Hillary, Will You Renounce Your
Ties to Monsanto?
By Linn Cohen-Cole
By polling logic, I should be your supporter --
Democrat, woman, white, liberal. But this past
summer I saw a News Hour show on farmers
committing suicide in Maharastra, India, which
affected me deeply. I started learning what was
happening to farmers and to food and how the
Clintons are connected. Continue
Car
bomb kills at least 33 in occupied Iraq:
A car bomb killed 33 people in northern Iraq on
Sunday, security officials said, hours before
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in
Baghdad to assess recent security gains and
discuss troop levels.
15
killed in north Iraq clashes, US military says:
Fifteen people were killed, including 10
suspected al-Qaeda insurgents, in clashes with
local security units in northern Iraq on Sunday,
the US military said.
Another
7 killed as US occupation grinds on:
Five people, including a woman, were killed in
clashes when gunmen attacked villages manned by
neighbourhood policemen in the northern province
of Nineveh, police said.
Two
Iraq roadside bombings kill 5 U.S. occupation
force soldiers: Iraqi police
arrested 15 Shiite activists Saturday in early
morning raids south of Baghdad, and five American
soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings,
officials said.
US
occupation force sniper convicted of killing
unarmed Iraqi civilian: He testified
that after he shot al-Janabi, he tried to shoot
him again because "he was convulsing on the
ground and I thought he might be suffering."
Death
toll in bomb blast in NW Pakistan rises to 30
: The death toll in a bomb blast at the rally of
a political party in northwest Pakistan on
Saturday has risen to 30 on Sunday, the official
Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
US
Chief: Pakistan Terror Threat Rising:
The top U.S. military commander said Saturday
that the threat of Islamic extremism was growing
in Pakistan and that the country's leadership was
keenly aware of the challenge facing the nation.
Pakistan
nukes completely safe: Admiral Mullen :
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Admiral Mike Mullen Saturday said he is confidant
about the security and safety of the nuclear
assets in Pakistan and no extremist or terrorist
can access them.
Bin
Laden, Omar not operating in Pakistan-official:
Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's
assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from
Pakistani territory.
Attack
on Afghan jail leaves 1 attacker dead :
Unknown armed men in their attempt to set free a
comrade from a jail in western Herat province
raided Shindand prison but fled away after facing
police resistance, a local newspaper reported
Sunday.
Norway
Closes Kabul Embassy After Threat
:Norway closed its embassy in the Afghan capital
Kabul Sunday because of "terror
threats," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
said.
'Time
running out' in Afghanistan:
Afghanistan is a failed state and time is running
out before a majority of people in the country
want to see Nato troops leave, Lord Ashdown has
warned
Nato should not be fighting this
war in Afghanistan: What
might have seemed a relatively straightforward
military venture to overthrow a government and
rid the country of al-Qa'ida and its protectors,
the Taliban, has now taken on a quite different
hue. Having forced regime change, Nato is now
there as occupiers
Israeli minister urges murder of
Hamas political leaders :
Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Zeev
Boim called on the Israeli Defense Forces and
security services Sunday to liquidate the
political leaders of the Palestinian Islamic
Resistance Movement (HAMAS) including the sacked
prime minister Ismail Haniya.
Lack
of fuel causes 30% power shortfall in Gaza :
- Israel's restriction policy over the fuel
shipments to the Gaza Strip caused a power
shortage of 30 percent in the poor enclave, a
Palestinian official said Sunday
Palestine
Matters: The suffering in Gaza
specifically, and Palestine in general, has not
been the subject of any substantive discussion in
the 2008 Presidential campaign. There is a code
of silence that surrounds this subject and an
unspoken assumption that whatever steps Israel
needs to take to “ensure its survival”
will receive 100% support from the US political
establishment.
Why
did Israel bomb a target in Syria?:
An Interview With Seymour Hersh
Jumblatt
issues Hezbollah challenge : A
leading figure in Lebanon's governing coalition
has stepped up the rhetoric against the
opposition Hezbollah movement, warning of anarchy
and raising the spectre of another civil war.
Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran: US
"deeply disturbed" by Iran nuclear
reports : An Iranian rocket launch
and reports that Iran is testing an advanced
centrifuge are "deeply disturbing" and
strengthen the case for a third UN sanctions
resolution against Tehran, a top US official said
on Friday, Reuters reported.
No
need to wait for Russia or China: As
in past years, the United States and the European
Union do not see eye to eye with Russia and
China, which are opposed to severe sanctions
against Tehran.
General:
Iran ready to teach U.S. lesson :
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has always
endangered the illegitimate accumulation of
wealth by superpowers," he added.
5th
cable cut fuels allegations of isolating Iran
: Conspiracy theories of deliberately cutting
communication lines to West Asia, primarily Iran,
gained ground in the media and blogs as reports
of another undersea cable cut — the fifth
successive one in just a week's time —
started emerging in cyberspace.
Using
the Internet as a weapon:
Commentary: Internet interruption in the Middle
East looks fishy
Chinese
cut off from internet: Damage to an
undersea cable has cut millions of Chinese off
from the internet, and the problem could take
weeks to fix.
Serbia
braces for Kosovo independence:
Serbia's minister for Kosovo suggested Saturday
that the government will seek to keep control
over Serb-populated areas after the predominantly
ethnic Albanian province declares independence.
Exxon
'seeking to damage' Venezuela : Hugo
Chavez, Venezuela's president has accused the oil
giant Exxon Mobil of wanting to damage his
country after it won a court order to freeze $12
billion of the nation's energy assets.
John
Pilger:Who wants to be a millionaire?
: This is the song Tony Blair hums every morning
when he rises and tots up his latest windfall - a
million for telling business groups in China
nothing they didn't know, three or four million
for buying JP Morgan influence in whatever
corridors of power he imagines still welcome him.
Non
to Blair!: Tony Blair reduced
Britain to absolute diplomatic helotry to the
Bush administration, he must not be allowed to
hobble Europe as its president
CIA
veteran calls for Bush's impeachment:
Former CIA analyst rips into Bush over torture,
Iraq and Iran
The Torture State's Domestic
Face :
This sort of thing isn't supposed to happen -- at
least not to attractive, middle-class,
middle-aged American women
Document
Shows Army Blocked Help for Soldiers:
A document from the Department of Veterans
Affairs contradicts an assertion made by the Army
surgeon general that his office did not tell VA
officials to stop helping injured soldiers with
their military disability paperwork at a New York
Army post.
