by Alan FeuerNYT
Manhattan on a Friday afternoon: downtown along the East River, where the sun was flashing brightly and a lazy weekend called. Women strolled through the South Street Seaport in their summer dresses; tourists went on round-the-island helicopter tours. It was close enough to Wall Street to almost feel the brokers getting ready to [...]
Abu Dhabi’s stake in American Micro Devices; Holocaust denial in Palestine and official Egyptian government publications; Nazi ideology Mohammed Atta.
Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11
by Damien McElroy
THE TELEGRAPH
China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nations with intelligence on Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.
Concern over Tehran’s secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained [...]
Behind-the-scenes machinations of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia—the former Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Recorded January 27, 2008
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Fleshing out the growing For The Record archives about Islamic fascism, this program sets forth the explicitly Nazi origins of the virulent anti-Semitism dominating much of the Islamic world. Although the Koran provides a foundation for Muslim anti-Semitism, the notion of Jews as a world dominating, sinister [...]
by Demetri Sevastopulo in WashingtonFINANCIAL TIMES
The senior US intelligence official on Tuesday stressed that a recent report on Iran had concluded that Tehran had halted only one part of its alleged nuclear weapons programme.
Admiral Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence, said the November national intelligence estimate had concluded that Tehran had ceased only efforts to [...]
by Tim Shipman, Philip Sherwell and Carolynne Wheeler
THE TELEGRAPH
British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran.
Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plansAnalysts believe that Iranian staff, knowing their phones were tapped, deliberately gave [...]
Recorded October 28, 2007
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Continuing analysis from FTR#550, this program looks at the use of native, “unrepresented” peoples by political elements that don’t appear to be genuinely concerned with the welfare of those population groups. Specifically, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Buddhists, Mongolian Buddhists, Islamists and Pan-Turkists working [...]
Iran, Russia and Venezuela Feel the Benefits
By Steven MufsonWASHINGTON POST
High oil prices are fueling one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Oil consumers are paying $4 billion to $5 billion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pumping more than $2 trillion into the coffers of oil [...]