Headlines for 08-17-08

Iran rocket launch 'troubling': US


Iran launches satellite carrier Iran says it has successfully launched a rocket capable of carrying its first domestically built satellite.


Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine While pushing to take on Saddam Hussein, Mr. McCain also made arguments and statements that he may no longer wish to recall. He lauded the war planners he would later criticize, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. (Mr. McCain even volunteered that he would have given the same job to Mr. Cheney.) He urged support for the later-discredited Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi?s opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, and echoed some of its suspect accusations in the national media. And he advanced misleading assertions not only about Mr. Hussein?s supposed weapons programs but also about his possible ties to international terrorists, Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks.




U.S., Israel seal deal for missile radar defense system The United States and Israel have agreed on the deployment of high-powered, early-warning missile radars in the Negev desert, to be manned by U.S. military personnel. ......Under the terms of the agreement, U.S. military staff will be permanently based in Israel for the first time.
US military now officially literally being tasked with defending Israel. Iraq, our billions in taxpayer dollars, etc aren't enough.


Lebanese army opens fire after bomb thrown in Tripoli


Germany's Schroeder says Georgia sparked fighting Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder blamed Tbilisi on Saturday for sparking hostilities with Moscow and suggested its breakaway regions could not remain part of Georgia following the violent clashes of the past week.


Source: Secret IDF material went unguarded in Georgia Tomer said he and his friends had at first received guidelines for the handling of covert material, listing what they could and couldn't tell Georgian soldiers about IDF activities. But in actuality, he said, the Georgians were told top secret information......He added that the Georgian officers told their soldiers they would be going to help NATO forces in Iraq, while the real objective was Ossetia and Abkhazia.