The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

News for 04-11-06

04-11-06 - Iran declares key nuclear advance


04-11-06 - Riyadh seeks Russian help to prevent US strike on Iran Saudi Arabia, fearing that US military action against Iran would wreak further havoc in the region, has asked Russia to block any bid by Washington to secure UN cover for an attack, a Russian diplomat said on Tuesday.


04-11-06 - E-Mails Show Abramoff's Donation Leverage A Republican Party official and Jack Abramoff's lobbying team bluntly discussed using large political donations as a way to pressure lawmakers into securing federal money for a tribal client, according to e-mails gathered by prosecutors.


04-11-06 - Russia should stick with Mideast peace 'Quartet': US Earlier Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that denying aid to the Palestinians because of Hamas's participation in the government was a mistake.


04-11-06 - Arab states want U.N. to press Israel to end attacks To win U.S. backing a council statement would have to be "something that contributes to positive movement in the dispute, not something that creates more heat than light," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. A neocon (Bolton) for the UN.


04-11-06 - Potential US military strike against Iran full of risks "Let's say they kill three thousand to four thousand Americans in some type of event, or they took down another airliner. I think the United States would need to respond to that with great force," said the analyst from neocon 'thinktank' AEI.


04-11-06 - Basra child mortality 'is rising'


04-11-06 - Palestinians latest casualty of Iraq conflict Three weeks after they fled violence in Iraq, about 130 Palestinian refugees, including at least 50 children, are still stranded in the no-man's-land between Iraq and Jordan with no light at the end of the tunnel.


04-11-06 - Is Iran next? The calculus of military strike. But Iran does not desire to prompt the US or Israel to a major response, says Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations. "If Iran used a nuclear weapon against New York - or if it could be traced back to Iran - Tehran would fall ... and the Iranians know that." Why are these 'thinktanks' routinely hinting at possible terrorist attacks on American soil that will be linked to Iran, mewonders?


04-11-06 - Iraq: A way out for America Divide and conquer, or so the saying goes. Imagine how the Iraqis must feel, seeing the plans for their future being drawn up in Tel Aviv?


04-11-06 - Is war with Iran inevitable? by Patrick J. Buchanan


04-11-06 - U.S. officials looking to Israel for partnership and ideas against terror Israel advocates are behind new legislation that would create an office within the Department of Homeland Security for counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and its allies. Israel is one of a handful of countries named in the legislation that U.S. officials believe could provide technological assistance. Just don't read this if you have blood pressure problems, and are a true American patriot.


04-11-06 - Blair isolated on Iraq conflict as Berlusconi bows out The defeat of Silvio Berlusconi has left Tony Blair isolated in Europe as the last political leader supporting the war in Iraq


04-11-06 - Planning the US 'Long War' on terror It is also preparing the public for a global conflict which it believes will dominate the next 20 years.


04-11-06 - Israeli advice to Americans on Iraq Does anyone still have any doubt that this was the neocon/Israeli plan for Iraq from the beginning?


04-11-06 - Lobbyists' Prosecutors Pointing to Spy Case


04-11-06 - Two steps forward for efforts to correct bias in Mideast studies The bill also grants the education secretary some discretion in examining whether Middle East Studies departments are producing well-rounded graduates for the U.S. diplomatic, intelligence and defense corps, as envisioned by the Title VI framers. THis move isn't to 'correct bias', it's to ENSURE bias - the same bias towards Israel that pro-Israeli lobbies make happen in the mainstream US media, the US Congress and in the White House. Also of note from the article : 'Perhaps as significant as the recommendations were the commission's findings, which discerned anti-Semitism in "anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda." ' Pro-Israeli groups have successfully conflated anti-Semitism with anti-Israelism. This is a recipe for a backlash. For, their increased calls for censorship only add fuel to the fire.


04-11-06 - World Bank faces dilemma on Hamas contacts World Bank officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said on Tuesday contact with the new Palestinian government has been "limited" until World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz decides how to proceed A neocon (Wolfowitz) for the World Bank.


04-11-06 - United Nations ends unrestricted political contacts with Palestinians The UN said Tuesday it has ended its policy of unrestricted political contacts with the Palestinians and will now assess every request for political talks with the new Hamas-run government. A neocon (Bolton) for the UN.


04-11-06 - Gilat Satellite China Project Completed


04-11-06 - Court: Couple Can't Sue Northrop Grumman the two opposed U.S. policy and believed terrorism would worsen as long as the U.S. supported Israel. Northrop Grumman notified the State Department and U.S. immigration authorities, and the government took the couple into custody and began deportation proceedings.



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