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  • Haaretz "The 10 events that shaped the Israeli-Jewish world in 2005"
  • Jan 1, 2006 Arab News  Rosen, Weissman, AIPAC
  • Washington Post Bush spying, NSA, DIA...
  • U.S./ Bush planning Mar 2006 Iran attack? WorldNetDaily Aljazeera "U.S.’s Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss asked Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to support the air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2006 ... Over the past few weeks, DDP says, Washington contacted the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman and Pakistan seeking the same kind of cooperation." and Common Dreams watch for Bush bogus Iran / Al Queda links, and study relations between Saudi Arabia and Iraq Shiites.
  • Jan 3, 2006 Truthseeker, Syria, Lebanon, Jacobs Engineering, airbase in northern Lebanon watch? reprinted from Wayne Madsen and 7iwarforum search Aoun.
  • MSNBC "Why did some administration officials—including Vice President Dick Cheney—still lend credit to disputed reports of an April 2001 Prague meeting between 9/11 leader Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi spy even after the 9/11 Commission concluded the encounter probably didn't occur?"
  • Jan 4, 2006 UPI (UPI is owned by Sung Myung Moon) Iran War? article
  • Common Dreams
  • Pro Bush, Christian right wing news (war mongering): World Peace Herald, UPI, backed by Sung Myung Moon.  Search net for nuclear disarmament sites and support their efforts.
  • Jan 5, 2006 Kurdmedia Iraq War was for Israel?  and.. San Francisco Chronicle  Dirty tricks leak by West? Leaked docs.
  • Jan 10, 2006  Common Dreams "The Dangerous Implications of the Hariri Assassination and the U.S. Response" (Feb 2005 article)  and more from the main stream press Daily Star Lebanon.
  • Palestine Chronicle: James Petras: AIPAC on Trial, and see also Conference of the Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. AIPAC, Franklin, Rosen, Weissman case is about a war with Iran....beginning with the war in Iraq.
  • Jan 11, 2006  Fitzgerald quietly building a case against Rove.  Scoop, Jason Leopold
  • Backfilling article about Atta, Prague meetings, Cheney deception. (2002)  Prague Daily Monitor
  • Jan 13, 2006  NPR  "Iran removed seals placed by U.N. inspectors at a uranium enrichment research center. The United Nations wanted Iran to freeze its nuclear program" ....
  • Monday Morning  "Israel without Sharon Seismic shift in the political landscape"  and "Iraq: An unstoppable effusion of blood"  =(more at NewsFollowUp.com)
  • Kurdish Media "Kurdish- American ties thrive remarkably ....
  • Jan 15, 2006  Pentagon surveillance tapes showing 9/11 events are being withheld from the public because of 'Moussaoui' trial. see Flight77.info
  • Jerusalem Post  "...IAF trained for Iran attack...."the elite 69 strategic F-15 I squadron" had been equipped with weapons that will be tested in combat for the first time, and that two missile submarines were on standby: one in the Persian Gulf and the second in Haifa Bay. ....Iran's nuclear facilities.....are widely dispersed at some 40 underground sites throughout Iran ....Only if the Americans decide to do it, then that option is possible," Pedatzur said last week. Pedatzur added that the day Iran gets a nuclear weapon, Israel will have no choice but to abandon its policy of nuclear ambiguity.
  • Financial Times  "Hamid-Reza Asefi, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, on Sunday said Tehran’s resumption of nuclear research was “irreversible”.  The declaration came despite an emergency meeting in London on Monday of diplomats from the European Union, US, China and Russia to discuss action against Tehran   NFU
  • Jan 17, 2006 Antiwar.com "World War IV, A Realistic Scenario"  "Ferguson's grand mosaic of the Great War's genesis, which has to do with such macro-economic and geopolitical mega-concepts as the growing importance of petroleum, the inevitable ebb and flow of demographics, and the ideological fervor of "Islamism." NFU
  • Demand that the Pentagon 9/11 tapes be released to the public.  They will show what really flew into the Pentagon that day.   Flight77.info  NFU
  • Jan 19, 2006
  • From the Wilderness, preview of 2006, Bush meltdown or will Alito protect him in 2007?  and Consortium News - Presidential power, whimpy 'left.  NFU
  • BBC  Israel and India it is widely believed have nuclear weapons but draw no criticism of U.S.  NFU
  • Jan 20, 2006
  • Berkeley Daily Planet.  War on Iran may be the only way for Bush to change the subject from Iraq, Katrina, environment...???  NewsFollowUp.com (Iran)
  • CBS Franklin gets 12 yrs. 3 of 6 felony counts dropped as part plea deal
  • Goldseek  dictatorial Bushspeak "“The Executive Branch shall construe Title X in Division A of the Act, relating to detainees, in a manner consistent with the Constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and as Commander-in-Chief and consistent with the Constitutional limitations on the judicial power, which will assist in achieving the shared objective of the Congress and the President, enhanced in Title X, of protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks.” Signing Statement that marginalizes Congress.  NFU
  • Jan 22, 2006 Palestine Chronicle Franklin sentenced to 12 years.
  • Turkish Press "The operation launched against the terrorist organization PKK in eastern province of Tunceli and rural parts of southeastern Diyarbakir is backed by the helicopters and it still continues. Totally 350 PKK terrorists have been encircled in the operation."
  • Franklin sentenced to 12 years after pleading guilty
  • Jan 23, 2006 First Amendment Center "Libby's lawyers seek to subpoena reporters' notes.....Libby's trial strategy will be identifying other government officials who knew Plame was a CIA operative and told reporters about it. NFU
  • see Flight77.info, demand release of Pentagon 9/11 surveillance tapes.
  • Scoop.co.nz  "January 23 letter to Libby's defense team states, "we (Fitzgerald) advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of the Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system."
  • Jan 25, 2006 IRIN News  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.  Lebanon timeline 2000-2005 NFU
  • Zaman Online  Too complex a scenario for Cheney to attack Iran before the U.S. Elections?
  • Jews Against Zionism "AIPAC: A Danger For Jews; Orthodox Jews Will Assemble to Protest Against AIPAC.."
  • Jan 27, 2006
  • CCR four men suing the U.S. government for unlawful imprisonment and abuse in the wake of the September 11 attacks" Turkmen v. Ashcroft ..Will help focus attention on Bush warrantless spying on Americans  NFU
  • Asia Times  "Turkey warms to talk, not action, in Iraq...but ...Redep Tayyip Erdogan said that the US was seriously considering striking Iran some time in 2006, and he asked the Turks to share intelligence on Iran.  More important, from a Turkish point of view, Goss also told Ankara that if it cooperated, the US would "green light" a Turkish cross-border attack on the People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), now known as the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress. The PKK has a 10,000-strong militia in the mountains of northern Iraq"
  • Jan 29, 2006
  • San Francisco Chronicle, Libby, Reporters, smoke screen.
  • Palestine Chronicle, "The Tyranny of Israel Over America, ...spies, moles and collaborators working for a foreign governmnet in the U.S. for over 30 years with impunity."  NFU
  • Kurdish Media "striking similarities between Scottish and Kurdish histories.  ...clan loyalty or Kurdish people loyalty?
  • Jan 30, 2006
  • Asia Times "A High Risk Game of Nuclear Chicken" search terms: thinking the unthinkable, preemptive nuclear bombardment of Iran, neo-con control, Ahmadinejad, Olmert, Security Council, Natanz, all options are on the table, yellowcake, uranium hexafloride, enrichment, U-235, weapons grade nuclear fuel, USEC, US Enrichment Corporation, National Council of Resistance of Iran, the NCRI is a political wing of the People's Mujahideen of Iran, Bush=Ahmadinejad, ridee out sanctions, Will Iran call Bush's bluff.  by F. William Engdahl.NFU
  • Can Bush be stopped from launching a nuclear attack against Iran?
  • Feb 1, 2006  DailyDeLay "Blunt=Boehner=DeLay....Both Blunt and Boehner have political action committees that employ Jim Ellis, who was indicted along with DeLay. Both PACs have retained Alexander Strategy Group, whose partners include former Abramoff and DeLay associates".
  • search terms: Abramoff, Judith Miller, Israel  NFU
  • Feb 3, 2006 New York Times  Federal agents.... are trying to determine whether reporters (David S. Cloud and Steven R. Weisman) received national security information (from AIPAC) intended to influence their reporting on the Middle East.
  • Asia Times, "Spying, Lying and Saying No...."...unchecked presidential power? James Risen.
  • AP Libby trial date set for January 2007, Republicans like it.
  • Feb 4, 2006 SSCI report held up on Feith report, Aljazeera .."Feith’s access to top-secret information can likely implicate other senior officials in the BUSH Administration, namely DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD" NFU
  • CNN " Congressman Kurt Weldon subpoenaed for 9/11 trial "The defense is seeking Weldon's testimony to try and show that the government knew more about the September 11, 2001, attacks than Moussaoui did"  NFU
  • Thank Rep. Maxine Waters for speaking out: .... Bush Guilty of Impeachable Offenses NFU
  • Feb 5, 2006  Free Internet Press "The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case alleged that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame, according to court records released yesterday."  NFU
  • NYTimes 2006 story about June 2003 Cheney conversations with Libby about Plame ID, Tatel  and file NFU
  • Feb 6, 2006  BBC "Iran said it would press ahead with full-scale uranium enrichment despite the UN's nuclear watchdog voting to report Tehran to the Security Council.....However, it said it was willing to discuss Moscow's proposal to shift large-scale enrichment operations to Russia in an effort to soothe any fears that it planned to make nuclear weapons" NFU
  • Phase II of SSCI report held up by Pentagon report on Feith, Aljazeera
  • Feb 7, 2006 Scoop, Truthout, Plamegate email evidence destruction, NFU Leakgate
  • Palestine Chronicle  "In 1989 seven individual Americans sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to require AIPAC to publish details of its income and expenditures  NFU Leakgate
  • Feb 8, 2006  " Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence....A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.." NYTimes
  • Feb 9, 2006 PR  "A group of distinguished experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. NFU
  • Feb 10, 2006 Scoop Cheney spearheaded effort to discredit Wilson and detailed aides to dig up dirt on Madeline Albright in March of 2003.  Wilson knew war was about redrawing Mideast map, not terrorism.
  • Mail & Guardian "Libby claims Cheney approved classified leaks....Libby also argued that Cheney authorised him to release details of the classified National Intelligence Estimate." NFU SDFG
  • Feb 12, 2006 "allegations that the Vice President may have authorized former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to leak classified information in a time of war for political gain.."
  • Feb 13, 2006 Scoop "Now it cannot be that Israeli officials were at one and the same time "lukewarm about the war" yet busy shuttling back and forth to encourage Wolfowitz's evident eagerness for that same war. From all that we know regarding Wolfowitz and his ideological associates" NFU Iran
  • Consortium News "the politicization of intelligence has been a goal of neoconservative operatives for three decades. They have long understood the value of turning the principle of objective analysis on its head: NFU
  • Feb 15, 2006 IMC Chiapas, the Danish cartoons just part of neo-con setup for Iran attack.  Watch for world awareness and reaction to Iranian Oil Bourse, (see Global Research and VHeadline) the first international oil exchange since 1945 using currencies other than the dollar.  Bush/Cheney will do anything to stop this.  If Bush / Israel attack, will Iran will shut down the Straits of Hormuz causing a worldwide crisis and $100 a barrel oil.  and see Dawn Islamabad.  NFU
  • Red Nova  Atta identified 13 times before 9/11.... "Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the unit - code-named "Able Danger" - also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole....but the commander was not notified....NFU
  • Feb 17, 2006  Bloomberg  "Libby Request for Reporter Notes Should Be Dismissed, U.S. Says ...Fitzgerald....Requiring the production of the additional materials sought by defendant would unreasonably encroach on legitimate interests of national security, grand jury secrecy and executive privilege.'' Walton will address the issues on Feb 24th.  NFU
  • Payvand's Iran News: Attacking Iran and China / Iran Oil deals....before sanctions are placed on Iran. Attacking Iran file  NFU
  • Scoop.co.nz  "January 23 letter to Libby's defense team states, "we (Fitzgerald) advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of the Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system." Gonzales is withholding some...other were deleted.  NFU
  • New York Times   .." Iran would allow the resumption of spot international inspections of its nuclear facilities if it could continue limited uranium enrichment.  But the offer was immediately dismissed by a senior American official..." NFU
  • Feb 20, 2006  Khaleej Times  "Mohamed ElBaradei, has warned in quiet diplomacy that it will be hard to strike a compromise in the mounting crisis unless Iran can conduct limited fuel work" NFU
  • Scoop  Fitsgerald is focusing on Cheney,  his close aids and the NSC.  Joh Hannah is a cooperation witness.  Also a focus on Robert Joseph (responsible for '16 words' in SOTU)..was warned by Allen Foley to not use them.  NFU
  • Feb 23, 2006  AP  Moussaoui's lawyers had subpoenaed Rep. Curt Weldon .... to testify for Moussaoui's defense, but Weldon asked the court to quash the subpoena. Declaring he didn't want to be used by a "thug" like Moussaoui, Weldon claimed congressional immunity from the subpoena.  NFU
  • Free Internet Press "engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame..." NFU
