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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 Soon after the U.S. destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon's shore Feb. 28 to "preserve political stability", a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears. "Everyone feels there is a war coming," said Salman Ismael, a 22-year-old university student. "And now U.S. ships come to the waters of Lebanon. Israel wants to improve her army in the Middle East after its defeat in 2006, she wants the Arabs to be scared of her." Alistair Crooke, former Middle East advisor to EU representative Javier Solana, recalls that the last time a U.S. warship entered Lebanese waters was during the bloody civil war in 1983, on behalf of then president Amin Gemayel. "The arrival of the USS Cole in support of (Prime Minister Fouad Sinoira's ruling coalition) has really had a traumatic effect on people." Be first to comment this article
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 The George W. Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" -- 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop -- as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear programme. German officials have identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation.Be first to comment this article |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 The number of families living in extreme poverty has increased since Labour made its flagship pledge to halve child poverty this decade, according to figures highlighted by the Conservatives. Some 1.8 million households were living on less than 40% of the median average national income in 2005/06 - 400,000 more than the 1.4 million recorded in 1998/99 - according to statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions. The figures emerged as Chancellor Alistair Darling prepared to unveil a Budget which campaigners regard as his last chance to meet the target of halving child poverty by 2010.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai's much publicized remark last week about Gaza facing a "shoah" -- the Hebrew word for the Holocaust -- was widely assumed to be unpleasant hyperbole about the army's plans for an imminent full-scale invasion of the Strip. More significantly, however, his comment offers a disturbing indication of the Israeli army's longer-term strategy towards the Palestinians in the occupied territories. All these measures -- from the intensification of the siege to prevent electricity, fuel and medicines from reaching Gaza to the concentration of the population into even more confined spaces, as well as new ways of stepping up the violence inflicted on the Strip -- are thinly veiled excuses for targeting and punishing the civilian population.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 Top US commander Adm. William Fallon, whose views on Iran and other issues have been contrary to the Bush administration, has stepped down. "The current embarrassing situation and public perception of differences between my views and administration policy and the distraction this causes from the mission make this the right thing to do," Fallon writes in his letter of resignation Tuesday. According to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Fallon whose military command was in charge of Iraq and Afghanistan resigned in the wake of a magazine article that portrayed him as challenging George Bush on Iran policy.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 The Israeli occupation authority barred on Monday Massimo Toschi, the Italian minister for international cooperation and peace, from visiting Gaza to inspect the humanitarian condition there in the context of the
tight Israeli siege imposed on the Strip more than eight months ago. In a statement, the health ministry in Gaza said that the IOA blocked the Italian minister from entering Gaza in order to prevent the world from knowing
the ongoing Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinian people, pointing out that Toschi was scheduled to visit a number of Gaza hospitals and institutions.Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 |
 The Israeli electronic and print media on Saturday revealed that the bulk of the eight Israeli Yeshiva (Talmudic religious school) “students” killed or injured in an attack on the headquarters of the Jewish settlement movement in Jerusalem on Thursday were actually paramilitary soldiers. The Israeli media, especially those targeting foreign audiences, also ignored the fact that Merkaz Ha'rav, the ideological central nervous system of religious messianic Zionism, combines Talmudic studies with military training in its educational program. This is known in Hebrew as “Hesder Merkaz”. Even Yitzhak Rabin’s killer, Yigal Amir, is reportedly to have studied at the Merkaz Ha’rav.Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
 BERLIN - US soldiers abused Iraqis guarding the German embassy in Baghdad, according to a press report quoting a confidential report from the embassy. The weekly Der Spiegel, in its issue appearing Monday, says that ambassador Hanns Schumacher had told Berlin that three off-duty guards were arrested by US soldiers and ill-treated. One of them had been taken out of Baghdad and held for four months in a prison camp near the southern city of Basra, he alleged.Be first to comment this article |
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