After the applause: No
Funds in Bush Budget For Troop-Benefits Plan:
President Bush drew great applause during his
State of the Union address last month when he
called on Congress to allow U.S. troops to
transfer their unused education benefits to
family members. A week later, however, when Bush
submitted his $3.1 trillion federal budget to
Congress, he included no funding for such an
initiative
U.S.
economy's descent steepens: Job
losses and a contraction in the business sector
where more than 80 percent of Americans work show
that the angle of descent for the U.S. economy is
steepening.
Hillary
Clinton's advisers 'in a state of panic':
Hillary Clinton's most senior advisers are in a
state of "panic" about her presidential
prospects and are plotting to enlist Democrat
leaders in Congress to thwart her rival Barack
Obama's ambitions.
08/02/08
Top US Lawyer And UNICEF Data
Reveal Afghan Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya
Those Bush-ite and neo-Bush-ite politicians,
military and Mainstream media executives
complicit in the Afghan Genocide should be
arraigned before the International Criminal
Court. Continue
Does The Brownshirt Party Have
Aces Up Its Sleeve?
By Paul Craig Roberts
In a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office
with another stint as Secretary of War. Norman
“Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran” Podhoretz will be
Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John
“Nuke them” Shalikashvili as his
deputy. Rudy Giuliani will be the Minister of
Interior in charge of Halliburton’s
detention centers into which will be herded all
critics of war and the police state. billy
kristol will be chief White House spokesliar. Continue
U.S. Heading To War in Iran,
Says Former Inspector
By Marilyn H. Karfeld
The White House is using outright fabrications
and exaggerations to persuade the American public
that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program,
Ritter and Peck claimed. The ultimate goal, they
said, is overthrow of Iran’s Islamic
theocracy. Continue
The Armageddon Shuffle
By Douglas Johnson
Nobody wants a madman at the helm of a
nuclear armed country, right? I certainly
don’t, yet I can’t understand how
Americans tolerate the outrageous hypocrisy of
George Bush calling Ahmadinijad a dangerous
madman. Continue
Behind Obama and Clinton
Who's whispering
in their ears says a lot
By Stephen Zunes
What about Senators Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton? Who have they picked to help
them deal with Iraq war and the other immensely
difficult foreign policy decisions that
they’ll be likely to face as president? Continue
Will John McCain Have The
Decency To Apologize?
By Mike Ghouse
I expect Senator McCain to drop the hate
rhetoric and apologize to Muslims in America, or
at least have the decency not to use the words
"Islamic Terrorism" or "Muslims
Terrorism". Call Terrorism for what it is,
do not suffix or prefix or hang my religion to
the evil acts; fear mongering is also evil. Continue
America’s Blinders
By Howard Zinn
A more honest estimate of ourselves as a
nation would prepare us all for the next barrage
of lies that will accompany the next proposal to
inflict our power on some other part of the
world. It might also inspire us to create a
different history for ourselves, by taking our
country away from the liars and killers who
govern it. Continue
Particide In Six Easy
Steps
Diligent
Democrats Demonstrate Dumbness Daily
By David Michael
Green
Suppose you had a
political party you were trying to get rid
of. How would you do it? Continue
The Battle For
America Has Begun
Must watch - 4 Minute Video
"We do the dirty work of
democracy". Click
to view
Guns And
Butter
By
Ron Paul
Ron Paul today speaking 07/02/08 at CPAC after
Romney announces he is leaving the race. McCain
also spoke but was booed by the conservatives. Continue
Advancing
the Civilized State
Inch by Bloody Inch
William A. Cook, Ph.D.
Strange how the most civilized of the
world in their time carry on experiments in
extermination of their brothers and sisters, not
as conquerors, but as victims of an evil they
define. Stranger still how the most civilized
find justice for their behavior in the words of
the God they created, the only real and true God,
whose beneficence to them justifies their
indifference to their enemies even as it makes
sacred the theft of that enemies’ land. Continue
Occupied
Iraq: At least 27 killed in another bloody day of
US occupation: Coalition occupation
forces killed eight suspected al Qaeda militants
and detained 12 others during operations in towns
north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Army
sergeant says he ordered soldier to kill unarmed
Iraqi civilian: When asked why he
didn't kill al-Janabi himself, Hensley said:
"Sgt. Vela happened to be the guy with the
pistol. The Iraqi's head was at his (Vela's)
feet. I would have gladly shot him myself."
U.S.
allies go on strike in Iraq's Diyala province :
A leader of the group said that brigade members,
most of them Sunni Muslims, wouldn't resume
working with U.S. and Iraqi government forces
until the Shiite police chief resigns or is
indicted.
Europe’s
reluctant to fight in Afghanistan is linked to
Iraq: Lingering anger in Europe over
the U.S. invasion of Iraq explains why some
allies are reluctant to heed U.S. calls for more
combat troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates said today.
Iraq
'Shia militia leader' held : US
troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected
leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed
by Iran.
Standing on the bodies: McCain
says Iraq will become the "major issue"
in 2008 election: Campaigning in
Virginia today, the GOP front-runner criticized
his rival Democratic candidates for wanting to
set a date for troop withdrawal from Iraq. He
says the move could have `catastrophic"
consequences.
Suicide
car bomber kills three in Afghanistan:
A suicide car bomber targeting an army convoy
killed three people on Friday in Afghanistan,
witnesses said.
Taliban
chief, commanders hiding in Pakistan, says US
official: Taliban supremo Mullah
Mohammad Omar and the strategic command of the
militant group fighting an insurgency in
Afghanistan are hiding in Pakistan, a senior US
administration official said Friday.
Germany
Agrees to Expanded Military Role in Afghanistan:
Germany will deploy around 200 combat soldiers in
northern Afghanistan, but will not move its
troops to the country's more violent south,
German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said on
Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Germany
stays in northern Afghanistan despite pleas to
join battle in south: German troops
are staying in the calmer northern regions of
Afghanistan, the defence minister said Friday,
despite pleas from Canada and the United States
for more military muscle to help fight insurgents
in the south.
