Headlines for 02-03-08

Iran slams French plans for Gulf base


Insurgencies spread in Afghanistan and Pakistan In Afghanistan , U.S. and NATO forces are facing "a classic growing insurgency," Adm. Michael Mullen , the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday.


Pentagon rejects report, says ready for WMD attack


Chinese banks cut business with Iranian banks- paper Chinese banks have cut back business with Iranian banks due to U.S. pressure over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, a senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official was quoted as saying in comments published on Saturday.


Ties between White House, Sept 11 chief


Ron Paul Is Popular at the Super Bowl If the presidency were decided by the people posting signs in and around Phoenix during Super Bowl week, Ron Paul would win in a landslide.


Ralph Nader Launches Presidential Exploratory Committee to Mull ?08 Run


Repairs to start on undersea cable Tuesday


Lebanese man 'killed by Israelis' A Lebanese man has been shot dead and another wounded in south Lebanon by Israel forces, Lebanese security sources have said.


Ships did not cause Internet cable damage The transport ministry added that footage recorded by onshore video cameras of the location of the cables showed no maritime traffic in the area when the cables were damaged.


Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical Suspicions Most notably, Israel and Iraq are unaffected by the outage.


Sy Hersh confirms: Syrian facility bombed by Israel was not nuclear Hersh appeared on CNN's Late Edition on Sunday to discuss his upcoming article, "A Strike in the Dark," which will appear in the Feb. 11 issue of the New Yorker......Hersh's best guess as to the motivation of the bombing is that it was partly Israeli politics and partly "a message for the Iranians that we're coming."


Wall Street Journal Votes for Netanyahu It?s really all part of the same Netanyahu network: the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, the Shalem Center, Freedom?s Watch, and you can add the Middle East specialists at the American Enterprise Institute, Sharansky?s One Jerusalem, etc. etc.