  • Feb 24, 2006  Common Dreams  "How Neo-Cons Sabotaged Iran's Help on al Qaeda" ...""The Iranians had real contacts with important players in Afghanistan and were prepared to use their influence in constructive ways in coordination with the United States," recalls Flynt Leverett, then senior director for Middle East affairs in the National Security Council (NSC), in an interview with IPS."....all Iranian help with Norther Alliance nixed...  NFU
  • Huffington Post Libby smokescreen: trying to dispute the following: "The clear authorization for Fitzgerald's appointment comes from Sections 510 and 515. Section 510..."  NFU
  • New York Times  Judge Walton let Libby have his 2003 notes but no access to presidential briefs.  ..."if he agreed to order the intelligence briefs made available to Mr. Libby, the result would be months of arguments over executive privilege and relevancy that "would derail the case."  NFU
  • Feb 26, 2006 USA "Moscow and Tehran had agreed in principle to set up a joint uranium enrichment venture.....Moscow would insist on resolving the Iranian nuclear dispute within the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency...NFU
  • Palestine Chronicle  "Secretary Rice might want to consider meeting Arab and Muslim lobbies in Washington along with AIPAC, especially as Muslims and Arabs are the majority in the Middle East"..NFU
  • Feb 27, 2006  Scoop  Frederick Fleitz and Robert Joseph, "...played an active role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson....they have been cooperating with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's ...have been removed from their jobs...." retribution...? NFU
  • News From Bangladesh Yamin Zakaria (IIOP) London, UK  "...The nuclear crisis with Iran is always looming to escalate even though Iran has not violated the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) treaty. Clearly the crisis has been manufactured by the West as pretext to attack Iran and like Iraq’s WMD it is a lie."  NFU
  • Mar 1, 2006 Red Nova "..some ..reports ..assumed..the exchange will be euro-based and have suggested that this poses a threat to "the hegemony of the dollar" and is causing the US Administration much consternation....Asemipur says that no decision had been made about the denomination yet.  see Oil Bourse.orgNFU
  • Reuters "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he had advised the United States against attacking Iran, predicting that Tehran would react through its influence over Shi'ite Muslim communities in Arab countries in the Gulf.  
  • Mar 2, 2006 Times Herald "Just as "Able Danger" was uncovering startling links to al-Qaida in the United States and abroad in 2000, the data mining effort was suddenly ordered to cease operating that April. NFU
  • Payvand News  "Iran is promising to bail out the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, following the victory of the Islamic militant group Hamas in parliamentary elections a month ago. Israel, meanwhile, has expressed regret over a European Union decision to send emergency aid to the Palestinians.."  NFU
  • Mail & Guardian  "The world is now in the first stages of a multistep "end game" for global domination by the last remaining superpowers...energy wars have begun in earnest and will keep on going...."  NFU
  • Mar 4, 2006  Strategy Page (conservative) "March 3, 2006: Kurdish popular sentiment strongly favors an independent Kurdistan. In contrast to their followers, however, the leaders of both the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which have been acting in concert for some time now to run northern Iraq, are proceeding very cautiously.  NFU
  • Asia Times  "Former army captain James Yee, a West Point graduate and Muslim chaplain to 660 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, has written an absorbing autobiography detailing his September 2003 arrest for espionage and subsequent dismissal of all charges against him."  NFU
  • AFP   "..Iran has invited foreign companies to develop its offshore South Pars gas field....Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell, France's Total and Spanish firm Repsol would "soon" sign contracts to develop phases 11 and 13..."  NFU
  • Sun Sentinel  "...Turn Dubai into an international financial hub...Dubai International Financial Center....Morgan Stanley is moving much of its Middle East operations to the center. Global banks, including HSBC Holdings PLC and Standard Chartered PLC, are expanding regional operations there....It was just months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and Dubai's financial system was suspected of being a conduit for some of the funds behind the plot...go the extra mile to try to convince the world that the emirate is serious about playing by international rules and standards....see also Qatar and Bahrain.  NFU
  • Mar 5, 2006  Payvands Iran News   "IRNA-Former US National Security Advisor Gary Sick said in New York on Saturday that any US or Israel military attack on Iran is a blatant mistake ...Israel cannot attack Iran unless it is with the US' consent....Stressing that economic sanctions against Iran will inflict irreparable damage on the entire world, he expressed his belief that no country will break its economic ties with Iran."  NFU
  • Mar 6, 2006  Guardian "Bolton says nuclear plant can be 'taken out' ... but: Condoleezza Rice, said: "Nobody has said that we have to rush immediately to sanctions of some kind."  ...  and remember: 2003...Colin Powell, then US secretary of state, laid out evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which proved not to exist.....Some believe Iran has secret facilities that are buried so deep underground as to be impenetrable  NFU
  • Zaman "International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO, Turkey) released an “Iranian nuclear crisis” report, which deals with the possibility of a US attack on Iran... advised to be an “active mediator” to resolve the nuclear crisis between Iran and the West through diplomacy ....
  • Mar 7, 2006 Scoop CIA Leak Path: Cheney, Libby, Woodward NFU
  • Reuters "Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice President Dick Cheney" NFU
  • International Herald Tribune Moussaoui trial directly related to Flight 77 Pentagon 9/11 WTC attacks....suveillance tapes that show attack aircraft are being kept secret...are part of the 'evidence' in the trial. 
  • Mar 8, 2006 Cheney AIPAC transcript file  ..."The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences"  and see Dawn (Pakistan) NFU
  • Libby graymailing? AP
  • Mar 10, 2006 Reuters "Abramoff worked with top Republicans"....its all related....Abramoff to Conrad Burns..to Judith Miller.....to Libby, Cheney....etc  NFU
  • Tom Flocco "U.S. intelligence sources within the Special Operations Group (SOG) are reporting that National Security Agency (NSA) computers have been downloading financial and personal files of all American citizens as a result of upgrades to the Echelon satellite network and software program which is part of the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS)."  NFU
  • Mar 11, 2006 New York Times  "...A federal judge (Walton) ruled on Friday that I. Lewis Libby Jr. was entitled to review a limited amount of information from (PDB's).... highly classified intelligence documents in order to defend himself against charges ....Judge Walton told prosecutors to turn over a listing of the "general topics of the matters" involving intelligence ...should turn over only 46 days of those topic summaries. Mr. Libby's lawyers had initially requested the full copies of the President's Daily Briefs for nine months.  NFU
  • Scoop "The 48 Hour Media-blitz For War With Iran"  NFU
  • AP "Iran Threatens to Use Oil in Nuke Standoff  ...About 90 percent of the oil exported from the Gulf in recent years passed through the Strait of Hormuz."NFU
  • Mar 12, 2006 Outlook India   "Iran has built a secret underground emergency command centre in the capital Tehran as its leaders prepare for a confrontation with the West..." NFU
  • Center for Global Research Iran Oil Bourse not a hidden reason to attack Iraq, NFU
  • Mar 13, 2006 Aljazeera Ira Leading rabbis of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist group of ultra-Orthodox Jews who consider the existence of Israel an abomination, met with Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Iran's Vice President, the top-selling Yediot Aharonot reported.
  • IranMania  "... expediting efforts to establish an oil bourse by April. .... objective of replacing the US dollar with the euro in OPEC transactions will come one major step closer to reality. ...  The oil bourse, which will be established as envisaged in the Fourth Five-Year Plan (2005-2010), has received support from both the Parliament and the government in Iran. It will enable oil-rich Iran to regulate prices at home without having to follow other countries? dollar-pegged trading system..."  and see Iraq War.ru   NFU
  • Mar 14, 2006 Haaretz "Lawyers for former AIPAC officials (Rosen, Weissman) seek to subpoena Rice, others...included Elliot Abrams, deputy national security adviser; Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state; David Satterfield, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq; William Burns, U.S. ambassador to Russia; retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni; and Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA officer and current Mideast expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington"  NFU
  • Washington Post  "Vanity Fair is reporting that former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee says it is reasonable to assume former State Department official Richard L. Armitage is likely the source who revealed CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward."  NFU
  • Mar 15, 2006 Huffington Post "perfect storm might soon enable our terrorizing administration, its spineless congressional enablers, and the cheerbombers in AIPAC to aggress Iran, and perhaps even utilize deep penetration, bunker-buster mini-nukes to do it..." NFU
  • CASMII Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran  NFU
  • Mar 16, 2006 AFP Ireland, Yahoo "Jordan king warns against strike on Iran...Jordan's King Abdullah II warned that a strike on Iran would cause the region "to explode"
  • Asia Times "US$: Forget Iran, the problem's at home....By John Berthelsen ....The much greater threat to the US currency is the US current account deficit, which ballooned to 7% of gross domestic product"  NFU
  • Mar 17, 2006 World Crisis Radio / PR Web "Tarpley understands the current World Crisis as the bankruptcy of the Anglo-American empire, which its financier faction are trying to escape by a flight forward into an endless war of plunder -- enabled by 9/11, the invention of their own false-flag terrorist networks. Tarpley has a vital message for all people of good will: the only hope to stop the war machine is to face the truth and blow open the 9/11 terror fraud, which provides the war party with their only demagogic basis. NFU
  • The Street.com reports that Platt's Commodities reports that Iran has delayed the opening of the IOB to April. NFU
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  • Mar 18, 2006  Independent, Bush threat doc
  • AP "Libby Defense May Highlight Infighting.....New legal documents raise the potential that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial could turn into a political embarrassment for the Bush administration by focusing on whether the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. NFU
  • Mar 19, 2006  "A former top State Department official (Richard Armitage) is suspected of being the first person to discuss the identity of a CIA official with reporters (Woodward?, Novak?...)... Others who are expected to testify include White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, former CIA director George Tenet and former Secretary of State Colin Powell ... Libby's team may try to pin blame on the State Department for the leak ...NFU
  • La Nueva Cuba reprinted from Jerusalem Post: "US monitoring Israel's Iran options ...The Pentagon is looking into the possibility of Israel launching a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities  ...  The sources pointed out that it is clear that Israel would have to coordinate with the US forces air control any attempt to fly over Iraq on the way to Iran, if Israel chooses to attack using the shortest route ...NFU
  • Mar 20, 2006  Guardian  "Paul Eaton, a former American army general in charge of training Iraqi forces until 2004, marked the anniversary with a furious attack on Mr Rumsfeld, saying he was "not competent to lead our armed forces".  NFU
  • Scoop, "Leopold: Obstruction Trial May Jog Libby's Memory ...... Some of the officials who worked with Libby in the office of the vice president and who are said to have faced criminal charges (and others) in the case have made deals with the special prosecutor in exchange for their testimony...Libby's "obsession" with Wilson lasted well into October 2003.  Fitsgerald's case centers on Libby's lies: Scoop   NFU
  • Mar 21, 2006  TalkLeft "It appears to me Ms. Martin was trying to coach and influence the witness' testimony not to convict Moussaoui, but to prevent the FAA from being found at fault in the civil litigation over 9/11. American and United are hoping for the same result -- hence her collaboration with their lawyers. NFU
  • Asia Times, No Iran attack.. NFU
  • Times Online "Britain pushes for military option to restrain Tehran" search terms:  punitive action, winning Russian and Chinese support for a Chapter VII resolution, John Sawers, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, open the door to sanctions,  NFU
  • AP Moussaoui   NFU
  • Interfax "Israel warns of possible strike against Iran if diplomacy fails..."  NFU
  • Mar 23, 2006  Los Angeles Times  file    "But under cross-examination by defense lawyer Gerald T. Zerkin, Cammaroto conceded that in the late summer of 2001, the approach to airport security was far more relaxed than it is today.." NFU
  • WorldNetDaily (conservative) "Iran orders attack on Israelis before elections...Iran has ordered Palestinian terror groups to carry out a large-scale bombing inside Israel before elections here next week, security officials told WorldNetDaily... The Tehran regime is looking to disrupt the election process and deteriorate the security situation to distract international attention from the pressure over its nuclear program," a senior security official said  file   NFU
