The tag 'Iraq' is associated with 90 posts.

Cindy Sheehan in Egypt for Islamists

by Mag­gie Michae­lAP CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Anti-war activist Cindy Shee­han joined a protest Wednes­day seek­ing the sup­port of Egypt’s first lady in end­ing a mil­i­tary trial of mem­bers of the country’s largest Islamic orga­ni­za­tion. Under the watch­ful eyes of dozens of black-clad and hel­meted anti-riot police, some 50 heav­ily veiled wives and chil­dren of [...]

Mystery Deepens Over WMD Documents

by John Gold­stein THE NEW YORK SUN How the clas­si­fied mil­i­tary doc­u­ments from Iraq, which named the coor­di­nates of where the Army sus­pected weapons of mass destruc­tion to be hid­den, ended up in an Ara­bic translator’s apart­ment on Hoyt Street in Brook­lyn, is clear. Not likely to be known any­time soon is what, if any­thing, the army [...]

Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plans

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 [...]

Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam’s WMD’s

by John Lof­tusFrontPageMagazine.com Finally, there are some defin­i­tive answers to the mys­tery of the miss­ing WMD. Civil­ian vol­un­teers, mostly retired intel­li­gence offi­cers belong­ing to the non-partisan IntelligenceSummit.org, have been por­ing over the secret archives cap­tured from Sad­dam Hus­sein. The inescapable con­clu­sion is this: Sad­dam really did have WMD after all, but not in the way [...]

State Dept. official’s brother has Blackwater ties

The inspec­tor gen­eral says he will step aside from any future probe of the secu­rity con­trac­tor because his sib­ling is a mem­ber of its advi­sory board. by Paul Richter­Los Ange­les Times WASHINGTON — The State Department’s inter­nal watch­dog, accused of politi­ciz­ing his office, told a con­gres­sional panel Wednes­day that he will step aside from any future probe [...]

The Cancer From Within

by David Antoon TruthDig “I will sup­port and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States against all ene­mies, for­eign and domes­tic. ...” —Oath of Office “Our mis­sion is to edu­cate, train, and inspire men and women to become offi­cers of char­ac­ter moti­vated to lead the United States Air Force in ser­vice to our nation.” —Air [...]

Banned Islamicist Expert’s Lecture on ‘Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East’

Ger­man aca­d­e­mic, Dr. Matthias Kuentzel’s, lec­ture, given to an audi­ence of well over one hun­dred peo­ple tonight at Leeds Uni­ver­sity. Accord­ing to the organ­is­ers it met with a great deal of acclaim and evoked con­cern about the espousal by much of the British Left of Islamic fas­cist ten­den­cies — the legacy of Hitler and Nazism [...]

Strategies of Attrition (IV)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I), Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).] BERLIN/URUMQI/MUNICH/BEIJING(Own report) — Ger­man for­eign pol­icy mak­ers, are upping their polit­i­cal pres­sure on Bei­jing, and hold­ing talks with a Chi­nese sep­a­ratist. As the Munich based “World Uyghur Con­gress (WUC)” announced, its pres­i­dent, Rebiya Kadeer will also be received by the [...]

Malta ‘is Blackwater’s operational base’ – MEP report

by Noel Gri­maThe [Malta] Inde­pen­dent Online A Euro­pean Par­lia­ment work­ing doc­u­ment drawn up by Gio­vanni Clau­dio Fava has claimed “Malta is the oper­a­tional base of Black­wa­ter, the organ­iser of pri­vate mil­i­tary mili­tia which are increas­ingly tak­ing on more and more roles which used to be under­taken by US forces in Iraq and else­where”. Amer­i­can left-wing [...]

Univ. of Cal. Backs Down from ‘No Jews Allowed’ Program

IsraelNN.com A U.S. State Department-funded Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia pro­gram which pro­vides busi­ness train­ing for res­i­dents of the Mid­dle East specif­i­cally excluded Israeli Jews — until Jew­ish jour­nal­ists protested. The Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia has now altered the program’s eli­gi­bil­ity require­ment that ini­tially barred Israeli Jews. The turn­around in pol­icy also may have saved the State Department, [...]

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