Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Headlines for 09-24-07

UN nuclear officials hold new talks in Iran


Talk of war is 'propaganda': Iranian leader ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday dismissed talk of war against Iran as "propaganda" and combatively took on US critics who accuse him of denying the Holocaust and backing terrorism.


Iranian 'Ground Zero' visit would be travesty: Rice


Brzezinski: U.S. in danger of 'stampeding' to war with Iran ** "I think the administration, the president and the vice president particularly, are trying to hype the atmosphere, and that is reminiscent of what preceded the war in Iraq," Brzezinski told CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday.


Weapons left by US troops 'used as bait to kill Iraqis' US soldiers are luring Iraqis to their deaths by scattering military equipment on the ground as "bait", and then shooting those who pick them up, it has been alleged at a court martial. The highly controversial tactic, which has hitherto been kept secret, is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of a number of Iraqis who were subsequently classified as enemy combatants and used in statistics to show the "success" of the "surge" in US forces.


Ahmadinejad attacked as 'petty dictator' In a sometimes testy question-and-answer session, Mr Ahmadinejad told the moderator: "You ask the questions but you ant the answers the way you want to hear them. This is not a free flow of information. In Iran when you invite a guest, you respect them, that is our tradition."


Cheney mulled luring Iran into war with Israel: report ** the weekly said the steady departure of neoconservatives from the administration over the past two years had helped tilt the balance away from war.


Ahmadinejad: No attack on Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country.


Turning Ahmadinejad Into Public Enemy No. 1 The neoconservatives are even claiming that the United States has been at war with Iran since 1979. As Glenn Greenwald points out, this assertion is absurd. In the ?80s, the Reagan administration sold substantial numbers of arms to Iran. Some of those beating the war drums most loudly now, like think-tank rat Michael Ledeen, were middlemen in the Reagan administration?s unconstitutional weapons sales to Tehran.


Syria set to reject peace talks offer Syria is expected to rebuff an invitation from the US to attend a grand Middle East peace conference later this year because it does not believe that either the Bush administration or Israel wants to reach a comprehensive regional settlement.


Just How Powerful is the Israel Lobby?


IAF dispatches jets as Syrian plane disappears from radar The Israel Air Force dispatched several fighter jets toward Syria Saturday, after a Syrian airplane disappeared from the Israeli radar screens, army sources said.


Former Syrian official: Report on IDF commandos is psychological warfare

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