  • Strategy Page "... the Turks are getting ready to occupy some frontier posts inside Iraq that they abandoned last fall. This is a routine operation, taking over the posts when the weather gets better, and then abandoning them at the onset of winter, when the chances of anyone using nearby trails into Turkey drop off considerably. The PKK gunmen use the mountain trails to enter Turkey, from the safely of their camps in northern Iraq" NFU
  • Mar 24, 2006  NarcoNews Narcosphere "FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is taking the judge in her federal court case to task for his seemingly over-the-top pursuit of secrecy at the expense of transparency and justice."  NFU
  • Jewish Times "Suppression of Witness Names Underlines Battle in AIPAC Case" NFU
  • Mar 27, 2006  Goldseek, protectionism new threat? How does it relate to trade deficit, and foreign investment in the U.S. NFU
  • Star Tribune "U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said the law, enacted by Congress during World War I, may be unconstitutionally broad and vague, especially given its potential impact on First Amendment rights"
  • Novosti  "Iran may continue talks with Moscow on a joint uranium-enrichment venture for its controversial nuclear program, the country's ambassador to Moscow said Monday. "
  • Mar 28, 2006 New York Magazine validates AReal911Commission
  • Wonkette:  Bush v. Cheney
  • Fitzgerald finalizing indictments of Rove and Hadley? Scoop
  • Mar 29, 2006  Kitco, M3 is gone
  • and U.S. fundamentals are truly scary...how is the related to Iran?  There was much speculation about an attack on Iran...last week.  It did server to bring to attention the effect of and Iranian oil bourse....which if successful would be a threat to neo-con / Bush America. NFU
  • BBC  "Russian warning over Iran crisis ... Some of the detailed demands to Iran are omitted in the latest draft Russia has warned it will not support any attempts to use force to resolve the stand-off over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that "exclusively political methods should be used". NFU
  • Mar 30, 2006 World Tribune (conservative)  " For more than a year, the administration assured Turkey that the U.S. military would eventually help ensure the removal of an estimated 4,000 PKK fighters from the Kandil mountains, Middle East Newsline reported.  But over the last few months, officials said, the administration has revised its position"
  • Mar 31, 2006  BBC  "Of course, the legality of any attack would be hard to justify. The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told reporters this week: "I don't happen to believe that military action has a role to play in any event. We could not justify it under Article 51 of the UN charter which permits self defence."  NFU
  • Paul Findley, Palestine Chronicle "In the summer of 1982, using U.S.-donated weapons, Israeli forces killed more than 18,000 innocent Arabs in Beirut and its suburbs. Although U.S. media gave the massacre scant attention, it provoked worldwide anti-American fury that became white hot when Congress immediately voted funds to restore the inventory of munitions Israeli forces consumed in the assault
  • Apr 2, 2006 Turkish Press Iran weaponry: hi-speed underwater missile, 100 meters per second, able to overcome enemy radar / sonar, Admiral Ali Fadavi, Revolutionary Guard naval force, medium range (2000 kilometers) Shahab-3 missile, multiple warheads. 
  • Apr 4, 2006 Kurdistan Media "Kurdistan's Future....Politicians, analysts and ordinary people are concerned about the future of Iraq, especially with the prospect of heightened internal fighting between Shi'ite and Sunni groups....But the political leadership in Kurdistan could also somehow manage to sustain current trends and keep Kurdistan safe."    NFU
  • San Francisco Chronicle: Iran Oil Bourse, "A Web of oil intrigue Rumored Iran plan has blogs breathless ... it's far from clear that the effort will take off. And even if it does, most economists consider it little threat to the United States  ...  "I don't believe the Iranians would dream of going ahead without Saudi agreement," said Chris Cook, the British consultant and former director of the International Petroleum Exchange who first suggested to the Iranians that they create the bourse ... the bourse could face serious competition close to home. Nymex is part of a joint venture planning to open an oil exchange in Dubai. Growing at breakneck speed, Dubai has worked for years to turn itself into a regional center for trade and finance, since its oil wealth is relatively modest. The Dubai Mercantile Exchange, scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of this year, will trade in dollars. NFU
  • Apr 5, 2006 World Tribune (conservative)  (see NFU Intelligent Design Jokes page 5, Sun Myung Moon, World Tribune info) "Kurdish unrest has spread throughout much of southern Turkey. Officials said some of the organizers came from such neighbors as Iran, Iraq and Syria. ...10 were injured in Kiziltepe, officials said. So far, eight people have been killed in what officials termed the worst civil unrest in Turkey since the late 1970s. NFU
  • Middle East Newsline   "Western diplomatic sources said that despite Iran's military buildup and increasing influence, allies of Teheran have been monitoring discussions by Britain, Israel and the United States of a military option to eliminate Iran's nuclear program. The sources said that over the last few weeks, Iran has received at least one warning from an ally that the West could be considering such an option."  NFU
  • Apr 6, 2006 Daily Star West "Iran has set up a sophisticated intelligence-gathering operation in South Lebanon to identify targets in northern Israel in the event of a military confrontation over its controversial nuclear program  ... NFU
  • New York Sun (conservative) "Bush Said to Have Cleared Early Release of Iraq Intelligence to Times ...I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush,  ...  the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter ...and file NFU
  • Apr 6, 2006 WMR After weeks of informed speculation that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was preparing to issue at least one indictment against White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove in the CIA leak matter, well-placed sources have revealed that Rove continues to "cooperate" with the prosecutor in an effort to shield Bush from the ever-widening scandal. This has temporarily delayed new indictments, according to informed sources.  Fitzgerald's decision to use Libby's statement as part of the prosecution's evidence is a sign that the prosecutor has other statements from high-placed White House individuals like Rove that implicate both Cheney and Libby in the leak of a CIA covert agent's name to the media. However, Fitzgerald also has testimony from Libby that places blame on Bush, in addition to information obtained from over 200 e-mails first reported by the White House to have been mistakenly deleted. Some of the e-mails also implicate Bush and Rove.  more search terms: NIE, National Intelligence Estimate, declassified sections,  200 emails deleted, aluminum tubes, Energy Department claimed they were for conventional use, 
  • Apr 7, 2006  Wonkette Scooter Libby: "Bush said I wouldn't get in trouble..."
  • “Third Motion of I. Lewis Libby to Compel Discovery Under Rule 16 and Brady.”  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) ) CR. NO 05-394 (RBW) v. )) I. LEWIS LIBBY, ) also known as “Scooter Libby” Case 1:05-cr-00394-RBW Document 80 Filed 04/05/2006 Page 1 of 39  file pdf
  • Daily Times  "TOKYO: Japan and Saudi Arabia called on Thursday for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons and urged diplomacy to end the row over Iran’s atomic ambitions.  Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who is also defense minister, and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi issued the joint call after talks in Tokyo. 
  • Newsday "U.S., Allies Seek a Way Outside U.N. to Press Iran .
  • Bush poll numbers at historic lows 
  • Apr 9, 2006
  • New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, He was right about the Viet Nam Mylai Massacre, Abu Ghraib.....and on Iran attack preparations? 
  • The Australian "IRAN has shot down an unmanned surveillance plane in the south.."
  • San Francisco Chronicle "Cheney drove leak strategy, special counsel says ... concerted action" by "multiple people in the White House" -- using classified information -- to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" a critic of President Bush's war in Iraq.  ... 
  • Apr 11, 2006 "Gold Knows What No One Knows! Kitco
  • Huffington Post "Murray Waas Is the Woodward of Now....Today the biggest story in town is what really went down as the Bush team drove deceptively to war, and later tried to conceal how bad the deception--and decision-making--had been. 
  • Apr 14, 2006 OhmyNews  (Chris Cool) The President's New Clothes The nuclear issue isn't the problem -- it's the oil, stupid! see new sections on Petroleum Sharing Agreements and the Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Bitterlemons articles: "Yosi Alpher - The US and EU should embrace additional Israeli withdrawals as a way of reducing the ills of occupation 
  • Apr 17, 2006 Wayne Madsen Report,....on Pentagon generals, Iran / Bush saber rattling....
  • GoldSeek search on 'Capital controls' ...
  • Apr 18, 2006 Foundation for Middle East Peace "Evacuation of Additional Settlements on Olmert's Agenda"
  • Global Policy, Production Sharing Agreements, "Crude Designs, The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth"  Iraqi public opinion is strongly opposed to handing control over oil development to foreign companies. But with the active involvement of the US and British governments a group of powerful Iraqi politicians and technocrats is pushing for a system of long term contracts with foreign oil companies which will be beyond the reach of Iraqi courts, public scrutiny or democratic control.  Iraq 
  • GlobalInfo, Daily News Service of the Developing World
  • Apr 20, 2006  Mail & Guardian "Saudi Arabia: Put pressure on Israel as well as Iran ...
  • A Bush attack on Iran has nothing to do with our security and everything to do with his perpetuating Neo-con power.  Sign the petition. 
  • Apr 22, 2006  Asia Times  "HOW TO LOSE THE 'WAR ON TERROR' PART 2: Handing victory to the extremists By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke 
  • BBC "Iran 'has Russia enrichment deal" 
  • CounterPunch "Dick Cheney promised that Iran would suffer "meaningful consequences" if it refused to abandon its nuclear program--words slightly less stark but no less menacing than U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) John Bolton's threat of "tangible and painful consequences."
  • Haaretz "Lawyers for the two former AIPAC officials accused of conspiring to receive and disclose classified defense information got permission on Friday from the judge in the case to subpoena top administration officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 
  • Apr 24, 2006  Washington Post  (on FBI interest in Jack Anderson files on AIPAC) ... "When the FBI interview took place at his home on March 3, Feldstein said, he was surprised that the agents mentioned that they were looking into the Rosen-Weissman case and possible espionage "going back to the early 1980s." They wanted to know whether "we had seen classified documents" in the Anderson files, particularly about Israel and Iran -- areas of leaked information in the lobbyists' case."
  • Apr 26, 2006 OpenIraqDebate.com 123 more signatures needed to force a House debate on Iraq....218 required. 
  • Iran Republic News Agency  "Iran - Oil Stock Exchange - Minister Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said on Wednesday that the establishment of Oil Stock Exchange is in its final stage and the bourse will be launched in Iran in the next week. 
  • Apr 27, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle  Rove's fifth appearance before grand jury.  search terms: Viveca Novak,  ..."Fitzgerald's probe also turned up an organized White House effort to refute claims being made at the time by Wilson's husband, former envoy Joseph Wilson, that the Bush administration had twisted intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fitzgerald recently said in a court document that Libby had testified that President Bush himself had ordered the leaking of a classified document that countered Joseph Wilson's claims ..."  Wayne Madsen Report says Fitzgerald has sent letter to Rove naming him a 'target' in the investigation. 
  • Iran ha received from North Korea BM-25 surface-to-surface missiles, 1550 mile range,  and  op-ed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, International Herald Tribune (Sun Myung Moon)  "Do not attack Iran" 
  • Apr 30, 2006 Scoop  "Target letters drive Rove back to grand jury"
  • Aljazeera "Petro-Euro: A reality or just a distant nightmare for the U.S.? ... It is an open secret that since the 1970’s, OPEC (i.e. Saudi Arabia) has been instructed by the U.S. to only trade in US Dollars.  ...  China, which is emerging as Iran’s largest customer, would have no objection to paying Iran in Euros and thus begin the move from the dollar to the euro." 
  • May 2, 2006 DEBKA File "The Dubai newspaper Al Bayan (out on April 30) quotes the Turkish leader as disclosing that, during her visit to Ankara last Tuesday, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice requested the use of the Incirlik air base for an American strike against Iranian nuclear installations. She was said to have offered Turkey in return a nuclear reactor for electricity, but was turned down.  
  • theRawStory "On Chris Matthews' Hardball Monday evening, just moments ago, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster confirmed what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed."
  • May 3, 2006 Guardian US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns effort to get tough Iranian resolution firmly opposed by Russia and China. 
  • MSNBC  "Judge doesn’t believe Moussaoui’s 9/11 claims Brinkema doubts how much co-conspirator knew ahead of terrorist attacks." 
  • Democrats actually 'demanded' an inquiry into the national security damage done by Plame-Wilson CIA outing.
  • May 5, 2006 CBS News Iran Oil Bourse (Oil Stock Exchange) will open.  But is it a serious threat. 
  • Sierra Times, (conservative), Karl Rove indictment long overdue. 
  • May 9, 2006 ThinkProgress "CIA leak grand jury meets, Fitzgerald in D.C ... The hearing will be a status conference requested by Libby’s lawyers after Fitzgerald disclosed in court papers that President Bush had authorized Libby to disclose sections of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s WMD." 