Mounting
social distress among returning US troops:
After serving tours in occupied Iraq and
Afghanistan, thousands of troops are returning
wounded and psychologically traumatized from the
experience.
US
warns Iran over nuclear centrifuges
: A top US envoy warned Iran Friday that its
pursuit of more advanced uranium-enriching
technology would intensify the long-running
international standoff over its disputed atomic
drive.
The arrogance of power: US
Official: Iran Has No Need to Build More Nuclear
Power Plants : Assistant Secretary
of State Nicholas Burns made the remark in an
interview Friday with the Reuters news service.
He was responding to comments today by Iran's
ambassador to Russia, Gholamreza Ansari, that
Tehran has started building a second nuclear
plant and is considering ways to fuel the
facility.
US-Russia
nuclear deal upstages Iran : There
was a time when Iran might have believed that a
multipolar world order would be just and fair
from the point of view of the "suppressed
nations". If that notion wasn't shattered
long ago, it was surely was last Friday when the
director of Rosatom, Russia's federal agency for
nuclear power, Sergei Kiriyenko, urgently flew to
Washington on a one-day "working
visit".
The
Cable-Cutter Mystery : Spies,
lies, and "conspiracy theories" –
what's behind the Middle East internet outage
Israeli
Power Cuts to Gaza Violate Laws of War: HRW:
Israel’s move to cut energy supplies to the
Gaza Strip amounts to collective punishment of
civilians and violates the laws of war, Human
Rights Watch said in a report published
yesterday.
In
West Bank, Fatah Loses Favor: The
popularity of the U.S.-backed Palestinian
government here is eroding for the first time
since it was established following the Islamist
group Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip,
according to a poll.
Not
all Jews are Zionist: Regarding The Zionist
Massacre in Gaza: Following is a
letter that was sent from Neturei Karta USA and
Canada to Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar Co-Founder of
Hamas:
Clinton
wins tacit support of Israeli establishment:
Although the race to succeed Mr Bush has narrowed
to a choice between John McCain, Hillary Clinton
and Barack Obama, the Republican candidate is not
the one the Israeli establishment would most like
to see in the White House.
Putin
cautious over 'new arms race' :
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has said
that Russia will not allow itself to be drawn
into what he called a new arms race while saying
it is developing more sophisticated weapons.
Lawyers:
Gitmo detainee breaking down:
Confined alone in his Guantanamo cell nearly
around the clock, a Yemeni prisoner and former
driver for Osama bin Laden has begun to break
down mentally and cannot focus on preparing for
his upcoming war-crimes trial, his attorneys say.
UK:
Terrorism bill opens way for secret inquests:
The government was yesterday criticised
over plans to hold inquests without juries, which
campaigners fear could limit hearings into the
deaths of British soldiers and people shot by
police.
U.S.
retail results are worst in four decades:
U.S. retailers delivered more evidence of a
stumbling economy today as merchants reported
their weakest January performance in nearly four
decades, extending a malaise that has deepened
since the holiday shopping season.
07/02/08
Iraq’s Tragic Future
By Scott Ritter
Rather than offering a word-for-word renouncement
of the president’s rosy assertions
concerning Iraq, I will instead initiate a
process of debunking the myth of American success
by doing that which no politician, current or
aspiring, would dare do: predict the failure of
American policy in Iraq. Continue
McCain: Straight Talk and
Militarist Madness
By Justin Logan
In the New Hampshire primary, exit polls revealed
that 38 percent of those voting in the Republican
primary who “strongly disapprove” of
the war in Iraq cast their ballot for John
McCain. Continue
In case
you missed it
A Silly Pretext For War With
Iran
By Democracy and Socialism
No Arab or Islamic country armed even with the
smallest of atomic bombs will be ready to hit
Israel. And that, is because Israel is a small
country interwoven and surrounded by Palestinian
and Arab nations. The explosion of an atomic bomb
will kill the Palestinians and Arabs too. The
radio-active fallout will reach the entire
Middle-East including Iran itself. Continue
The Limits of Individual
Morality
By James Rothenberg
To the extent that one’s patriotism
manifests itself as allegiance to the state, such
patriotism will involve a forfeiture of
individual morality. This is less a statement
about the merits of allegiance than it is about
its limits. Continue
Gladio – Death Plan For
Democracy
By: Peter Chamberlin
Anyone with a shred of human decency
should feel compelled to fight this evil. Continue
The Bush
Bust of '08
“It's All Downhill From
Here, Folks”
By Mike Whitney
The FDIC has begun the “death
watch” on the many banks which are currently
drowning in their own red ink. Continue
The Demise of the American
Middle Class
By Richard Backus
The high paying jobs created in Mexico under
NAFTA, the whopping $3.50 per hour ones, are
moving to China because even this princely wage
level is much too generous according to U.S.
businessmen. Continue
Occupied Iraq: At least 20
killed in as US occupation grinds on: Three neighborhood policemen were
killed and seven wounded when a small bus
exploded near a house in the town of Salman Pak,
about 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police
said.
Shia call on Mehdi Army to take
up arms again in Iraq: It is this six-month ceasefire,
declared on 29 August last year by Mr Sadr, which
American commanders say is responsible for
cutting much of the violence in Iraq. But the
ceasefire will expire in the next few weeks and
political and military leaders loyal to Mr Sadr
are advising him not to renew it.
Sadr tells militia to maintain
Iraq ceasefire:
Shi'ite Sadr's spokesman Salah al-Ubaidi said the
ceasefire, which expires later this month and has
been vital to cutting violence in Iraq, should
continue to be observed until militia members are
told it is over or has been renewed.
Act Against Iraq Poverty : Please Sign the International
Petition!
Manufacturing Consent For War
With Iran: U.S. sees attacks by
Iranian-backed groups up in Iraq: Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in
Iraq have increased in recent months, a senior
U.S. official said on Thursday, casting doubt on
the view Iran might have reduced its support for
violence in the war.
Manufacturing Consent For War
With Iran: US spy chief retreats from Iran
intel : The
top US intelligence official is backing away from
his agency's recent assessment that Iran halted
its 'nuclear weapons program', PressTV reported.
