The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Thursday, April 27, 2006

News for 04-26-06

04-26-06 - Iran Leader Warns U.S. Against Attacking Iran's supreme leader warned the United States on Wednesday that his nation would hit back twice as hard if America attacked its nuclear sites


04-26-06 - Iran Threatens to Hide Nuclear Program


04-26-06 - Deep Background by former CIA official Philip Giraldi There are signs that the Bush administration's covert action program against Iran is becoming both more active and more lethal.....Sources in Rome report that Michael Ledeen is now being surveilled every time he visits Italy


04-26-06 - Sinai hit by fresh bomb attacks Two suicide bombers attacked security personnel and foreign peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, but did not cause any injuries to their targets.


04-26-06 - Rumsfeld say Iraq, Afghan missions key to containing Iran


04-26-06 - Rice Offers Modest U.S. Help to Turks In Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said the Turkish separatist movement PKK has free run of a swath of northern Iraq, and has set up training camps and bases. Turkey fears that civil unrest in Iraq could lead to the fragmentation of the country, and has often called on the United States to stop PKK fighters from using Iraq as a base to stage attacks inside Turkey.


04-26-06 - Policy Is More Important Than Personnel by Rep. Ron Paul


04-26-06 - Iran role in Lebanon worries U.S. Bolton also noted that concerns have been raised over "the near alliance that Syria and Iran seem to have formed in recent months and the implications that has for peace and security in the region."

Neocons like Bolton can look in the mirror to find the reason for this alliance.


04-26-06 - Arab League head urges Europe to renew aid to Palestinians


04-26-06 - Watchdogs say House ethics reform is a "scam" Congressional watchdogs blasted an ethics reform bill pending in the House of Representatives on Tuesday as a "scam" that would do little to curb the influence of money in politics.


04-26-06 - Bush freezes assets of Hariri assassination suspects The communique did not mention any individuals by name, but cited a United Nations report from October determining that there is "converging evidence" pointing to "both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in terrorist acts."


04-26-06 - Security at military bases: a job for private firms?


04-26-06 - Pakistan Stressed by US Designs on Iran


04-26-06 - Canada Bans Coverage of Returning War Dead Canada's new Conservative government barred the media from covering the return Tuesday of the flag-draped coffins of four soldiers killed in Afghanistan, angering political opponents and some families. The government also has stopped lowering flags to half-staff outside Parliament each time a Canadian soldier is killed, prompting Liberals to accuse Prime Minister Stephen Harper of trying to play down the growing human cost of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.



04-26-06 - Senate Shifts Iraq Funds to Borders, Ports


04-26-06 - Do not attack Iran If there is another terrorist attack in the United States, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be also immediate charges that Iran was responsible in order to generate public hysteria in favor of military action


04-26-06 - US policy is bin Laden's 'indispensable ally': ex-CIA analyst Scheuer said bin Laden has focused on US policies in the Islamic world, such as the US military presence of Iraq and Afghanistan, its economic and military support to Israel and its "decades old support for apostate and tyrannical government across the Islamic world."


04-26-06 - EU: CIA Executed Over 1,000 Europe Flights The CIA has conducted more than 1,000 undeclared flights over European territory since 2001 - a clear violation of an international treaty, European Parliament investigators said Wednesday.


04-26-06 - Wary of Iran, Gulf will quietly fund Palestinians


04-26-06 - NEOCONS SQUANDER THEIR ONLY VICTORY


04-26-06 - US should call for direct talks with Iran Washington, closely backed (and sometimes urged, it appears) by Jerusalem - especially since the recent barrage of fanatically anti-Israel rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - professes to view Iran as a major threat and agrees with the Israeli view that it is an "existential threat" to the Jewish state.




04-26-06 - Top White House posts go to Jews For Republicans, there is still a feeling that Bush does not receive the credit he deserves from the Jewish community. "We have Israel's best friend and it still hasn't changed the way the Jewish community sees him,"


04-26-06 - John Fund vs. the Truth


04-26-06 - Pro-Israel "Nutjobs" on the Attack In the United States, we do not have full-throated, full-throttle debate about Israel. In Israel, they have it as a matter of course, but the truth is that the accusation of anti-Semitism is far too often raised in this country against anyone who criticizes the government of Israel.

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