  • Perspectives docs Plamegate document resource
  • Seattle PI, Iran fuel rods, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, UN Security Council, nuclear enrichment, P1, P2, centrifuges, Britain, France, Germany, letter to Bush from Ahmadinejad...get back to Christianity....
  • May 10, 2006 Friends Committee on National Legislation  "A Constructive EU-US Approach to the Iran Nuclear Dispute" 
  • Aljazeera Israel rated sixth largest nuclear power.  Nixon made secret understanding with Israel to pursue nucs, as long as they maintain a program of deliberate ambiguity.  search term: 200-300 warheads, Dimona, Negev desert, 1958, French assistance, plutonium/tritium production reactor, chemical separation plant, British assistance, heavy water, Mordechai Vanunu, 
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Common Dreams: Letter to George Bush.  Much of it is similar to the thoughts of the American left. 
  • May 12, 2006 Investigate these links: Hayden, phone records database, AT&T, Amdocs (Israeli company) Rice.....maybe even connections to elections data. 
  • May 14, 2006  Rove indicted  TruthOut Major news orgs not reporting this yet. 
  • Cheney the Focus of CIA Leak Court Filing. "Fitzgerald said he intends to introduce at Libby's trial in January a copy of Wilson's op-ed article in The New York Times "bearing handwritten notations by the vice president."  AP 
  • Persian Journal "On the 5th of May Iran registered its Oil Exchange, which will become the fifth Stock Exchange of its kind in the world.  .. as all trading will be conducted in Euros.  ..hydrate methane..." 
  • May 15, 2006  Goldseek "rising commodity prices ..... US retail sales came in soft, ... a weakening US economy may not necessarily produce an immediate decline in US interest rates. Such a shocking speculation has not been made in nearly 20-years. 
  • May 17, 2006 Jerusalem Post "Iran rejects European incentives to give up uranium enrichment, makes counter offer  ....Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, said Iran is willing to offer its own concessions to Europe in return for recognizing Iran's right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel. ....  "We are prepared to offer economic incentives to Europe in return for recognizing our right (to enrich uranium)," Hamid Reza Asefi was quoted by state-run radio as saying." 
  • Ohmy News  "publication on the Internet of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's response to a Court request that he describe the newspaper articles that he would offer in evidence at the trial of Lewis Scooter Libby.(2) Libby was formerly the Chief of Staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. ... The articles help to demonstrate that the White House was very sensitive to accounts in the main stream corporate media about its efforts to spread false information about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
  • May 18, 2006 Energy Bulletin collapse of petrodollar.
  • Aljazeera "US Proposes New Disarmament Nuke Treaty Banning Production of the Nuclear Material Needed to Make Atomic Bombs".. and CounterPunch.  "World's Biggest Nuclear Bully Demands Disarmament from Iran Nuclear Hypocrites By ERIC RUDER"
  • May 21, 2006 See new NSA National Security Agency pages, specifically links between NSA, Amdocs and Narus Semantic Traffic Analysis functions.  Israeli art students living in close proximity to 9/11 hijackers (never investigated) Ultimately ties back to WTC 9/11 
  • Centre for Research on Globalization,  Collapse of the Petrodollar Looming ... The announcement by President Putin of a Russian bourse trading oil and gas in Roubles threatens the stability of the US Dollar far more than Iran's bourse alone would do, and continues the slide in relations between the old Cold War foes. 
  • May 22, 2006 National Review Online, Internet Search for Rove Indictment
  • GoldSeek: "If Russia, Iran, and Venezuela decide to switch to Euros for future oil transactions, it could force the Federal Reserve to hike the fed funds rate to much higher levels to defend the US dollar in the foreign exchange markets. That in turn, could crush the US housing sector and rattle the S&P 500 stock index. Such a conspiracy theory is a dollar bear’s dream, but could happen if the US crosses the red line of using military force to shut down the Ayatollah’s nuclear weapons program." 
  • May 25, 2006 FAS  U. S. v. Steven J. Rosen Keith, Weisman Criminal Action 1:05 CR 225 
  • AP "Cheney may be called in CIA leak case... Fitzgerald said Cheney's "state of mind" is "directly relevant" to whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's former top aide, lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how Libby learned CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity and what he later told reporters."
  • May 28, 2006 IndiaMonitor  US's geopolitical nightmare (Shanghai Cooperation Organization and....)
  • Khaleej Times:  "Talking Turkey: Sovereign meltdown on the Bosphorus? Political risk is rising dangerously fast in Turkey. Three years ago, Erdogan was hailed as a hero in the Middle East for his moderate religious agenda, for refusing to join Blair and Bush in the invasion of Iraq,  ...." 
  • June 4, 2006 Centre for Research on Globalization, "Impact of possible military attack on Iran, An Iranian Perspective  ...  In Faw, Iraq, the United States has been giving the local people notices for population relocation, so that they could build a permanent military base there next to Khorramshahr and the Iranian borders." 
  • Guardian Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Sunday that energy supplies from the Gulf region would be disrupted if Iran came under attack from the United States and insisted his country would not give up the right to produce nuclear fuel. 
  • June 5, 2006 UPI (Sun Myung Moon organization) "The International Bourse Co. was registered last month, with an initial capital of $2,000, and is charged with setting up the Iranian Oil Bourse on Kish Island. The IBC is owned by the National Iranian Oil Co., which has an 80 percent stake, and by with Kish Free Zone Organization and the Mostaz'afan and Janbazan Foundation, each of which hold 10 percent stakes.
  • June 7, 2006  FAS Government Secrecy Project:   Court docs and dates, Rosen Weisman, Libby...
  • search: AIPAC, Jack Anderson and FBI
  • California Republic (conservative) "What in the world is President Bush thinking? The U.S. and E.U. are apparently offering the Iranians the possibility of continuing to enrich uranium on their own soil so long as they comply with so-called "stringent conditions," reports AFP. Said one U.S. official: "We are basically now saying that over the long haul, if they restore confidence, that this Iranian regime can have enrichment at home. But they have to answer every concern, given all that points to a secret weapons program." ...It also indicates the President feels he hasn't sufficient political capital to launch a series of airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facilities  ...."
  • June 11, 2006  Scotsman "In talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, Olmert will also lobby for his West Bank redeployment plan, which has won U.S. praise but faces political hurdles at home and the misgivings of moderate Arabs. 
  • FX Street "Traders also remain on edge over supply disruptions in Nigeria, the world's eight-largest exporter, where militants released five kidnapped South Korean contractors on Thursday, after attacking a Shell-operated facility in the Niger Delta. The bullish impact of supply disruptions and geopolitical tension is being moderated by worries that high prices are feeding inflation and slower growth in key consumers such as the United States, helping push oil down from April's record $75.35.
  • June 13, 2006  FARS News Agency "
  • Bloomberg "China's Shanghai Summit Shifts Focus to Energy From Terror ....The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's member states account for 23 percent of the world's population, according to data compiled by the organization. Including observer states (including Iran) would boost the figure to 44 percent. The member states account for 10.5 percent of all the soldiers in standing armies worldwide. Including observer states would boost the figure to 17.5 percent. 
  • June 14, 2006  Iran Mania "We won't negotiate about a suspension of uranium enrichment, but the percentage of enrichment and its form are matters that are negotiable," Kazem Jalali, spokesman for parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, was quoted as saying by state media  ...  The package, from UN Security Council permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, plus Germany, offers Iran a variety of trade, technology and diplomatic incentives if it suspends enrichment.   But Iran argues enrichment for peaceful purposes is an "absolute right" enshrined by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."
  • Findlaw  Rove, civil law suit scenario? 
  • June 16, 2006 Scoop "Bernard Weiner: What Rove's Skate May Mean  ...  It may just turn out that Rove was so desperate to escape the likelihood of incarceration that he made a deal with Fitzgerald. He gets to walk away if he testifies against Scooter, and tells what he knows about Cheney and maybe even Bush, among others. 
  • What to make of Sealed vs. Sealed, and the case number: 06 cr 128 ?
  • June 19, 2006 SafeHaven, The Fed's Money Supply Armament is Underway 
  • OpEdNews "While nearly everyone -- even those in the alternative media -- were back-slapping each other over the Libby indictment, nobody bothered to read the fine print. Someone should have. Patrick Fitzgerald had been carefully groomed in Rudy Giuliani's office not just for his prosecutorial and intellectual skills. He's a GOP and neo-con loyalist to the bone. More simply put, a trusted servant who could be counted on to contain criminal investigations -- and subsequent sinking political fortunes -- that often result from large-scale Republican corruption." 
  • June 21, 2006 Antiwar  "The news that he (Juan Cole, Informed Comment) was up for an appointment at Yale University, to head up a new department of Middle Eastern studies, was just what the Lobby needed to hear to swing into action.  Cole's sin: he, like Mearsheimer and Walt, had noted the inordinate influence of what The Nation magazine termed "American Likudniks" on the course of our foreign policy, and it wasn't long before the appointment was buried in a blizzard of outraged op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun ..."
  • GoldSeek "The US Federal Reserve must make a choice. Continue to hike rates in order to support the USDollar with maintain the advantageous bond yield? Continue to hike rates in order to attract foreign USTreasury Bond purchasers in incremental credit supply? Doing so places considerable stress on the housing market. 
  • June 22, 2006 FX Street futures markets news.  "The Russians have opened up a Rubble-denominated oil bourse. The Iranians are on their way to opening a Euro-denominated bourse. The Venezuelans are likely to toy with the idea as well." 
  • JTA "Alleged AIPAC informant promoted   ...  The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case. The State Department last week announced Satterfield’s promotion to senior adviser on Iraq to Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state. Satterfield was promoted from deputy ambassador to Baghdad. Satterfield is cited in the indictment against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, as one of three government officials who shared information with Rosen.  Satterfield is described as meeting with Rosen in 2002, when Satterfield was second in command at the State Department’s Near East desk.  Prosecutors refuse to explain why Satterfield escaped prosecution for leaking information. 
  • June 26, 2006 Harretz  more on Jack Anderson, prosecution of journalists and lobbyists. 
  • June 28, 2006 Socialist International  "Socialist International President George Papandreou and Socialist International Secretary General Luis Ayala held meetings today in Tehran with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani to reaffirm the backing of the International for negotiations leading to a resolution of the nuclear issue in Iran. 
  • Antiwar "The Cabal, Outed The spies who lied us into war are at it again  ...  The answer is that the foundations for this massive propaganda blitz and subsequent ratcheting-up of war hysteria were laid at about the same time as the Iraqi misadventure was conceived. The same people who lied us into war with Iraq have all along been deeply involved in a similar effort in regard to Iran: indeed, the two projects are intimately intertwined, as Laura Rozen – a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and one of the most consistently interesting reporters on the international affairs beat in Washington – reveals in her latest piece, "Three Days in Rome?", which appears on the Web site of Mother Jones magazine. 
  • July 1, 2006  OpedNews "AP: White House lied about Rove's role in Plamegate to avoid pre-election 2004 fallout as Rove told the truth to FBI"
  • PR Web  "Opening of Iranian Oil Bourse (IOB) which is trading in Euros not Dollars, an over-looked reason for US hostility towards Iran. Other major countries currently considering Petro-Euro and directly challenging dominance of the dollar. Whether it's to help stem a potentially collapsing dollar or the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, military options are likely to ignite unimaginable series of global events.  
  • Political Affairs  Iran: What the U.S. Isn't Telling. 
  • New Yorker, Seymour Hersh. "Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials. The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign will probably not succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear program. They have also warned that an attack could lead to serious economic, political, and military consequences for the United States."  More search terms: Elliot Abrams, Michael Doran, NSA, air defense systems, seven hundred undeclared dock and port facilities along its Persian Gulf coastline, 'invisible piers, Straits of Hormuz, attack oil tankers, Natanz, nuclear strike unacceptable, Gen. Pace, retired officers Paul Eaton, Carles Swannack Jr.,
