Saturday, January 5, 2008

Headlines for 01-04-08

Khamenei warns Iran will 'humiliate' any attacker Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the country would humiliate any possible attacker over its controversial nuclear programme.


Iran no longer aids Iraq militants


'Sudden jihad syndrome' poses domestic risk


US judge orders Iran to pay $466 million to family of man executed there


Ron Paul beats Giuliani but loses to Fox News


Throughout his career, Obama has reached for Jewish support AIPAC does not oppose diplomacy in engaging Iran, but dislikes it as an emphasis, believing that talks could buy the Iranian regime bomb-making time. But his words did not stop the Chicago hotel ballroom packed with 800 AIPAC members from cheering Obama on.
A few weeks later, Obama drew more rubberneckers than any other candidate attending AIPAC's policy forum in Washington -- drawing away onlookers from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) although she outpolls Obama among Jewish voters. No one winced when he said that Palestinian needs must be considered in working out a peace deal, although that's hardly standard AIPAC pep talk......in recent speeches, Obama tweaked his pro-Israel rhetoric to echo the recent drive by the Israeli government and pro-Israel groups to insist on recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.



Bush blames Lebanon stalemate on Syrian interference


Palestinian militant found dead in refugee camp in Lebanon Residents of a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon found the body of an Islamic militant Friday who had been tortured and killed, local Palestinian officials and doctors said.


In interview with Israeli paper, Bush says Israeli-Palestinian peace possible within a year Bush also said he plans to use his time in the Mideast to
rally opposition to Iran's nuclear program, saying a recent U.S. intelligence report that claimed Iran had suspended its program did not mean the danger was over


On Eve of Bush Mideast Trip, Hezbollah Chief Stirs Ire for U.S. Sheik Nasrallah said in the speech, adding America wants is to "forever abolish the spirit and culture of resistance in Lebanon." One way to do that, he said, was to settle the Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon as part of a larger solution to the regional problem ? "not for humanitarian reasons of course but to jeopardize the Palestinian cause and the right of Palestinians to return to their homeland."


Hezbollah sets resolution terms The Lebanese opposition group Hezbollah has said openly that it will not allow a president to be elected unless it gets a third of the cabinet seats.


The War and the Elections


Evidence of Israeli 'cowardly blending' comes to light A new report, written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country?s Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the fighting Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens. This is an aspect of the war that has been almost entirely neglected until now.


Baghdad Palestinians hope for passage through India


Damascus becomes Arab cultural capital for 2008 Damascus heads into a new year as the cultural capital of the Arab world for 2008, hosting a year-long series of theatrical and musical events, along with talks by renowned intellectuals.

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