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  • 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 (…)

  • Presidential Daily Briefing
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    President’s Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2001 contained a two-page section entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
    President’s Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2002 - "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
    President’s Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2003 - "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
    President’s Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2004 - "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
    President’s Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2005 - "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • The "War" That Isn’t
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAR
    Bush and the Congress call it a war, don’t they?...but in war aren’t we supposed to be fighting a uniformed foe? The only uniforms I see in Iraq are Police and Security Forces, and "most" of the time we don’t fight them,even if they do take the occasional pot shot at us when we’re not looking, and/or spill the beans to various opposition forces about US positions and plans.
    Just who ARE we fighting? What are "Insurgents"?, rag-tag, barefooted teens with Kalichnikovs?, angry young (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • SOA Watch Staffperson Incarcerated for Three Days by Capitol Police and the Department of Homeland Security
    29 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This past weekend, Hendrik Voss, a volunteer in the SOA Watch national office and an organizer in the struggle to close the School of the Americas, was being detained on an order from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He was held for three days in DC’s Central Cellblock, the DC Jail and at a Homeland Security Detention Center in Northern Virginia.
    Due to swift and successful organizing, solidarity, and movement contacts, Hendrik was released from custody on Monday evening. Many (…)

  • Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
    29 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vicky Short
    Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq.
    Writing in El Pais on the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Garzón stated, “Today, March 20, marks four years since the formal start of the war on Iraq. Instigated by the United States and Great Britain, and supported by Spain among other countries, one of the most sordid and (…)

  • Maurice Papon’s Cynicism and Death
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maurice Ulrich
    Dead at the age of 96 years on Saturday [February 10, 2007], the former minister never admitted his role in the imprisonment of 1645 Jews in concentration camps, as he never showed any regret for anything he did.
    There are some silences which speak volumes. Yesterday, a day after Maurice Papon’s death, the only two reported political reactions were those from Marie-George Buffet and François Hollande. The old man, who died at Pontault –Combault (Seine-et-Marne) at the (…)

  • 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 (…)