The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Sunday, April 23, 2006

News for 04-23-06

04-23-06 - Iran vows no u-turn on nuclear work Iran's decision to enrich uranium is irreversible, its foreign ministry said on Sunday in defiance of international demands it halt all nuclear work.


04-23-06 - Intelligence on Iran nuclear threat seen as inadequate The United States doesn't have enough good intelligence to know whether or not Iran will be capable of producing nuclear weapons in the near future, top congressional intelligence committee members said on Sunday. This claim is outright BS. I fear that this claim will now be used as a part of the propaganda in any pro-war campaign for war with Iran.


04-23-06 - White House: U.S. intel believes Bin Laden tape authentic The White House said on Sunday the U.S. intelligence community believes the latest tape released by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is authentic.


04-23-06 - Hamas Distances Itself From Bin Laden Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the group's ideology is vastly different from al-Qaida's but noted that international sanctions on the Hamas-led government would naturally anger some Muslims.


04-23-06 - West waging war against Islam: bin Laden "It is scornful to people that your (the West's) warplanes and tanks are destroying houses over the heads of our folk and children in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Pakistan, then you smile at us and say that 'we are not enemies of Islam but enemies of terrorists'.


04-23-06 - Doha forum opens amid Kuwait offer to calm oil prices


04-23-06 - Tape a vexing reminder of US failure to find bin Laden In the tape, bin Laden called on Muslim fighters to go to Sudan to wage war against "crusader thieves", and slammed the international isolation of the Hamas-led Palestinian government as proof of a "war by crusaders and Zionists against Islam."


04-23-06 - Iraq one of 'worst disasters' of US foreign policy: Albright Hindsight is always 20/20. Very few people had the guts to say that this war was wrong BEFORE it began. Pat Buchanan is one of them. Frankly, I can't think of any others at this moment. Our politicians - if there were any that disagreed with this war from the outset -were cowed into submission.


04-23-06 - Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld An Army major who is an intelligence specialist said: "The history I will take away from this is that the current crop of generals failed to stand up and say, 'We cannot do this mission.'


04-23-06 - Bin Laden call falls on deaf ears


04-23-06 - Western pressure irks average Iranians "I've got two Iraqi bullets in my leg," he says. "It was Western countries that supported (Saddam Hussein) when he used chemical weapons against us. Now they destroy Iraq and lecture us on human rights. America killed more than a hundred thousand people when it dropped atomic bombs on Japan, but they won't even let us have nuclear energy."


04-23-06 - New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones


04-23-06 - Bush adviser dismisses call for talks with Iran In an interview with the Financial Times, Philip Zelikow, counsellor at the US State Department, also said the Bush administration's commitment to the democratisation of the Middle East was undimmed,


04-23-06 - The threat to a fistful of petrodollars Were the Iranians to establish a Middle-East based euro-only oil exchange, the dollar's unique petrocurrency status could unravel. That, in turn, would threaten its broader dominance - which, given America's groaning twin deficit, could seriously hurt the US economy. Some cite this as the real reason the US wants to attack Iran: to protect the dollar's unique position. I wouldn't go that far, but the prospect of a non-dollar oil exchange in Tehran is certainly an aggravating factor.



04-23-06 - 'Pre-emptive' Peace Actions--UPDATED peace groups are mobilizing to prevent possible war in Iran


04-23-06 - US-Israel counter-terror plan proposed 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 US officials believe could provide technological assistance. The effort comes as numerous states and municipalities, as well as law enforcement agencies, are sending representatives to Israel to pick the brains of counterterrorism leaders. The Israelization of the United States is nearing completion. No surprise to see that AIPAC is behind this legislation. Why the United States is targeted by terrorists in the first place should be the number one thing that gets addressed and redressed. Instead, our governnment only treats the symptoms.


04-23-06 - China's Hu says ready to work for Mideast peace


04-23-06 - Is The Israel Lobby Effective?

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