News for 01-10-06

01-10-06 - Iran has built 5,000 centrifuges, says opposition The claims by opposition figure Alireza Jafarzadeh could not be independently verified This story starts to sound familiar...


01-10-06 - Oil rises to $64 on Iran nuclear concerns If you think it's high now, imagine how much gasoline will cost when the neocons/AIPACers get their war on Iran.


01-10-06 - Iran plans 'small scale' nuclear fuel work: IAEA


01-10-06 - Russia 'concerned' by Iran's nuclear program is worried about Iran's decision to resume sensitive nuclear research and will try to dissuade Tehran from doing so during negotiations which are in progress, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said


01-10-06 - US lobby firm to shut down over corruption scandal A top US lobby firm will close down shortly because of its ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay, ex-leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, a newspaper report said


01-10-06 - Iran Says Nuclear Program for Energy


01-10-06 - Iran prompts international outrage over resumed nuclear activity


01-10-06 - Straw rules out military action on Iran, but warns on UN referral


01-10-06 - Syria can no longer act with impunity in Lebanon: Chirac


01-10-06 - EU leaders consider Iran action


01-10-06 - As Abramoff case plays out, his Jewish ties come to fore Reading the indictment against Jack Abramoff, one might not know that he was prominent in Washington Jewish circles. But in coming months, his ties with Jewish and Israeli organizations may play a large role in the web of illegal activity to which the lobbyist has pled guilty.


01-10-06 - Bush to Democrats: Don't Slam Iraq Policy he termed irresponsible the "partisan critics who claim that we acted in Iraq because of oil or because of Israel or because we misled the American people," as well as "defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right." With that description, Bush lumped the many Democrats who have accused him of twisting prewar intelligence with the few people, mostly outside the mainstream, who have raised the issues of oil and Israel


01-10-06 - Australian Muslim seeks freedom for Christian Peacemakers


01-10-06 - US Jews ask exiled Iranian media to carry Holocaust message


01-10-06 - Abramoff Corruption Scandal: Will more probes follow? He has strong and extensive ties with Jewish settlers in illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank


01-10-06 - Syrian former VP 'convinced' Assad ordered Hariri killing


01-10-06 - Al Qaeda Moving Closer to Major Attack on Israel, Expert Says In general, the policy and strategy of al Qaeda is eventually to carry out attacks against Israel. "It's a matter of time. Now it's closer than before," said Dr. Yoram Kahati of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center near Tel Aviv.


01-10-06 - Might the Arabs Have a Point? by Patrick J. Buchanan Though per capita income in Israel is probably 20 times that of the Palestinians, Israel gets the lion?s share of economic aid. And though they have flipped off half a dozen presidents to plant half a million settlers in Arab East Jerusalem and the West Bank, have we ever imposed a single sanction on Israel? Has Bush ever raised his voice to Ariel Sharon? And when you listen to the talking heads and read the columns of the neocon press, is it unfair to conclude that, yes, they would like to dump over every regime that defies Bush or Sharon?


01-10-06 - Spy suspect says charges are false Acting as his own lawyer, Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, 53, told a jury of seven women and five men that he never met in 2002 with Iraqi intelligence agents while Saddam Hussein ruled that Arab nation.