2005 archive
08-31-05 - Europe to hold off on sanctions if Iran referred to UN over nuclear work Non-aligned states as well as Russia and China oppose a confrontation over Iran, preferring to try to resolve the crisis diplomatically, especially since the Iranians are doing only preliminary fuel work and not yet making the enriched uranium that can power civilian reactors or be the raw material for atom bombs.
08-31-05 - Iran's top nuclear negotiator says committed to international regulations
08-31-05 - Iran eyes Indian support as nuclear row escalates India has so far merely said that Iran should abide by its international obligations but has refused to join Western condemnation of its nuclear program.
08-31-05 - Hariri probe boosts Syria pressure The recent developments led some to predict Washington would use the information to increase pressure on Syria, which the United States claims is supporting Islamic militants battling U.S. forces in Iraq and Palestinian militants in their fight with Israel.
08-31-05 - Conservatism: A house divided by Patrick J. Buchanan The neoconservative position, to make promoting democracy the altarpiece of our foreign policy, to increase U.S. forces in Iraq, and to extend the war to Iran and Syria to win it, appears no longer to be Bush policy.
08-31-05 - Lebanon police raid 'Hariri bomb plot apartment'
08-31-05 - Israel and 9/11: New Report Connects the Dots "Why the Israeli government decided not to share with us all the critical information they had, and the extent of that information, is a subject for the public inquiry. " Must read.
08-31-05 - Bolton Voices Opposition to U.N. Proposals Bolton also pressed for changes in the U.N. document that would ensure that U.S. or Israeli forces would not be exposed to terrorism charges if they killed or injured civilians during military operations. Bolton wrote that the "scope" of the terrorism provision should be limited to "terrorist actions," not "military activities that are appropriately governed by international humanitarian law." Arab governments have insisted for years that the Israeli army has engaged in "state terrorism" against Palestinian civilians. I ask again, just who is Bolton representing?
08-31-05 - Ex-Iraqi Jews want compensation they hope the demand at least can serve as a bargaining chip in future peace talks over compensation for Palestinian refugees who fled during Israel?s 1948 War of Independence.
08-31-05 - Outside View: Women nurturing hope Had they been able, both Palestinian and Iraqi women would have joined Sheehan in her anti-war movement
08-30-05 - U.N. Names Lebanon Assassination Suspects The United Nations named four pro-Syrian generals and a former legislator as suspects Tuesday in the February assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
08-30-05 - The War Party Unhinged
08-29-05 - Chirac urges disarmament of Hizbullah
08-29-05 - Bolton wants '11th hour' changes to UN reform plan
08-29-05 - Iran claims new nuclear breakthrough
08-29-05 - Chirac urges Iran to reconsider EU nuclear offer
08-29-05 - Army official who questioned Halliburton deal reported demoted A top US Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq has been demoted for what the Army called poor job performance
08-29-05 - Iran's oil gambit - and potential affront to the US The Iranian government's plans to create an oil exchange fit into a strategy of weakening US economic hegemony.
08-29-05 - Iraq charter a 'recipe for chaos' the Arab League shared Sunni Muslim concerns over federalism and the fact the charter does not identify Iraq as an Arab country.
08-29-05 - High-stakes showdown looms on Iran
08-29-05 - Martin Sheen, Rev. Al Sharpton Visit Iraq Mom In Crawford?
08-29-05 - Israel asks EU to shun contacts with Hezbollah, Hamas
08-29-05 - Pollack named in AIPAC probe Pollack said he did not give the two men any classified information.
08-28-05 - Iran Rejects Negotiations With Europe
08-28-05 - Assad says Syria to cooperate fully in Hariri probe
08-28-05 - U.S. sanctions still in place in spite of military exports deal The Chinese are certain to demand compensation in the hundreds of millions of dollars, as was the case when the U.S. forced Israel to rescind its sale of Phalcon reconnaissance aircraft to China. Well, evidently they didn't learn their lesson the first time. And thus have nobody to blame but themselves.
08-28-05 - Hizbullah expects U.S. and Israeli pressures to continue
08-27-05 - Iran promises 'breakthrough' in nuclear talks
08-27-05 - Drone crashes in Iran It was not clear if the plane was Iranian or foreign, although the influential Kayhan newspaper pointed out that "usually these sort of planes are used for spying on other countries".
08-27-05 - Iraq reconstruction shows 'limited progress' Problems with audit and transparency continued after the handover of power on June 28 [2004] and after the elections in January [2005]. They are well recognised by the new regime. Major western NGOs are finding the lack of transparency is a greater problem than security when operating in Iraq. They have seen significant amounts of money spent with few appreciable results, except in the Kurdish north
08-27-05 - Britain heads for clash with US A source close to the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan said it was too early to declare the UN plan dead. "Bolton wants to knock down the plan and start from scratch," the source said. "He will find that his opinions are not shared by most of the rest of the world."
08-27-05 - Iran hopes to present new nuclear plan in a month
08-27-05 - Egypt Turns Down Nuclear Treaty Request Egypt's foreign minister on Saturday turned down a request from the world's nuclear watchdog to sign a treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons, saying Israel should first join a separate agreement calling for a halt to the spread of atomic bombs.
08-27-05 - It's not Israel that's driving Tehran to nukes
08-26-05 - Syria says ready to cooperate with UN Hariri probe
08-26-05 - Iran negotiator meets IAEA chief
08-26-05 - Iran's Growing Sway in Iraq Defies Neocons' Logic
08-26-05 - UAE group plans Damascus world trade center
08-26-05 - Iran seeking nuclear bomb "booster," say exiles
08-26-05 - Bush: Terrorists converging on Iraq, US must stay
08-26-05 - GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over
08-26-05 - Ambassador Bolton Praised for Effective Action against U.N. Funding of Palestinian Propaganda Neocon Bolton pleases his American Jewish Congress
08-25-05 - The US vs The UN American ambassador seeks to scupper UN's global strategy with 750 amendments after just three weeks in the job
08-25-05 - Iran promises new nuclear proposals
08-25-05 - IAEA to meet Iran nuclear broker
08-25-05 - With Bush's man installed, is this the end of diplomacy? judging from his few weeks in New York, Mr Bolton is not at the UN to negotiate
08-25-05 - UN Security Council urges Syria to fully cooperate in probe of Hariri murder
08-25-05 - Taking Iran to UN not seen as magic solution to nuclear crisis
08-25-05 - US and EU to make no early move over Iranian nuclear programme
08-25-05 - Killing the dollar in Iran Weaned off the almighty commodity, the US dollar can have a deeper impact on the US economy than a direct nuclear attack by Iran
08-25-05 - Recanting the War The neocons can't keep their troops in line
08-25-05 - Hizbullah denies firing rocket into Israel
08-25-05 - Dying for Israel
08-25-05 - CBS Affiliate Will Not Air Sheehan Ad Because There Is ?No Proof? Of Absence Of WMD In Iraq...
08-25-05 - Ambassador Bolton?s Very Exclusive Reception
08-25-05 - Chinese Presence Grows in Russian Far East
08-25-05 - Fitzpatrick departs on weeklong visit to Israel And the Israelization of the United States continues.
08-24-05 - Navy Captain Backs Able Danger Claims
08-24-05 - Returned Iraq soldiers face 'physical, mental risks' US combat troops, traumatised by their experiences in Iraq, may suffer long-term damage to their physical health, as well as known risks to their mental well-being, the British magazine New Scientist warns.
08-24-05 - US dismisses Iran nuclear report
08-24-05 - Iran Set to Offer New Nuclear Proposals
08-24-05 - 'Peace Mom' Returns to Texas War Protest
08-24-05 - An Islamic Republic of Iraq? Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq was a centralised and largely secular state.
08-24-05 - Is Cindy Sheehan "Anti-Semite"?
08-24-05 - IMI to supply ammunition to U.S. army in $300 million deal The Yitzhak factory produces light ammunition principally for American forces operating in Iraq, the Israel Defense Forces, the police and the Israeli defense establishment, as well as various western European clients.
08-23-05 - Iraq Draft Could Sow Seeds of Conflict
08-23-05 - US says Iran cannot be let off hook over nuclear charges
08-23-05 - EU calls off nuclear meeting with Iran
08-23-05 - Chinese, Russian Troops Join War Games Nearly 9,000 Russian and Chinese troops began a mock assault on the beaches of northern China Tuesday in the final stage of unprecedented joint war games between the two former Cold War rivals
08-23-05 - Bush: Iraq withdrawal would weaken US At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was asked about Sheehan's vigil and what he would say to her if he had the chance.
08-23-05 - Why Are We In Iraq?
08-23-05 - Plea reinstated in JDL case A U.S. judge reinstated a plea deal in the case of a Jewish radical accused of bomb plots against Muslim targets.
08-23-05 - Douglas Feith, radical Zionist
08-23-05 - New questions on AIPAC case The defendants and AIPAC supporters see the new revelations as evidence that federal prosecutors are targeting the powerful pro-Israel lobby for simply conducting the normal Washington practice of trading sensitive information. It's got to be anti-Semitism, not the fact that AIPAC is a foreign lobby. That's it!
08-22-05 - Republican senator likens Iraq war to Vietnam A decorated Vietnam War veteran, Hagel also said the war in Iraq had further destabilized the Middle East and the White House needed to find an exit strategy for Iraq.
08-22-05 - The Iraq war 'tipping point'?
08-22-05 - Two wounded as blast rocks Christian suburb near Beirut
08-22-05 - September 11 panel received no Pentagon data on key hijacker: ex-chairman The panel investigating the September 11 attacks in the United States was not given details of a Pentagon program that allegedly marked suspected ringleader Mohammed Atta as an Al-Qaeda member a year before the attacks, the commission's ex-chairman said.