  • July 5, 2006  Inside Bay Area "One thing that's clear here is that if negotiations fail and the United States chooses to cripple Iran's nuclear program through military strikes, it should be prepared for the inevitable outcome: Iranians rallying around the Islamic regime.  Iranians' reaction to an all-out invasion would be equally defensive. As unpopular as the theocratic regime may be, an attack on it would not be considered a liberation, especially if the pretext is the country's nuclear program, which is viewed as a legitimate and sovereign right." 
  • Bellacio  / National Journal, Murray Waas "Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic Joseph C. Wilson"  search terms: "Get it out", and "Let's get this out". 
  • July 6, 2006  Persian Journal "Iran will start the initial phase of its planned Iranian oil bourse at the end of September. An oil ministry official told that his ministry had already presented the relevant documents to the economic and finance ministry and the bourse organisation."
  • July 9, 2006 New York Daily Sun "Ruling on Legal Bills at KPMG Could Be a Boon to Aipac Pair" 
  • July 12, 2006 AP and Guardian "Novak says he cooperated in CIA leak probe  ...  Novak's secret cooperation with prosecutors while maintaining a public silence about his role kept him out of legal danger and had the effect of providing protection for the Bush White House during the 2004 presidential campaign.  According to The Washington Post, Novak's column will say that he told Fitzgerald in early 2004 that Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow had confirmed information about Plame." 
  • Media Matters, Novak, Plamegate "In a July 17 column titled "The End of the Affair" appearing in Slate, Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens concluded that syndicated columnist and Fox News political analyst Robert D. Novak's July 12 column,"
  • July 14, 2006  JTA Rosen Weissman trial delayed again over classified evidence, the prosecution has asked for a delay until January 07. 
  • July 15, 2006 Scoop Plame Wilson lawsuit. and excerpt from Libby case: "The central issue at trial (Libby's) will be whether defendant lied when he testified that he was not aware that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA prior to his purported conversation with Tim Russert about Mr. Wilson’s wife on or about July 10, 2003. See Indict., Count One, ¶ 20. Mr. Grossman’s testimony is specifically relevant to show that defendant was told of Ms. Wilson’s employment and possible role in planning Mr. Wilson’s trip to Niger in early June 2003. This testimony will not be offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted; indeed, it is irrelevant whether Mr. Wilson’s wife actually did work at the CIA or actually did play a role in arranging the trip, or how State Department employees viewed the results of the Wilson trip. Likewise, none of these issues are relevant to preparing for Mr. Grossman’s examination" see Case 1:05-cr-00394-RBW Document 80 Filed 04/05/2006 Page 1 of 39 file pdf  and NFU Plamegate 
  • July 18, 2006  JTA "Prosecutors pressured AIPAC to cut off two employees charged with dealing in classified information, lawyers said in a motion to dismiss the case. The brief filed Tuesday alleges that prosecutors conditioned their decision to drop an investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on AIPAC’s agreement to fire Steve Rosen, the group’s foreign policy director, and its Iran analyst, Keith Weissman, and to stop paying the pair’s lawyers.  Lawyers for Rosen and Weissman swear in depositions that AIPAC lawyers and senior staff informed them of these developments in conversations in March 2005, when Rosen and Weissman were fired, and that they subsequently acted as the government had asked." 
  • July 19, 2006 New York Sun (conservative) "AIPAC was pushed on legal fees. 
  • Online Journal, "Effort to save Libby by discrediting Plame and Wilson continues By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer   ...   The story and the forgery of the resumes was an attempt to clear Scooter Libby of any wrongdoing while his major financial backers met at the AIPAC meeting in Washington to set up his defense fund. The fake Brewster Jennings resume stories were an attempt to garner sympathy for Libby and another attempt to smear Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joseph Wilson."    
  • July 21, 2006 Media Matters, Novak, Plamegate "In a July 17 column titled "The End of the Affair" appearing in Slate, Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens concluded that syndicated columnist and Fox News political analyst Robert D. Novak's July 12 column,"
  • JTA Rosen Weissman trial delayed again over classified evidence, the prosecution has asked for a delay until January 07.  A July 14th story.
  • July 22, 2006 Huffington Post Plamegate still leaves the 'why' unanswered
  • July 24, 2006 Washington Post Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman contended that beginning in late 2004, months before the pair were charged, government officials "subtly and not so subtly pressured AIPAC" to take action against Rosen and Weissman.
  • BBC "Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji declined to meet White House officials during a visit to the US, he has told the BBC  ...  You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it". 
  • July 29, 2006 Antiwar 
  • Pakistan Dawn "The five permanent members of the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC) have agreed on a draft resolution giving Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment. ... The draft resolution is weaker than the earlier ones, which made the imposition of sanctions a more direct consequence of non-compliance by Tehran. The final text, worked out after objections from Russia and China, cites an article of the UN charter that calls for “further decisions” before any punishment measures are taken."
  • July 31, 2006 Wonkette "Murray Waas has another update in the Plamegate slog, and it’s a fun one — implicating the President himself in the smear campaign.    .....   But it’s impressive buck-passing (up, up, up the ladder it goes! Novak to Libby to Cheney to Bush!), and we look forward to Waas’ next scoop, “Jesus Gave Bush Authority to Discredit Wilson.”
  • Aug 1, 2006 ABC News  "US wins appeal to seek NY Times phone records ...  The case decided on Tuesday involves Fitzgerald heading a grand jury investigation into how Miller and fellow reporter Philip Shenon learned of government plans to search the premises of two Islamic charities, and sought comment from them before the search took place.  search leakgate 2004 Holy Land Foundation, Global Relief Foundation  etc. and Judith Miller.
  • OpedNews, AIPAC's Strangle Hold on Congress
  • Aug 3, 2006 AP   and Common Dreams   "Pentagon's version of 9/11 far from the truth"  search terms: "Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public" search terms: false statements to Congress, allegations turned over to the inspectors general of the Defense and Transportation departments, NORAD lies, FAA provided inaccurate information.  and see Common Dreams: "These dogs don't hunt"  
  • OpEdNews Bush Wants Wider War.  "George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers saw the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as an opportunity to expand the conflict into Syria and possibly achieve a long-sought "regime change" in Damascus, but Israel's leadership balked at the scheme, according to Israeli sources.  
  • Aug 8, 2006 AlterNet  and Consortiumnews reported that the Israel-Lebanon conflict had revived the Bush administration's neoconservative hopes that a new path had opened "to achieve a prized goal that otherwise appeared to be blocked for them -- military assaults on Syria and Iran aimed at crippling those governments."
  • Environmental News Service Bush, Putin plan to control nuclear fuel enrichment.  search terms: central enrichment system, uranium, Global Nuclear Energy Partnership 
  • WayneMadsenReport "Larry Franklin, the Pentagon Office of Special Plans Iran and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and reserve Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was temporarily posted at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, served as a virtual personal liaison for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to U.S. intelligence sources who have spoken to WMR. Franklin, who pleaded guilty to passing classified information, including CIA Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), to two America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) officials who passed the information to an Israeli embassy Mossad agent, was sentenced to twelve years and seven months in prison and a $10,000 fine in January. The two AIPAC employees, Steven Rosen and Keith Weisman, were indicted for illegally receiving classified information. Franklin and other neo-con cell members -- Harold Rhode and Michael Ledeen -- conducted secret negotiations with the knowledge of Rumsfeld and Pentagon policy chief Douglas Feith -- with the Iranian government through the offices of Iran-Contra co-conspirator Manucher Ghorbanifar."
  • Aug 10, 2006  Washington Post "Judge Won't Dismiss Pro-Israel Spy Case ... U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that the 1917 Espionage Act is not unconstitutionally broad and vague when it seeks to bar receipt or disclosure of "information related to the national defense."
  • Aug 12, 2006 Antiwar  "Bolton Gets Sandbagged  ...  While Bonkers was busy (a) preventing the UN Security Council from calling for a temporary lull in the killing of Lebanese civilians by Israelis in "self-defense" and (b) strong-arming the Security Council into calling on Iran to give up its IAEA Safeguarded nuclear programs, Joe Lieberman, Bush's favorite Democrat and arguably the strongest supporter of Israel in the U.S. Senate, went down to defeat in a Democratic primary election." 
  • Aug 14, 2006  FAS Secrecy News "AIPAC Defendants Did Not Seek Classified Document, file   Case 1:05-cr-00225-TSE   Court Rules In a favorable decision for two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with conspiracy to unlawfully gather national defense information, a federal court ruled (pdf) late last week that they did not solicit actual classified documents and that the government cannot now claim that they did." 
  • Aug 17, 2006  Palestine Chronical  George Galloway: The SkyNews Debate Transcript 
  • Pipelines to 9/11 by Rudo de Ruijter,  Independent Researcher Netherlands  rudoderuijter@wanadoo.nl  
  • Aug 18, 2006  Free Market News "KNIGHTS OF THE STATE ROUND TABLE ...  The geopolitical stage has morphed into a chess game, overloaded with strategic requirements, where brute force seems an unsuccessful alternative to cunning and compromise. The United States is finding itself awkwardly outside looking in, as its monolithic power has been diminished  ...  If the United States is to secure a steady reliable source of energy supply, our nation must change the culture of its multi-national corporations. They must work toward a “win-win contract” rather than the increasingly exploitative direction of the last several years. 
  • New York Law Journal "Outed CIA Agent (Valerie Plame) Hires Cotchett Pitre Partners to Sue Bush Team"
  • Aug 19, 2006  Scotsman "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned against any military strike on Iran ...  Egypt has not had full diplomatic relations with Tehran in more than 25 years and high-level contacts are rare, usually limited to international meetings. But Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki came to Egypt last week for talks with Mubarak on the conflict in Lebanon and other regional issues. 
  • Aug 21, 2006 Independent.uk "Buoyed by the success of its proxy militia in Lebanon, Iran has rejected a demand from the West, aimed at curbing Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons programme, setting itself on a new course of confrontation.  ... search terms: "We won't suspend", sanctions, oil as a weapon, war games called The Blow of Zolfaghar, Saegheh short-range missile, Israel's failure to disarm Hizbollah in southern Lebanon, 
  • Truthout "Indictment Still Sealed, Fitzgerald Still Busy By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash".. that indictment remains under seal more than three months after it was filed - an unusually lengthy period of time, according to experts in the field of federal law. The indictment could be dismissed down the road, meaning the public may never get the opportunity to learn the identity of the defendant or the substance of the criminal case. 
  • Aug 22, 2006 CBS   "Calendar May Offer Key CIA Leak Clue  ...The calendar released to the AP is the first confirmation that Woodward and Armitage met during the key time (June 13, 2003) in the CIA leak case that was the focus of Fitzgerald's probe ..." 
  • Center for Research on Globalization "Iran, Little Chance of Nuclear Compromise  ...  Tehran will respond to the pending European package but is unlikely to suspend enrichment under pressure. What the world must realise is sanctions will take us further from and not closer to a peaceful solution. 
  • New York Sun, "Judge Orders Justice Department Investigation of Leak to CBS Report ... A federal judge has ordered a Justice Department probe into how CBS News obtained a story two years ago disclosing an FBI investigation into a pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee  
  • Aug 24, 2006 Leslie Stahl's original  report August 2004 AIPAC investigation
  • Gold Seek, Buy gold now! on its way up to $1700 per ounce.  "Where is the market headed? For openers it’s weaker than it was in October 1987, when interest rates were somewhat higher. Market deterioration began in May this year and more aggressive leakage began in August as the Morgan Stanley Business Conditions Index fell 9-points to 40% ...
  • Common Dreams "Bush Ensured Iran Offer Would Be Rejected   ...  Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to ambassadors of the P5+1 countries (the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) Tuesday, the George W. Bush administration had already begun the process of organizing sanctions against Iran. Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to ambassadors of the P5+1 countries (the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) Tuesday, the George W. Bush administration had already begun the process of organizing sanctions against Iran. 
