The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Saturday, April 15, 2006

News for 04-15-06

04-15-06 - China fears drive big US arms projects U.S. fears of a rising China are spurring billions of dollars worth of weapons projects, from nuclear-fueled attack submarines to fighter jets to destroyers.


04-15-06 - Iran suicide bombers ?ready to hit Britain? IRAN has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike at British and American targets if the nation?s nuclear sites are attacked. According to Iranian officials, 40,000 trained suicide bombers are ready for action.


04-15-06 - Israel could propose to swap Barghouti for Pollard: Israeli military radio Israel could ask the United States to free a former US Defense Department official jailed for spying for Israel in several months' time in return for freeing jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, Israeli military radio said. And we could say 'hell no!'.


04-15-06 - Israel's Peres says UN must take Iran to task over threats The influential senior statesman also predicted that the firebrand Iranian leader would meet the same fate as Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator overthrown in the 2003 US-led invasion.


04-15-06 - Lebanese PM to seek Bush's help "I'm going to present to U.S. President George W. Bush our case... Israel has to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms and has to stop violating our airspace and water," the prime minister said. The Bush administration couldn't care less about Lebanon, as will be demonstrated by the difference in their action with regard to this case, and with their action with regard to the assasination of Hariri. The main drive of the neocons is to disarm the Palestinians (in Lebanon) and Hezbollah, and to remove the Syrians from Lebanon - with the clear goal of making Israel more secure.


04-15-06 - Hezbollah chief accuses US of plotting civil war in Lebanon


04-15-06 - Hezbollah Links Plot to Clashes in Iraq A top Hezbollah official, Sheik Mohammed Kawthrani, told The Associated Press late Friday that the nine men arrested early last week were "Salafists who saw in Sheik Nasrallah a good Shiite target to avenge the death of Sunnis in Iraq."


04-15-06 - Palestinian militant leaders rally behind Iran And our government just blocked UN action that sought to condemn Israel's killing of Palestinian children.


04-15-06 - Not All in Iran Back President's Rhetoric


04-15-06 - Soldiers families go on attack The parents of British troops on active service in Iraq are to stage an unprecedented protest about the conflict, signalling growing discontent over the conflict in military circles


04-15-06 - Israel condemns Iranian threats


04-15-06 - Israel: The Dead Roach in America's Salad The U.S. hypocritically opposes a nuclear-free Middle East because Israel has nuclear weapons. We hypocritically claim the Iranians are in violation of international law when, in fact, it is Israel that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and refuses international inspections. Given our craven obedience to Israel, we have exactly zero credibility in the Arab and Muslim world.


04-15-06 - The generals' revolt by Patrick J. Buchanan Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs up to the eve of war, charges Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith with a "casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions ? or bury the results."


04-15-06 - Iran criticizes U.S. blocking of anti-Israeli attack statement Asefi also stressed that "the U.S. administration's abuse of international bodies" to the extent of playing the role of Israel's consultant in the Security Council had "humiliated the American people", encouraging more crimes in the occupied Palestinian lands.


04-15-06 - Neo-Crazy Plans for Iran


04-15-06 - The Al Qaeda Myth It's almost certain that as the United States ratchets up the pressure on Iran in the coming months the non-issue of Tehran 's "links" with Al Qaeda will come to the fore


04-15-06 - So how close is a showdown over Iran?


04-15-06 - Iraqi children find hope in theatre amid violence

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