08-22-05 - 4 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghan Assault
08-22-05 - Lord Howell says Hizbullah's weapons are Lebanon's affair
08-22-05 - UN investigator seeks more time for Hariri probe
08-22-05 - Iraqi draft says laws must conform to Islam
08-22-05 - Sharon: Hero and Goat of Gaza by Patrick J. Buchanan Who do these people think they are? Were it not for the Israeli army, they would not have lasted a week in Gaza. Gratitude isn't the long suit of the Zionist fanatic, two of whom murdered Palestinians to protest the removal of Jews from lands that do not and have never belonged to Israel.
08-21-05 - Iran's Leader Raps Europeans Over Nuke Talks
08-21-05 - Saddam says he'd sacrifice his life for Arab cause
08-20-05 - Soldier 'instructed' to abuse Abu Ghraib prisoners
08-20-05 - Iran says open to new EU nuclear proposals, but will not resume freeze
08-20-05 - Sino-Russian war games move on to China
08-20-05 - Bush invokes Sept 11 to defend Iraq war President George W. Bush launched a counter-offensive against growing public discontent over Iraq on Saturday, when he defended the war as a way of protecting Americans from another September 11 attack, a message he will reinforce when he takes to the road next week.
08-20-05 - High-Ranking Military Officer Warns Of Major Terrorist Attack Looming; Cheney Consumed Day And Night With Nuclear Retaliation In Iran
08-20-05 - NY Times: Satterfield named in AIPAC indictment According to the Times, another American official cited in the indictment has since resigned from government service. However, the Times did not give this official's name.
08-20-05 - Bush's 'bruiser' squares up to UN in row over Palestinian propaganda How are America's interests being served here? Who do our government officials represent?
08-20-05 - U.S. sheriffs learn from Israel JINSA's mission is to elucidate the important role Israel can play in bolstering American interests as well as the link between American
defense policy and the security of Israel. Following the September 11 attacks
08-20-05 - David Horowitz Gloats Over Cindy Sheehan's Mom's Stroke
08-20-05 - Bolton's Back Bolton's back - serving the interests of whom? Israel.
08-20-05 - Antiwar Populism: The Floodgates Open
08-19-05 - A new Taliban has re-emerged in Afghanistan
08-19-05 - UN nuke agency to clear Iran on uranium charge, diplomats say
08-19-05 - Khamenei: Iran Won't Stop Nuke Enrichment
08-19-05 - Putin calls for Iraq pullout timetable
08-19-05 - Pentagon Hid September 11 Attackers from the FBI
08-19-05 - Rocket strike targets US in Jordan
08-19-05 - Street-fighting 'Neo-Con'
08-19-05 - Chinese-Russian Military Exercises Begin The war games are the result of strengthening ties between Russia and China over shared concern about U.S. dominance of world affairs.
08-19-05 - US anti-war movement gains steam
08-19-05 - John Nichols: Pro-war folks' attacks show desperation
08-19-05 - Anti-Semite accuses Sheehan of anti-Semitism
08-19-05 - Ex-AIPAC Staffers Fight Charges
08-18-05 - Iran advancing nuclear program despite suspensions
08-18-05 - Putin calls for Iraq pullout timetable
08-18-05 - U.S., Israel sign deal on defense exports
08-18-05 - U.S. Diplomat Is Named in Secrets Case The second-highest diplomat at the United States Embassy in Baghdad is one of the anonymous government officials cited in an Aug. 4 indictment as having provided classified information to an employee of a pro-Israel lobbying group, people who have been officially briefed on the case said Wednesday.
08-18-05 - Success in Gaza could give Bush big lift in region
08-17-05 - Iran warns EU over nuclear pressure
08-17-05 - Use of force to resolve Iran nuclear row 'dangerous': Russia
08-17-05 - Russia says opposes use of force against Iran Russia warned on Wednesday against using force to stop Iran's nuclear program, saying any such action would have grave and unpredictable consequences
08-17-05 - US right targets anti-war mother
08-17-05 - The military strike option against Iran Experts disagree about possible effect of US or Israeli preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
08-17-05 - War takes toll on Iraqi mental health The invasion of Iraq put an end to decades of repression under Saddam Hussein, but it also took a physical toll on the country, with hundreds of thousands killed or wounded.
08-17-05 - The coming war on Iran?
08-17-05 - US sets last-minute drive to scrap UN reform plan
08-17-05 - Mixed Signals On Divestment Front? ?While Democrats are busy making Cindy Sheehan their spokesman and avatar of their views, we see her as yet another example of how critics of Israel within the Democratic Party have taken control of the party?s agenda.?
08-17-05 - Sheehan Reportedly Links Iraq, Israel
08-17-05 - Sheehan reportedly made anti-Israel comments
08-17-05 - In Defense of Cindy Sheehan You don't have to be Jewish to put Israel first, even over and above your own country, as the Christian fundamentalists of the Darbyite persuasion have made all too painfully plain.
08-17-05 - Cindy Sheehan: Anti-war catalyst by Patrick J. Buchanan
08-17-05 - One of the Reasons for the War on Iraq Israel is very clearly one of the reasons for the war on Iraq.
08-17-05 - Palestinian Banners Fuel U.N. Dispute The United Nations is embroiled in a dispute with American Jewish organizations over the funding of Palestinian banners in Gaza, and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Wednesday protested the "unacceptable" payments.
08-16-05 - Survey reveals US concerns on Iraq, Muslim relations They believed the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans over Iraq's weapons capabilities when it went to war in 2003.
08-16-05 - Getting the story straight on Plame case The pundits are wrong, however, and their casual summaries of the requirements of the 1982 statute betray a fundamental misunderstanding regarding proof of criminal intent
08-16-05 - Rumsfeld reiterates Iran weapons smuggling claim US forces have found Iranian weapons inside Iraq on more than one occasion over the past couple of months, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says.
08-16-05 - Russia and China meld muscle for war games Refer back to what Buchanan said in yesterday's article a few links down.
08-16-05 - Iran nuclear chief vows to press on with fuel work
08-16-05 - Tehran rules out resumption of ties with US
08-16-05 - Iranians form human chain at disputed nuclear plant
08-16-05 - Crosses vandalized at antiwar mom's Texas camp site A pickup truck ran over wooden crosses erected at anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan's campsite on Monday night, in the latest sign of tension over the peace vigil outside vacationing President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.
08-16-05 - The Judy File: Miller?s UN-likely Visitor Bolton apparently has a warm spot in his heart for at least one journalist: none other than Judy Miller.
08-16-05 - Syrian president plans to visit U.N. for first time
08-16-05 - Bush Against the Generals If the troops are going into Iran ? or, as some say, Syria ? then bringing them home is out of the question. Is the president facing an officers' rebellion as he ratchets up the rhetoric against Tehran?
08-16-05 - Pro-Israeli lobbyists, U.S. analyst plead not guilty
08-16-05 - Iran to be nuclear capable in three years: Israel spy chief Our intel says something different. Who are you going to believe this time - who provided the 'intel' on Iraq's WMDs? Same camp.
08-16-05 - Israel, US resolve row over China arms deal "Further measures will be taken in the coming months to reestablish confidence," the statement added without giving details.
08-16-05 - U.S. Nuclear Weapons Being "Guarded" by Israel
08-15-05 - Is this Iran crisis for real? Patrick J. Buchanan If the council then rejects sanctions, but America and her NATO allies impose them, the world will be divided between Russia-China-Iran on one side and the United States and its backers on the other. It would be interesting to see how many U.S. allies are willing to support sanctions on the third-largest oil producer on earth when oil is running at $65 a barrel
08-15-05 - How Bush would gain from war with Iran War with Iran next spring can enable them to win the mid-term elections and retain control of the Republican party, now in partial rebellion over Iraq
08-15-05 - Reality check for Bush administration in Iraq The Bush administration is "significantly" lowering expectations about what it can achieve in Iraq, finally admitting that its prewar plans were "unrealistic," the Washington Post reported on Sunday
08-15-05 - Responding to Bush, Iran says has more war options than U.S. Iran notched up the rhetorical battle with the United States on Sunday, declaring its options, if attacked by Washington, far exceeded those of the Americans
08-15-05 - NY assemblyman sneaks into Gaza This is his fifth trip to the area since January. He said he came to stand in solidarity with the residents in their most difficult hour.
Dov Hikind is the same individual that called for racial profiling in NYC. That he is a settler-supporter should come as no surprise.
08-15-05 - Get Ready for World War III Israel, which is loaded with nuclear weapons and is not a signatory to the nuclear pacts, is the accuser against Iran, asserting that Iran's nuclear energy program is just a veil behind which to produce weapons.
08-15-05 - Israel calls for end to hostility at United Nations Why Bolton was REALLY nominated to his post - his unwavering support of the Jewish State.
08-14-05 - UN tests back Iran on nuke traces: diplomat Tests by the UN nuclear watchdog appear to confirm that traces of weapons-grade uranium found in Iran came from abroad, reinforcing Iran's assertion it does not seek atomic weapons.
08-14-05 - Hundreds join anti-war protest at Bush ranch
08-14-05 - Iran Seeks Talks With Europe on Uranium
08-14-05 - Iran accuses US, Britain over ethnic clashes "We have information that the United States is interfering in the northwest of Iran. That is unacceptable and we are going to protest,"
08-14-05 - McCain: Iran Military Option Must Be Kept Here is McCain on Hardball in December of 2001 telling Chris Matthews how America should take care of threats to Israel (Saddam), halfway down the page.
08-14-05 - US urges Iran, Syria to stop flow of insurgents, weapons undermining Iraq Khalilzad told NBC television that "Syria is the most serious troublemaker with regards to Iraq. Iran is the second one."
08-14-05 - Cindy Sheehan: I won't pay tax Mother of slain soldier labels Bush 'maniac,' calls for impeachment, Israel out of Palestine
08-13-05 - UN nuclear watchdog rebuts claims that Iran is trying to make A-bomb
08-13-05 - Germany's Schroeder rejects military option on Iran
08-13-05 - Three Syrian officers questioned over Hariri murder: report
08-13-05 - Bush Turns The Screw In Iran Row German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, launching an election campaign, urged him to reconsider. Mr Schroeder, a leading critic of the Iraq war, said: "We have seen that (force) is not suitable."
