Headlines for 09-09-07

Iran's nuclear foes 'racing to hell': Ahmadinejad "The Iranian people have climbed over difficult mountain passes on their path of progress. The enemies need to step aside from our path and give up their satanic ideas," he said, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency


Iran rejects 'impossible' nuclear suspension Iran's top nuclear negotiator says it is "impossible" for Tehran to yield to the key Western demand over its nuclear program, even if the UN Security Council imposes further sanctions.


Iran, Russia still talking on nuclear plant completion


No missile deal for Putin, Bush US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin showed no sign of progress after talks in Sydney today to defuse tensions over US missile defence plans that have angered Moscow.


Lieberman Rejects New Democratic Compromise on Iraq Senator Joseph Lieberman opposed a compromise measure suggested by top Senate Democrats that would mandate a starting date for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq while imposing no deadline for completing the pullout.


U.S. sees potential merit to Iran cooperation plan The United States said on Friday there was potential merit to Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher U.N. sanctions.


US says wargames not aimed at China, Iran A top US navy commander involved in Indian Ocean wargames said Friday the exercises were not aimed at sending a message to either China or Iran.


Iraq chides 'meddling' neighbours The US has accused Syria and Iran of failing to stop the infiltration of militants or arming them.


Bin Laden: We're no Nazis In his latest video, the al-Qaida leader cites Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, who wrote of the terrorist threat in 2004: "There is no middle way for Americans: It is victory or holocaust."

Bin Laden called this "unjust" and said in his video released last week and addressed to Americans, "The morality and culture of the Holocaust is your culture, not our culture


Iran says seeking clues over missing American Iran said on Sunday it was seeking clues over the fate of a US former FBI agent who reportedly disappeared while visiting the Islamic republic six months ago.


Iran accuses US of supporting rebel groups


Syria threatens Israel over sortie Syria hinted at imminent retaliation for an alleged Israeli violation of its airspace.


Israeli minister accuses Syria of encouraging terror An Israeli minister accused Damascus of "encouraging terrorism" on Sunday, three days after Syria said Israeli warplanes violated its airspace.
Just who is terrorizing whom?


'A Traditional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy': Ron Paul at Johns Hopkins The prestigious Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., has invited Ron Paul to make a keynote policy address on September 11.


Neocons Put on a Surge-Stravaganza On Thursday, the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) ? which has generally supported the George W. Bush administration's decisions in Iraq ? put on a marathon three-and-a-half hour series of panel discussions to promote AEI resident scholar Frederick Kagan's new report, "No Middle Way: The Challenge of Exit Strategies From Iraq."


Poisoned by war, Lebanon reaps meagre harvest "Look at this field, Israeli planes dropped 30 bombs on it," said the elderly man. "Seventy years of work destroyed.".....This year, the family was forced to abandon part of its land because of the cluster bombs dropped by the Israelis, which spread more than a million bomblets


Young Democrats, Republicans agree on two things: Israel and drink specials Calls for a proactive approach against a nuclear Iran was a common theme at the conference. AIPAC listed Iran mobilization as one of its fall 2007 campus initiatives, encouraging students to emphasize to their peers what a nuclear Iran means for the Middle East and the world.


Army: Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese air space


Va. congressman accuses AIPAC on Iraq "AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning," U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said in this month's Tikkun magazine. "Because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -- most of them are quite wealthy -- they have been able to exert power."


Will the US Really Bomb Iran? ** Israel wants an attack on Iran, and the Israel lobby calls the shots in US foreign policy. What Israel wants, Israel gets.


'US needs face-to-face talks with Iran' The former NATO commander said he was intimately aware of Israel's security needs, an awareness gained through frequent visits.


Domestic terror linked to our Mideast policies The hostility that leads to terrorism is not a product of personal difficulties in which individual Muslims may find themselves. It is more plausibly explained as a response to our own policies in the Middle East ? what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what we have done over the years on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That hostility is widely shared through the Middle East and leads some to resort to violence.


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