News for 01-28-07

01-28-07 - White House defies Congress, public to push Iraq surge


01-28-07 - Russia vows to keep schedule for Iran nuclear plant Russia's security chief Igor Ivanov vowed to launch Iran's nuclear plant on schedule in September after talks in Tehran with leaders of the Islamic republic.


01-28-07 - Iraq's deputy PM chides U.S. and Iran


01-28-07 - 11th-hour bid to halt Iraq war revelations The foreign office has made a last-ditch attempt to stop one of its former senior diplomats from publishing a book claiming that the government knew that Iraq did not represent a significant threat to the West in the run-up to the Iraq war.


01-28-07 - Iraq: UN Agency Raises Third Alarm in Week at ?Unrelenting Violence? Against Palestinians


01-28-07 - U.S. Army Probes War Contractor Fraud It's about time.


01-28-07 - Cheney Nearly Breaks Reagan's 11th Commandment "Let's say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican," Cheney said. "But it's very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved."


01-28-07 - Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders ** The detailed descriptions of Iran's problems in enriching more than a few grams of uranium using high-speed centrifuges - 50kg is required for two nuclear devices - comes in stark contrast to the apocalyptic picture being painted of Iran's imminent acquisition of a nuclear weapon with which to attack Israel.


01-28-07 - Mysterious death of Iran's top scientist


01-28-07 - A warning for West: Pressure aids hard-liners He and other young Iranians warned at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that the growing U.S.-Iranian standoff and fears of U.S. military strikes could strengthen the hard-liners who now control their government.


01-28-07 - Expanding the War to Iran: Another 'Urban Legend'? **


01-28-07 - US attacks Israel's cluster bomb use A congressional investigation found Israel improperly used US-made cluster bombs during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. President Ronald Reagan's administration imposed a six-year ban on sales of the weapons to Israel. However, the country also makes its own cluster munitions.


01-28-07 - Kerry Blasts Foreign Policy, Says U.S. Has Become 'International Pariah' That's because we've taken up the policies and orders from that OTHER international pariah (strange that nobody else has).


01-28-07 - Lebanon faces prospect of civil war


01-28-07 - US Mideast policies ?radicalise? moderates


01-28-07 - UN Changes Mission of Korean Troops in Lebanon


01-28-07 - German-Israeli movie invited to Tehran film festival Avital was very surprised by this, and said in an interview to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that "the movie is not pro-Palestinian, and it is clear that it was made by an Israeli. It?s a very balanced movie."


01-28-07 - US official cautions of ME states'' acquiring nuclear weapons Allowing certain countries in the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons will throw the region into a spiraling arms race, Deputy Chairman of US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Gary Seymour said Sunday. No kidding?


01-28-07 - Hezbollah leader condemns Bush attack "What we did wrong is that we do not succumb to the United States of America, what we did wrong is that we stand and still stand by the Palestinian people ...That is what we did wrong,"


01-28-07 - Olmert: Israel won't let the world be indifferent to calls for Israel's destruction