08-13-05 - Fearing backlash, Pentagon moves to block new Abu Ghraib photos
08-13-05 - Deep Background The Chalabi connection is also a major element in the FBI investigation of AIPAC, which led to the recent indictment of Department of Defense analyst Larry Franklin
08-13-05 - Report: Militants will move from Lebanon to Gaza after pullout The report states that the transfer of the militants will meet international calls to dismantle militias operating in Lebanon, as demanded by United Nations resolution 1559.
08-13-05 - Is Bolton the unnamed individual in the AIPAC scandal?
08-13-05 - Bush: U.S., Israel united in making sure Iran doesn't get nuclear weapons
08-13-05 - Israeli hawks circle Iran's N-plants
08-12-05 - Audit: Fraud drained $1 billion from Iraq's defense efforts
08-12-05 - Iran ex-president warns IAEA resolution will 'cost' the West
08-12-05 - EU has few options as Iran talks near collapse
08-12-05 - U.S. report warns of China sub threat
08-12-05 - Mother's message eventually sinks in
08-12-05 - Oil tops $67 as US demand soars
08-12-05 - Bush refuses to rule out force against Iran Bush was speaking from his ranch in Crawford, Texas to a reporter from Israeli public television....Israel has been prodding Washington to adopt a tough stance on Iran and charged that Iran resumed its uranium conversion activities because it had sensed the "weakness" of the international community
08-12-05 - Ranks Swelling At Camp Crawford
08-12-05 - New U.S. ambassador to United Nations meets his Israeli counterpart Dan Gillerman Bolton has had a long-standing sympathy for Israel and has taken pains to develop friendships with Israeli officials. One of his close Israeli friends is Ron Prossor, the director-general of the Foreign Ministry, who served previously in Washington.
08-12-05 - Abramoff duo quits U.S. Two former associates of Jack Abramoff, the embattled lobbyist, left the country Monday night en route to a new life in Israel. The relocation comes as a Justice Department taskforce presses forward with an investigation into potential criminal wrongdoing stemming from Abramoff?s business dealings.
08-11-05 - Iran says no to UN call to halt nuclear fuel work
08-11-05 - Iran leader to be granted US visa President George Bush has said Iran's new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be allowed into the US to attend a UN meeting in New York next month.
08-11-05 - UN watchdog calls on Iran to halt nuclear fuel work; Iran says no
08-11-05 - Envoys: Iran Faces Sept. Deadline on Nukes
08-11-05 - Cheney's Man Slated to Replace Feith A career diplomat and foreign policy operative, Eric S. Edelman has just replaced the controversial Douglas Feith at the Pentagon as the new undersecretary of defense for policy, having been appointed by President Bush during a congressional recess. Feith replaced by yet another neocon. Bad news for America.
08-11-05 - Canadian sent to Syria sues US over rendition policy The New York Times reported that the government lawyers also argued that "foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food ..."
08-11-05 - Iraq Investigates Weapons Allegations
08-11-05 - Mom's war protest gains momentum
08-11-05 - The Real AIPAC Spy Ring Story as the Jewish weekly The Forward reported earlier this year. Americans don't like the sight of their elected officials pocketing campaign cash from foreign governments, and AIPAC fears being forced to register formally as a lobbyist for Israel would thus diminish their clout on Capitol Hill
08-11-05 - Stones target 'hypocrite' patriots in new song
08-10-05 - Iran Resumes Full Conversion Operations
08-10-05 - Watchdog cancels Iran nuclear meeting
08-10-05 - Iran warns against Security Council referral
08-10-05 - Iraqi: Iran Smuggling Reports Exaggerated Iraq's interior minister said Wednesday that reports of deadly roadside bombs being smuggled into this country from Iran are exaggerated
08-10-05 - Atomic watchdog sticks to diplomacy with Iran
08-10-05 - Iraqis thirst for water and power
08-10-05 - Oil prices return to record highs
08-10-05 - Forces Watch for 'Mule Trains' Along Syria
08-10-05 - AJC: End to Israel Obsession is a Key to UN Reform
08-10-05 - U.S.-Israel Tensions Rising On Eve of Disengagement Last week, Jerusalem said it would not allow its diplomats to be interviewed on the case by FBI investigators. ....Unidentified Israeli sources were quoted in The New York Times last week complaining that Rice had been "forceful and even abrupt in her dealings with senior Israeli officials."
08-10-05 - How Foreign Lobbies Imperil America That the FBI has apparently been investigating this bunch since 1999 sheds light on the enormity of the case; the more we learn, the more it seems that US foreign policy is under the control of those who wish to secure the realm ? the Israeli one, that is.
08-10-05 - Larry Franklin Case: AIPAC Leaders Snared As the result of the blowback from the Pollard affair, according to the U.S. intelligence sources, Israel shifted its espionage operations targetted at the United States to think-tanks and lobbying organizations like AIPAC, which have ongoing "legitimate" contacts with American government officials.
08-10-05 - No Sympathy for the Neocons Mick Jagger runs with the 'neocon' meme
08-10-05 - Indictment of former AIPAC staffers raises the prospect of a day in court A source close to the defense said that one of the U.S. officials involved, who has not been indicted, was recently appointed to a senior Bush administration post.
08-09-05 - UN watchdog meets over Iranian nuclear work
08-09-05 - Iran urged to stop nuclear work
08-09-05 - Bomb cache found in Iraq believed to be from Iranian Revolutionary Guard: official
08-09-05 - Iran's wish to return to talks is 'positive' - Bush
08-09-05 - Rep. John Conyers: Why Won't Scooter Libby Grant Judith Miller a Personal Waiver?
08-09-05 - Bush Suspicious of Iran's Nuke Ambitions President Bush said Tuesday he was "deeply suspicious" of Iran but was not ready to seek United Nations sanctions against Tehran for its suspected nuclear weapons program
08-09-05 - Dissident: Tehran Has 4,000 Centrifuges
08-09-05 - Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds
08-09-05 - US may build up force in Iraq for the elections: Pentagon Or is it a pretext for something else?
08-09-05 - Iranian Leader Appoints Nuclear Negotiator
08-09-05 - 'Secret military unit tracked hijackers before 9/11' The secret military team, known as Able Danger, recommended that the identities of the four men be shared with the FBI and other parts of the military, but the recommendation was never taken up
08-09-05 - Officers and Veterans Defy Every American who cares about our troops, our security and our international prestige should know why the J.A.G.?s were so deeply concerned about the direction taken by the Bush administration
08-09-05 - Why AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Rove
08-09-05 - Shebaa withdrawal rumors and new UN resolution fail to sway Hizbullah
08-09-05 - Bigger Than AIPAC Buchanan's prediction on the latest edition of the McLaughlin Group: "The Israeli spy scandal will metastasize seriously. " Not sure if this scandal is what he was referring to..
08-08-05 - Iran resumes atomic work, escalates crisis
08-08-05 - US presses UN action against Iran
08-08-05 - Oil prices hit record highs
08-08-05 - Iraqi soldiers fear leaving training base
08-08-05 - The Neocons' Childish Theory
08-08-05 - Top civilian in Army Corps of Engineers blows whistle, and may lose her job She has asked many questions: Why is Halliburton -- a giant Texas firm that holds more than 50 percent of all rebuilding efforts in Iraq -- getting billions in contracts without competitive bidding? Do the durations of those contracts make sense? Have there been violations of federal laws regulating how the government can spend its money?
08-08-05 - Iran: Revolution, Unrealistic
08-08-05 - Israel lobbyist bragged about Pentagon source
08-07-05 - 'Shared threats' bring Syria and Iran together: Ahmadinejad Iran's new President Mahmood Ahmadinejad welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran, vowing to strengthen ties between the two countries brought together by "shared threats."
08-07-05 - Iran denies Iraqi roadside bomb involvement
08-07-05 - Iran vows no way back from nuclear move
08-07-05 - Iran not worried about Security Council referral
08-07-05 - Iran won't be intimidated, new president says
08-07-05 - Iraq hammers Bush's poll rating The survey by Newsweek magazine indicated only 34 per cent of Americans approved of the way Mr Bush was handling the situation in Iraq, while 61 percent expressed their disapproval.
08-07-05 - Fool me once, shame on you The bizarre report by Jim Miklaszewski of NBC news that US military sources are saying Iran is the source of more sophisticated bombs used by Sunni Arab guerrillas in Iraq seems so unbelievable because it is.
08-07-05 - The Meeting Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column. And Patrick Fitzgerald is very interested.
08-07-05 - Saudis warned of terrorist threat to London: reports
08-07-05 - Iran, Ledeen, Rove, AIPAC, and more
08-07-05 - For hire: elite Israeli squad who can break you out of jail
08-07-05 - China says Israel ties damaged by US meddling in arms deal "We are angry about the US interference. This is another example of American hegemony. Clearly, this is a breach of international trade laws,"
08-06-05 - Iran turns down EU nuclear offer
08-06-05 - Some Iraq bombs made in Iran -NYTimes report
08-06-05 - Syria's Assad to visit Iran
08-06-05 - UN team heading to Iran with nuclear monitoring equipment
08-06-05 - Syria doubts Lebanon pledges to improve ties: minister
08-06-05 - Use of Espionage Law in Secrets Case Troubles Analysts Israeli apologists on the scene at the NYT.
08-05-05 - US supports EU Iran nuclear plan The US says it backs a European proposal to allow Iran to develop a civilian nuclear programme if it stops its uranium enrichment activities.
