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  • The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "Salvador" option by Michael Hirsh and John Barry
    Newsweek
    Updated: Jan. 14, 2005
    Jan. 8 - What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"-and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. "What everyone agrees is that we can’t just go on as we are," one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. "We have to find a way to take the offensive against the (…)

  • Ice Retreats in Arctic for 2nd Year; Some Fear Most of It Will Vanish
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle by Andrew Revkin For the second year in a row, the cloak of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean failed to grow to its normal winter expanse, scientists said yesterday. The finding led some climate experts to predict a record expansion of open water this summer.
    "We keep looking for the ice to recover, but it isn’t," said Mark C. Serreze, a senior scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which (…)

  • FBI Documents Raise New Questions about Extent of Surveillance by Jonathan S. Landay
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by Knight Ridder/commondreams
    WASHINGTON - An FBI counterterrorism unit monitored - and apparently infiltrated - a peace group in Pittsburgh that opposed the invasion of Iraq, according to internal agency documents released on Tuesday.
    The disclosure raised new questions about the extent to which federal authorities have been conducting surveillance operations against Americans since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
    Previous revelations include FBI (…)

  • Israeli Attack on Jericho Jail Sparks Uprising in Gaza and West Bank by Donald Macintyre
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the Independent / UK
    Six Palestinian prisoners, including a militant accused of the murder of an Israeli government minister in 2001, surrendered last night after a nine-hour armed siege that began when British monitors abandoned the jail where the men were being held.
    The siege had triggered a wave of protest attacks and abductions directed against foreigners across Gaza and the West Bank and there were heavy exchanges of fire outside the (…)

  • U.S. Military Airstrikes Significantly Increased in Iraq by Tom Lasseter
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by Knight Ridder
    BAGHDAD - American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here.
    A review of military data shows that daily bombing runs and jet-missile launches have increased by more than 50 percent in the past five months, compared with the same (…)

  • Latin America and Asia are Breaking Free of Washington’s Grip By NOAM CHOMSKY
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order"—Europe, North America and Asia—has continued to evolve.
    Every day Latin America, too, is becoming more independent. Now Asia and the Americas are strengthening their ties while the reigning superpower, the odd man out, consumes itself in misadventures in the Middle East.
    Regional integration in Asia and Latin (…)

  • Are US Troops Acting as Death Squads in Iraq?
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.
    Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue — five children, two men and four women. A freelance photographer later saw the bodies being buried in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad where the raid took place.
    The U.S. (…)

  • Déjà en 2002... Attack Iran the Day Iraq War Ends, Demands Israel
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, November 5, 2002 in the Times/UK
    by Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas
    ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete.
    In an interview with The Times , Mr Sharon insisted that Tehran - one of the “axis of evil” powers identified by President Bush - should be put under pressure “the day after” action against Baghdad ends because of its role as a (…)

  • Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs againt Iran: This Way Lies Madness
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen M. Osborn
    March 14, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and (…)

  • Burst Oil Pipeline Causes ’Catastrophe’ in Alaska by Andrew Gumbel
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by the Independent / UK
    A burst pipeline in Alaska’s North Slope has caused the Arctic region’s worst oil spill, spreading more than 250,000 gallons of crude oil over an area used by caribou herds and prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration’s drive for more oil exploration there.
    The leak was first spotted by a British Petroleum worker 11 days ago, and was reported to have been plugged a few days later. Initial hopes (…)