News for 04-19-06
04-19-06 - Iran to step up uranium enrichment work, asks Europe to join Iran plans to step up uranium enrichment work soon and has asked European countries to help in the effort, a senior French official told AFP.
04-19-06 - "New urgency" to curb Iran: US Russia said on Wednesday it wanted no action against Iran before an April 28 U.N. deadline set for it to halt uranium enrichment, but a top U.S. official said other countries were inching toward sanctions.
04-19-06 - Decision on Iran must await IAEA report: Russia
04-19-06 - U.S. May Ask IAEA to Pressure Iran The United States may turn to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency to exert more pressure on Iran out of frustration with Russian and Chinese opposition to firm Security Council action, diplomats said Wednesday.
04-19-06 - US warns Russia over aid to Iran A senior US official has called on Russia to stop helping Iran build its first civilian nuclear power station.
04-19-06 - Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
04-19-06 - British officer likens US generals to gung-ho movie stars: report A senior British military officer, who worked in Baghdad in 2004, believes US generals try to act like gung-ho movie stars such as John Wayne, a newspaper reported.
04-19-06 - Savage advocated "kill(ing) 100 million" Muslims; called alleged Duke rape victim a "drunken slut stripping whore" They say, 'Oh, there's a billion of them.' " Savage continued: "I said, 'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'd be 900 million of them.' Savage may as well be working for Osama Bin Laden - for he is playing right into his hands when he pits America vs 1 billion Muslims. This is what Bin Laden has alleged to be happening: the West against Islam.
04-19-06 - CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. More intelligence from blogs and foreign newspapers than can be found in our media, whodda thunk it?!
04-19-06 - Chirac, Mubarak urge diplomacy with Iran Speaking later at the press conference, Chirac said he supported continued aid to the Palestinians "for legal and humanitarian reasons," and added he planned to discuss the matter further with Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas. "It is politically clumsy to make the Palestinian population pay" for the arrival in power of Hamas by cutting aid, Chirac said.
04-19-06 - Hezbollah blasts UN call to settle Lebanon-Syria border The fundamentalist Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah criticized a UN envoy's call for Syria and Lebanon to work together to draw their shared border, describing it as pro-Israel.
04-19-06 - Britain does not believe US will strike Iran In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was time for the world to "send a clear and united message" to Iran about its nuclear work and support for terrorism, but also played down the prospect of military action.
04-19-06 - Remarks by Vice President Cheney at a Rally for the Troops The terrorists ..(have) made clear, as well, their ultimate ambitions: to arm themselves with weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate all Western countries, and to cause mass death right here in the United States. In the face of such a threat, those of us in positions of responsibility have a duty to wage a broad-scale effort for the sake of this nation's freedom and security.
04-19-06 - West, Russia seek to paper over cracks as Iran crisis deepens Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Moscow Carnegie think tank, said that Russia and China would eventually be dragged into supporting the more hawkish US position.
04-19-06 - Gulf Nations Urged to Stay Neutral on Iran It would be almost impossible for the United States to launch airstrikes against Iran without using the military assets based in those three Gulf countries.
04-19-06 - Blair was 'warned of Iraq war' two months before invasion: ex-diplomat
04-19-06 - Blair and Straw at odds over US action in Iran Jack Straw has warned Cabinet colleagues that it would be illegal for Britain to support the United States in military action against Iran. But Tony Blair has backed President George Bush by warning that ruling out military action would send out a "message of weakness" to Iran.
04-19-06 - Sex and money bought Iraq contracts A CONTRACTOR in Iraq has pleaded guilty to providing money, sex and designer watches to US officials in exchange for more than $US8 million ($10.8 million) in reconstruction contracts.
04-19-06 - Iraq: Palestinian refugees remain stranded on Jordan border About 150 Palestinians refugees fleeing from Iraq, including some 50 children, remain stranded near the Jordan-Iraq border, say aid officials.
04-19-06 - World Bank Earmarks $500M for Bird Flu Asked whether new aid should flow to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority, Wolfowitz said that is something that would be a matter for the World Bank's board. "We are not an independent actor," he said.