08-05-05 - Crisis brews as Iran rejects EU proposal; UN watchdog to meet
08-05-05 - General: Iran Influence Only Speculation The remark by Maj. Gen. Jim B. Dutton of the British Royal Marines contrasted with criticisms of Iran by U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who have said repeatedly that Iran is interfering in Iraq's internal affairs
08-05-05 - EU Offers to Back Iran Nuclear Energy
08-05-05 - Lebanon urged to deploy troops on southern border Beirut had refused to deploy its forces in the south after Israel ended its 22-year occupation in the country in May 2000 on the ground that Israel still occupies a farming area in the region.
08-05-05 - Who's Behind the Coming War With Iran? Giraldi notes that the neoconservatives have made no secret of the fact that Iran is next on the hit list, and that they want a full-scale clash of civilizations. An unprovoked nuclear attack on Iran by the U.S., or by Israel itself, as Dick Cheney suggested on Inauguration Day, is a sure way to guarantee one.
08-05-05 - US may deny visa for Iran leader's UN address The Bush administration is considering taking the unprecedented step of preventing a visting head of state from addressing the United Nations in New York by denying a visa to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran's new elected conservative president
08-05-05 - US delegation arrives in Saudi Mr Cheney is accompanied by former President George Bush and former secretary of state Colin Powell.
08-05-05 - AIPAC Spy Nest Exposed And it isn't just the timeline that's disturbing: it seems that a number of apparently senior U.S. government officials are about to be dragged into this imbroglio of trouble and treason.
08-05-05 - Trip Occurs Just Prior to Disengagement, Critical Time for Israel The American Israel Education Foundation is sponsoring the trip and is a supporting foundation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
08-05-05 - AIPAC hires lawyers to review practices AIPAC hired former Justice Department officials to review its lobbying practices in the wake of an investigation into two former staffers? role in leaking classified information.
08-05-05 - Israeli Businessman Sentenced in Plot to Ship Nuclear Detonation Devices - An Israeli businessman who conspired to ship controlled nuclear technology to Pakistan was sentenced to three years in federal prison
08-05-05 - Gauging People by Appearance I would like to thank Charles Krauthammer for the categories of people he recommends for exclusion from passenger security screening ["Give Grandma a Pass; Politically Correct Screening Won't Catch Jihadists," op-ed, July 29]. If his policy is adopted, my family will go through largely unnoticed.
08-05-05 - THE REAL AIPAC SPY RING STORY--IT WAS ALL ABOUT IRAN
08-05-05 - The Plame/AIPAC-gate Connection
08-04-05 - Al-Qaeda 'blames Blair for bombs'
08-04-05 - Bolton Casts First Vote As U.N. Envoy Casting his first vote as U.N. ambassador, John Bolton joined the rest of the Security Council Thursday in condemning terrorism in Iraq. He then set his sights on Syria and Iran ? accusing them of not doing enough to stop foreigners from joining the insurgency. Iran and Syria? Whaddya know, those are the next two targets on the neocon/Likud hitlist. What a coincidence!
08-04-05 - EU calls for emergency Iran talks
08-04-05 - Rumsfeld says Syria 'not behaving in wise manner'
08-04-05 - United States Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Announces Indictments
08-04-05 - Two Charged in Pentagon Information Leak "The facts alleged today tell a story of individuals who put their own interests and their own views of foreign policy ahead of American national security,"
08-04-05 - Bush vows to continue operation in Iraq Ayman al-Zawahri, deputy of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, said in a videotape shown on Al-Jazeera that the United States and Britain risked losing thousands of lives if they did not pull out of Iraq and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
08-04-05 - The Gorilla in the Room is US Support for Israel.
08-04-05 - US military to increase domestic surveillance
08-04-05 - IRmep Applauds Indictment of AIPAC Operatives as a Productive First Step Toward Better U.S. Middle East Policy
08-04-05 - Federal Indictment Urged for AIPAC, Not Just Rosen and Weissman "The organization itself should have been indicted, as well as the two officers who were directly involved," said Bird. "Let us hope that AIPAC has learned its lesson and will stop intimidating congressmen, administration officials, and the public media, supposedly on behalf of Israel, but in fact destructive to an honest and open relationship between Israel and the United States."
08-03-05 - CIA trained Iraqi paramilitaries to create pre-war unrest Authorized by President George W. Bush in March 2002 as part of a policy of "regime change" in Iraq, the Scorpions were made made up mostly of exiles recruited by the Kurds who were sent to Iraqi cities including Baghdad, Fallujah and Qaim to give the impression that a rebellion was under way, current and former US intelligence officials told The Washington Post
08-03-05 - Iranian President appeals for end to WMDs
08-03-05 - U.N. Agency Urges Iran Against Activity Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Hasan Rowhani, responded to the U.N. request by saying Tehran would push back the reopening of its uranium conversion plant in Isfahan until "early next week" to give the International Atomic Energy Agency time to install surveillance equipment inside the facility.
08-03-05 - With Friends Like This? U.S.-Israeli rift clouds
the "special relationship"
08-03-05 - Iranian spritual leader hails Hezbollah
08-03-05 - US challenged over 'secret jails'
08-03-05 - Britian's Muslim scapegoats It is not just abuse, a frightening level is actually attacks.
08-03-05 - Americans anxious about U.S. foreign policy - poll Americans are anxious about the direction of U.S. foreign policy and how the country is perceived overseas and a majority believe the government has been too quick to go to war, a survey released on Tuesday said.
08-03-05 - China, Russia to Hold Military Exercise The announcement highlights warming ties between Beijing and Moscow after decades of Cold War hostility. Their reconciliation has been driven in part by mutual unease at U.S. power and a fear of Islamic extremism in Central Asia.
08-03-05 - U.S., Israel Backtrack on Iran's Nukes
08-03-05 - US State Dept to undergo major overhaul The Bureau of Arms Control and International Security, which is now part of the new office, was the body responsible for some of the intelligence, later found to be false, that made the link between Saddam Hussein?s Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
08-03-05 - One lonely man: Syrian official tries to press case in Washington Israeli and U.S. officials say there has been no apparent movement on the other two conditions: shutting down Palestinian terrorist offices and allowing inspectors to assess Syria?s weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities. Israel's problem somehow became our problem.
08-03-05 - Harvard student takes break to join IDF Is there something wrong with joining the army of THIS country, America?
08-03-05 - US kept in the dark as secret nuclear deal was struck
08-03-05 - How the UK gave Israel the bomb When Robert McNamara became the US defence secretary in 1961, he and President Kennedy strived to stop Israel from going on to build nuclear weapons. He told Newsnight last night that he had never known of Britain's behaviour at the time
08-03-05 - Senators urge terrorist designation More than 50 U.S. senators called on President Bush to designate Hezbollah?s television station as a terrorist body
08-03-05 - China Crisis Straining U.S.-Israel Ties Arab countries have for years complained about what they say is the preferential treatment that Israel receives from the United States on the nuclear issue. Several months ago, Egypt threatened to leave the nonproliferation treaty over the issue.
08-03-05 - How Britain helped Israel get the bomb
08-02-05 - US review say Iran 10 years from nuclear bomb-WPost A new U.S. intelligence review estimates Iran is about 10 years away from having the ability to build a nuclear bomb, double the previous estimate of five years, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday
08-02-05 - Armageddon Gets No Press The Aug. 1 issue of The American Conservative reports that Vice President Cheney has instructed the U.S. Strategic Command to prepare a plan to spread the war by attacking Iran with tactical nuclear weapons in the event of another terrorist attack on the US. Appalled U.S. Air Force officers have leaked the story, but you have not learned of it from the tamed media.
08-02-05 - EU, US warn Iran against resuming nuclear activities
08-02-05 - Russia will help Iran despite nuclear moves Russia will maintain support for Iran's nuclear program despite Tehran's decision to restart the enrichment of uranium, Russian news agencies quoted sources in Russia's atomic agency, Rosatom, as saying on Tuesday
08-02-05 - Fired CIA agent seeks FBI probe of WMD intelligence A fired CIA agent, who a newspaper says told superiors in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence
08-02-05 - Blast hits BA, BP offices in Iran
08-02-05 - Iran: crisis looming over nuclear plans Israel continues to say that Iran will be "past the point of no return" within six months if it resumes enrichment, as the Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom put it to correspondents in London recently.
08-02-05 - Race-hate crimes surge after bombs Scotland Yard figures show there has been a rise of 600 per cent in attacks motivated by religious hatred in London since the 7 July suicide bombings.
08-02-05 - Deep Background The American Conservative hooks us up with the online version of 'Deep Background' and the now infamous paragraph on Cheney's plans for war on Iran.
08-02-05 - World Jewish Congress Welcomes Bolton at UN Bolton was behind the effort to overturn the Zionism = Racism UN resolution.
08-02-05 - WHO IS THE US CONGRESS
08-02-05 - Media weigh in on Ambassador Bolton
08-02-05 - Repositioning the Campus AIPAC campus activists recently came to Washington to explore how to make their schools assets to the American pro-Israel movement
08-01-05 - Taking Down the Neocons Federal probes will be their downfall
08-01-05 - Iran to Delay Reopening Nuclear Plant Iran threatened to reopen its nuclear processing plant here Monday but later agreed to a two-day delay after receiving a request from the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency.
08-01-05 - Bush Appoints Bolton, Bypassing Senate "I am truly concerned that a recess appointment will only add to John Bolton's baggage and his lack of credibility with the United Nations,"
08-01-05 - Iran vows to back Hezbollah in talks with chief
08-01-05 - Iran nuclear process 'under way'
08-01-05 - U.S. warns Iran on nuclear threat
08-01-05 - US, Israel working to mend rifts The Israeli news channel Arutz Sheva reported Friday that as "the [Franklin] crisis snowballs" the FBI's investigation is increasingly aimed towards Israel's US embassy.
