The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Thursday, March 30, 2006

News for 03-29-06

03-29-06 - Iran to stage massive Gulf military maneuver Thousands of Iranian troops will on Friday start a week-long military maneuver in the Gulf to ready armed forces for warding off "threats", a senior commander announced on state television.


03-29-06 - Using force against Iran 'counter-productive': Russian FM "We are aiming for the Security Council to do what is necessary on a professional, not a politicised, basis,"


03-29-06 - Syria's Assad Calls for Better U.S. Ties Syrian President Bashar Assad has renewed his call for better relations with the United States but at the same time criticized President Bush's government, saying it does not care about peace.


03-29-06 - U.N. Demands Iran Suspend Nuke Enrichment Russia and China, both allies of Iran, oppose sanctions. They wanted any council statement to make explicit that the IAEA, not the Security Council, must take the lead in confronting Iran.


03-29-06 - Bush blames Iraq violence on Saddam's divisive 'legacy' President George W. Bush said former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's brutal divisive legacy, rather than the US-led invasion, was to blame for Iraq's current sectarian violence.


03-29-06 - US admits attack target contained a mosque Iraqi and American special forces who attacked an insurgent headquarters in Baghdad were not aware that their target contained a mosque until after the battle, America's most senior soldier said yesterday.


03-29-06 - Neocons Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks With Iran


03-29-06 - 'If you start looking at them as humans, then how are you gonna kill them?' He claims that US soldiers such as him were told little about Iraq, Iraqis or Islam before serving there; other than a book of Arabic phrases, "the message was always: 'Islam is evil' and 'They hate us.' Most of the guys I was with believed it."


03-29-06 - West softens UN draft on Iran The text deletes language on several specific demands. Instead it refers only to the number of the resolution that contained them and was adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency board in Vienna, the U.N. nuclear watchdog.


03-29-06 - United States Must Address Control of its Middle East Policies by Israeli Lobby by Paul Findley Former Ambassador George W. Ball said Congress behaves like trained poodles, jumping through hoops held by lobbyists for Israel. The lobby marshals great resources to defeat its critics and reward supporters. Senators Charles Percy and Adlai Stevenson and Representatives Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard and I are among those defeated at the polls by candidates heavily financed by pro-Israel forces. With hardly a murmur of protest, Congress recently approved resolutions saluting the prime minister of Israel for building high walls and fences that keep Palestinians penned up on their own land like cattle.


03-29-06 - Hamas would win any conflict with Israel: Iran


03-29-06 - Security Council endorses UN help for Hariri murder trial The United Nations Security Council directed UN chief Kofi Annan to negotiate a deal with Lebanon creating an international tribunal to try suspects in the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier


03-29-06 - Abramoff Gets Almost 6 Years in Prison He will remain free while helping prosecutors with a vast bribery investigation involving members of Congress.


03-29-06 - The US propaganda machine: Oh, what a lovely war


03-29-06 - Putin says U.S. hampering Russia's WTO accession "We have received a list of questions from our American colleagues that require additional agreements that we thought had been settled long ago," Putin told a meeting of top businessmen Meanwhile in the neocon breakroom - 'hmm.. let me see.. how can we get Russia to back our plans for Iran.....aha!'


03-29-06 - Fasten Your Seat Belt The war in Iraq is about to escalate


03-29-06 - Pipes gets it wrong


03-29-06 - Another Iraq Memo Revealed: Colin Powell Opposed War Without Second U.N. Resolution


03-29-06 - Iran Is at War with Us by Michael Ledeen It?s time to take action against Iran and its half-brother Syria, for the carnage they have unleashed against us and the Iraqis Michael Ledeen is a resident neoconservative at the neoconservative thinktank AEI.


03-29-06 - Russia likely to sell arms to Palestine in long-term


03-29-06 - AIPAC trial delayed Judge T.S. Ellis III did not explain his order Monday postponing the trial from April 25 to May 23.


03-29-06 - FBI stopped Hezbollah smugglers


03-29-06 - Israel's Election Europe is not beholden to any individual European government?s objection to meeting with Hamas - oh, come to think of it, most of those have quietly faded away, amid continuing blather about how best to funnel ever more money to the Palestinians despite their choice of terrorists as leaders My but the folks over at JINSA have adopted an amateurish and downright immature tone in their latest article. Then, that's what one would come to expect from neocons.


03-29-06 - Man Sentenced for Bush Assassination Plot The jury in the three-week trial saw a videotaped confession Abu Ali gave to the Saudis in which he said he joined al-Qaida because he hated the United States for its support of Israel. Our support for Israel also motived one of the plotters of 911


03-29-06 - Roed-Larsen to ask for new UN resolution on Lebanon According to the sources, Larsen proposed three possible solutions to the Shebaa Farms dispute: a Lebanese-Syrian agreement, international arbitration, or an Israeli withdrawal.


03-29-06 - Ballistic Missile Defense: Israel BMD plan As with previous Israeli tenders, the U.S.-Israeli consortia participating in the SRBMD tender want their systems to be eligible for U.S. government funding for the proposed project, Globes said. The U.S. Congress has already approved $133 million for the Arrow program in the coming fiscal year, including $10 million for defense against short-range missiles.


03-29-06 - Can Turkey bridge the gap between Islam and the West? By improving ties with Iran and Syria, Turkey aims to help mediate tensions.



03-29-06 - The Iraq War is Going Very Well - For Israel


03-29-06 - A nation like ours The Boston Globe's resident Israel-apologist Jeff Jacoby's SECOND response to the report about the Israeli lobby by the two professors. Americans would NOT be so supportive of Israel if they knew the truth about Isreal's sordid history and grave human rights violations. That the American media is complicit in this is one of the POINTS OF THE STUDY.

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