Order given to fire on Iranian
speedboat: One
of the commanding officers "had literally
given the order to fire and it turns out one of
the fast boats turned about simultaneously,"
Mullen said.
American Jewish Leader Says Bush
Committed To Firmly Dealing With Iranian Nuke
Program :
Wednesday, a senior American Jewish leader said
US President George Bush is committed to firmly
dealing with the controversial Iranian nuclear
program even as he enters his last year of
office.
Cable Cutting Mayhem: 5th
Undersea Internet Cable Cut : It began with two undersea
telecommunications cables that served as data
links between Europe and the Middle East being
cut, but it’s now escalated with a further
three undersea internet cables being cut, with
major disruptions to internet services.
Afghan Deputy Governor Among 6
Killed In Suicide bombing: A suicide bomber blew himself up inside
a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday,
killing Helmand province's deputy governor and
five other people, officials said.
Al-Qaeda 'will avenge US strike'
: Al-Qaeda's
leader in Afghanistan has vowed revenge for the
killing of one of its top commanders in
neighbouring Pakistan last week, saying Abu Laith
al-Libi was killed by the weapon of
"despicable cowards".
Row over Nato in Afghanistan
worsens: A row
over Nato in Afghanistan worsened as the military
alliance chief denied US claims that members
don't want troops to "die" for victory.
Taliban declares cease-fire in
Pakistan:
After weeks of escalating battles with government
troops, Taliban militants yesterday declared a
cease-fire - a move likely to frustrate US
officials who have urged Pakistan to act
decisively against Islamic radicals ensconced in
the country's tribal belt.
Pakistani news channel goes off
air: A private
TV news station accused Pakistan's government
Thursday of blocking its transmissions after it
aired a program featuring a critic of President
Pervez Musharraf.
Israeli Attack Kills 7 in Gaza: Witnesses said Israeli troops backed
by tanks and aircraft launched an incursion near
Jabaliya sparking clashes with resistance
fighters
Paying for the
bullets: US military aid to Israel for
2009: $2.55 billion: Israel may use up to 25% for military
equipment and arms from local defense industries
EU envoy warns Gaza could become
the next Somalia : Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip
are likely to turn the territory into Somalia,
European Union special envoy to the Middle East
Marc Otte told Haaretz on Thursday in an
interview.
Hamas rejects Abbas proposal to
broker cease-fire with Israel : Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum
described the proposal as "an extortion
attempt" and said that Abbas allows Israel
to continue its "massacre."
Olmert to hold emergency meeting
on dollar rates: Slipping dollar rate, subsequent
industry losses prompt PM to call emergency
meeting with finance minister, trade and labor
minister, governor of the Bank of Israel and head
of National Economic Council to discuss possible
countermeasures
Russia warns EU, NATO of
"illegal" Kosovo moves: Russia warned the European Union and
NATO on Wednesday that their presence in Kosovo
would be illegal if they acted in support of a
self-proclaimed independent state.
"Al-Qaeda" threatens
wave of British attacks: Al-Qaeda has threatened a wave of
suicide bombings in Britain unless all troops are
withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan and Islamist
prisoners are freed from Belmarsh jail by the end
of March.
Mass Arrests Expose Operations
of Turkey’s “Deep State”: The detention in Istanbul last week of
alleged members of a shadowy Turkish
ultranationalist group has revived charges that
elements within the Turkish security apparatus
have long tried to destabilize the country
through a campaign of bombings and
assassinations. These allegedly include false
flag operations that have been attributed to
Kurdish separatists and violent Islamists.
US 'may use' torture again : The US may use the controversial
torture technique known as waterboarding in the
future if a terrorist attack was thought to be
imminent, the White House has said.
AP Confirms Secret Camp Inside
Gitmo : Camp 7, where 15 ``high-value
detainees'' are held, is so secret that its very
existence was not publicly known until it was
mentioned in December by attorneys for Majid
Khan, a former Baltimore resident who allegedly
plotted to bomb gas stations in the United
States.
C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes as Judge
Sought Interrogation Data : At the time that the Central
Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes of the
interrogations of operatives of Al Qaeda, a
federal judge was still seeking information from
Bush administration lawyers about the
interrogation of one of those operatives, Abu
Zubaydah, according to court documents made
public on Wednesday.
Moussaoui prosecutor kept CIA
tapes secret :
The lead prosecutor in the terror case against
Zacarias Moussaoui likely knew the CIA destroyed
tapes of its interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects
more than a year before the government
acknowledged it to the court, newly unsealed
documents show.
Prosecutor sought for White
House probe :
An advocacy group on Monday sought a criminal
probe of the White House over millions of
possibly missing e-mails, saying someone may have
deliberately deleted them to conceal involvement
in a potential crime.
Freedom Of Information? : Government blocks access to secret
military papers on Diego Garcia
Bush Goes After FOIA: The President's attack on the Freedom
of Information Act is his latest attempt to
preserve state secrecy
FBI's Sought Approval for Custom
Spyware in FISA Court: The software, called a "computer
and internet protocol address verifier," is
designed to infiltrate a suspect's computer and
collect various information, including the IP
address, Ethernet MAC addresses, a list of open
TCP and UDP ports, running programs, operating
system type and serial number, default browser,
the registered user of the operating system and
the last visited URL, among other things.
Wal-Mart's distress signal: The world's largest retailer leads a
parade of sales misses in January, indicating
trouble in the U.S. economy.
"Euros Accepted" signs
pop up in New York City: Trade with personal dealer service.NEW
YORK (Reuters) - In the latest example that the
U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some
shops in New York City have begun accepting euros
and other foreign currency as payment for
merchandise.
Romney
quits U.S. presidential race, takes shot at
Europe "In this time of war, I
simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of
aiding a surrender to terror," Romney told
the Conservative Political Action Conference in
Washington.
Lieberman
Stripped Of Superdelegate Status:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who endorsed Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) for president, will be disqualified
as a superdelegate at the Democratic convention
"under what is informally known as the Zell
Miller rule."
Mr.
Lincoln The Racist : It is amazing
to see how many black people today continue to
revere the memory of Abraham Lincoln as though he
had actually done something for them. Of course
many whites do the same thing. In fact, there is
an entire cottage industry operating nowadays,
consisting of people, many of whom are academics,
whose entire goal in life seems to be the
attempted beatification of "Saint
Abraham."