08-01-05 - Islam Likely Main Basis for Iraqi Law
08-01-05 - NYC Pol: Use Racial Profiling on Subways About Dov Hikind: "Hikind was once a close ally of Giuliani's. But he turned on the mayor after being indicted in 1997 on federal charges of misappropriating public money. Hikind blamed the indictment on Giuliani's former liaison to the Jewish community, Bruce Teitelbaum, whom Hikind accused of having a vendetta against him. Teitelbaum now runs the mayor's Senate campaign. Hikind was acquitted of those charges, but his brushes with the law date back to the 1970s. A disciple of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the quasi-terrorist Jewish Defense League, Hikind was arrested several times for JDL-related activities, including an attempt to smoke-bomb the Ugandan Mission to the United Nations. Since becoming an assemblyman, Hikind has offered financial support to some of Israel's most controversial settlers' organizations..." source
08-01-05 - US and Russia split over allies in Asia
08-01-05 - Is America's war winding up? by Patrick J. Buchanan By the way, has anyone heard from Wolfowitz?
08-01-05 - Israel Warns of Iran Nuclear Plans However, Israeli experts said the world, led by the U.S., should deal with the problem.
08-01-05 - Lorries roll across Syria border
08-01-05 - Senior official: Assad regime shaky due to diplomatic clash with U.S. Israel's complaints about Syria, some of which are met with a sympathetic ear in Washington, concern the fact that Palestinian terror organizations continue to maintain headquarters in Damascus and that Syria continues to assist Hezbollah and the Palestinian opposition groups. And as always, Israel's problems somehow become our problems.
08-01-05 - Cheney Orders STRATCOM To Prepare Nuclear Attack Against Iran
08-01-05 - Israel asks Ukraine to demand Iran return illegally-sold cruise missiles
07-31-05 - Europe warns Iran over nuclear threat
07-31-05 - Iran Threatens to Restart Nuke Activities
07-31-05 - Iran's nuclear ambitions have U.S. reviewing controversial options Concerns from Israel drove the Bush administration to stepping up intelligence collection efforts on Iran.
07-31-05 - Dodd: Bolton Lacks Support for U.N. Post
07-31-05 - CIA Analyst Roasts Bush He said the people that are currently running U.S. foreign and military policy were affectionately known as "The Crazies" during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations, and were "kept at arm's length," never permitted to rise above middle management levels of influence because of their radical proclivities.
07-31-05 - UN reiterates call for compliance with Resolution 1559 Resolution 1559, issued September 2004, calls for the disarmament of Hizbullah and armed Palestinian factions in refugee camps around Lebanon.
07-31-05 - Iran warns U.S., Israel against attack
07-31-05 - Leaked emails claim Guantanamo trials rigged
07-31-05 - Lebanese PM looks to new future on Syria visit
07-31-05 - Former U.S. president Carter says Guantanamo camp embarrassing, Iraq war unjust
07-31-05 - Cheney's boundless Iraq profiteering
07-31-05 - British Jews set pro-Israel ad campaign
07-31-05 - Grounds for terror attacks can be removed - Egypt PM Resolving Palestinian demands for an independent state and ensuring that US troops leave Iraq will remove the justification for further terrorist attacks, Egypt's prime minister said today.
07-31-05 - Lawrence of Arabia on insurgency
07-30-05 - Britain denies deadline for EU offer on Iran nukes
07-30-05 - Iran demands EU make nuclear offer by Aug. 1
07-30-05 - Iran: U.S. failure behind Ahmadinejad accusations
07-30-05 - US general says lack of precision weapons lead to excessive force: report
07-30-05 - Lebanese PM to meet Syria's Assad
07-30-05 - Parts of 'Patriot Act' unconstitutional, vague: Judge "Even as amended, the term 'training' is not sufficiently clear so that persons of ordinary intelligence can reasonably understand what conduct the statute prohibits,"
07-30-05 - Uzbekistan evicts United States from air base
07-30-05 - The Truth About Abu Ghraib
07-30-05 - Russian fury over US television interview with Chechen warlord Russia was outraged that ABC had felt it acceptable to broadcast such an interview and accused Washington, and the West in general, of double standards when it came to fighting international terrorism
07-30-05 - Flashback Sept. 2004: Israeli Security to Protect London's Underground An Israeli security firm has been chosen to provide security for London?s Underground train network.
07-30-05 - Defense panel chair says U.S. demands for defense sale oversight may hurt Israel The U.S. should not be able to extend its oversight of Israeli defense exports to third countries, such as India and Turkey, as it may harm Israel's military industries, the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud), said yesterday.
07-30-05 - A shallow strategic dialogue The crisis began with a report about upgrading the Harpy, an Israeli attack UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) sold to China, but as the crisis wore on, fundamental problems in the relations between the United States and Israel were highlighted.
07-29-05 - Munition exposure linked to brain cancer in US vets
07-29-05 - Sources: Bush to Appoint Bolton on Recess
07-29-05 - Suicide Bomb Kills 25 Near Syria Border
07-29-05 - Investigator says millions of dollars of US money missing in Iraq
07-29-05 - Hezbollah: No SLA amnesty Hezbollah opposes an amnesty for Christian allies of Israel.
07-29-05 - Iran insists new president not involved in US embassy seizure
07-29-05 - State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
07-29-05 - UN considers Israeli settlements in the Golan as illegal
07-29-05 - Congressman to colleagues: Fight anti-Semitism
07-29-05 - Pentagon: China spat will be resolved
07-29-05 - Iraqi constitution raises Jewish ire The Anti-Defamation League urged the State Department to push for the removal of anti-Israel passages from Iraq?s draft constitution.
07-29-05 - Security Council extends UNIFIL mandate in Lebanon
07-28-05 - Iraq Affecting Mental Health of Troops
07-28-05 - U.S. warns Iran against violating nuclear deal The White House warned Iran on Thursday against resuming key work on its nuclear fuel cycle, saying it could prompt the United States and its European allies to pursue U.N. sanctions against Tehran
07-28-05 - State Dept.: Iran training Hizbullah in Lebanon Meanwhile, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora pledged to protect Hizbullah, saying the Lebanese government considers it "an honest and natural expression" of resistance to Israeli aggression and threats
07-28-05 - The 'rebranding' of the war on terror
07-28-05 - Turkey urges US to strike rebels Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said there was a limit to Turkey's tolerance and suggested that if the US did not respond, Turkey would.
07-28-05 - US still investigating Iran president The United States has concluded that Iran's president-elect was a leader of the movement behind the 1979 hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran but is unsure whether he took part, the White House said
07-28-05 - Lebanon should disarm Hezbollah: US diplomat
07-28-05 - Iran: ME peace is not attainable without Palestinian Rights
07-28-05 - Israeli named to U.N. post
07-28-05 - Arms and the allies The United States has accused Israel of endangering an Asian ally, Taiwan, by selling advanced combat drones to China.
07-28-05 - Sharon criticizes Syrian support for Hamas "There are still Syrian secret agents, as well as soldiers from the Iranian revolution in Lebanon," he said.
07-27-05 - AP: Iran Achieves Solid Fuel Technology Iran said for the first time Wednesday it has fully developed solid-fuel technology in producing missiles, a major breakthrough that increases the accuracy of missiles hitting targets
07-27-05 - Iraq PM urges 'speedy' US pullout
07-27-05 - Lebanon's new PM optimistic about building ties with Syria: interview
07-27-05 - Iran says will resume key atomic work despite EU
07-27-05 - Blowback in Iraq The U.S. invasion empowered Iran: was that the agenda all along?
07-27-05 - US troops on Iraq abuse charges
07-27-05 - U.S.-Israel crisis deepens over defense exports to China The U.S. wants to see Knesset legislation enacted within 18 months tightening oversight of military exports, and is demanding a memorandum of understanding be signed. The U.S. also wants a written apology from Israel and Mofaz. Opposition in Israel is mounting against the signing of such a memorandum.
07-27-05 - Democrats press Rice on U.N. envoy nominee Bolton
07-27-05 - U.S.-Israel tensions rise over arms sale --report Haaretz said that since the restrictions were applied, Israel had not complied with a U.S. demand to ensure they did not go against U.S. policy.
07-27-05 - Israel minister scraps US trip designed to end China row
07-27-05 - Israel Assists U.S. Forces, Shares Lessons-Learned Fighting Terrorists Army and Marine Corps forces that battled terrorist insurgents in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul employed urban warfare tactics gleaned from the combat experience of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In the last two years, hundreds of U.S. military personnel have trained in the Negev desert at Israel?s Adam counter insurgency urban warfare training facility And then we wonder why we have a bit of an insurgency problem over there.
07-27-05 - Israeli overflights have yet to show up on U.S. radar
07-27-05 - FBI seeks to investigate Israeli envoy in Pentagon spy case The Federal Bureau of Investigation is demanding that Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli embassy in Washington, be interrogated in connection to the Pentagon spy case.
07-27-05 - Israel Downplays Snub in Iraqi Constitution
07-26-05 - Iran urges EU to accept resumption of some nuclear work
07-26-05 - Syria Shuns Charges of Having Weak Border
07-26-05 - Syrians send Iraq militants home
07-26-05 - U.S. Probes if Syria Spent Iraq Oil Profit
07-26-05 - Syria says U.S. pressure won't break its will Syria wants better ties with the United States, but not if this means submitting to endless demands from Washington, rather than working together for regional stability, its foreign minister said on Tuesday
07-26-05 - Dealing with the core of Mideast terror It's not our values and way of life causing terrorism; it's our policy of support for Israel. Let there be no doubt: The United States will never abandon Israel. But to effectively support Israel, the United States needs to revert to its policy of the honest broker in the Mideast.
07-26-05 - The US Navy...Made in China
07-26-05 - Two CIA Intellectuals Debunk Neocons
07-26-05 - Disarming Hizbullah Bush administration officials have expressed optimism that its engagement in the democratic process will facilitate disarmament and moderation toward Israel down the road.
07-26-05 - Lebanese ex-warlord is released Lebanese Christian militia leader Samir Geagea has been freed from prison after serving 11 years for crimes committed during the country's civil war.
