News for 10-14-05

10-14-05 - US ambassador says Iran lying about nuclear weapons US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton has accused Iran of spending 18 years trying to develop nuclear weapons, while lying to the world about its intentions.


10-14-05 - Iran Warned to Clear Up Nuclear Questions The chief U.S. representative to the U.N. atomic agency warned Iran again on Friday to clear up questions about its nuclear program


10-14-05 - U.S. to Deal 'Seriously' With Any Syrian Link to Hariri Killing


10-14-05 - Lebanon asks UN to extend Hariri murder probe


10-14-05 - Britain issues new warning to Iran, Hezbollah "We believe that there are elements of Iranian society," he said. "I have no evidence that would be conclusive that the government of Iran is involved in this."


10-14-05 - Theories abound over Syrian minister's death Hours after Kanaan's death was announced, US President George W. Bush issued a fresh warning to Syria, demanding it cooperate with the inquiry


10-14-05 - Death of Syrian Minister Raises Questions


10-14-05 - Rice meets Chirac, warns Iran over nuclear program


10-14-05 - Making the Middle East Safe for What? The possible collapse of Assad and his Ba'athists will probably ignite a similar process of "Iraqization" in Syria


10-14-05 - US practice of starving out Iraqi civilians is inhumane, says UN


10-14-05 - US's Rice to visit Russia to build Iran pressure


10-14-05 - Syria death 'could herald change'


10-14-05 - US presses Iran on nuclear talks


10-14-05 - US elite tipped off about terror alert


10-14-05 - Lebanon creates commmission on armed Palestinians


10-14-05 - FM: Syrians feel 'noose tightening' Israel is taking care not to become publicly involved in the probe of the Hariri assassination, although the UN did ask it to provide intelligence material. The security establishment and the government have been considering whether or not complications for Assad are necessarily good for Israel. U.S. pressure on Syria is good for Israel, some say


10-14-05 - Danny Ayalon, Spy? Ayalon warned the assembled wise men against the threat posed by Syria, all the while averring that Israel "is not in the business of regime change." Why should they be, when they have us to do it for them?




10-14-05 - Israel says Syria regime change in world's interest 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?


10-14-05 - Reporters ask to join AIPAC case A press advocacy group wants to file an amicus brief in the case against two former staffers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.


10-14-05 - World may have to live with nuclear Iran -US study U.S. intelligence says Iran could produce a weapon in about a decade....To U.S. ally Israel, "a nuclear-armed Iran is a clear and present danger" and most Israeli strategists "do not question if Israel should seek to remove Iranian nuclear facilities," only how or when it should be done, the report said.

However, the U.S. researchers warned that a U.S. or Israeli pre-emptive military strike likely would rally Iranians around a religious fundamentalist government in Tehran that they might otherwise want to replace, spur new attacks by Iran-allied groups like Hizbollah.
Israel's intel says six months. Whom do you believe?


10-14-05 - Egypt warns against Israel?s nukes singularity


10-14-05 - PFLP-GC insists refugee-camp weapons are 'for defense'