The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

News for 5-01-06

05-01-06 - Oil Prices Rise Above $73 on Iran Concerns Crude-oil prices rose more than $1 a barrel Monday on supply concerns arising from Iran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council deadline to stop enriching uranium.


05-01-06 - Iran Denounces U.S. Nuclear Strike Stance In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan obtained by The Associated Press, Iran's U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif called President Bush's refusal April 18 to rule out a U.S. nuclear strike on Iran and a similar follow-up statement by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "illegal and insolent threats."


05-01-06 - Iran Shells Rebel Border Area in Iraq Iranian forces again shelled a border area used by Iranian Kurdish rebels, forcing some families to flee their homes Monday but causing no casualties, a Kurdish official said.


05-01-06 - After Bush, the Green Line Every time an Arab leader wants to
provide a distraction, (McCain) argues that the problem is due to Israel, and also
in the matter of Iran, "we would not have been so concerned" over its
nuclear program had it not threatened Israel with extinction


05-01-06 - Bush challenges hundreds of laws Many legal scholars say they believe that Bush's theory about his own powers goes too far and that he is seizing for himself some of the law-making role of Congress and the Constitution-interpreting role of the courts.


05-01-06 - High Gas Prices Will Last Years, Bush Aides Say


05-01-06 - MSNBC confirms: Outed CIA agent was working on Iran


05-01-06 - Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution But the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, as laid out in the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and reiterated in 2006, claims for the President the power to attack other countries--like Iran--simply because he asserts they pose a threat. Pose a threat to whom, though? US? Or Israel?


05-01-06 - Syrian envoy takes issue with Annan report on Syria-Lebanon ties


05-01-06 - Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace: police


05-01-06 - Israeli Firm Spins Off Southern Gas Station Chain Like Alon, Delek has been growing through buyouts, consolidating the fragmented U.S. convenience-store industry. It's made three acquisitions in that area since the start of 2003. The most recent came in December, when it bought 21 locations in Tennessee from BP. Of interest.


05-01-06 - Quality of new Israeli spy satellite photos said 'excellent' Photographs sent over the weekend from a new Israeli spy satellite, placed in orbit to monitor Iranian nuclear developments and other key defense developments, were of "excellent" quality


05-01-06 - James C Moore: Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? Israel has American warheads ready to fire Because the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf make the Israeli subs easily detectable, two of them are reported to be patrolling the deeper reaches of the Gulf of Oman, well within range of Iranian targets.


05-01-06 - Don't harm Palestinians, Sistani tells Iraqis Iraq's revered top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has urged the authorities and his followers not to harm the thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Iraq.


05-01-06 - Bush, Ahmadinejad, Clooney most influential personalities: Time Also on the sublist of "Leaders and Revolutionaries" are Japan's "good-looking, straight-talking maverick" Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the Palestinian Hamas leader and Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola and Pope Benedict XVI.


05-01-06 - U.S. Calls for Strong International Security Force for Darfur She said the international community is sending the message to Hamas that the best interests of the Palestinian people are served by the peace process 'So let's starve the Palestinian PEOPLE into 'peace', instead!'


05-01-06 - "Lens on Syria": Films Spanning Thirty Years of Contemporary Syrian Cinema to Tour North America Premiering in the US in this program is Mohammad Malas' poignant documentary "The Dream", filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon just months before the notorious massacres took place. It is a unique document that has finally become available after digital remastering and subtitling.


05-01-06 - Jailed spy seeks to block Israel minister In the petition, Jonathan Pollard claimed that Pensioners party leader Rafi Eitan should not be allowed to serve in government as he had "betrayed" him and acted "unethically" over his arrest for spying two decades ago.


05-01-06 - Iran consensus in focus on Merkel US trip Merkel's speech to the AJC, a symbolic first by a German chancellor at the body's annual event, will also allow her to speak out on Iran, an issue even more critical to the Jewish community since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."


05-01-06 - Ex-professor jailed in Jihad case Sami al-Arian was sentenced to four years nine months but got credit for time already served.


05-01-06 - Turkey and Israel to build four underwater oil and gas pipelines Turkey and Israel plan to build four underwater pipelines to transport oil and gas from Russia to Israel, the Palestinian Autonomy, Jordan, and Lebanon

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