Headlines for 01-17-08

01-17-08 - US, Iran diplomats vie for Chinese support in nuclear impasse


01-17-08 - Study tracks stress disorder in US combat troops About 9 per cent of United States troops who have performed combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan report experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a study led by Defence Department researchers.


01-17-08 - Europe 'poses threat' to US security: Chertoff


01-17-08 - Ahmadinejad scorns US and Israel The Iranian leader also dismissed US ally Israel, saying: "The Zionist regime... would not dare attack Iran.
"It knows that any attack on Iranian territories would prompt a fierce response," he added.



01-17-08 - US to devise emergency recession plan


01-17-08 - Israel test-fires ballistic missile after Iran warning


01-17-08 - Israel's foreign minister: Iran nuclear controversy should be solved via sanctions


01-17-08 - Iran defiant after Israeli missile test


01-17-08 - Israel "would not dare attack Iran": Ahmadinejad


01-17-08 - Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch list Canada's foreign ministry has put the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday.


01-17-08 - Israel FM urges firmer stance from Russia on Iran


01-17-08 - Phone Iran for peace, Americans urged A US group lobbying for Washington to engage Tehran in direct talks is to invite members of the public to chat with people in Iran at the weekend using three hotlines set up in a New York park.


01-17-08 - Pentagon's Islam "Expert" Hoisted by His Own Jihad Over the weekend, the Fox News Channel spun the centrifuges of Islamo-hysteria faster, featuring an interview with self-declared "terrorism expert" Steve Emerson, who alleged that radical Islamists had infiltrated the U.S. government and had gained enough clout to manipulate who gets hired and fired Emerson is quite wrong. To the contrary- the US government was infiltrated long ago by those other extremists - pro-Israeli ones. And they have proved far more costly to the American people in terms of blood and treasure than any of their Islamic counterparts. 0


01-17-08 - Lieberman, GOP seek out Jewish vote Lieberman told about 200 Republican Jewish activists that he's backing John McCain because his fellow senator and Iraq war hawk best understands the nature of the radical Islamic threat faced by ''our ally Israel'' -- while much of the Democratic Party has forsaken it......While Jews overwhelmingly vote Democratic on social issues year after year, the Republican presidential candidates this year have gone to great lengths to out-Israel each other -- from using Israeli newspaper email lists to traveling to Israel to addressing myriad Jewish groups.


01-17-08 - Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims The US is at war in Iraq, because the neoconservatives want to rid Israel of the Muslim governments ? Iraq, Iran and Syria ? that are not American surrogates and, therefore, are willing to fund Palestinian and Lebanese resistance to Israeli aggression. Israel, protected by the US, has disobeyed UN resolutions for four decades and has been methodically squeezing Palestinians out of Palestine.


01-17-08 - Mid-East suffers rare cold snap In Syria, temperatures have dropped to minus 16 degrees Celsius. There has been widespread damage to crops in Syria, Jordan and Israel.


01-17-08 - US to set up cluster bomb clearance team The United States will create a team of experts to defuse cluster bombs and other explosives that pose a threat to civilians after the end of a conflict, U.S. officials said Wednesday.


01-17-08 - NYC jeweler sentenced in bogus bomb plot Alkatri also faces deportation to his native Syria as a convicted felon. One of his lawyers, Michael L. Soshnick, argued that a return to that country could be fatal because Alkatri is Jewish.