The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Monday, May 08, 2006

News for 05-07-06

05-07-06 - Spies Among Us * U.S. News has identified nearly a dozen cases in which city and county police, in the name of homeland security, have surveilled or harassed animal-rights and antiwar protesters, union activists, and even library patrons surfing the Web. Unlike with Washington's warrantless domestic surveillance program, little attention has been focused on the role of state and local authorities in the war on terrorism. That is profoundly disturbing.


05-07-06 - Russia says UN plan for Iran is 'first step to war' Russia will seek the removal tonight of the core of a UK-sponsored draft United Nations resolution on Iran because it fears that it could pave the way to unilateral military action to curb the Iranian nuclear programme.


05-07-06 - Iran says UN steps would spark confrontation Iran said on Sunday any measures taken against its nuclear program by the U.N. Security Council would push Tehran toward confrontation with the West rather than cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.


05-07-06 - US general in Iraq warns Iran on bomb smuggling A senior U.S. general flew to Iraq's vast desert frontier with Iran on Sunday and vowed to stop what he said was the smuggling of bomb materials from Iran that is wreaking havoc among American troops.


05-07-06 - Iran Threatens to Pull Out of Nuke Treaty President Bush, in an interview with ARD German television, said "an armed Iran will be a threat to peace. It will be a threat to peace in the Middle East, it will create a sense of blackmail, it will encourage other nations to feel like they need to have a nuclear weapon. And so it's essential that we succeed diplomatically." Unlike Iran, Israel has never signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.


05-07-06 - Lawmakers Want More Data on Contracting Out Intelligence


05-07-06 - New Chief Will Find C.I.A. Is Hobbled on Iran As the Central Intelligence Agency undergoes its latest round of turmoil, legislators and former intelligence officials say that serious gaps in the United States' knowledge of Iran are among the most critical problems facing a new director of the spy agency.
Wasn't Plame working on Iran intel before she got outed?


05-07-06 - Iran rejects UN's call for talks with US Iran has rejected a call from UN secretary-general Kofi Annan for Washington to enter direct talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program.


05-07-06 - Task for CIA's next chief: push Bush's agenda


05-07-06 - Interview of President Bush by Sabine Christiansen of Ard German Television I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce [sic] its desire to destroy Israel. On the other hand, the elections did say to people in the Palestinian Territories, we're sick and tired of corruption. We want leaders who don't steal from us. We want leaders who help us educate our children and provide health for our citizens. Our president knows exactly why the Palestinians elected Hamas, yet does nothing in the face of the human catastrophe that is unfolding in the Palestinian Territories. That's the power of the Israeli lobby


05-07-06 - Hezbollah should disarm: Jumblatt


05-07-06 - USA supports Kurdistan Workers? Party to strengthen Israel?


05-07-06 - Opening the debate on Israel If the U.S. news media were to become committed to a single standard of human rights, the shift would transform public discourse about basic Israeli policies - and jeopardize the U.S. government's support for them. It is against just such a single standard that the epithet of "anti-Semitism" is commonly wielded. From the viewpoint of Israel and its supporters, the ongoing threat of using the label helps to prevent U.S. media coverage from getting out of hand. Journalists understand critical words about Israel to be hazardous to their careers.


05-07-06 - Colbert shakes up Bill Kristol over PNAC ties


05-07-06 - Bush Taking Iran Threats 'Very Seriously' President Bush says he's paying close attention to threats made against Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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