Sep 29, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Iran declared its refusal Tuesday to discuss its nuclear program -- including the disclosure of a second nuclear enrichment plant -- when it sits down at the negotiating table Thursday with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, Reuters reported. A top Iranian official told the news agency that his ...
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PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - Officials say two suspected U.S. missile strikes in northwest Pakistan have killed 13 militants. The first attack Tuesday killed six militants and wounded six others in South Waziristan. Three intelligence officials and one government official said a second missile later Tuesday hit a house owned by a known Afghan militant in North Waziristan. ...
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Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, now joined by Libya... Wahington Times: Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez are strengthening their relationship and finding common ground as two radical former military men who both want to challenge the "imperialism" of wealthy nations and aspire to speak for many poor nations. The Libyan and Venezuelan leaders were expected to meet one on one ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The head of Iran's Atomic Energy organization says that the U.N. nuclear watchdog will soon be told when it can conduct inspections of a newly revealed facility. Ali Akbar Salehi told the English language state-owned Press TV early Monday that Iran would soon inform the International Atomic Energy Agency about when it ...
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New York Times: WASHINGTON — When President Obama stood last week with the leaders of Britain and France to denounce Iran’s construction of a secret nuclear plant, the Western powers all appeared to be on the same page. Behind their show of unity about Iran’s clandestine efforts to manufacture nuclear fuel, however, is a continuing debate among ...
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Times Online: Gordon Brown will attempt today to reassure the voters of Middle England by promising new measures to tackle problem families, antisocial behaviour and drunkenness. In the most important speech of his career, the Prime Minister will say that he will not let the lives of the law-abiding majority to be ruined by the behaviour of ...
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PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez are strengthening their relationship and finding common ground as two radical former military men who both want to challenge the "imperialism" of wealthy nations and aspire to speak for many poor nations. The Libyan and Venezuelan leaders were expected to meet one-on-one on Monday, although no public events ...
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Telegraph: Andrew Marr, the BBC’s main political presenter, shocked the Prime Minister during a live television interview on the opening day of Labour’s annual conference in Brighton by asking whether he took pills to help him “get through". Mr Brown’s aides last night said they were amazed that despite issuing denials to an internet rumour in recent ...
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CAIRO (AP) - Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday seized upon President Barack Obama's failure to bring about a freeze in Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and called him a "fraud" in a new audio message. Ayman al-Zawahri's 28-minute audio message was mainly a eulogy for slain Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, but he also ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran tested its longest-range missiles Monday, capping two days of war games meant to show the country is ready for any military threat at a time when it is under intense international pressure to fully disclose its nuclear activities. State television said the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's missile program, successfully ...
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TEHRAN (AP) - Iran said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles during military drills Sunday by the elite Revolutionary Guard, a show of force days after the U.S. warned Tehran over a newly revealed underground nuclear facility it was secretly constructing. Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said Iran also tested a multiple ...
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ZURICH (AP) - Director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police for possible extradition to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, authorities said Sunday. Polanski was flying in to receive an honorary award at the Zurich Film Festival when he was apprehended Saturday at the airport, the Swiss Justice Ministry ...
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Wake up call: Russia has been conducting a proxy war on the United States through iran, North Korea, Venezuela and others for years, and yet no one speaks of it, even as they prepare to choke us with a new nuclear collar they are building around our throat. The Joker, as usual, responds to ...
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Washington Post: KABUL -- The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement's money supply. Obama administration officials say the single largest source of cash for the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. and its five allies trying to stop Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program plan to tell Tehran in a key meeting on Thursday that it must provide "unfettered access" to its previously secret Qom enrichment facility within weeks, a senior administration official says. The allies—the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia—also ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is offering Iran "a serious, meaningful dialogue" over its disputed nuclear program, while warning Tehran of grave consequences from a united global front. "Iran's leaders must now choose—they can live up to their responsibilities and achieve integration with the community of nations. Or they will face increased pressure and isolation, ...
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PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Iran is helping to detect uranium deposits in Venezuela and initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant, President Hugo Chavez's government said Friday. Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran has been assisting Venezuela with geophysical survey flights and geochemical analysis of the deposits, and that evaluations "indicate the existence of uranium in western parts ...
Continue ReadingSep 25, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Independent: The crisis in relations with Iran escalated ominously yesterday after the leaders of the US, Britain and France accused the regime in Tehran of operating a secret uranium enrichment facility buried deep in a mountain bunker near the ancient religious city of Qom. Barack Obama called Iran's activity "a direct challenge" to the international ...
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Remember the Jihad warning against Germany? Telegraph: Investigators have discovered a "Jihadi village" of white German al-Qaeda insurgents, including Muslim converts, in Pakistan's tribal areas close to the Afghan border. The village, in Taliban-controlled Waziristan, is run by the notorious al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which plots raids on Nato forces in Afghanistan. A recruitment video presents life ...
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