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  • Ahmadinejad cancels U.N. Security Council visit
    24 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ahmadinejad cancels U.N. Security Council visit
    CNN – March 23, 2007
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
    Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N. Security Council before a vote, scheduled for Saturday, on sanctions against Iran.
    Iran, which contends the proposed sanctions are politically motivated, says it (…)

  • Iran’s military says Britons "confessed" entry
    24 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran’s military says Britons "confessed" entry By Fredrik Dahl
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s military said on Saturday British naval personnel seized in the Gulf confessed to entering its waters illegally, but Britain maintained they were detained inside Iraqi territory.
    Iranian forces captured 15 British sailors and marines on Friday at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which marks the southern stretch of Iraq’s border with Iran, sparking a diplomatic crisis at a time of increased (…)

  • Iran and the British Media
    24 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran and the British Media http://www.ukwatch.net/article/iran_and_the_british_media
    By Medialens
    Exclusive to ukwatch.net an interview on the British media’s coverage of the confrontation between Iran and the United States with David Edwards and David Cromwell, editors of Medialens
    The noises being made by the British and american governments are eerily reminiscent of the build up to the Iraq invasion. How has the media responded to this propaganda re-run?
    The US-UK governments and (…)

  • REAL PROGRESS in IRAQ!
    23 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to many Right wing pundits in the US and many "boots on the ground" officers, things are definately on the mend in Iraq.
    Yes, I noticed.
    Daily I.E.D.s, mortars,assassinations and suicide bombers. 3 hours avg. of electricity daily, for most provinces. Sewage lines a mess after 4 years of war!
    Oil pipelines regularly bombed, and black marketeers siphoning off over $5 billion a year for black market sales. Porn houses flourishing! Arms and drug smuggling up! Corrupt Iraqi (…)

  • Asia’s river systems face collapse
    23 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Asia’s river systems face collapse By Alan Boyd
    Water in the Indus River is so clouded that the native dolphin has in effect lost its eyesight and has to detect prey and other objects through sound waves.
    More than half of all the industrial waste and sewage in China flows into a single waterway, the Yangtze. And tributaries of the Ganges, one of Asia’s greatest cultural and religious treasures, are running dry because of the crippling burden of irrigation.
    Such has been the legacy of (…)

  • Russians out of Iran nuke site
    22 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russians out of Iran nuke site
    Associated Press – March 21, 2007
    Russia is pulling out its experts from the Iranian nuclear reactor site they were helping build, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. The move reflected a growing rift between Iran and Russia that could lead to harsher U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic for its refusal to stop uranium enrichment.
    The representatives — a European diplomat and a U.S. official — said a large number of Russian technicians, (…)

  • Iraq Border: Turkey keeps cross-border operation on hold
    22 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lale SARIIBRAMIOGLU (TZ)
    Turkey keeps cross-border operation on hold As the snow started melting in the mountainous border region in southeast Turkey, local media have reported that the Turkish military has reinforced its troop strength in the area with armored vehicles and tanks to deter any Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) infiltration into Turkey from northern Iraq.
    The reports were coupled with reports coming from northern Iraq that Turkish troops had taken up positions there (…)

  • America Calls For Foreign Mercenaries As War Enters 5th Year
    19 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    America Calls For Foreign Mercenaries As War Enters 5th Year
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    March 17, 2007
    As the United States war against the Muslim peoples of the World enters its 5th year this weekend, and as the American Defense Chief, Robert Gates, warns his countrymen that they will be involved in war for ‘decades to come’, the vast American war machine has now turned to Foreign Mercenaries to fill its vastly undermanned ranks.
    For many years the (…)

  • Israel, U.S. hold large-scale Nuke Terror Drill March 21st
    19 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JERUSALEM: Israel and the U.S. are conducting a large-scale missile defense exercise aimed at combining their systems, American and Israeli officials said Sunday, as both countries warn that Iran could obtain nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
    The operation, code-named "Juniper Cobra," is taking place in the Negev desert in southern Israel with thousands of American and Israeli troops. Both sides described the timing as routine, denying a direct connection to the Iran threat. (…)

  • Racist West IGNORES 4th anniversary of Iraq Invasion & 1 MILLION post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths
    18 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The 4th anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq – 1 MILLION post-invasion excess deaths later - has been marked by very modest demonstrations around the world in Western countries e.g. 300 in Melbourne, Australia; 300 in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1,200 in Barcelona, the radical heart of Spain. Yet 4 years ago - 1 MILLION excess deaths ago - MILLIONS (150,000 in Melbourne, Australia) demonstrated around the world against the impending invasion.
    For a picture of the demonstration in Melbourne that (…)