06/2/08
A Pre-election Attack on Iran
Remains a Possibility
By Leon Hadar
President Bush still believes the Iranians are
developing nuclear weapons – and so do the
Israelis. So for journalists to assume that
neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran
before the November election could constitute
another failure of imagination. Cato’s Leon
Hadar suggests questions the press should ask the
presidential candidates about what they think the
American response should be to various scenarios
in the region – including a
Gulf-of-Tonkin-like alleged provocation. Continue
The Machine Gun of Capitalism
Dead soldiers, peak oil
and mind-boggling profits; praise Jesus, the
machine's still working
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job
sector as corporate payrolls were sliced like
sour pie. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and new
home sales across the nation are plummeting
faster than Britney Spears' serotonin levels. A
nasty recession is either creeping or flooding
in, depending on your perspective and how
recently you purchased your home and/or tried to
dump your Google stock. Continue
Powell’s UN Fiasco: Fresh
and Festering
By Ray
McGovern
A handful of former CIA intelligence officers
joined me in forming the VIPS movement in Jan.
2002, after we concluded that our profession had
been corrupted to “justify” what was,
pure and simple, a war of aggression. Little did
we know at the time that a month later Colin
Powell, with then-CIA Director George Tenet
plumped down conspicuously behind him, would
provide the world with a textbook example of
careerism and cowardice in cooking intelligence
to the recipe of his master. Continue
The Lights Have Been Turned Off
By Gideon Levy
If all the residents of the Gaza Strip deserve to
be punished because of the Qassam rockets, then
maybe all Israelis deserve to be punished because
of the occupation? Continue
10 Myths About Canadian Health
Care, Busted
By Sara Robinson
I'm both a health-care-card-carrying Canadian
resident and an uninsured American citizen who
regularly sees doctors on both sides of the
border. As such, I'm in a unique position to
address the pros and cons of both systems
first-hand. Continue
Occupied
Iraq: At least 31 killed in another bloody day of
US occupation: Five
headless bodies were found in a village near the
town of Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of
Baghdad, the Iraqi army said.
U.S.
occupation forces kill Sunni civilians, tensions
rise : Iraqi police, relatives and
neighbors said a couple and their 19-year-old son
were shot to death in their beds. Iraqi police
also said two girls were wounded and one later
died. AP Television News video showed the doors
pockmarked with bullet holes and pillows and
other bedding on the floor and soaked with blood.
Iraq
pushes ahead with oil plans: The
Iraqi government is inviting major oil
multinationals to participate for the first time
in the development of the oil industry, without
waiting for the passage of crucial but
controversial hydrocarbons legislation.
US
'must remain in Iraq' : Republican
White House hopeful John McCain yesterday
insisted the US must maintain a long-term
presence in Iraq and accused Democratic rivals of
caving in to the forces of "evil".
McCain:
100 years in Iraq "would be fine with
me" : The United States
military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a
hundred years" and that "would be fine
with me," John McCain told two hundred or so
people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New
Hampshire,
U.S.
commander says Iran not involved in hostilities
in Iraq: The U.S. commander in
Iraq’s central province of Diyala has said
he has witnessed no hostile act from the Iranian
side in the region over the past 10 months, a
French weekly reported on Monday.
NPR
reporter says Iraq remains `in shambles':
Amos said that many Iraqis capable of
transforming the country have left. ``Two million
people have fled Iraq,'' which she described as
``still in shambles.
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killed in separate Afghan attacks: A
coalition occupation force soldier was killed and
two others wounded by a roadside bomb in southern
Afghanistan, while seven Taliban fighters were
killed in a coalition airstrike, officials said
Wednesday.
Military
Balance report sees 'willpower gap' in NATO over
conflicts : The current military
campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan will have
long-term implications for US defence strategy as
Washington will find it increasingly difficult to
recruit allies for extended campaigns, a key
defence analysis report said Tuesday
Pakistan
Taliban declare ceasefire: Pakistani
Taliban fighters announced a ceasefire on
Wednesday after months of clashes with security
forces and suicide attacks across the northwest
of the country.
Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran:: U.S.
says Iran may be able to make nukes by 2009
: The head of American intelligence said Tuesday
that it is unclear whether Tehran has returned to
its production of nuclear weapons in the past six
months, and warned that Iran "would be
technically capable of producing enough highly
enriched uranium for a weapon" by the end of
next year.
Iran
retains nuclear plans, says US intelligence chief:
The senior US intelligence official yesterday
stressed that a recent report on Iran had
concluded that Tehran had halted only one part of
its alleged nuclear weapons programme.
Iran
General Staff fear U.S. attack while Bush in
power : "While Bush is in
power, that is throughout 2008, U.S. military
action against the Islamic Republic is still
likely," Gholamali Rashid said.
IAEA
chief warns against military action to solve
Iranian nuclear issue : ElBaradei,
Director-General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), said a military strike to
settle the Iranian nuclear issue would complicate
the situation and send the Middle East region
into a vicious cycle of violence.
Ahmadinejad
Withdrawing Nuclear Proposal:
"But if others formulated it again, we would
study it — under one condition: that the
Iranian people's right to enrich uranium be
preserved," the Iranian leader said.
S.
Africa protests plan to sanction Iran:
South Africa on Tuesday protested a
"rush" by the five veto-wielding
Security Council members to adopt new United
Nations sanctions against Iran, saying it wants
to wait for a report from the U.N. nuclear agency
later this month.
Iran
says Gulf shields its banks from U.S. pressure:
U.S. allies such as Bahrain and the United Arab
Emirates are helping shield Iran's banking system
from Washington's "financial
terrorism", the governor of Iran's central
bank said on Tuesday.
Connecting
The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots :
The last week has seen a spate of unexplained,
cut, undersea communications cables that has
severely disrupted communications in many
countries in the Middle East, North Africa and
South Asia. As I shall show, the total numbers of
cut cables remain in question, but likely number
as many as eight, and maybe nine or more.
Gaza
besieged as Israel and Hamas launch attacks:
In Gaza, MPs of the Hamas-dominated parliament
cancelled today's session, fearing an Israeli
attack after the chairman of the Knesset's
security and foreign affairs committee, Tzachi
Hanegbi, hinted that Israel should target Hamas'
political leaders.
