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  • LARRY FRANKLIN/Michael Ledeen/Israeli SPY CASE Blown Wide Open by NIGERGATE Prosecutor
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    [Alexandria, VA] Reuters reported that US Attorney Paul McNulty, whose grand jury has been investigating Israeli espionage against the US, involving Bush Administration figures, will announce this afternoon new charges against Defense Department analyst Larry Franklin. Franklin had already been accused of illegally disclosing classified defense information to Israeli lobbyists.
    For the first time, Reuters says, McNulty will announce charges against two former employees of the Israel (…)

  • GSFP goes to Crawford to stop the killing
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush said speaking about the dreadful loss of life in Iraq in August: (08/03/05): "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." In reaction to these two assinine and hurtful statements, members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) are going to George’s vacation home in Crawford, Tx this Saturday, August 6th at 11:00 am to confront him on these two statements. 1) We want (…)

  • What business is it of Chirac?
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amira Hass
    A European journalist was asked to write about the wall being built around Anata, which will transform it into an enclosed ghetto within Jerusalem. Sorry, she said, the paper’s editors are only interested in the disengagement. It has it all: upbeat news, lots of action, Jews cursing Jews, Jews beating up Jews. We’re fed up with the repetitious details of the wall’s damages.
    The other side of that coin is the affection with which Ariel Sharon was welcomed in France last (…)

  • ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER SMIRK
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SMIRK
    By Peter Fredson
    August 4, 2005
    He got his way. As usual. The petulant, arrogant, disaster of a President did an end-run around the advice of both friends and enemies. He appointed John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Assembly.
    Even his friends told him that Bolton was petulant, arrogant, occasionally vicious, vindictive, scheming and dogmatic. None of that would seem to make him a “diplomat.”
    We know that Bolton would like the U.N. to (…)

  • Preempting Cheney
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whatever plans Dick Cheney and his neo-conservatives may have had to conjure up a nuclear threat from Iran as "justification" for military action have been sharply undercut by some timely leaks to the Washington Post. In a redux of President George W. Bush’s spin on the "grave and growing" danger from Iraq, Cheney protégé and newly appointed U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is on record warning that Iranian "deception" must not be allowed to continue much longer: "It will be too late. Iran will (…)

  • Iran 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb-U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
    The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, (…)

  • Polish PM on Iraq "It failed totally...Many mistakes, major mistakes, have been committed."
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TALLBERG, Sweden - Poland’s prime minister said Monday that postwar nation-building efforts in Iraq have "failed totally," but expressed hope that the country’s different religious groups can work together to build an independent nation.
    Prime Minister Marek Belka, whose country has been a close U.S. ally since the invasion of Iraq, said the United States and its allies made a mistake by basing its postwar plan for Iraq on the same model used for Germany after World War II.
    "It failed (…)

  • Ohio-Based Battalion Loses 14 More Marines
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BROOK PARK, Ohio (AP) - The 14 Marines killed in Iraq on Wednesday by a roadside bomb were members of the same Ohio-based battalion that lost six Marines two days earlier, a Marine Corps spokesman said.
    The Marines were members of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines based in this Cleveland suburb, according to Gunnery Sgt. Brad R. Lauer, public affairs chief with the unit.
    The local unit to which the 14 Marines were assigned wasn’t disclosed. The battalion has units in Brook Park, which lost (…)

  • Market Fundamentalists Lose in Iran (For Now)
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The prevailing spin on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rise to Iran’s presidency wrongly suggests that a win for his rivals could have ushered a dawn of enlightenment. The mainstream press has largely described Iran’s competing factions as little more than vote-rigging theocrats arrayed against tolerant modernizers. In particular, strong support for Ahmadinejad among the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guard corps has earned him a reputation as a Muslim fanatic. But there is a quite modern side to his (…)

  • 14 US troops killed
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq bomb attack kills 14 marines
    Pacifying western Iraq is a priority for US-led forces
    Fourteen marines and their civilian translator have been killed in a roadside bombing in north-western Iraq, the US military says.
    It is one of the deadliest attacks on US forces since the 2003 invasion.
    It happened near the city of Haditha, in the same area as an incident on Monday in which six US marines were killed by hostile fire, the army said.
    The city is near the Syrian border in an area (…)