in a shooting incident last year.  

4/8/2008 - Bush urged to focus terror fight on Afghanistan, Pakistan    

4/8/2008 - Israel warns Iran ahead of 'routine' emergency drill "An Iranian attack will lead to a harsh retaliation by Israel, which will lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation," Ben Eliezer said, pointing out that Iran "will not attack Israel so quickly because they understand the ramifications."  

4/8/2008 - Caveat Emptor: Buy McCain, Get Kagan and Woolsey he has chosen his advisers from the ranks of the neocons who conspired using falsehood and fear to hoodwink the U.S. into invading Iraq  

4/8/2008 - Petraeus Testimony to Defend False 'Proxy War' Line A key objective of the congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus this week will be to defend the George W. Bush administration's strategic political line that it is fighting an Iranian "proxy war" in Iraq.  

4/8/2008 - U.N. investigator wants more time in Hariri probe    

4/8/2008 - Israel concerned N. Korean nuclear know-how, material has reached Iran The United States and Israel seek to pressure North Korea to cease its nuclear cooperation with Iran, which is one of the motives behind their agreement to disclose details on the air-force strike in Syria last September.  

4/8/2008 - Swiss reject terror sponsor charge by US Jewish group Switzerland rejected accusations on Tuesday by the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that it could be financing terrorism after a Swiss company clinched a multi-billion euro (dollar) deal to buy natural gas from Iran.  

4/8/2008 - An Evangelical at Armageddon Hagee's remarks, however, have certainly endeared him to Israel's hawks. Ex-Premier and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Hagee's rally in Jerusalem, calling the American Christian Zionists Israel's best friends.  

4/8/2008 - Hizbollah turns to Iran for new weapons to wage war on Israel    

4/8/2008 - Obama Meets The Lobby by Philip Giraldi To be sure, Obama has had to run the gauntlet of the Israel-firsters, imitating every other candidate but Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich in swearing fealty to Tel Aviv's politicians and policies no matter what impact they have on the national interest of the United States.  

4/8/2008 - Hizbullah: IDF preparing for new war    

4/8/2008 - Saudis Believed behind Mughniyeh's Murder, Report    

4/8/2008 - Newspaper: Israeli drill delays Mugniyah report Publication of this report, senior Damascus officials have indicated, could do serious damage to Syria as it would expose the involvement of Arab intelligence officials, as well as that of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese personnel in the Mugniyah assassination  

4/8/2008 - Israeli ministers tested in massive attack scenario Israeli ministers on Monday were to test their response to the scenario of simultaneous attacks from Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as part of a major home front defence drill.  

4/8/2008 - The Barr Factor    



4/6/2008 - Israel seeks to reassure neighbours over missile drill Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to reassure Syria and Lebanon on Sunday that Israel did not want a major missile attack drill to worsen tensions along its northern border.  

4/6/2008 - Israel prepares for future war on three fronts with five-day emergency drill ISRAEL yesterday began a five-day nationwide civil defence exercise that analysts say aims to prepare the country for being bombarded by missiles in a possible future war with Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.  

4/6/2008 - New Blog from The American Conservative    

4/6/2008 - Hezbollah to "follow closely" Israeli drill along Lebanese border    

4/6/2008 - Israel, U.S. plan to release details on Syria attack The view in Washington and in Jerusalem is that publishing details of the attack will bolster Israel's deterrence and may even lead Syria to cool its close ties with Iran and North Korea.  



4/5/2008 - British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes British officials gave warning yesterday that America's commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran's intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment  

4/5/2008 - Gates says U.S. wants diplomacy to solve Iran disputes Governments in the Gulf are concerned that tensions between the United States and Iran could lead to a military conflict  

4/5/2008 - Feith: We invaded Iraq because we were afraid they'd attack us   Wow. The BS gets ever thicker. Feith should be sitting in a 12x12 for his role in this.

4/5/2008 - UPDATE: Putin: Iran Should Be Helped, Not Threatened - AFP "No one can seriously think that Iran would dare attack the U.S.," a source in the Russian delegation at the NATO-Russia summit in Bucharest quoted Putin as telling leaders. "Instead of pushing Iran into a corner, it would be far more sensible to think together how to help Iran become more predictable and transparent."  

4/5/2008 - Russia's Putin joins NATO for unprecedented sumit    

4/5/2008 - Iran helped end Iraq fighting - Iraq party adviser    

4/5/2008 - Strategic Manure by Charley Reese What are all those Navy ships in the Persian Gulf doing?  

4/5/2008 - Aluminum Tubes ? The Sequel    

4/5/2008 - Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq fly to Chile    



4/4/2008 - Ritter says White House preparing for war in Iran there is an 80 percent chance of war with Iran, he told about 200 people Wednesday at Middlebury College as part of a series of talks facilitated by the Vermont Peace and Justice Center.....Everyone needs to start understanding and caring about their Constitutional rights, and everyone needs to start finding the facts for themselves and taking strong individual stands, Ritter said. If you do nothing but take in what the TV and newspapers tell you, "all you're going to get in return is puke." Right on.

4/4/2008 - Huge job losses set off recession alarms    

4/4/2008 - Iran assembles more advanced centrifuges The diplomats say more than 300 centrifuges have been linked up in two units and a third unit is being worked on. They spoke on condition of anonymity because their information is confidential.  

4/4/2008 - Lawmakers heavily invested in defense    

4/4/2008 - US defence chief in Oman for talks with sultan US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Oman on Friday for talks with Sultan Qaboos, the ruler of this key Gulf state which faces Iran across the strategic Strait of Hormuz.  

4/4/2008 - Ahmadinejad says uranium enrichment 'non-negotiable': report Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published Friday that he would reject any new incentives offered by world powers in return for suspending uranium enrichment.  