  • JTA "New ruling in AIPAC case raises questions about ‘foreign agents’ ...  A new pretrial ruling in the classified-information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists raises new questions about what defines a “foreign agent” and whether the government has the right to spy on lobbyists." 
  • Aug 26, 2006 Foreign Agents Registration Act  JTA
  • Common Dreams: "Israel May 'Go it Alone' against Iran by Herb Keinon ...  Israel is carefully watching the world's reaction to Iran's continued refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, with some high-level officials arguing it is now clear that when it comes to stopping Iran, Israel "may have to go it alone," The Jerusalem Post has learned." 
  • Islamic Republic News Agency 
  • Aug 29, 2006 TheRawStory  "Bush's dilemma over Iran - and his final option By Laszlo Trankovits  ...  Many in Bush's Republican party have long been sceptical of the effectiveness of economic and political sanctions that could be brought in the UN - or of efforts by European allies to negotiate a halt to uranium enrichment.   ...  Those worries could soon prove justified, as the looming August 31 deadline set by the Security Council for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment could lead to an impasse among the council's members.
  • Islamic Republic News Agency "The minister added the Bourse Organization of Iran has approved the establishment of an oil bourse and every thing is ready for its inauguration. ...  Vaziri Hamaneh said a plan for transporting Iranian gas to China via Pakistan is in the preliminary stage."
  • Aug 31, 2006 Bush deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium comes and goes with a whimper, very little on nightly news coverage ... typical if outcome isn't favorable to neo-con plan ...
  • Sep 1, 2006 Daily Press
  • Media Matters "Media figures repeat false claim that Armitage role in Plame leak exonerates Libby and Rove ... Numerous media figures have asserted that a recent report purportedly identifying former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as Robert Novak's original source for Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative prove that Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were not involved in the leak of her identity. However, Armitage's role as Novak's first source is not inconsistent with Rove's and Libby's involvements in the leak -- both were original sources of the information for two other reporters."
  • Sep 2, 2006 Guardian  "Defiance, Divisions and Dilemas ...No one was surprised this week when Iran failed to meet the UN's deadline to halt uranium enrichment  ...   The Islamic Republic (Iran) emerged the clear winner from the US invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban. In Iraq the demise of Iran's hated Ba'athist enemy has brought the country's Shia Muslim majority to power in Baghdad  ...  Iranian confidence, international divisions and the sheer importance of what is at stake here make this a fiendishly difficult tangle ...
  • Arab American News "In reality, the expanded UNIFIL mission is intended to eliminate Iran's ability to respond to imperialist aggression against itself through the use of its Lebanese allies. It's a mission preparatory to that aggression, preceding Iran's expected rejection of the U.S.-backed "generous offer" to Iran and reiteration of its inalienable right according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium."
  • Sep 3, 2006 Antiwar  " AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails ... by Grant F. Smith An Aug. 9, 2006, opinion by presiding Judge T.S. Ellis III [.pdf] has dealt a decisive blow to forces supporting full dismissal of the AIPAC espionage case.
  • Sep 7, 2006 IPS News  "Intel Estimate on Iran Blocks Neo-Con Plans ...  The neoconservatives can be expected to work assiduously in the coming weeks and months to discredit the current intelligence analysis and substitute their own alternative as they position themselves for the attack on Iran they have long wanted."
  • World Socialist Web Site: "What lies behind the terrorist attacks in Turkey?" 
  • Sep 8, 2006 SABC News: "Russia demands equal access to uranium market ...  Putin has complained about barriers to sales of Russian nuclear materials to the European Union and senior Russian officials have demanded an end to US anti-dumping measures against Russian nuclear materials. Russia is merging its civilian nuclear companies into one state company - along the lines of gas giant Gazprom - to help it compete on the world nuclear market. Kremlin officials see energy - particularly oil, gas and nuclear - as a new arrow in Russia's geopolitical quiver.
  • Dissident Voice "Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran ... Even as the bricks were still smoldering from 9/11, Israeli ideological point men, Senator Lieberman and Undersecretary for Defense Wolfowitz urged Washington to attack Iran by launching either simultaneous or sequential wars. In pursuit of Israel’s regional priorities, its representatives in the US Government, in the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith and Shulsky), in the National Security Council (Abrams), in the Vice President’s Office (Libby) and in the President’s Office (Speech writer Frum) falsified intelligence, designed the propaganda (War Against Terror, Axis of Evil) and planned the War against Iraq, and with the Lobby secured near unanimous Congressional acquiescence. They then successfully secured a US boycott of Syria and support for Israel’s expropriation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land in the West Bank and the destruction of Gaza. Even as the US invasion failed to secure control of Iraq, Israel’s representatives in the US Government did destroy Iraqi society and state, and its capacity to support the Palestinian resistance, increasing Israel’s regional power (at a very high cost to the United States). 
  • Sep 9, 2006 Centre for Research on Globalization: "Canadian Media calls for Nuking Iran ...  The Toronto Sun article proposes the use of tactical nuclear weapons or so-called mini-nukes with an explosive capacity between one third to six times a Hiroshima bomb .."
  • Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments, Senate Intelligence Committee report  and The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress
  • Sep 16, 2006 Indymedia Rosen Weissman AIPAC  "Ten years after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu summoned a group of American policy makers to recommend strategies and policies that would best serve the interests of Israel, the implications of these recommendations outlined in the document entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” are finally becoming a reality
  • Sep 19, 2006 see latest research on Ledeen, fascism, / Chalabi duped neocons into invading Iraq. pages 
  • Uruknet "The Armitage Confession & the Niger Problem I Am a Curious Yellowcake DAVE LINDORFF ...  the real issue has largely been left unaddressed, namely: Why did the White House go to such lengths to try to attack and discredit Wilson, a career diplomat? 
  • Turkish Weekly "According to BBC, Kurdish soldiers were secretly trained by former Israeli commandos in northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations ...  The BBC reports on Tuesday that former Israel Defense Forces commandos secretly trained Kurdish soldiers in Northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations"  more search terms: Erbil, Irbil international airport, permanent bases in Iraq.
  • Sep 26, 2006 Aljazeera "West foiled Arab bid to declare Israel atomic ... 15 Arab countries prepared a draft resolution on behalf of the Arab League to the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting concerning "Israel's nuclear capacities and threats", senior diplomat of an Arab country revealed to Agence France Press, adding that the draft resolution also won the backing of Indonesia, Iran, Cuba, Malaysia and Venezuela. 
  • Antiwar  "Crisis Is Upon Us by Paul Craig Roberts ...  Military experts point out that at a time when generals are calling for more troops for Afghanistan and Iraq, it would be ill-advised for Bush to add Iran to the war theater. Experts note that Iran is well armed with missiles capable of attacking U.S. ships and oil facilities throughout the Middle East and that Iran can direct its Shi'ite allies in Iraq to assault U.S. troops there and set in motion terrorist actions throughout the Middle East.  ... Nevertheless, the Bush administration continues to send war signals."
  • Sep 29, 2006 Jesse Ventura questions official 9/11 'story' 
  • Oct 3, 2006USA Today "A top Iranian nuclear official proposed Tuesday that France create a consortium to enrich Iran's uranium, in a bid to satisfy the international community's demands for outside oversight of Tehran's nuclear program."
  • Oct 10, 2006 Is the October Surprise a nuclear attack on Iran?  Nation
  • Oct 12, 2006 Harretz  "New pro-Israel lobby as alternative to AIPAC  ...  Dovish pro-Israel members of the American Jewish community are planning to set up a pro-Israel alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby (AIPAC), the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported yesterday.  Among the figures behind the initiative are billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has not been involved with Israeli issues until now, philanthropists Edgar and Charles Bronfman and Mel Levine, a former Democratic congressman and now high-powered West Coast lawyer.   Meretz chairman MK Yossi Beilin yesterday commended the establishment of the new lobby. Beilin told Haaretz that the lobby would not compete with AIPAC but portray another facet of American Jewry."
  • Oct 12, 2006 New Jersey Jewish Standard  "Soros, doves consider AIPAC alternative By Ron Kampeas View all articles by Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON – A top staffer for billionaire philanthropist George Soros met recently with senior representatives of the dovish pro-Israel community to discuss setting up an alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, JTA has learned.  Morton Halperin, a director of Soros’ Open Society Institute and a veteran of senior positions in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations, confirmed to JTA that the meeting took place late last month.
  • Oct 18, 2006 Znet "Roadmap to Nowhere ...  What has been the role of the Pro-Israel lobby in shaping U.S. policies?  Interestingly, in 2005, during the whole period of U.S. heavy pressure on Israel, AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and other lobby groups were completely silent. As I detail in the book, this compliance was helped by the investigation, and later the indictment of two AIPAC officials - its policy director, Steven Rosen, and Iran specialist Keith Weissman. It transpired that the powerful Pro-Israel lobby could be silenced easily, if the White House so desired. This confirms what Chomsky and others have been arguing for years - that the Pro-Israel lobbies are powerful only as long as their pressure is in line with U.S. policies. 
  • Oct 21, 2006 Silha Center for the Study of Ethics and Law, Rosen Weissman trial postponed until January 2007 ...  Financial Tracking Program Major U.S.Newspapers Report On Classi . ed Financial Tracking Program 
  • search MSNBC: Fitzgerald, Armitage 
  • Oct 31, 2006 Debka File, "Hundreds of US and allied war ships foregathered in the strategic seas of the Middle East and India in the last days of October 2006 for two primary missions: To prepare for a US-led military strike against Iran which has stepped up its uranium enrichment program with a second centrifuge project - undeterred by the prospect of UN sanctions; and measures to fend off palpable al Qaeda threats to oil targets. DEBKAfile’s military sources provide details of the massive deployments: 1. A large-scale US-Indian sea exercise called Malabar 06 is in progress off the Indian coast of Goa, ending Nov. 5. The American vessels taking part are the USS Boxer carrier, the USS Bunker Hill guided missile battle cruiser, the guided missile destroyer USS Howard and the USS Benfold , as well as the Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine Providence and the Canadian guided missile frigate HMCS Ottawa . Indian maritime might is displayed with its warships like INS Beas , INS Mysore , INS Shakti , INS Ganga , tanking ship INS Gharial , submarine INS Shankush and Coast Guard ship CGS Samar" 
  • Mehr News "U.S. cannot get Russia and China on board to sanction Iran: analyst TEHRAN, Oct. 7 (MNA) -- The United States will not be able to convince Russia and China to join efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program in the short or even the medium run, international affairs analyst Hossein Purahmadi said here on Saturday
  • Nov 2, 2006 Antiwar " ... What Gen. William E. Odom calls the "biggest military disaster in United States history" was indeed an inside job, one carried out at the highest levels of American policymaking in spite of the alarm bells that were going off in the national security and intelligence apparatus. It was a good job of breaking and entering, a burglary of world-historic significance, in which American foreign policy was hijacked. In effect, a political coup took place right under our noses. ...   As I wrote in a piece for The American Conservative, the AIPAC case is the dorsal fin of something much larger lurking just below the surface. This was indicated by hints of Israeli involvement in the faux "intelligence" that was funneled to the White House, Congress, and the American people by the secretive Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon. According to former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski, Israelis enjoyed rights of unrestricted access and didn't bother to go through the process of signing in at high-level Pentagon meetings with U.S. officials."  
  • Muslim News "Report: FBI In expanded Aipac probe  ...  Time magazine posted an article on its Web site alleging that the FBI is investigating claims of an improper deal between Aipac and Rep. Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. ... Under the alleged deal — which both sides vigorously deny was ever made — the lobby would actively support Harman’s bid to become the next chair of the intelligence committee if the Democrats win control of the House. In return, Harman would press the government to go easy on two former Aipac staffers, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who are being prosecuted under the Espionage Act for allegedly communicating classified information to Israeli diplomats and reporters.