07-26-05 - Britain, Israel in anti-terror talks after London bombings Shalom said the time had come for the European Union, of which Britain currently holds the rotating presidency, to add Palestinian militant group Hamas to its blacklist of terrorist organisations
07-26-05 - War on Terror Should Focus at Source "U.S. Policy in the Middle East has been the greatest recruiting tool that the terrorists could possibly have. Its lopsided support of Israel is the main reason we have so many problems we have today."
07-26-05 - Nuke Iran? Evidently, one can catch this archived broadcast at a later date here.
07-26-05 - Moussa: 'Comprehensive' approach needed "There is a huge, strong, solid opposition to the policies of the United States, especially when it comes to the Middle East and the bias in its policy between -- towards Israel, at the expense of the other side. But this is a policy that could change and that should change."
07-25-05 - Illegal entry by non-Mexicans rises Non-Mexicans are spilling over the border in record numbers - some from countries with terrorist ties - and most are set free soon after being captured. While the neocons have us clusterf#$ed in the ME, our borders remain undefended and wide open.
07-25-05 - Cheney's Plan: Nuke Iran
07-25-05 - Tehran finds a friend in Baghdad The Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq's next-door neighbour, has benefited in every way from President George W Bush's decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
07-25-05 - Egypt hunts links between bombs
07-25-05 - Bush may bypass Senate and appoint Bolton to UN The White House signaled on Monday that President Bush may bypass the Senate and appoint John Bolton, his embattled nominee for U.N. ambassador, to the post temporarily as hope faded for a Senate vote on the nomination
07-25-05 - Rumsfeld wants to keep U.S. bases in Central Asia
07-25-05 - Cheney to Generals: Prepare to Attack Iran
07-25-05 - Syria hands Saudi militants over to Riyadh
07-25-05 - AIPAC/Likudnik Larry Franklin Arrested for Espionage on Behalf of Israel
07-25-05 - Bush Aide Learned Early of Leaks Probe
07-25-05 - Rice's no-show irks Southeast Asia
07-25-05 - Iraqi women fear for their rights Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq had some of the most secular legislation in the region. But all that could change, with hardline Shia members of the national assembly pushing for the country to be named the Islamic Republic of Iraq
07-25-05 - From London to Jerusalem Another scathing assault on the Brits
07-25-05 - Arab League head backs disputed UN terror pact plan "Resisting occupation is a different issue altogether."
07-25-05 - London bombings lead to explosion of anti-Muslim bigotry
07-24-05 - Arrests after Egyptian bombings
07-24-05 - 'Fragile' Lebanon needs time on Hizbollah-Hariri A Lebanese parliamentary leader on Sunday urged the international community to give the government more time to decide how to deal with the Hizbollah group's new role in Lebanon
07-24-05 - Lebanon's Hariri voices confidence in UN probe of father's slaying
07-24-05 - Ex-CIA Officer Rips Bush Over Plame Leak Johnson, who said he was a registered Republican, said Bush has gone back on his promise to fire anyone at the White House implicated in a leak.
07-24-05 - US may sell up to $600 million to Israeli Air Force, after Israel-US agreement on China
07-23-05 - Experts: No Single al-Qaida Mastermind Anger over the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also seems to be providing some inspiration, despite early arguments from Bush administration officials that fighting insurgents in Iraq would help prevent them from launching attacks on Western targets. The war has instead turned into a recruiting tool, experts said.
07-23-05 - Lebanese calls for direct U.S.-Hizbollah dialogue
07-23-05 - Iran highlights pre-freeze nuclear centrifuge work
07-23-05 - Iran Students: Restart Uranium Program
07-23-05 - Iran tells EU not to demand an end to nuclear work
07-23-05 - Bush aide misled FBI, say reports According to press accounts, Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice-president's chief of staff, both provided testimony that was later contradicted by other evidence.
07-23-05 - Shot man not connected to bombing A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was a Brazilian electrician unconnected to the incidents.
07-23-05 - THE SETTING WAS EGYPT, 1950s Operatives had been recruited several years before, when the Israeli intelligence officer Avram Dar arrived in Cairo under a British cover. He had recruited several Egyptian Jews who had previously been active in illegal emigration activities and trained them for covert operations. On July 2, a post office in Alexandria was firebombed, and on July 14, the U.S. Information Agency libraries in Alexandria and Cairo, and a British-owned theater were bombed.
07-23-05 - Militants Take Credit for Egypt Bombings
07-23-05 - CIA Leak Investigation Turns to Possible Perjury, Obstruction
07-23-05 - Group Claims Attacks; Experts Doubtful Terror experts have cast doubt on the claims by the al-Qaida linked group, noting most are unsubstantiated and some clearly fakes
07-23-05 - Seconds to decide if suspect is suicide threat Special armed squad first to use tactics developed with Israeli aid
07-23-05 - British report on Israeli violations of human rights
07-23-05 - Egypt blasts draw condemnation from bomb-weary Mideast
07-23-05 - Iraqi citizenship: Anyone but Israelis
07-23-05 - Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq Turn It Incendiary
07-22-05 - Dozens killed in Egyptian blasts At least 45 people have been killed and more than 130 wounded in a string of explosions in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, police said.
07-22-05 - Bomb blast rocks Beirut hours after surprise visit by Rice It was not immediately clear if the motive of the bombing was political or a personal settling of accounts, although it came just hours after Rice flew out to Israel after her lightning visit
07-22-05 - 'Man shot dead was not a bomber' LONDON: A man shot dead by police at a London Underground station on Friday was not one of the four bombers who tried to attack the city's transport system on Thursday, Sky Television reported citing security sources.
07-22-05 - More Americans Believe Iraq War Hurts Fight Against Terrorism
07-22-05 - China denies explosives in London attack coming from Chinese military plant It was reported that the Israeli intelligence agency had claimed that the explosives used in the London bomb attack on July 7 might come from China. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said such a "rash guess" is "extremely irresponsible."
07-22-05 - Turkey puts pressure on Syria to stop infiltrations into Iraq
07-22-05 - U.S., Iraqi Forces Shoot at Syria Guards "The United States failed to respond to our request in the year 2004 to help provide us with night vision monitoring equipment and referred to request to Britain, which promised but did not fulfill its promise until now,"
07-22-05 - Iraqi refugees spur housing boom Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis have flooded Damascus and Amman driving up the price of real estate.
07-22-05 - House Votes to Extend Patriot Act
07-22-05 - Lebanese president's aide said suspect in Hariri murder probe
07-22-05 - Chirac warns Iran that Security Council could get incolved in nuclear issue
07-22-05 - Spy loses appeal in US His case, which has contributed to tensions between the US and Israel, has been taken up by Jewish groups in the US, and the Israeli government has lobbied the White House to release him.
07-22-05 - Transit workers hire Israeli expert
07-22-05 - US appeals court maintains life term for Israeli spy A US appeals court refused to reduce a life jail term ordered against Jonathan Pollard, a former Defense Department employee, who admitted spying for Israel
07-21-05 - STRATCOM Preparing for Attack on Iran
07-21-05 - President-Elect: Iran Won't Seek Nuke Arms Iran's president-elect said Thursday his country will not pursue atomic weapons but it will not submit to international pressure to abandon its nuclear program, state-run television reported.
07-21-05 - Syria says border troops fired on by U.S. forces "The border clashes amounted to about 100 armed clashes, some of which were carried out by American soldiers who opened fire arbitrarily at those present behind the dirt rampart due to loss of self control,"
07-21-05 - Ex-officers: CIA leak may have harmed U.S. Eleven former intelligence officers say the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity may have damaged national security and the government's ability to gather intelligence.
07-21-05 - Syria trying to strangle Lebanese economy -US Syria's closure of its border to Lebanese trucks aims to strangle the Lebanese economy and is a sign Damascus is still trying to dominate Beirut, a U.S. official told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday
07-21-05 - China Affirms 'No First Use' Nuke Policy China will not use nuclear weapons first in a military conflict, the foreign minister said Thursday as he tried to quell an uproar over a general's remark that Beijing might use atomic bombs against U.S. forces in a conflict over Taiwan
07-21-05 - Syria says thousands of would-be fighters held on Iraq border The arrests came even as six Syrian soldiers were killed and 17 wounded in clashes with US and Iraqi forces, Muallem told ambassadors according to a statement received by AFP. Two of those were killed in clashes with "American soldiers who opened fire at random... as a result of losing control over their nerves,"
07-21-05 - Microwave weapon use in Iraq worries scientists Scientists are questioning the safety of a microwave beam weapon for crowd control, due to be deployed by the United States in Iraq next year.
07-21-05 - Iraqi Christians find safety in Syria With the rise of Islamic militancy, Muneeb said, his sister, a doctor, was ordered to wear a veil outside her home -- a requirement that didn't exist, he said, when Saddam Hussein was in power.
07-21-05 - Bush sees London attacks as reason for Patriot Act
07-21-05 - Israel wants U.S. to help with Arab ties Israel expects the United States to broker new diplomatic relations with Arab countries in the wake of its pullout from the Gaza Strip. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom greeted Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, on Thursday on her third visit to Jerusalem this year.
07-21-05 - UK boy wrongly labelled as bomber A photograph of a passport purporting to show bomber Hasib Hussain was in fact that of a 16-year-old British boy with the same name.
07-21-05 - Gingrich Calls for Leadership by Congress and America's Democratic Allies to Reform United Nations He pointed to the recent UNESCO Meeting in Paris organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People as an example of this mistreatment. "A genuine commitment to reform would require abolishing this sort of U.N. machinery whose only purpose is to demonize Israel. The U.S. taxpayer should not be subsidizing a one sided anti-Semitic assault on the survival of the only true democracy in the region other than Turkey."
07-21-05 - Who provided the London warning?
