The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Thursday, May 18, 2006

News for 05-17-06

05-17-06 - US spells out plan to bomb Iran THE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran's atomic weapon programme if international diplomacy fails, Pentagon sources have confirmed.



05-17-06 - UN presses for Syria-Lebanon ties The 15-member council adopted the resolution by 13-0 with Russia and China abstaining.


05-17-06 - Iran Rejects European Nuclear Incentives The fiery Ahmadinejad said Tehran had put its trust in the European Union in 2003 and suspended its nuclear activities as a confidence-building measure as negotiations continued. The EU then demanded that Iran permanently stop uranium enrichment. "We won't be bitten twice," Ahmadinejad said.



05-17-06 - Israel 'Will Not Allow' Iran Nuclear Weapons He noted that the timetable for military strikes must occur when Iran develops acquires the capability to make nuclear weapons, long before it acquires the weapons themselves. "People tell me that this means months and not years," he added....Israel needed to make its intentions clear, as a warning to Iran but also to its friends in the United States and elsewhere, Olmert said.


05-17-06 - Pentagon denying Israelis security clearances New York Sun reports State Department citing AIPAC leak case as basis for denying employees with dual Israeli-American citizenship security clearances. In one case, government lawyers argued Israel was 'actively spying on United States' to justify withdrawing clearance from worker


05-17-06 - Bowing To The Police State Like the proverbial frog in slowly boiling water, we have become inured to what goes on in the name of national security. Recent disclosures about increased government surveillance and illegal activities would be shocking, were it not for the prevailing outrage-fatigue brought on by a long train of abuses Former CIA officials need to coalesce with regard to the current situation here in the States - particularly involving the neocons and their agenda - to form a bloc which may prove to be more effective.


05-17-06 - . . . nightmare For world opinion, rightly or wrongly, Israeli action against Iran could not take place without a green light from the White House....Interestingly enough, the raid did not retard but actually accelerated Saddam Hussein's program....A religious fanatic who believes the return of the 12th imam to Earth will be preceded by global death and destruction in his own lifetime, Mr. Ahmadinejad presumably sees an Israeli and/or U.S. attack against Iran closing Muslim ranks the world over against the imperialist infidels. Now that's an interesting take I had not yet heard before.


05-17-06 - Two Injured in Clashes Near Syria Border Clashes between Lebanese troops and Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas Wednesday near the border with Syria seriously wounded at least one soldier and one guerrilla, security officials said.


05-17-06 - Judge Weighs Libby's Media Records Request


05-17-06 - Gulf states envoy to urge Iran to forgo nuclear arms


05-17-06 - Is America Becoming a Police State? The Founders envisioned a republic, not an empire: they set up a system designed to govern the 13 former colonies, not the world.


05-17-06 - U.S. reserves nearly 'broken,' says chief Explain to me again how our invasion of Iraq has made us more secure?


05-17-06 - Russia seeks thaw in frosty rhetoric


05-17-06 - FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S. The Department of Justice says it secretly sought phone records and other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight. And the sheep graze on...


05-17-06 - China seeks to tie knot with Arabs to boost trade, energy China will host officials from 22 Arab countries in talks to promote cooperation in areas including trade and energy, China?s foreign ministry said. Representatives from the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority have also been invited.


05-17-06 - McCain: 'Proudly Pro-Israel' - Says Haaretz Article Left 'Serious Misimpressions' The McCain that both supporters and opponents have come to know, said the consultant, is the McCain who in June 2001 told a special AIPAC seminar that "America?s unequivocal support for Israel ? not evenhandedness, not moral equivalence, not winking at Palestinian violence ? is the best guarantor of peace in the Middle East." McCain reaffirms the fact that he is willing to forgo American national security in order to gain the AIPAC vote. It's a joke to see these types still touting Israel as the 'only democracy in the Middle East'. Total BS. That's a slap in the face to the families of the US soldiers that have died in Iraq.


05-17-06 - 9/11 Commission report is a lie It turns out those oral histories reveal details about what was happening in the World Trade Center buildings that are completely inconsistent with the tale told by the commission. Dozens of firefighters and medics reported hearing, seeing and feeling explosives going off in the buildings that collapsed


05-17-06 - Iranian Jews in Israel worry for former homeland Close allies when Iran was ruled by a U.S.-backed Shah, Iran and Israel have been implacable foes since the 1979 revolution


05-17-06 - American Credibility Erodes Abroad In increasing numbers, people around the globe resent American power and wealth and reject specific actions like the occupation of Iraq and the campaign against democratically elected Palestinian leaders, in-depth international polling shows.

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