  • War games, US and Iranian Global Research and ADNKronos International 

  • Nov 5, 2006 Znet " ... Of Real and Manufactured Crisis ...The sheer magnitude of their recklessness in so short a period of history has been astonishing and belies making any optimistic assumptions about their future actions. I like to believe that we can pressure the Washington warriors to abandon their coming wars, and when it comes to Iran choose normalization of relations over dangerous saber-rattling and clandestine war planning. Normalization of relations with the U.S. deprives the ruling clerics in Iran of one of their most potent tools in their state arsenal for mobilizing and silencing the public. Without the latter the course of Iran’s internal politics will likely resume its natural evolutionary course and democracy and rights advocates will have a greater and calmer social space to pursue their objectives. Otherwise, the resolution of the manufactured Iran crisis through the favored neo-conservative muscular policy tools will only gravely exacerbate the real Iran crisis for a very long time to come."

  • Nov 5, 2006 CounterCurrents "Figures like mega-church evangelist John Hagee, who some have dubbed Pastor Strangelove, believe a nuclear attack by the US against Iran would set off a battle of Armageddon in the Middle East; he and his allies are literally pushing the Bush administration to attack for that reason"

  • Republicans lose control of the U.S. Senate and House.

  • Nov 9, 2006 Dissident Voice "US vs. AIPAC ...  there is simply too much evidence of Israel’s involvement (mostly through lobbying groups such as AIPAC) with how things are run in US. This creates a huge problem in a democracy; where people expect their representatives to work for their interest and not for the interest of a foreign power."

  • New Republic Online "Bush vs Times, Full Court Press ....As part of his leak-hunt, Fitzgerald subpoenas the phone records of Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau. When they refuse to comply with the subpoena, invoking the First Amendment, the judge then holds them in contempt. It's the Judith Miller saga all over again, only worse. 

  • Nov 15, 2006  RenewAmerica (conservative) "The president's unfortunate decision to withhold his announcement ended up being a major blunder, probably even a historic one. In the short term, it cost the Republicans the Senate. To wit: a poll on AOL News asked: "Would you have voted differently if you knew Rumsfeld was resigning?" Eight percent (8%) of the 283,363 people who responded as of this writing said "yes." Eight percent's more than enough to have made a difference. Both George Allen in Virginia and Conrad Burns in Montana lost their races by less than 1% of their states' votes. If either Allen or Burns wins, the Republicans keep the Senate. 

  • Aljazeerah.info  "Pelosi denies that the key issue is Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza --- at a stroke repudiating numerous UN Security Council Resolutions that the US voted for and supposedly still supports. But clearly, that’s no longer the case, and hasn’t been for many years.  The real issue, she states, is the survival of Israel. This is the familiar mantra by which anything and everything becomes possible. Only, there's a minor catch: The statement isn’t true and hasn’t been since probably 1949.  If nothing else, Pelosi is well-versed. She recites another familiar line, the one about how there was no partner for peace until Arafat expired, when light suddenly came flooding in. Pelosi makes it clear that in her view the Palestinian leader Abbas’ real job is to serve as policeman for Israel. Evidently, his legitimacy largely depends on this. Looking after the best interests of his own people comes in a distant second." 

