Headlines for 12-22-07

No progress on American missing in Iran: wife The wife of a ex-FBI agent missing in Iran since March said on Saturday she received no new information about his fate during a pre-Christmas trip to the Islamic republic to search for her husband.


Iraq children 'paying high price'


Turkey in fresh Iraq air strikes


U.S. Envoy Says Iran Could Revive Halted Nuclear Arms Program


It's Common Sense, Not Pacifism We should go to war only in self-defense. I don't believe the American people wish to adopt Iraq and Afghanistan as permanent wards of the taxpayers. I don't believe they want to keep burying sons and daughters whose deaths don't make America safer. That's not pacifism. It's common sense.



Gates warns of Al Qaeda shift


Iranian ex-president attacks hardliners A popular former president has resumed his attacks against hardline Iranian clerics threatening to disqualify reformists from upcoming elections.


US 'risks running out of funds' for Iraq, Afghanistan wars


Justifying the Iraq War: Why the NIE Is Wrong


Russia seeks role in Israel-Syria talks Turkey has also played this role in recent months. But while the Turks are believed to have better personal contacts with the Syrians, the Russians - because of their arms sales to Syria and their overall status as a world power - are believed to have much more leverage with Damascus.


'Children of Jihad' Author Hits at Misconceptions about Middle-East I remember one of them put his hand on my shoulder and said, "We don't care that you're Jewish, we don't care you're American. We hate the American government and we hate the Israeli government, but Jewish people and American people have done nothing to us." ......What I hope and one of the main reasons I wrote "Children of Jihad" was because on paper as a young American Jew, I'm probably the last person that should be able to get along with people from different backgrounds in the Middle East. And the reality is, I found that youth culture there was more similar to me than it was different. Everyone should read this in its entirety. He speaketh the truth. Most of the folks int the Middle East,particularly the youth, are NOT masked jihadis hell bent on killing us. Fact.


Iran Polls Better Than US in Saudi Arabia 57 percent of respondents said they opposed the development by Iran of nuclear weapons. Thirty-eight percent said they would favor the US and other countries taking military action to prevent the Iranians from obtaining such a weapon, compared to 27 percent who said the US should accept a nuclear-armed Iran.