News for 05-14-06
05-14-06 - US soldiers with mental problems kept in Iraq The investigation found that at least 11 service members who committed suicide in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 were kept on duty despite exhibiting signs of significant psychological distress, the paper said.
05-14-06 - Cheney suspicions of Iraq WMD probe, CIA spy outed in legal documents The documents, filed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in federal court here, contain direct evidence that Cheney believed Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative at the time, might have helped engineer a trip to Niger by her husband, retired ambassador Joseph Wilson, on a mission not authorized by the White House. I think the picture gets more clear by the minute as to who is the biggest problem in the Bush administration.
05-14-06 - Iran to reject EU offer to end atomic work Iran said on Sunday it would reject any demand to stop what it calls peaceful nuclear work, a day before Europe's foreign ministers discuss incentives and penalties designed to rein in Tehran's atomic ambitions.
05-14-06 - Russia and US trade angry words over Iran at UN dinner The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, traded barbs during bad-tempered talks at a foreign ministers' summit in New York on Iran's nuclear programme.
05-14-06 - White House dismisses calls for direct Iran talks The White House on Sunday dismissed calls for direct talks with Iran to resolve the stand-off over its nuclear program, saying the United Nations was the best forum for those discussions.
05-14-06 - Putin and Abbas set for key talks
05-14-06 - Iranian 'bandits' kill 12 people
05-14-06 - Lebanon's new resolve on Palestinian issue Lebanon hopes to offer Palestinians greater job opportunities and better living conditions to weaken the lure of the many armed Palestinian factions operating in the camps. Though Beirut has long been under international pressure to disarm the groups, the imminent negotiations - regarded as a key step in allaying that pressure - signal a change in how the government plans to tackle the problem
05-14-06 - Motion filed to intervene in AT&T secrets case The U.S. government filed a motion on Saturday to intervene and seek dismissal of a lawsuit by a civil liberties group against AT&T Inc. over a federal program to monitor U.S. communications.
05-14-06 - Mideast spotlight on EU for Iran, Palestinian moves Washington opposes the fund paying Palestinian Authority salaries, the mainstay of the economy, and envoys said banks were reluctant to take part in anything which might breach a U.S. financial blockade of the Authority.
05-14-06 - Iran denies supplying weapons to Hamas
05-14-06 - U.S. May Shift to Persian Gulf Air Bases *
05-14-06 - Cheney pushed to widen eavesdropping - NY Times Another official described the debate as "very healthy," with Cheney's staff "pushing and pushing, and it was up to the NSA lawyers to draw a line and say absolutely not."
05-14-06 - Oil price 'may soar' if US attacks Iran Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the oil price could soar to triple figures if the United States attacks Iran in its dispute with Tehran over nuclear technology.
05-14-06 - Brzezinski rips U.S. policy on Iran, Hamas On cutting off aid to the Palestinians for having elected Hamas, he said: "I think the American foreign policy is mindless. "When Likud came to power in 1977, it had a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not fundamentally different from the position of Hamas; that is to say, all of the former Palestine should be part of Israel. Some Likud officials even felt the Palestinians should be expelled physically across the Jordan River. But we did not isolate or embargo the Likud government. We kept talking to it and over a period of time, the position of Likud evolved to the point that Likud itself accepted a two-state solution. Excellent point.
05-14-06 - AIPAC case defense cites treaty the attorneys told the court last week that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel.
05-14-06 - Cheney suspicions of Iraq WMD probe, CIA spy outed in legal documents The documents, filed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in federal court here, contain direct evidence that Cheney believed Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative at the time, might have helped engineer a trip to Niger by her husband, retired ambassador Joseph Wilson, on a mission not authorized by the White House. I think the picture gets more clear by the minute as to who is the biggest problem in the Bush administration.
05-14-06 - Iran to reject EU offer to end atomic work Iran said on Sunday it would reject any demand to stop what it calls peaceful nuclear work, a day before Europe's foreign ministers discuss incentives and penalties designed to rein in Tehran's atomic ambitions.
05-14-06 - Russia and US trade angry words over Iran at UN dinner The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, traded barbs during bad-tempered talks at a foreign ministers' summit in New York on Iran's nuclear programme.
05-14-06 - White House dismisses calls for direct Iran talks The White House on Sunday dismissed calls for direct talks with Iran to resolve the stand-off over its nuclear program, saying the United Nations was the best forum for those discussions.
05-14-06 - Putin and Abbas set for key talks
05-14-06 - Iranian 'bandits' kill 12 people
05-14-06 - Lebanon's new resolve on Palestinian issue Lebanon hopes to offer Palestinians greater job opportunities and better living conditions to weaken the lure of the many armed Palestinian factions operating in the camps. Though Beirut has long been under international pressure to disarm the groups, the imminent negotiations - regarded as a key step in allaying that pressure - signal a change in how the government plans to tackle the problem
05-14-06 - Motion filed to intervene in AT&T secrets case The U.S. government filed a motion on Saturday to intervene and seek dismissal of a lawsuit by a civil liberties group against AT&T Inc. over a federal program to monitor U.S. communications.
05-14-06 - Mideast spotlight on EU for Iran, Palestinian moves Washington opposes the fund paying Palestinian Authority salaries, the mainstay of the economy, and envoys said banks were reluctant to take part in anything which might breach a U.S. financial blockade of the Authority.
05-14-06 - Iran denies supplying weapons to Hamas
05-14-06 - U.S. May Shift to Persian Gulf Air Bases *
05-14-06 - Cheney pushed to widen eavesdropping - NY Times Another official described the debate as "very healthy," with Cheney's staff "pushing and pushing, and it was up to the NSA lawyers to draw a line and say absolutely not."
05-14-06 - Oil price 'may soar' if US attacks Iran Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the oil price could soar to triple figures if the United States attacks Iran in its dispute with Tehran over nuclear technology.
05-14-06 - Brzezinski rips U.S. policy on Iran, Hamas On cutting off aid to the Palestinians for having elected Hamas, he said: "I think the American foreign policy is mindless. "When Likud came to power in 1977, it had a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not fundamentally different from the position of Hamas; that is to say, all of the former Palestine should be part of Israel. Some Likud officials even felt the Palestinians should be expelled physically across the Jordan River. But we did not isolate or embargo the Likud government. We kept talking to it and over a period of time, the position of Likud evolved to the point that Likud itself accepted a two-state solution. Excellent point.
05-14-06 - AIPAC case defense cites treaty the attorneys told the court last week that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel.
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