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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
 The man expected to be the next British prime minister, Gordon Brown, is appointing the United Kingdom's former ambassador to Israel, Simon McDonald as his chief foreign policy adviser. Political sources in Jerusalem were equally jubilant about the appointment. "It is a signal that Britain will continue its positive policy toward Israel," they said. McDonald, 46, served as the U.K. ambassador to Tel Aviv from 2003 to 2006. He had been considered one of the most influential foreign envoys posted to Israel, and one well-connected to Israeli decision-makers. Be first to comment this article
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
 The Bush administration faced pressure on Tuesday to overhaul how it brings foreign terrorism suspects to trial after the surprise dismissal of war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. With only days to appeal, the White House said it disagreed with the separate rulings by U.S. military judges on Monday and denied it had suffered another setback after being forced by the Supreme Court to change the system just last year. "We don't agree with the ruling," White House spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters in Prague, where President George W. Bush was meeting with leaders of the Czech Republic.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
 As the siege of the Nahr al-Barad refugee camp in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli enters its third week, the last piece of this strange puzzle has finally been put in place. For completing the jigsaw of Tripoli, we have no less than the Bush administration itself to thank, along with the three stooges of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. It was a real mystery initially. The Salafis of Fatah al-Islam were first brought into Lebanon (or released from their prisons) under the auspices of the Siniora government and the money of Saad Hariri.Be first to comment this article |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
 Gordon Brown moved to demonstrate that he would be at least as tough on terrorism as Tony Blair yesterday as he promised sweeping new powers to question and detain suspects. He added: "We will have to consider further legislation to do so. I think that is where the public will need to recognise that we have got a new security problem." The Prime Minister-in-waiting caused irritation at the Home Office and in Downing Street by taking a grip on government anti-terror policy ahead of an announcement by John Reid, the Home Secretary, on Thursday.Be first to comment this article |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
 Tony Blair's prime ministership began as a paradox and ended as a tragedy. Electorally, he has been the most successful leader in Labour's history, and one of the two most successful party leaders since the Second World War. Labour's 1997 majority was its biggest ever, and the big gest any party had won since 1935. "New, new, new," he exclaimed with apparent rapture, soon after crossing the threshold of 10 Downing Street. "Everything is new." Old beliefs, old conflicts and old contradictions would dissolve in the sunshine of global novelty.Be first to comment this article |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
 Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints -- more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers, youthful but grim, tensely watching every movement, fingers on the trigger. Fortunately for me, travelling in a South African embassy vehicle with official documents and escort, the delays were brief. Sweeping past the lines of Palestinians on foot or in taxis was like a view of the silent, depressed pass- office queues of South Africa’s past.Comments (1) |
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Sunday, 27 May 2007 |
 President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs. Under the plan, pressure will be brought to bear on the Iranian economy by manipulating the country's currency and international financial transactions.
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
 Nationalist Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bid to unite Sunnis and Shiites on the basis of a common demand for withdrawal of U.S. occupation forces,
reported last weekend by the Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan, seems likely
to get a positive response from Sunni armed resistance. An account given Pentagon officials by a military officer recently returned from Iraq suggests that Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province, who have generally reflected the views of the Sunni armed resistance there, are open to working with Sadr.Be first to comment this article |
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