04-19-06 - From April 19, 1996: Massacre in Sanctuary; Eyewitness Israel's slaughter of civilians in this terrible 10-day offensive - 206 by last night - has been so cavalier, so ferocious, that not a Lebanese will forgive this massacre. There had been the ambulance attacked on Saturday, the sisters killed in Yohmor the day before, the 2-year-old girl decapitated by an Israeli missile four days ago. And earlier yesterday, the Israelis had slaughtered a family of 12 - the youngest was a four- day-old baby - when Israeli helicopter pilots fired missiles into their home.
04-19-06 - Mideast 'axis' forms against West Iran is the driving force behind the alliance, its strategic position in the region enhanced by the US-led effort to oust Tehran's Taliban enemy in Afghanistan to the east and its Baathist foe in Iraq to the west.
04-19-06 - News outlets resist Scooter Libby subpoenas
04-19-06 - Breaking the silence Arabs and Muslims like Americans and democracy just fine in principle. What they don't like is U.S. foreign policy. Their main grievance before 2003 was of U.S. complicity in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Now they have another major objection, the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- and they clearly see the two as related
04-19-06 - Amid Threats, Some Republicans Seek Talks on Iran
04-19-06 - EU declines to criticise Russian aid for Hamas The European Union declined to criticise Russia on Tuesday for offering emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority after Washington and Brussels cut off direct payments to pressure Hamas to recognise Israel.
04-19-06 - Lebanon's Hizbollah dismisses UN demand to disarm The group, whose attacks were vital to end Israel's occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, says it is willing to discuss its weapons domestically but will not disarm under international pressure.
04-19-06 - White House shakes up its top team New chief of staff Josh Bolten has moved rapidly to turn over the staff.
04-19-06 - A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy How are we to explain the fact that it is in Israel itself that the uncomfortable issues raised by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt have been most thoroughly aired? It was an Israeli columnist in the liberal daily Haaretz who described the American foreign policy advisers Richard Perle and Douglas Feith as "walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments ...and Israeli interests." It was Israel's impeccably conservative Jerusalem Post that described Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, as "devoutly pro-Israel." Are we to accuse Israelis, too, of "anti-Zionism"? The pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' CAMERA has already attacked this piece at The New York Times. It can't be all bad.
04-19-06 - "New urgency" to curb Iran: US Russia said on Wednesday it wanted no action against Iran before an April 28 U.N. deadline set for it to halt uranium enrichment, but a top U.S. official said other countries were inching toward sanctions.
04-19-06 - Decision on Iran must await IAEA report: Russia
04-19-06 - U.S. May Ask IAEA to Pressure Iran The United States may turn to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency to exert more pressure on Iran out of frustration with Russian and Chinese opposition to firm Security Council action, diplomats said Wednesday.
04-19-06 - US warns Russia over aid to Iran A senior US official has called on Russia to stop helping Iran build its first civilian nuclear power station.
04-19-06 - Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
04-19-06 - British officer likens US generals to gung-ho movie stars: report A senior British military officer, who worked in Baghdad in 2004, believes US generals try to act like gung-ho movie stars such as John Wayne, a newspaper reported.
04-19-06 - Savage advocated "kill(ing) 100 million" Muslims; called alleged Duke rape victim a "drunken slut stripping whore" They say, 'Oh, there's a billion of them.' " Savage continued: "I said, 'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'd be 900 million of them.' Savage may as well be working for Osama Bin Laden - for he is playing right into his hands when he pits America vs 1 billion Muslims. This is what Bin Laden has alleged to be happening: the West against Islam.
04-19-06 - CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. More intelligence from blogs and foreign newspapers than can be found in our media, whodda thunk it?!
04-19-06 - Chirac, Mubarak urge diplomacy with Iran Speaking later at the press conference, Chirac said he supported continued aid to the Palestinians "for legal and humanitarian reasons," and added he planned to discuss the matter further with Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas. "It is politically clumsy to make the Palestinian population pay" for the arrival in power of Hamas by cutting aid, Chirac said.
04-19-06 - Hezbollah blasts UN call to settle Lebanon-Syria border The fundamentalist Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah criticized a UN envoy's call for Syria and Lebanon to work together to draw their shared border, describing it as pro-Israel.
