The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

News for 06-07-06

06-07-06 - It was June 8, 1967 a day 34 American sailors were killed and scores more injured. Will anything be mentioned in the press about this (except for of course the small blurb in the "Today in history" article)?


06-07-06 - World powers give Iran enrichment leeway France warned Wednesday that Iran would face U.N. Security Council sanctions if it rejected the proposal for opening talks. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would support sanctions only if Iran violated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, a possible indication of continued discord among the six powers involved in the effort.


06-07-06 - Russia expresses alarm at US arms plans Kremlin officials say that Pentagon plans to put non-nuclear warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles are dangerous because it would be impossible to tell in flight what sort of warhead they were carrying.


06-07-06 - US super-embassy emerges in the heart of Baghdad Once an army of more than 3,500 construction workers have completed it in June 2007, the vast complex will be the new hub of the American administration in Iraq.


06-07-06 - Lebanon 'mass grave' turns out to be old cemetery The human remains found last year near a former Syrian army position in Lebanon date back to decades before Damascus first deployed troops in the country, judicial sources said.


06-07-06 - Probe of CIA prisons implicates EU nations Fourteen European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of secret flights and detention centers that violated international human rights law, the head of an investigation into alleged CIA clandestine prisons said Wednesday


06-07-06 - Official: Marines believed to plan killing U.S. military investigators believe the killing of an Iraqi civilian on April 26 was planned by a small group of Marines who shot the man and then planted a shovel and an AK-47 rifle at the scene, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.


06-07-06 - Iran president unwelcome, German Jewish leader says Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has committed a crime in denying the Holocaust and should not be allowed into Germany during the World Cup, the head of the German Jewish community said on Wednesday.


06-07-06 - Iran vice-president to attend World Cup openers Iranian Vice President Mohammad Aliabadi will attend the opening match of the World Cup between Germany and Costa Rica in Munich on Friday, the German government said on Wednesday.


06-07-06 - THE ARCHITECTS OF WAR: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? None of the neocons that deliberately misled this country to go to war have been held accountable for their actions. To the contrary - some have even been promoted and moved around to other positions within the Bush administration.


06-07-06 - US, Israel want ethnic tensions in Iran: Iranian ambassador Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan said that the United States and Israel "have an interest" in stoking tensions between Iran's majority ethnic Persian population and the large Azeri minority in the country.


06-07-06 - Bush envoy's fury over 'insult' to US by British UN chief John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN, called on Kofi Annan, its Secretary- General, to ?personally and publicly repudiate? criticisms of the US and its people by Mark Malloch Brown, his British deputy


06-07-06 - Taliban Regaining Influence, Report Warns


06-07-06 - Britons begin to turn away from alliance with America A Populus opinion poll in The Times indicates that fewer than half the public believe that America is a force for good in the world, and nearly two thirds believe that Britain?s future lies more with Europe than with the US.


06-07-06 - Recipe for war: Israeli hysteria and imperial logic The Israeli lobby sees the development of Iran?s nuclear program as a convenient timetable for war, a golden opportunity to weaken or destroy Israel?s enemies in Tehran and settle Israel?s strategic horizon for a generation, preferably by goading others (the US) to do the job. Unlike its relatively coy public position in pushing the US war on Iraq, Israel?s warmongering against Iran has been unabashed and relentless. Bush has also been explicit in linking Iran?s nuclear development to Israel?s security. He has pledged on more than one occasion to protect Israel from Iranian attack.



06-07-06 - Ann Coulter, "Bitch" Is Too Kind a Word For You I say this as a former fan of Ann's: Ann Coulter is not a real conservative. She panders to the extreme right. She's an attention whore.


06-07-06 - DeLay says departure disrupts Dems' strategy Besides advocating support for conservative causes and Israel, DeLay also plans to continue fundraising for a community of foster children that he and his wife established. Delay is a Christian Zionist; an Israel-firster.


06-07-06 - Envoy tells AP State Dept. reworking image A top envoy aiming to improve America's image among Muslims says the United States has begun an effort to make its diplomats more visible in the world's media, particularly those that can spread U.S. views in Arab countries If we got Israel out of our government, we wouldn't have an image problem in the Middle East and beyond, I'm betting. The Israeli lobby is the problem here.


06-07-06 - Rationalizing Haditha; The War Party's 'moderates' minimize it ? and the crazier neocons deny it


06-07-06 - Lebanese leaders to resume talks on Hezbollah arms Lebanese leaders are due to resume crucial roundtable talks on Thursday amid rows over the disarmament of the pro-Syrian Lebanese Shiite militant Hezbollah which only recently clashed with Israeli troops on the borders.


06-07-06 - Israel to take part in NATO maneuvers According to Israel's Rear Adm. Yochay Ben Yosef, the forthcoming exercise is "tailor-made for us."


06-07-06 - Canadian Jewish leaders meet PM "The core and urgent matters on the agenda for discussion with the Prime Minister included global and domestic threats of terrorist entities and the increasing menace posed by Iran."


06-07-06 - UN: Hezbollah border posts destroyed


06-07-06 - US: Israel trip may cost state employee his job Trips to Israel don't cost US government officials their jobs. It's quite the opposite; it ENSURES the backing of the Israeli lobby, and thus makes it HIGHLY likely that they will stay put or be elected.


06-07-06 - Soldiers to get £1,300 'bounty' for recruiting friends Soldiers are being paid a "bounty" of £1,300 to persuade friends to join the Army because officers believe the conflict in Iraq is making parents turn their children away from the forces

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