Demand
answers about the USS Liberty attack:
If senators and representatives want to take up
an issue that has insulted service members and
their families, they can look at the Liberty, an
American spy ship that was strafed, napalmed and
torpedoed by Israeli air and naval forces on June
8, 1967
In case you missed it: Dead
in the Water : Video: BBC Four
investigative report regarding, Israels attack on
the USS Liberty . Thirty-four American servicemen
were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli
warplanes and torpedo boats.
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killed when grenade is tossed into house:
Ethiopia and Somalia have a long history of tense
— and, at times, violent — relations.
Ethiopian troops are currently propping up
Somalia’s shaky U.N.-backed government in
the southern part of the country.
Occupied
Somalia: 5 Killed in Mogadishu Market Violence:
At least five people were killed in the Somali
capital Tuesday after suspected insurgents
launched a sneak attack on police officers
collecting tax revenue at the livestock market in
northern Mogadishu's Huriwa district, witnesses
said.
We
control the country, Chad's president says -
Summary : Chadian President Indriss
Deby said Wednesday in the capital N'Djamena that
his government's forces were now in total control
of the country after a failed attempt to
overthrow him.
French
defence minister in Chad: He was
also due to meet French forces stationed in Chad
later in the day. There are more than 1,900
French soldiers with fighter jets in what is a
former French colony.
Kenya
opposition threatens protests :
Negotiations between the rival factions continued
on Tuesday, as fresh violence claimed 12 more
lives.
Rebels
in Chad warn France against intervention
: Rebels in Chad warned France on Wednesday
against intervening militarily to support
President Idriss Deby Itno's regime, as French
Defence Minister Herve Morin made an unannounced
visit to Ndjamena.
Al
Qaeda seen planning attack on U.S.:
Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives
from Iraq across the globe and are increasing
preparations to strike the United States, senior
intelligence officials told the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence yesterday. They said
the terrorists had plans to attack the White
House as recently as 2006.
Cheney:
Eavesdrop because terrorists don't fight by the
rules of international law :
“The terrorists waging war against this
country don't fight according to the rules of
warfare or international law or moral standards
or basic humanity, and we have to be clear-eyed
about the character and objective of these
adversaries,”
CIA
admits torture of at least 3 people:
A senior intelligence official said after the
hearing that it was unclear whether the CIA could
legally use waterboarding in the future, given
changes in U.S. law.
It's
torture; it's illegal: The attorney
general's evasions on waterboarding are
repugnant, and set a dangerous global precedent
The
New Crime of Thinking: It looks like
the term “thought police” just might
take on a whole new and real meaning. This
depends on what happens in the U.S. Senate after
receiving House bill H.R. 1955
Bush
veto threatened for US surveillance bills that do
not protect telecommunications companies:
President George W. Bush issued a veto threat
Tuesday in the debate to update terrorist
surveillance laws, rebuking Democratic plans to
deny retroactive legal protections for
telecommunications providers that let the
government spy on U.S. residents after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks.
Scientists
warn of looming water supply crisis:
Climate change has already dramatically altered
the water cycle and these changes signal a
looming water supply crisis, according to a
prominent group of hydrologists and
climatologists writing Thursday in Science
magazine.
In case you m issed it:
The Blue Pill People : There are
none so blind as those who will not look. If you
are one of those who will look, take a look
around.
05/02/08
Iraqi Scientist Gave CIA
Information That Should Have Prevented War
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
When Saad Tawfiq watched then-US Secretary of
state Colin Powell's presentation to the United
Nations on February 5, 2003, he shed bitter tears
as he realized he had risked his life and those
of his loved ones for nothing. Continue
Did Rumsfeld Authorize War
Crimes?
The Secret Rules of
Engagement in Iraq
By Stephen Soldz
Congress should demand access to these documents
to determine the extent to which attacks
resulting in civilian casualties were authorized,
potentially providing insight into who was
responsible for possible war crimes committed in
the course of the occupation. Continue
How to create an Angry American
Must watch 6 Minute Video
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to view
War By Accident?
By Karen Kwiatkowski
Cheney lives, and he wants more war.
According to former CIA officer Phil Giraldi,
Cheney remains hard at work fomenting some kind
of attack or even war with Iran – and beyond
that, he and George W. Bush don’t believe
their own CIA’s latest intelligence
assessment on Iran, indicating, in short that
when it comes to Iran, we have little to fear but
fear itself. Continue
Bush Admits He
Plans to Attack Iran ?
2 Minute Video
Does
This Video Confirm That Bush Intends To Attack
Iran? You decide. Continue
A Middle East
Free of WMD
Iran is a responsible
nation and wants to see stability in the region.
The West should support
us.
By Manouchehr Mottaki
The democratic rhetoric of the west counts for
nothing when foreign policy is dictated by
self-interest, as witnessed by its brazen
disregard of the outcomes of democratic elections
in Algeria and Palestine. Attempts to demonise
Iran are exposed as hollow when you consider that
the accusers are those responsible for the
outrages of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. Continue
A Strike
in the Dark
What Did Israel Bomb in Syria?
By Seymour M. Hersh
“‘You are aware of the recent Israeli
statements about Syria. The Israelis are
extremely serious about Iran and its nuclear
program, and I believe that, if the United States
government is unsuccessful in its diplomatic
dealings with Iran, the Israelis will take it out
militarily.’ He then told the envoy that he
wanted him to convey this to his
government—that the Israelis were serious. Continue
The Year
of Living Dangerously:
An Absence of Will
By Manuel Valenzuela
The Year of Living Dangerously is upon
us. The sorrows of empire have arrived. In this
struggle, America entire is Ground Zero. The
clock is ticking, the time is wasting. Would we
rather live in tyranny, or fight for freedom?
Live in our America, or the corporatist Amerika?
In this fight for our way of life, which
citizenry will show up: yesterday’s version
of the People, or today’s? The choice, as
always, is ours. Continue
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Bodies discovered in mass grave in northern Iraq:
Iraqi forces found the bodies of 55 people
allegedly killed and buried by al-Qaeda loyalists
in a mass grave near the northern Iraqi city of
Samarra, a police officer said Tuesday.
