We Knew This Already
August 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Iran admitted for the first time on Friday that it did indeed supply long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah. Secretary-general of the “Intifada conference” Mohtashami Pur told an Iranian newspaper that Iran transferred the missiles so that they could be used to defend Lebanon, Channel 1 reported. The extent of Iran’s intimate involvement in Hizbullah attacks [...]
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
July 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two Marine Corps helicopters evacuated 21 Americans from Lebanon to Cyprus on Sunday, and U.S. officials urged others to wait for a formal evacuation plan before they try to leave. The U.S. citizens evacuated Sunday included a family of four with a sick child and four students, said Maura Harty, assistant secretary [...]
Snow Storm
May 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is starting off in a combative mode against the press by issuing detailed rebuttals to what he considers unfair coverage of Bush. “The New York Times continues to ignore America’s economic progress,” blared the headline of an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday by the White House press office. [...]
Blair’s Musical Chairs
May 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Prime Minister Tony Blair fired Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and other senior ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle Friday after the Labor Party’s poor showing in local elections that were widely seen as a referendum on Blair’s government. With the most extensive purge since he took office in 1997, analysts said Blair was trying to [...]
Iran: Israel Must be Destroyed
October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The State of Israel should be wiped off the map, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday, underscoring Teheran’s extreme attitude towards the Jewish State. “The establishment of the State of Israel was an offensive move. The Islamic nation will not let its historic enemy live in its midst,” he said. Meanwhile senior American officials associated [...]
DeLay Indicted
September 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A Texas grand jury indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) yesterday on a charge of criminally conspiring with two political associates to inject illegal corporate contributions into 2002 state elections that helped the Republican Party reorder the congressional map in Texas and cement its control of the House in Washington. The indictment forced DeLay, [...]
The Real Story in Iran
June 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
One of the reasons I have been so concerned about Iran for such a long time is that I fear the mullahs’ cleverness, ruthlessness, and ability to mount brilliant deceptions. Moreover, while there have long been basic fault lines within the mullahcracy, I have long believed they would find ways to pull together at moments [...]
So Ronery
June 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment
North Korea apparently wants the United States to recognize it as a nuclear state as a basis for future negotiations. The assertion was made Monday at the United Nations, sources close to the negotiations said. “We have to be treated as a nation possessing nuclear weapons,” Pak Gil Yon, North Korea’s ambassador to the United [...]
Inside Gitmo
June 2, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The US Government currently maintains custody of approximately 550 enemy combatants in the Global War on Terrorism at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many of these enemy combatants are highly trained, dangerous members of al -Qaida, its related terrorist networks, and the former Taliban regime. More than 4,000 reports capture information provided by these detainees, much of [...]
Lightning
May 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday operation lightning began and we noticed an excessive presence of the Iraqi army and police forces on the streets and main squares in Baghdad with an obvious readiness for confronting the terrorists. It’s become clear that the phenomenon of seeing terrorists taking control of streets and government buildings in Baghdad had diminished long time [...]
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