07-21-05 - Arab states can launch 1,000 missiles at any target in Israel
07-20-05 - Oil manoeuvres by China, India, challenge US Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, Syria - nations shunned by America as nuclear threats, insurgent havens or human rights violators are increasingly being wooed by China and India in a race for oil and influence that is challenging Washington on the energy and security fronts
07-20-05 - Pentagon: China Building Up Its Military China is building up its military for the long-term goal of projecting its power well beyond Taiwan, the self-governing island that draws most of the mainland's attention today, a Pentagon report says.
07-20-05 - Putin Assails Non-Russia Gov't Groups Russia won't allow foreign organizations to finance political activities in the country, President Vladimir Putin said Smart move.
07-20-05 - Official: Disarming Hezbollah Hurts Syria Disarming Hezbollah in Lebanon, as the United States demands, will turn that country into a playground for Israeli intelligence and threaten Syria's national security, the Syrian prime minister said in comments published Wednesday
07-20-05 - FBI Keeping Lengthy Files on Groups Opposed to Bush's Policies
07-19-05 - '25,000 civilians' killed in Iraq Nearly 25,000 civilians have died violently in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, a report says.
07-19-05 - Iran will not bargain on nuclear enrichment: Khatami
07-19-05 - 'Terrorist' Hezbollah joins Lebanon cabinet for first time Its participation in the new government is likely to pose a problem for the international community which is demanding that Hezbollah's militiamen -- regarded in Lebanon as a legitimate resistance to Israel -- give up their weapons
07-19-05 - Former CIA officer: U.S. plans nuclear attack on Iran The United States is developing a nuclear plan to attack military bases in Iran, said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA intelligence officer.
07-19-05 - Why was Britain targeted? Some blame 7/7 on Britain's support for the US war in Iraq. Others point to more deep-seated causes.
07-19-05 - Why US is shifting nuclear stand with India
07-19-05 - U.S., Turkey Condemn Congressman's Remarks "Tancredo's statements go against the very message America is trying to send to the world, that the war against terrorism is not a war on Islam,"
07-19-05 - Iraq poised for swap deal with Iran
07-19-05 - Three hurt in gun clash on Beirut's old Green Line
07-18-05 - Studies: War radicalized most foreign fighters in Iraq Saudi and Israeli studies show that most foreign fighters were not terrorists before Iraq war.
07-18-05 - Syria vows to pursue 'best ties' with Iraq
07-18-05 - Iraq war made Britain vulnerable: report An influential research organisation says the British Government's close alliance with the United States has helped make the country more of a target for extremist attacks.
07-18-05 - Amnesty for Lebanese ex-warlord Geagea led the Lebanese Forces militia which formed an alliance with Israel.
07-18-05 - Iran leader tells Iraq PM US troops harming his country
07-18-05 - Top Aides Reportedly Set Sights on Wilson Top aides to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were intensely focused on discrediting former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV in the days after he wrote an op-ed article for the New York Times suggesting the administration manipulated intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq, federal investigators have been told
07-18-05 - AP: Iraqi Minister Criticizes Syria
07-18-05 - Iran's Leader Vows to Aid Iraq Stability
07-18-05 - Israel's security eye-opener Israeli Lt.-Col. Jonathan Halevi told the Sun that Canadians should not be complacent about the threat and "should be ready for the possibility that they might be, in the near future, a victim of terror."
07-18-05 - Exercise to focus on nuclear terror scenario "Since we already know that the 2 biggest terriorts strikes were durning simulations.. 9/11, 7/7..
And we know WND and FoX have been pushing the nuclear scare card..
Do we dare assume that this is more then a drill?"
07-18-05 - Al-Qaida's U.S. nuclear targets Joseph Farah is an End Times Christian fundamentalist.
07-18-05 - Mossad Chief Confirms Netanyahu's Warning of London Bombing
07-18-05 - Lebanon slams Mossad, extremists Lebanon's an-Nahar daily Sunday quoted Lahoud as saying that Israel's Mossad and extremists "are trying to destabilize security in Lebanon."
07-18-05 - Who are the British authorities trying to protect?
07-17-05 - EU may be ready to help Iran build nuclear reactors: negotiator
07-17-05 - Lebanese-Syrian Border Crisis Sparks Clash Lebanese police traded gunfire with smugglers on the border, while Syria arrested Lebanese fishermen Sunday in new tensions that reflect increasing acrimony between the countries since Damascus was forced to end its domination of its neighbor.
07-17-05 - Russia may probe funding of Iranian reactor-media
07-17-05 - Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story According to Cooper, Libby and Rove were among the government officials referred to in Cooper's subsequent Time story that said Wilson's wife was a CIA official and that she was involved in sending her husband on a trip to Africa.
Libby is a neocon - read more here and here.
07-17-05 - Hizbullah calls on government to protect resistance weapons
07-17-05 - Syria appoints new grand mufti "I am in contact with the Sunni and Shiite associations of Ulama (Muslim scholars) in Iraq to ask them to avoid kidnappings, because (such an act) is a crime that distorts Islam," he was quoted by al-Hayat newspaper as saying
07-17-05 - GOP Scrambles to Fill Veterans' Shortfall
07-17-05 - London bombers may have been tricked
07-17-05 - Bob Barr: Expanding the Patriot Act: Foolish... And Certainly Not Conservative I think it is high time to reconsider some of the provisions of the Patriot Act that give law enforcement officials too much secret search power and access to our personal records, without any evidence of a crime or even specific facts connecting the records sought to a foreign government or terrorist organization.
07-17-05 - Iran condemns Israel's "provocative acts" against Palestinians
07-17-05 - U.S. holds talks with close Hizbollah ally
07-17-05 - Larsen to raise security concerns with EU the international community is concerned about the failure of the Lebanese, regardless of their political and religious affiliations, to form a government that would represent the people without a "custodian" to orchestrate their affairs.
07-17-05 - Jewish Races To Watch In 2006 Jewish and pro-Israel political groups have determined some places to focus their resources this year. It's too soon to tell which members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be vulnerable, but the Senate picture is a bit clearer
07-17-05 - Bush admin may be responsible for botching effort to thwart London bombing Again, these were guys connected to the plot to blow up the London subway last week. Some may have escaped because of Bush administration negligence involving a leak.
07-17-05 - Iran says US and Israel snaring its atomic experts
07-16-05 - China refuses to back down on general's nuclear threat over Taiwan China refused to retract statements made by a leading general that it would use nuclear weapons to repulse US military intervention over Taiwan despite Washington's criticism of the remarks
07-16-05 - Iran tells EU it will hold firm on nuclear fuel
07-16-05 - 11 US soldiers face Iraq charges
07-16-05 - Iran says it has dismantled Al-Qaeda cell He accused the United States of having wanted to "use some of these networks against Iran's national security," but added: "We intervened and we identified the cells."
07-16-05 - Iran says old foe Iraq is now its brother
07-16-05 - Civilian Deaths in Iraq Exceed Military
07-16-05 - Who shorted British pound? The fall did not go unnoticed by investigators, who are wondering whether the terrorist masterminds behind the attacks decided to make some money on their action or whether other investors with inside information about possible attacks took advantage of that knowledge.
07-16-05 - EXCLUSIVE: WAS IT SUICIDE?
07-16-05 - Russia Rejects Bullying Accusation by U.S.
07-16-05 - Halpern cited for broadcasting board A former chairwoman of the Republican Jewish Coalition reportedly is the front-runner to head the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Pro-Israelis have heavily criticized PBS/NPR for its 'anti-Israel bias'. This move will ensure that ALL mainstream news orgs will tow the Israeli line.
07-16-05 - House rejects China arms bill The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a bill that could have penalized Israel for its arms sales to China.
07-15-05 - Iran's oil diplomacy frustrates U.S. policy
07-15-05 - Lebanon PM designate proposes Hezbollah-backed government
07-15-05 - Gloomy EU to press on with Iran initiative the election of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president and growing indications that Iran's pragmatic chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rohani, will be replaced, have made the Europeans increasingly pessimistic
07-15-05 - US calls Chinese general's nuclear threat 'irresponsible' The United States shrugged off as "irresponsible" a reported threat by a Chinese general to use nuclear weapons if attacked by the United States in a conflict over Taiwan
07-15-05 - Outrageous Outtakes Before the war, Paul Wolfowitz famously predicted that Iraq's oil revenues would pay for the country's reconstruction. Twenty-eight months later, Iraq may bring in $20 billion in revenues but "very little, if any, of that money will actually be used in the country's stalled reconstruction," the Christian Science Monitor reports
07-14-05 - Post: White House fears indictment
07-14-05 - Iran-US dialogue even more far off: Khatami "Unfortunately, with the arrival in power of the (US) neo-conservatives, not only has the terrain not been well prepared for this but it has deteriorated completely with the Bush administration's sinful comments,"
07-14-05 - Feith Says Pentagon Overdid WMD Rationale "Had Saddam Hussein not been a supporter of terrorism and a guy who developed and used WMD, I don't think that simply saying he's a tyrant and we have a chance to replace a tyrant would have motivated the war," Which is why neocon Feith and his cohorts manipulated the intelligence to get us to attack Saddam's Iraq.
07-14-05 - Iran could see change in nuclear policy: Rowhani
07-14-05 - Rove leak is just part of larger scandal
07-14-05 - Republicans agree to limits on Patriot Act Republicans beat a slight retreat on Wednesday on the USA Patriot Act, agreeing that some controversial provisions in the terrorism-fighting law should be authorized for a limited period rather than being made permanent.
07-13-05 - Children die in Baghdad car bomb A car drove up to a US army vehicle and blew up as troops gave sweets to the children, a witness said.
07-13-05 - US warns Iran on nuclear program, Iraq
07-13-05 - Analysts urge U.S. forces to attack invaders at border Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, an author on counterterrorism, agrees that the U.S. should step up counterterrorism operations on the Syrian border. He would take it one giant leap forward by conducting air strikes inside Syria at terrorist staging areas and by sending special operations forces across the border to attack would-be invaders.