Eight
killed in suicide bombing : Iraqi
police said that eight of elements awakening
killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew
himself near the house of tribal leader north of
the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
At
least 3 Iraqis civilians killed by US occupation
forces: Iraqi police, relatives and
neighbors said a couple and their 19-year-old son
were shot to death in their beds late Monday.
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Iraq civilians killed by US occupation forces:
A farmer who lives near the site said the
Americans retaliated after a mortar attack
against a U.S. convoy as it passed a checkpoint
manned by Awakening Council fighters.
Another
6 killed as US occupation grinds on:
Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops killed
three suspected al Qaeda gunmen during operations
near Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of
Baghdad
Internal
pressure grows on Iraq's Sadr to end truce
: Influential members within the movement loyal
to Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have told him
they do not want his Mehdi Army militia to extend
a ceasefire when it expires this month, Sadr's
spokesman said on Monday.
US
occupation forces kill 10 civilians in
Afghanistan: An airstrike by
international forces against a suspected Taliban
commander in southwestern Afghanistan killed 10
civilians, while nine suspected Taliban were
killed in separate raids, officials said on
Monday.
Five
Afghan civilians killed by roadside bomb:
Five civilians including woman and children were
killed in a roadside attack in southern province
of Helmand, police said on Tuesday.
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police killed, 3 wounded in roadside blast in
southern Afghanistan: A roadside
blast hit a police patrol in southern
Afghanistan, leaving two officers dead and three
others wounded, an official said Tuesday.
Afghanistan
may turn to failed state as insurgency spreads:
Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state if NATO
troops do not defeat the Taliban, boosting
Islamist extremism worldwide, a study said
Tuesday, also warning that the West lacked
resources.
Full cost excluded on Iraq,
Afghanistan: Bush asked for
$70 billion as an "emergency allowance"
for war costs for the first part of the budget
year, which begins Oct. 1. The White House said
it would request more — probably at least
another $100 billion
US
intel: al-Qaida may move outside Iraq:
Top US Intelligence Chief Says al-Qaida in Iraq
Establishing Cells in Other Countries
Israel
kills 9 in Gaza: Seven of the Hamas
men were killed by an Israeli air strike on a
security compound in southern Gaza and two other
armed members of the movement were shot dead by
Israeli soldiers near the border with Egypt.
Senior
MK demands murder of Hamas leaders :
A senior member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's
party Tuesday urged the government to order the
assassination of Hamas political leaders in
response to the Monday suicide bombing claimed by
the Islamist group.
Hamas
urges militants, leaders to be on guard :
Hamas called Tuesday all Palestinian militants
and leaders to be careful and warned them of
assassination attempts planned by Israel.
Haredi
sect brands Chief Rabbi Metzger 'Zionist stooge,'
wicked : The strongly anti-Zionist
Neturei Karta sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews has
attacked Ashkennazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger as a
"very well paid Zionist stooge" and a
"a wicked emissary of evil" who should
be expelled from Israel, following Metzger's
reported comments proposing that poor Gazans be
moved to a Palestinian state established in the
Sinai.
Bush
budget launches new Israel aid : The
Bush administration launched its new $30 billion
defense aid to Israel in its proposed 2009
budget.
Manufacturing Consent For War With
Iran: Iran
will have nuclear weapon in three years:
Mossad: Mossad director Meir Dagan, in an
intelligence assessment presented to Israel's
powerful foreign affairs and defence committee on
Monday, said the Jewish state would face
increased threats on all fronts, Maariv daily
said.
Accept
Iran's Regional Role, Says French Envoy:
In a sharp departure from U.S. policy, a leading
French diplomat has called on the international
coalition sponsoring U.N. sanctions against Iran
to support a larger Iranian role in the Middle
East.
4th
cable snaps, Qatar-UAE traffic disrupted:
The fourth submarine cable was damaged between
Haloul (Qatar) and Das (the UAE). Egypt’s
ministry of maritime transportation, after
reviewing the satellite pictures, said there were
no ships (which led to the speculation and
allegations) near the cable channel 12 hours
before or after the damage near Alexandria,
Egypt.
US
service sector contracts in January: The
Institute for Supply Management's report,
released Tuesday, shook the stock market while
bond prices surged. The Dow Jones industrial
average, the Standard & Poor's 500 index and
the Nasdaq composite index all fell.
Sometimes you just got to laugh:
Lawmaker to introduce bill banning imported
flags: A state lawmaker who served
in Iraq wants to ban U.S. or Iowa flags that are
made in other countries.
04/02/08
George Bush Delivers The Horse's
Head
By Mike Whitney
In the last two weeks, the Gulf leaders have
watched nervously while the Federal Reserve has
slashed rates by a whopping 125 basis points. The
cuts are steadily eroding the $1
trillion of capital they have invested in US
Treasuries and securities. Indeed, the price of
friendship is quite high. Continue
Bankers
Gone Bonkers
Global Finance and the Insanity
Defense
By Pam Martens
With Wall Street capital disappearing as
fast as foreclosures are climbing, one foreign
head of state had an epiphany. French President
Nicholas Sarkozy advanced the idea recently that
the global financial system is "out of its
mind." Continue
Disowned By The Ownership
Society
By Naomi Klein
Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist
predicted that the ownership society would be
Bush's greatest legacy, remembered "long
after people can no longer pronounce or spell
Fallujah." Yet in Bush's final State of the
Union address, the once-ubiquitous phrase was
conspicuously absent. And little wonder: rather
than its proud father, Bush has turned out to be
the ownership society's undertaker. Continue
Leaked Classified Documents Show Bush
Authorized US Troops In Iran And Syria
By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL R. GORDON
American military forces in Iraq were
authorized to pursue former members of Saddam
Hussein’s government and terrorists across
Iraq’s borders into Iran and Syria,
according to a classified 2005 document that has
been made public by an independent Web site. Continue
Torture Does Not Work, as
History Shows
By Robert Fisk
“Torture works,” an American special
forces major - now, needless to say, a colonel -
boasted to a colleague of mine a couple of years
ago. It seems that the CIA and its hired thugs in
Afghanistan and Iraq still believe this.
Continue
Why Were The Tapes Destroyed?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Many Americans are content with the 9/11
Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the
commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not.
Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US
Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission,
telling the Boston Globe (November 13, 2003):
“This investigation is now
compromised.”
Continued
The Great Betrayal
By Patrick J. Buchanan
McCain says we may be in Iraq a hundred
years and warns, “there’s going to be
other wars.” Take the man at his word. Continue
When Morality Demands Winter
Soldiers
By Camillo "Mac" Bica
In March of this year, the Iraq Veterans
Against the War (IVAW) will convene the Winter
Soldier hearings in Washington, DC. "Winter
Soldiers," according to Thomas Paine, are
those who step up in behalf of their nation when
things seem most bleak. Continue
Suharto: 'One Of The Greatest
Mass Murderers Of The 20th Century'
By Chris Kline
The military and intelligence attachés
in the US and British embassies were sending
helpful death lists to the Indonesian high
command when Suharto struck. In the midst of the
mass executions, the British ambassador, Sir
Andrew Gilchrist, sent a chilling telegram to
London, saying: “I have never concealed from
you my belief that a little shooting in Indonesia
would be an essential preliminary to effective
change.” Continue
Opinion: U.S. Must Atone For
Aiding Suharto
By Joseph Nevins
The death of Suharto, the strongman who
ruled Indonesia for more than three decades, is
cause for reflection in the United States,
particularly as Americans choose our next
president and wrestle with the question of our
nation's proper role in the world. Continue
The Year of Living Dangerously
By Manuel Valenzuela
If you are not angered, indeed enraged,
by the current state of the United States, then
you have not been paying attention, or you just
do not care enough about the future your children
will inherit, and have to live in. Continue
Tapped Out Nation
By Patrick J. Buchanan
It was to be the year of change, of new
ideas, a new politics. Yet, as of today, it
appears the Republican Party will be led into the
future by a Beltway favorite of the media and
Washington insider who has spent the last quarter
of a century on Capitol Hill. Continue
Debunking The Health Care
Bugaboo
By Mary Pitt
When one dares to broach the idea that
"universal health care" is the only
practical answer, all the politicians grab their
own wallets and scream about "rationed
care" and "socialism". True, it
would require the demise of the current health
care insurance industry so that the three hundred
billion dollars in annual profit for those
companies could be used instead for the care of
ill and injured people. Continue
Iraq:
At least 40 killed in another bloody day of US
occupation: U.S.
occupation forces killed 15 suspected militants
US
Occupation Forces Kill 9 Iraq Civilians:
Iraqi police said the victims, including two
women, were in two houses in the village of Tal
al-Samar, which was bombed by American warplanes
late Saturday.
Mosul
residents stock up ahead of 'decisive battle'
: Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul
are hastily stocking up with supplies ahead of
what Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says will be a
"decisive battle" against Al-Qaeda,
traders said on Sunday.
Turkish
Planes Bomb Iraq: Hit 70 Suspected PKK Positions
in Iraq : The planes struck targets
in the northern Iraqi regions of Avasin-Basyan
and Hakurk in a 12-hour operation that began
today at 3 a.m. Turkish time, Turkey's military
said on its Web site.
Pentagon
won't detail war spending plan: When
the Pentagon unveils its budget request Monday
for the next fiscal year, it will back away from
a commitment it made to Congress just a year ago
-- to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan are likely to cost.
Manufacturing Consent For War
With Iran: ? US
claims rise in Iran-made bomb attacks in Iraq :
Attacks using Iranian-made roadside bombs in a
key part of Baghdad rose in January to the
highest level in a year, the U.S. military said.
Progress
towards resolving Iran inquiry--ElBaradei:
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on
Sunday he was making progress in finishing an
inquiry into Iran's nuclear past ahead of his
next report awaited by those powers mulling new
sanctions.
U.S.
labels Iran's rocket tests as
"unfortunate" : The United
States described on Monday Iran's launching a
rocket into space as "unfortunate,"
which, the White House said, will isolate the
Islamic republic from the international
community.
Iran
oil bourse scheduled: Iran was
scheduled to inaugurate its Oil Bourse this
coming week.That probably isn't going to happen
because all internet access in Iran was cut over
the weekend (the undersea cables were chopped).
Internet
cable cut in Middle East – Should Iran be
worried?: There has been some
concern that the undersea internet cables, that
have been cut recently, are perhaps no accident?
US
anti-missile ship to dock in Haifa:
An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa
Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile
defense system that could be deployed in the
region in the event of an Iranian missile attack
against Israel.
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Killed As Taliban Clash With Police in Southern
Afghanistan: A clash between police
and the Taliban in a mountainous area of southern
Afghanistan left eight militants dead and three
officers wounded, a police chief said Monday.
Women
and children among 10 people killed in raids
occupation troops: Afghan and
foreign occupation troops conducted separate
raids on the homes of suspected Taliban militants
on Monday, leaving 10 people dead, including
women and children, police said.
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Civilians Among 8 Killed By US Occupation Forces
Air Attack: A Taliban commander who
owned the house, Mullah Manan, managed to escape
with four other fighters, but two other Taliban
commanders in the compound were killed by a
ground and air attack, Baloch said. Six civilians
were also killed, he said.
Kabul
furious at British plan to retrain Taliban:
A secret British plan to build military training
camps for former Taliban fighters in Helmand
province has sent relations between Afghanistan
and Britain to an all-time low, officials have
revealed.
Suicide
attacker kills five: . A suicide
attacker rammed a bomb-laden motorbike into a
Pakistan army bus taking medical staff to work
yesterday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi,
killing five people, police said.
Pakistani
troops advance into militant stronghold, 1
soldier killed: Government forces
advanced into a militant stronghold in
northwestern Pakistan on Monday as fighting
continued in other areas along the volatile
border with Afghanistan, officials said.
600
suicide bombers present in Karachi: report
- Six hundred would-be suicide bombers have been
deployed to Pakistan’s southern port city of
Karachi to target security forces, a media report
said on Monday.
2
Killed as Israeli PM vows 'relentless' war on
"terror" : Shas Chairman
Eli Yishai called on the government Monday to
cease negotiations with the Palestinian Authority
immediately, following the attack which left a
woman dead and 11 more people wounded.
One
Gazan killed in clashes with Egyptian troops at
border: A Palestinian man was killed
and at least | 