  • Nov 16, 2006  Progressive U. "Plame case may use Paula Jones lawsuits precedence to force Cheney to testify!"  ...  1997 Supreme Court decision offers no immunity to government officials.  search terms: Libby, Rove, depositions about there role in disclosing Plame's classification.  and attorney Joseph Cotchett, precedents come back to bite you, 

  • Nov 17, 2006  Guardian "A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies  ... The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says he spent seven years working for European security and intelligence agencies, including MI5. He said Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran training camps in Afghanistan, told his US interrogators that al-Qaeda had been training Iraqis.  ... more search terms: Security Council, Powell speech 2003, overthrow Hussein to use Iraq as a jihadist base, Finsbury Park mosque, Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada, MI5, French intelligence, Osama bin Laden,

  • Antiwar  "What It Means to 'Salvage US Prestige' in Iraq 

  • JTA  Rosen Weissman possible trial by April 2007, hearing to set trial date, Judge T.S. Ellis, three other dates in January, April and August of 2006 all lapsed.   and also 

  • JTA   "The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC lobbyists denied a government attempt to make leaking information to a foreign nation a crime. The prosecution requested a “clarification” of an earlier decision by Judge T.S. Ellis in the case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s former policy chief, and Keith Weissman, a former Iran analyst. That decision upheld as constitutional a 1917 statute criminalizing the receipt of classified information, but rejected as unconstitutional the statute’s implication that prosecutors need only prove that the leaking benefited a foreign nation, and not that it harmed U.S. interests." 

  • Huffington Post, Al Queda and flight 77, How the FBI Blew It on 9/11

  • Nov 18, 2006

  • The Australian "No sign of Iran N-arms, says CIA November 20, 2006 WASHINGTON: A classified draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, ... "If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the administration from pursuing a military option with Iran," Hersh wrote, citing a source familiar with the discussion.  Mr Cheney said the White House would circumvent any legislative restrictions "and thus stop Congress from getting in its way," Hersh wrote.  The Democratic victory unleashed a surge of calls for the Bush administration to begin direct talks with Iran.  

  • Nov 20, 2006

  • New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, "The Next Act ... If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the Administration from pursuing a military option with Iran. The White House would put “shorteners” on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.  ...  “They’re afraid that Congress is going to vote a binding resolution to stop a hit on Iran, à la Nicaragua in the Contra war,”  search terms: Boland amendments, Cheney, Baker, Skrowcoft,  Bush Sr., sale of weapons via Israel to Iran, Robert Gates, Iraq Study Group ... for some advocates of military action, “the goal in Iran is not regime change but a strike that will send a signal that America still can accomplish its goals. Even if it does not destroy Iran’s nuclear network, there are many who think that thirty-six hours of bombing is the only way to remind the Iranians of the very high cost of going forward with the bomb—and of supporting Moqtada al-Sadr and his pro-Iran element in Iraq.” (Sadr, who commands a Shiite militia, has religious ties to Iran.) and   The C.I.A. found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

  • Nov 27, 2006

  • Frontpage  "What the realists have in mind, then, is that the United States should turn a blind eye to Iran's nuclear weapons program, in exchange for Iran's help in easing our retreat from Iraq." 

  • Forbes "The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters (Judith Miller and Philip Shenon) in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe  ...  The Justice Department says the reporters' calls tipped off the charities (Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation) of upcoming government raids. A federal judge who ruled in the Times' favor said there is no evidence in the case even suggesting that the reporters tipped off the charities about the raids or that the reporters even knew the government would raid either charity.  In August, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that federal prosecutors could see the two reporters' phone records.  The government says the fact that the reporters relayed disclosures from a government source to "targets of an imminent law enforcement action substantially weakens any claim of freedom of the press." 

  • Executive Intelligence Review "Cheney (on recent trip) proposed to establish a new regional balance of power, through a Sunni Arab alliance with Israel, to confront the Iranian threat. Cheney argued that to negotiate with Iran at this time would be tantamount to surrender. A new military organization will be built, involving the Gulf Cooperation Council states, Egypt, and Jordan. NATO and the United States will be closely involved, and Israel will be a de facto participant. These moves led by Cheney obviously aim to pre-empt adoption by the Bush Administration of any recommendations from the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, to initiate diplomatic talks with Iran. ... more search terms: Michael Aoun alliance with Hezbollah, Sfeir and the Maronites, Sunni-Arab / Christian / Druze coalition, return Golan Heights, complete construction of wall and similar wall along Lebanon border.

  • from Dr. John Hagee, CUFI, Christians United for Israel:  "I have reason to believe that Iran will face a military preemptive strike from Israel to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."

  • Nov 28, 2006 Trade Arabia, Iraq oil law,

  • Dec 1, 2006 Center for Media and Democracy   "The First Casualty ... Paul Moran was killed by a suicide bomber in northern Iraq on 22nd March 2003, just three days into a war that he had—perhaps unknowingly—helped to start.  ... search terms Rendon Group propaganda, the first casualty of war: truth, INC, Chalabi, WMD, Iraq invasion, al-Haideri, CIA, Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, whose sister, Sandra Libby, happens to be John Rendon's wife. 

  • The Nation "The Baker-Hamilton commission has not come up with a roadmap to success. Pulling out US combat troops could be accompanied by greater chaos and conflict in Iraq--and perhaps in the region. (In a Washington Post op-ed several days ago, Saudi adviser Nawaf Obaid warned that Saudi Arabia might intervene in Iraq to protect Sunnis--even if this could lead to war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.) But Baker has rendered a harsh judgment on the son's war. He has shifted the debate. Withdrawal--of some kind--is now the majority position." 

  • Dec 3, 2006 The Nation "The Baker-Hamilton commission has not come up with a roadmap to success. Pulling out US combat troops could be accompanied by greater chaos and conflict in Iraq--and perhaps in the region. (In a Washington Post op-ed several days ago, Saudi adviser Nawaf Obaid warned that Saudi Arabia might intervene in Iraq to protect Sunnis--even if this could lead to war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.) But Baker has rendered a harsh judgment on the son's war. He has shifted the debate. Withdrawal--of some kind--is now the majority position." 

  • Dec 8, 2006 Harretz "Did the government pressure AIPAC to stop paying Rosen's and Weissman's legal fees?  ...  The interesting development: In the courtroom, the defendants are now trying to convince the judge, that it had been the government's actions and pressure that led AIPAC to stop the payments. Furthermore, they are asserting that government acted illegally and as a result the prosecution should suffer dire consequences (the Sixth Amendment protects a defendant's right "to have the assistance of counsel for his defense")." more search terms: defendant's legal fees, Nassika, Lowell, 'get AIPAC out from under this - ensure it will not be a target of the investigation'.

  • BBC "Iran 'will help US to leave Iraq' ...  Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said Tehran is willing to help the US withdraw from Iraq. But he added that Iran would only assist if the Americans changed their attitude towards Tehran. ... Iran probably wants the US to drop its insistence that it freeze its nuclear programme before any kind of talks.  She adds that other conditions may include a timetable for the US withdrawal.  

  • Dec 12, 2006 Olmert, Berlin, quote: "Iran, openly, explicitly and publicly threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel, Russia?"  continuing firestorm debate from December 11th statement.  Or was it deliberate?  and 

  • Antiwar "Israel, Alone The nuclear cat is out of the bag – and Olmert issues a warning…

  • Iran, holocaust denial meetings?

  • Dec 16, 2006  Independent "Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Thursday that he does not expect any government officials to refuse to testify in the CIA leak trial, but he did not specifically say whether Vice President Dick Cheney or other top White House officials were on his witness list." more search terms: Plame, Wilson, Russert and Miller are prosecution witnesses, Armitage and Woodward mentioned.

  • Dec 17, 2006 Jurist "Libby prosecutor not anticipating privilege claims by government witnesses ...  [JURIST] Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald [official website] indicated Friday in court papers that he was "not aware" that any government witnesses in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [defense website; JURIST news archive] intended to invoke executive privilege to avoid testifying, "and the government does not otherwise anticipate any of its witnesses moving to quash or limit trial subpoenas." Vice President Dick Cheney, for whom Libby worked as chief of staff, is expected to be called to the stand but it remains unclear whether he will actually testify" by Melissa C. Bancroft

  • Dec 18, 2006 The News: "Iran to replace dollar with euro in foreign deals ...  TEHRAN: Iran announced Monday it has ordered the central bank to use euros for foreign transactions and transform the state's dollar-denominated assets held abroad into the single European currency 

  • Dec 23, 2006 Antiwar  "Could Bush Start Another War?  by Scott Horton  ...  Everyone outside AEI seems to agree that the chances for his "victory" of a multiethnic, America-friendly, democratic Iraqi state have long since expired. The Baker panel avoided using the term at all. And as investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss explained to me last week, the US is backing the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) death squad leaders because they are the only ones (besides some of the Kurds in the autonomous North) who want – need – the US to stay. This is hardly the "road to victory" as it has been defined by the President."

  • Dec 24, 2006 Guardian "Iran Refuses to Cease Uranium Enrichment ...  Iran vowed Sunday to push forward efforts to enrich uranium and to change its relations with the international nuclear watchdog after the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions designed to stop the country's disputed nuclear program.

  • Houston Chronicle, Moscow's U.N. envoy, Vitaly Churkin, argued that sanctions should be narrowly targeted at Iran's prohibited activities while allowing development of its nuclear energy industry, including an $800 million Russian nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran.

  • FreeInternetPress ... Former ambassador Joseph Wilson asked a federal judge Wednesday not to force him to testify in the CIA leak case and accused former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of trying to harass him on the witness stand.

  • Antiwar "The Israel lobby in the U.S. has recently taken it on the chin four times in a row, without so much as getting a punch in edgewise: it started with the arrest and indictment of two top AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, for espionage. They are charged with funneling classified information, some of it high-level stuff, to Israeli embassy officials. Then there was the Harvard University research paper authored by professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, documenting and decrying what they called "the Lobby" and its distorting effect on American foreign policy. Now there's the Baker-Hamilton commission linking the Palestinian question to our "grave and deteriorating" prospects in Iraq, and, to top it off, the Jimmy Carter book.

  • Dec 27, 2006 Baltimore Chronicle "Crime of the Century ... It now appears that the idea of attacking Iran is again moving forward. The Eisenhower strike force, armed with some 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles as well as a fleet of strike aircraft, and already on station in the Arabian Sea for over a month and a half, has moved into the Persian Gulf. A second carrier group, led by the USS Stennis, is set to start steaming toward the Gulf, too, from its base in Washington. Already in position are three expeditionary strike groups and an amphibious warship, all suitable for landing Marines on Iranian beaches."

  • Dec 31, 2006 AfterDowningStreet "Choosing Victory", Iran attack in spring 2007, or Cheney out? and see EIR

  • Financial Times UK, "In 2004 the vice-president felt confident enough to dismiss questions from Patrick Leahy, then a powerless Democrat, with a lewd invitation for him to do something sexually impossible. Now, he faces political revenge: Mr Leahy, the incoming chairman of the judiciary committee, has said he will issue subpoenas to secure documents that show whether the Bush administration authorised torture as part of its “war on terror”.  and search terms: no-bid contracts, Halliburton, ... A dead deer recently found outside his residence revived mocking stories of when he went hunting and accidentally shot his friend in the face. 

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