4/4/2008 - U.K. suspects' videos say attacks on jets would avenge wars in Iraq, Afghanistan    

4/4/2008 - Pentagon to shut domestic spying office    

4/4/2008 - Iran cleric says Israel behind anti-Islam Dutch film    

4/4/2008 - Israel: Iran listening in on IDF communications from Syria Iran has set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications, Israeli security officials said Tuesday  

4/4/2008 - Syria: We choose peace, but we're ready for Israeli attack    

4/4/2008 - China to build oil refinery in Syria near alleged nuclear plant bombed by Israel    

4/4/2008 - Lebanon PM wary of Israeli manoeuvres Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora warned on Friday that Israel could exploit major military exercises to exacerbate tensions along the volatile border between the two countries.  

4/4/2008 - Israel's Tehran connection    

4/4/2008 - 40 killed by Israeli cluster bombs in Lebanon Forty people have been killed and 252 wounded by Israeli cluster bombs dropped during the 2006 war in Lebanon, the UN demining organisation said on Friday.  

4/4/2008 - New global push sought to scrap chemical weapons Nations including Syria, Iraq and Israel should join a landmark pact for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons as they serve hardly any security or strategic purpose, a watchdog agency said on Friday.  

4/4/2008 - Gifts for the Palestinians, and Questions   Here's a question for The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: for whose national security are you working?

4/4/2008 - UN officer reported Israeli war crimes before deadly bombing: widow A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging "a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people" shortly before he was killed by an Israeli bomb in Lebanon, said his widow.  



4/3/2008 - Saudi Arabia is prime source of terror funds, U.S. says Saudi Arabia remains the world's leading source of money for Al Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. officials to stem the flow, the Bush administration's top financial counter-terrorism official said Tuesday  

4/3/2008 - Clinton on The Sidelines of Efforts To End The Iraq War    

4/3/2008 - Report warns of Saudi Arabia and Turkey possibly joining in a nuclear arms race The report says the Saudis would most likely develop nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them. High-level American diplomats in Riyadh say an Iranian nuclear weapon frightens the Saudis "to their core."  

4/3/2008 - NATO approves US missile defence shield plans NATO has approved US plans for part of a controversial missile defence shield to be stationed in the Czech Republic, but Russia is strongly opposed to the plan.  

4/3/2008 - Iran installs advanced nuclear centrifuges diplomats said.  

4/3/2008 - Maryland Senate passes Iran bill Maryland's Senate passed an Iran divestment bill.  

4/3/2008 - Israel fears Syrian army moves may signal Hezbollah attack According to defense sources in Israel, the Syrians are preparing for the likelihood that Israel's response to a Hezbollah attack will be severe and may result in a regional confrontation.  

4/3/2008 - McCain Calls for U.S. Military Buildup Without Draft McCain didn't give a specific goal for a military expansion or mention the potential price tag.  

4/3/2008 - Al Qaeda #2: We'll Attack Iran    

4/3/2008 - New bill prohibits economic ties with Iran    

4/3/2008 - Israel dismisses "tensions" following Syrian reserve call-up Israeli government and military officials unanimously rejected speculations that Syria was preparing for an offensive against Israel, and said Israel was not preparing one either.  

4/3/2008 - Are You Listening, Joe Lieberman? Sen. Joe Lieberman, another McCain backer, not only spoke to Christians United for Israel's big gathering last summer, he compared Hagee to the biblical Moses as someone who "has become the leader of a mighty multitude in pursuit of and defense of Israel."  



4/2/2008 - Grilling Petraeus We asked a dozen national security experts what Congress should ask the top military commander in Iraq at next week's hearings. Here's what they came up with.  

4/2/2008 - UN enemy of Islam: Al-Qaeda number two He warned the Palestinians of agreeing to any peace deal "which calls for setting up a Palestinian state on the parts of Palestine which were occupied after 1967 and forgetting the parts of Palestine which were stolen before that."  

4/2/2008 - IDF Deputy Chief vows 'painful' response to any attack on Israel Harel's words came during a briefing for reporters at a Tel Aviv army base, hours after London-based Arabic-language daily Al Quds al-Arabi reported that the Syrian army was calling up part of its reserves over fears of an IDF offensive.  

4/2/2008 - Arabs without oil hard hit by food price spiral    

4/2/2008 - Israel hosts NATO naval drill Six NATO frigates commanded by a Turkish admiral arrived Monday in Haifa for a joint drill with Israeli Navy missile boats.  

4/2/2008 - Israel says Syria nuclear base was raid target    



4/1/2008 - Delusional Bush Dances Toward War Why attack Iran? Israeli officials have not been reluctant to insist publicly that they want our impressionable president to take care of their Iran problem before he leaves office.....Bush's open-ended rhetorical commitment to defend Israel if attacked could spell big trouble. If Iran were to strike Israel, Bush has said, "We will defend our ally, no ifs, ands, or buts." That is great rhetoric; trouble is that it surrenders the initiative to the Israelis, who have it within their power to provoke the Iranians.  

4/1/2008 - Is Another 9/11 Inevitable?    

4/1/2008 - The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War By Zbigniew Brzezinski    

4/1/2008 - Hezbollah rejects Saudi criticism over Lebanon crisis Hezbollah on Tuesday rejected criticism by Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, who has blamed the opposition for obstructing a solution to Lebanon's long-running political crisis.  

4/1/2008 - Hamas leader says Israel is exaggerating militant group's strength to justify assaults The exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, has said that Israel exaggerates the Palestinian militant group's military strength, accusing the Jewish state of seeking to spark a war against Hamas and the Lebanese guerrilla force Hezbollah.  




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