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  • A Pretext For Invasion
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday insisted that 15 British spies it seized had illegally entered Iranian waters, denouncing what it called a "blatant aggression." The Britons were being taken to the capital for questioning, Iranian media reported much in the same the Americans and Brits have been hauling off Iranians who actually live in the region and have strong ties to elements in Iraq.
    “Blimey! The Eye-Rainians ain’t got shit on us. We got fuckin’ strong ties with the Eye-rackies of our (…)

  • Call that humiliation?
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of (…)

  • Brit “Hostage” Drama Pales in Comparison to MI6 and CIA Crimes Against Iran
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Perhaps we should get some perspective by imagining how we might react if the Iranians had occupied France and were patrolling the English channel,” runs a post on the UK Telegraph, responding to the capture of 15 British sailors by Iran.
    Indeed. But I can think of one better.
    Perhaps we’d get some perspective if we realized MI6 and the CIA plotted against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. “If there had not been a military coup, there would not have (…)

  • U.S. ready to strike Iran in early April - intelligence source -1
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said.
    The source said the U.S. had already compiled a list of possible targets on Iranian territory and practiced the operation during recent exercises in the Persian Gulf.
    "Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces stationed (…)

  • Iran airs second sailor ’apology’
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A second member of the Royal Navy crew captured in the Gulf has apologised for "trespassing" in Iranian waters, in a broadcast on Iranian television.
    The crewman, who introduces himself as Nathan Thomas Summers, says: "I would like to apologise for entering your waters without permission."
    A third letter allegedly from LS Turney was released on Friday in which she said she had been "sacrificed" to the policies of the UK and US governments.
    It also demanded an end to "oppressive (…)

  • Iran, Turkey discuss British sailors’ illegal crossing
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Thursday discussed over phone the recent illegal crossing of British sailors and marines into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf region.
    Fifteen British sailors and marines, who had entered Iranian territory, were arrested by Iranian coastal guards on Friday, March 23.
    According to the Press Bureau of the presidential office, the telephone conversation was on an initiative by the Turkish premier.
    During (…)

  • Arab Leaders: Peace Making Could Not Be Unilateral, Divisible
    29 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Flanked by international and regional non-Arab dignitaries representing the UN, EU, OIC, NAM and the leaders of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan as well as the foreign minister of Iran, the leaders of the 22-member League of Arab States on Wednesday re-launched in Riyadh their five-year old Arab Peace Initiative, determined to reactivate it with mechanisms and a follow-up diplomatic campaign that will again take it to the United Nations Security Council despite a U.S. veto, (…)

  • April 6 Sneak Attack By US Forces On Iran Planned
    27 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Operation Bite - April 6 Sneak Attack By US Forces On Iran Planned - Russian Military Sources Warn
    General Ivashov Calls For Emergency Session Of UN Security Council To Ward Off Looming US Aggression By Webster G. Tarpley 3-25-7 www.rense.com
    WASHINGTON DC — The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the (…)

  • Message on Iraqi oil: Invasion has backfired
    26 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Four years after the invasion of Iraq
    Amit Baruah
    The U.S. has all but lost the war in Iraq. Suicide bombings, sniper attacks, car blasts, and the downing of American helicopters have become commonplace. The worst sufferers are the ordinary Iraqis.
    ON MARCH 20, 2003, when the United States and its "coalition of the willing" began the bombing of Baghdad, President George W. Bush was supremely confident that his "experiment" in Iraq would produce a West Asian order tailored to American (…)

  • “Has Sen. Barbara Mikulski Lost Her Soul?”
    26 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Iraq, like Vietnam, is a no-win, no-end war.” - Ex-U.S. Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA), and also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.
    Baltimore, MD - If her administrative aide said one more time how much her boss, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), “cares about the troops,” I think I would have burst a blood vessel. On March 13, 2007, about 30 or so Peace activists met with a representative of her office. The senator, of course, was a no-show. I suspect that if it were the lobbyists from (…)