07-13-05 - US close to testing massive "bunker-busting" missile: New Scientist
07-13-05 - Why Are They Killing Us? by Patrick J. Buchanan Bush's cure for terrorism is a cause of the epidemic. The doctor is spreading the disease. The longer we stay in Iraq, the greater the number of suicide attacks we can expect.
07-13-05 - US warns Iran must not interfere in Iraqi affairs
07-13-05 - Pentagon hawk admits Iraq doubts In an interview with the Washington Post, Douglas Feith said too few troops may have been deployed to invade Iraq.
07-13-05 - New Iran President Plans New Nuclear Ideas
07-13-05 - Suicide bomber 'had all to live for'
07-13-05 - Syria Urged to End Islamic Jihad Support Asked Tuesday if the State Department had any information that Syria had a hand in the bombing, spokesman Tom Casey replied: "I don't have anything that specific that I can share with you."
07-13-05 - Russia demands U.S. extradite ex-YUKOS executive Nevzlin, who has been living in exile in Israel, gained a controlling stake in YUKOS when jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky handed him a 60 percent share in Group Menatep
07-13-05 - Iran lashes back at Rumsfeld over Israel bomb claim On Tuesday top US officials, including Rumsfeld, pointed fingers at both Syria and Iran as they denounced the deadly bombing in Netanya
07-13-05 - Abramoff duo quits U.S. en route to a new life in Israel. The relocation comes as a Justice Department taskforce presses forward with an investigation into potential criminal wrongdoing stemming from Abramoff?s business dealings.
07-13-05 - Israel army says clashed with Hizbollah on border
07-13-05 - The birth of the London bomb Official Story
07-12-05 - 39,000 Iraqis killed in fighting: study The public database Iraqi Body Count, by comparison, estimates that between 22,787 and 25,814 Iraqi civilians have died since the March 2003 invasion, based on reports from at least two media sources.
07-12-05 - Russia sets dates for controversial Iranian nuclear plant The Bushehr nuclear power station being built by Russia in Iran should be ready to start operating by the end of the year and start test operations in mid-2006
07-12-05 - Iran threatens to resume sensitive nuclear work
07-12-05 - Explosive used in bombs 'was of military origin'
07-12-05 - Unnecessary Powers The Patriot Act already gives government too much power to spy on ordinary Americans, but things could get far worse. Congress is considering adding a broad new investigative power, known as the administrative subpoena, that would allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gain access to anyone's financial, medical, employment and even library records without approval from a judge and even without the target knowing about it.
07-12-05 - Lebanon's pro-Syrian defence minister survives deadly blast
07-12-05 - Syria finds explosives on truck from Lebanon
07-12-05 - Syria ready to help Britain hunt for bombers-envoy
07-12-05 - New Iranian Leader Wants 'Fair' Relations Iran's ultraconservative president-elect said Monday he wants "fair" relations with the whole world, but he warned Western nations not to make demands of his country, which the U.S. accuses of wanting to build nuclear weapons
07-12-05 - The American hand in Iran According to the March 4 Los Angeles Times, the US currently spends US$14.7 million a year on Farsi "opposition broadcasts" into Iran.
07-12-05 - Pentagon confirms Iran-Contra figure in senior job
07-12-05 - U.S. wants no expansion of UN council at this time
07-12-05 - Iran could be behind Israel bomb blast: Rumsfeld
07-12-05 - Knesset Briefing on Iranian's Nuclear Weapons
07-12-05 - England still doesn't get it Israel still trying to conflate its terror attacks with those of Britain.
07-12-05 - British Gas mulls pipeline from Gaza coast to El Arish
07-11-05 - London attacks highlight importance of Iraq war: Bush
07-11-05 - FOR SHAHARA'S SAKE, DON'T HATE MUSLIMS
07-11-05 - Books add to rightwing campaign to demonise Iran
07-11-05 - Suicide Bombers Kill 7 Iraqis Near Syria Two suicide car bombers killed at least seven Iraqi customs officials Sunday along the Syrian border, the U.S. military said, forcing the temporary closure of the checkpoint.
07-11-05 - Iran press blame West for blasts
07-11-05 - Israel, Syria, Jordan asked to aid UN Hariri probe
07-11-05 - Expect more terrorist attacks, says former US-government hawk Perle Two things. First see this CIA says Iraq is now a terrorist training ground and also see this - "In the Perle-Feith-Wurmser strategy, Israel?s enemy remains Syria, but the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad. Their plan, which urged Israel to re-establish ?the principle of preemption,? has now been imposed by Perle, Feith, Wurmser & Co. on the United States. "Whose War is This?
07-11-05 - National Guard under fire for anti-Islam display "It makes it sound like what we are doing is some sort of religious war," Music to the neocons' ears.
07-11-05 - ?London, Tel Aviv blasts connected? Moreover, the Mossad office in London received advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the first blast, the paper reports. Somebody found a way to connect the terrorism in Britain to the terrorism in Israel, and exonerate Israel, to boot. Isn't that convenient?
07-11-05 - From 1998: Report: Mossad behind destroying London Israeli embassy in 1994
07-10-05 - Iran should soon resume sensitive nuclear activities: top MP
07-10-05 - Zionists outraged at lack of Muslim-bashing in Britain
07-10-05 - Israeli planes violate Lebanon air space
07-10-05 - Islamic centres attacked in New Zealand
07-10-05 - Familiar Debate Resumes in Wake of London Bombings As noted by the Pentagon's own Defense Science Board just last fall, "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Gulf states."
07-10-05 - U.S. concerned about China military buildup - Rice See previous story on China.
07-10-05 - China is the next great power Israel is looking to cozy up to the up and coming superpower.
07-10-05 - London Terror Tip-off: Timeline Refutes Israeli Denial
07-10-05 - Israel: Conflict Not Fueling Terror
07-09-05 - US, Britain planning major Iraq withdrawal: report
07-09-05 - Marines launch operation in Iraq Washington says the western Euphrates valley between the Syrian border and Baghdad is a conduit for foreign militants behind a wave of suicide bombings in Iraq
07-09-05 - Syrian the prime suspect
07-09-05 - AP Survey: Experts See New Kind of War Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit for nine years, sees a different way out ? through U.S. foreign policy. He said he resigned last November to expose the U.S. leadership's "willful blindness" to what needs to be done: withdraw the U.S. military from the Mideast, end "unqualified support" for Israel, sever close ties to Arab oil-state "tyrannies."
07-09-05 - Muslims Pray for London Bombing Victims
07-09-05 - Flashback 06-02-05 Britain Beware A speech translated by WND (a staunch pro-Israel rag) alleges Hamas seeks to attack Britain. Note the category this Israeli mag puts this under.
07-09-05 - Flashback 06-01-05 Galloway Wary Of Staged Terror Attack As Pretext For Iran Invasion
07-09-05 - King Abdullah says Arab frustration fuels extremism
07-09-05 - French investigation opens into murder of Lebanese journalist
07-09-05 - Netanyahu warns West it must halt Iran nuclear plans Asked whether there would ultimately have to be a military solution to the problem - perhaps involving a repetition of Israel's pre-emptive strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in June 1981 - Netanyahu replied: "I don?t know." He added: "I am not aware of any plans, but that doesn't mean they don?t exist, for example in America."
07-09-05 - To an Israeli, it looks familiar, but Brits don't feel the connection Many Britons simply feel that "Israel is not like us."
07-09-05 - Analysis: Israeli experts say UK didn't dig deep enough in uprooting Islamists Conforming to the restrained British character, Thursday's attacks are more likely to lead to measured, surgical steps against terrorists rather than bombastic crackdowns, Israeli counter-terrorism analysts say
07-08-05 - Many Iraqis link London attacks to western policy in Iraq
07-08-05 - Russia possible partner to build 20 nuclear power stations in Iran
07-08-05 - Palestinian disarmament not discussed in Beirut: Abbas
07-08-05 - Britain paid price for US, Israeli policies: Iranian cleric
07-08-05 - Sharon muzzles ministers on London blasts Some ordinary Israelis voiced hope the London bombings would cause the British and other Europeans, whom they regard as biased in favour of the Palestinians, to have more sympathy for Israelis killed or wounded in Palestinian attacks
07-08-05 - Frank Gaffney - Already trying to use London to stop the Gaza Withdrawal
07-08-05 - See No Evil: Spinning Netanyahu's London Terror Tip-off The reason this "conspiracy theory" lasted all day -- and will continue to haunt the Amen Corner for a long time to come-- is because it is based on a news story by a reputable news agency, and not obscure "weblogs" with cute-sy names
07-08-05 - Ex-Mossad Chief Calls For World War After London Attack
07-07-05 - World recoils in horror at London attacks
07-07-05 - Full Coverage of the explosions in London
07-07-05 - Iranians to train Iraq's military
07-07-05 - Iraq to launch military, anti-terror cooperation with Iran Iraq's defence minister, on a landmark visit to Iran, called for reconciliation between the two neighbours and former arch-foes and pledged not to allow Iraqi soil to be used for attacks against the Islamic republic.
07-07-05 - Trade between Beirut, Damascus victim of strained ties
07-07-05 - Abbas, Hamas leader meet with Assad
07-07-05 - Phony reports link Al Qaeda to London attacks MSNBC TV translator Jacob Keryakes said that the statement in which the group claimed responsibility for the attacks contained an error in one of the Qura?nic verses it cited. That suggests that the claim is phony, he said. "This is not something Al Qaeda would do," he said.
07-07-05 - Syria urges pressure on Israel to stop violations
07-07-05 - Bombings evoke sympathy in Middle East "We condemn with the strongest possible terms these explosions, and convey our sincere condolences to the British people and government," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said
07-07-05 - Israel shares Britain's pain over attacks: Shalom "I hope that the free world will now be less lax in its attitude towards terrorist organisations," A jab at the meeting between Hamas and EU officials?...
07-07-05 - History Happens Simply put, Sept. 11 and the war in Iraq moved attacking Isr