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January 2007
President Ahmadinejad's Count Down to War?
by OPINIONIST
Ahmadinejad mind-map bullet points:
- Holocaust denier
- US/Israel “soon to be destroyed”
- “one bomb” will destroy Israel
- North Koreans assisting Iran’s nuclear program
- Israel very quiet recently
- Israel political will and military resources to attack Iran unilaterally?
- 2nd U.S. carrier group en route Persian Gulf
- U.S. defend Iraq’s Iran / Syrian borders in response?
- 2009 term limit, Parliament shortened Ahmadinejad’s term?
- ‘Hojjatieh’ ultra-conservative Shia believer of the 12th Imam/Mahdi
- Ahmadinejad wants his administration to ‘pave way for 12th Imam’s return
- His administration politically weaker; forcing his hand?
- Inflation, unemployment, building opposition to his policies
- Ahmadinejad even scares Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
- Ayathollah’s recent overtures (”goodwill”) to U.S. via Saudi King
- Sec. of State - Condi Rice - making trip to Riyadh next week
December 2006
Nouvelles d'Orient
by jlemoine
& 1 other
Depuis au moins quarante ans, le Proche-Orient est au centre de l’actualité internationale. Il passionne les opinions publiques du Vieux continent. Pour des raisons multiples : accumulation de crises et de guerres ; proximité géographique ; présence
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October 2006
Guardian | FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon
by ravi
Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year's report.
But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties.
August 2006
[NYT] Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs - New York Times
by ravi
The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons...
Syria warns on peacekeepers
by ravi
[Guardian] The Syrian president, Bashar Assad, today warned he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a hostile move towards his country.
May 2006
March 2006
February 2006
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war
by mikepower
Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed.
The New Yorker: The Memo by Jane Mayer
by mikepower
How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
US troops taught Iraqi gestures
by mikepower
The US military has funded a computer game to teach its troops how to use and decipher Iraqi body language.
Jasem al-Aqrab: The Basra video should lay to rest a scurrilous lie
by mikepower
Since April 2003, the people of Basra have consistently been bemused by reports that they and their city enjoy a state of calm and stability under the command of the British forces, in contrast to the north of Iraq and the so-called Sunni triangle.
TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness
by mikepower
The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.
January 2006
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians
by mikepower
Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone - both of them children - as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year.
Bush has backward view of dissent
by mikepower
Did Bush deliberately deceive the American people to justify the war in Iraq? I don't know...and neither do you. But here's what we do know: The president doesn't think we should be asking in the first place. And that might be the biggest scandal of all.
Independent: Palestinian with Aids barred from Israeli hospital
by mikepower
A Palestinian Aids patient has been denied permission to leave Gaza for treatment in Israel despite warnings by senior Israeli clinicians that the case is urgent.
Guardian: Official US agency paints dire picture of 'out-of-control' Iraq
by mikepower
An official assessment drawn up by the US foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, amounting to a "social breakdown" in which criminals have "almost free rein".
D-squared Digest
by mikepower
Literally people have been asking me: "How is it that you were so amazingly prescient about Iraq? Why is it that you were right about everything at precisely the same moment when we were wrong?"
The Village Voice: The Bush Beat
by mikepower
A year after tearfully accepting a Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush for his disastrous reign in Iraq, preposterous pasha Jerry Bremer has rewritten history with a ghosted "diary" and started a book tour by saying, "I didn't do it."
December 2005
Iraq's Death Squads
by mikepower
OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.
August 2005
How to Win in Iraq - Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
by mikepower
U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis
Prospect - A muslim Journey
by mikepower
British Islam is dominated by culturally and theologically conservative south Asians. But the London bombs may help to make it more open to those who want to engage with the modern world