04-19-06 - Britain does not believe US will strike Iran In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was time for the world to "send a clear and united message" to Iran about its nuclear work and support for terrorism, but also played down the prospect of military action.
04-19-06 - Remarks by Vice President Cheney at a Rally for the Troops The terrorists ..(have) made clear, as well, their ultimate ambitions: to arm themselves with weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate all Western countries, and to cause mass death right here in the United States. In the face of such a threat, those of us in positions of responsibility have a duty to wage a broad-scale effort for the sake of this nation's freedom and security.
04-19-06 - West, Russia seek to paper over cracks as Iran crisis deepens Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Moscow Carnegie think tank, said that Russia and China would eventually be dragged into supporting the more hawkish US position.
04-19-06 - Gulf Nations Urged to Stay Neutral on Iran It would be almost impossible for the United States to launch airstrikes against Iran without using the military assets based in those three Gulf countries.
04-19-06 - Blair was 'warned of Iraq war' two months before invasion: ex-diplomat
04-19-06 - Blair and Straw at odds over US action in Iran Jack Straw has warned Cabinet colleagues that it would be illegal for Britain to support the United States in military action against Iran. But Tony Blair has backed President George Bush by warning that ruling out military action would send out a "message of weakness" to Iran.
04-19-06 - Sex and money bought Iraq contracts A CONTRACTOR in Iraq has pleaded guilty to providing money, sex and designer watches to US officials in exchange for more than $US8 million ($10.8 million) in reconstruction contracts.
04-19-06 - Iraq: Palestinian refugees remain stranded on Jordan border About 150 Palestinians refugees fleeing from Iraq, including some 50 children, remain stranded near the Jordan-Iraq border, say aid officials.
04-19-06 - World Bank Earmarks $500M for Bird Flu Asked whether new aid should flow to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority, Wolfowitz said that is something that would be a matter for the World Bank's board. "We are not an independent actor," he said.
04-19-06 - From April 19, 1996: Massacre in Sanctuary; Eyewitness Israel's slaughter of civilians in this terrible 10-day offensive - 206 by last night - has been so cavalier, so ferocious, that not a Lebanese will forgive this massacre. There had been the ambulance attacked on Saturday, the sisters killed in Yohmor the day before, the 2-year-old girl decapitated by an Israeli missile four days ago. And earlier yesterday, the Israelis had slaughtered a family of 12 - the youngest was a four- day-old baby - when Israeli helicopter pilots fired missiles into their home.
04-19-06 - Mideast 'axis' forms against West Iran is the driving force behind the alliance, its strategic position in the region enhanced by the US-led effort to oust Tehran's Taliban enemy in Afghanistan to the east and its Baathist foe in Iraq to the west.
04-19-06 - News outlets resist Scooter Libby subpoenas
04-19-06 - Breaking the silence Arabs and Muslims like Americans and democracy just fine in principle. What they don't like is U.S. foreign policy. Their main grievance before 2003 was of U.S. complicity in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Now they have another major objection, the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- and they clearly see the two as related
04-19-06 - Amid Threats, Some Republicans Seek Talks on Iran
04-19-06 - EU declines to criticise Russian aid for Hamas The European Union declined to criticise Russia on Tuesday for offering emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority after Washington and Brussels cut off direct payments to pressure Hamas to recognise Israel.
04-19-06 - Lebanon's Hizbollah dismisses UN demand to disarm The group, whose attacks were vital to end Israel's occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, says it is willing to discuss its weapons domestically but will not disarm under international pressure.
04-19-06 - White House shakes up its top team New chief of staff Josh Bolten has moved rapidly to turn over the staff.
04-19-06 - A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy How are we to explain the fact that it is in Israel itself that the uncomfortable issues raised by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt have been most thoroughly aired? It was an Israeli columnist in the liberal daily Haaretz who described the American foreign policy advisers Richard Perle and Douglas Feith as "walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments ...and Israeli interests." It was Israel's impeccably conservative Jerusalem Post that described Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, as "devoutly pro-Israel." Are we to accuse Israelis, too, of "anti-Zionism"? The pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' CAMERA has already attacked this piece at The New York Times. It can't be all bad.
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