Headlines for 01-06-08

Iran says United States failing in Middle East Bush said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday he would explain the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate to the allies and that he still viewed Iran as a danger.


US Military Not Welcome in Pakistan: Army The Pakistani military reacted angrily Sunday to reports that US President George W. Bush is considering covert military operations in the country?s volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.


Market determines oil prices: Saudi Arabia Mmm k.


McCain: I would have started Iraq war regardless of WMD


Sibel 'names names' (in pictures!) Sibel doesn't say anything about the photos - or the people in the photos - but we can reasonably presume that they are the 21 guilty people in her case.


Why U.S. strategy on Iran is crumbling Saudis and Egyptians had been the prime movers in anti-Iranian and anti-Shiite agitation. When they are inviting Ahmadinejad and Mr. Larijani to their capitals, America's talk of isolating Iran sounds outdated.


Hamas official says Bush's Mideast visit will be about Iran, not peace U.S. President George W. Bush's upcoming visit to the Middle East is not about pushing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward but will instead focus on Iran, a senior Hamas official said Sunday.


Israel warns of Iranian missile peril for Europe ** The Israeli government is furious about the recent US intelligence assessment which concluded that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, and hopes to convince the American leader that work is continuing on a bomb that poses a widespread threat.....He said Israeli officials would warn Mr Bush that failing to take action would have serious consequences beyond the Middle East, where Iran was funding groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza




Report: FBI translator says Israel planted nuclear 'moles' in U.S. The Times also says that Edmonds had claimed there were "senior officials in the Pentagon" who had provided assistance to Israeli and Turkish agents


The AIPAC Spy Trial: A Case of Prosecutus Interruptus I see I'm not the only one to have lost count of the postponements. The defense deftly delayed on every imaginable ground, and was indulged by a noticeably sympathetic judge, who forced the government to produce top secret information - the very information Israel's AIPAC spy nest had gleaned from sympathizers inside our government. Furthermore, he has granted the defense demand to subpoena top government officials, including Condoleezza Rice.


Obama supports Israel. Period. Yesterday, writing about Clinton and Edwards, I mentioned the fact that "the constant interest in, and the open sympathy for, Israeli affairs that is required of all important elected officials in the most Jewish of states in the U.S. has had its effect on" Clinton and Giuliani, The Israel Factor favorites. Obama doesn't have this advantage. He isn't from New York and, more importantly, is relatively new to the public sphere. For which country are these candidates campaining?


Declaring Forever War To the extent that a mayor of New York has a foreign policy, it needs to be loudly supportive of Israel. In a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention, Giuliani struck the "Israel's war is our war" note by claiming that the war on terror began in Munich in 1972. His September 2007 proposal to expand NATO to include Israel is part and parcel of this approach. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Giuliani is "the clear favorite of the party's top Jewish activists."


When is it the Palestinians' turn? Christopher Brown writing from Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon, Live from Lebanon,