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Iran: They May Not Want The Bomb
And other unexpected truths.
By Fareed Zakaria
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What's the evidence?Iran: They May Not Want The Bomb
And other unexpected truths.
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Israel and Iran
Vanunu a traitor ?? or a Hero !! Israel and Iran one has nuclear-power the other does not (yet) Israel and Iran one sells nuclear power the other tries to purchase it Israel and Iran one has done 8 wars in 60 years the other only one in 200 years Israel and Iran one has the backing of the...Israel and Iran
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Only the People will stop the war
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Silence: An Open Letter to Reza Pahlavi
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich(CASMII Columns)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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I often hear that you care about Iranians; yet your apparent apathy towards Iran’s rich heritage expressed by your silence, one of the hardest arguments to refute, is incomprehensible. Surely the fate of Iran’s historical and cultural heritage, the Persepolis Artifacts which are in the balance and may be awarded to Jenny Rubin and other plaintiffs for damages attributed to Hamas bombs in Jerusalem, in defiance of all international laws, should boil your royal blood?
I write to you in the hope that in the absence of a blatant disregard for international law by your friends, you may use your connections to help salvage what rightfully belongs to Iran and Iranians. Many of the people you know are highly influential in Israel as well as in the United States, in particular some who attended a conference with you in June 2007 in Prague -“Democracy and Security” -- with organizers such as the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Likudist Shalem Center in Jerusalem.
Going down the list of attendees, Weekly Standard’s editor, William Kristol, who serves on the Shalem’s board of directors (incidentaSilence: An Open Letter to Reza Pahlavi
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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7 killed in US drone strike near Wana
* 12th drone strike in 10 weeks targets alleged Taliban compound in South Waziristan
ISLAMABAD: Suspected US drones fired missiles on Sunday into an alleged Taliban compound in South Waziristan, killing at least seven people, security officials said.
The strike targeted a compound about 20 kilometres northeast of Wana, the agency headquarters, the officials said.
“Initial reports say at least seven people were killed in the missile strike, which destroyed the premises,” one senior security official told AFP.
There was no immediate confirmation of the strike from the military or from the US-led coalition in Afghanistan.
The attack is the 12th such incident in the past 10 weeks, all of which have been blamed on US-led coalition forces or CIA drones based in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, at least eight people were killed when suspected US spy drones fired missiles into a madrassa in North Waziristan set up by veteran Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, a major target for US forces. The attack occured hours after the parliament passed a unanimous resolution that called for defending Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty. afp
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* Gilani says US incursions harming Pakistan’s anti-terror cause
* Govt disassociating tribals from Taliban, encouraging lashkars
By Irfan Ghauri
ISLAMABAD: The government will call back the army and replace it with other law-enforcement agencies after peace is restored in the troubled areas of North West Frontier Province, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday.
He was addressing a news conference after his October 24-25 visit to China, where he attended the 7th Asian Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Beijing.
“Army is not a solution. It was sent to deal with emergency situation in the troubled areas and will be replaced with other law-enforcement agencies after it restores peace in these areas,” Gilani said.
He said the government was “disassociating the peace-loving tribesmen from militants” and was encouraging tribesman to form lashkars (volunteer militias) against the Taliban.
US strikes: He said strikes by United States spy planes in Pakistan were hurting Pakistan’s cause and indirectly helping the Taliban.
“We sign agreements that we will not allow unwanted cross-border movement, and this activity still takes place. It is a violation of the agreement,” Gilani said.
“Similarly, when agreements are singed [with the Taliban] that there will be no attacks on security forces, but such incidents still happen, that is also a violation of agreements.”
The premier said Chinese and other international leaders had assured Pakistan of help in tackling its economic problems.
Gilani said he and Indian premier Manmohan Singh resolved to continue the peace process and Singh assured him the Chenab water issue would be resolved in line with the Indus Water Treaty.
An expansion and reshuffle of the federal cabinet was likely soon, he added.
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* Attackers gouge out Afghan man’s eyes, Taliban deny responsibility
* Slain British aid worker buried in Afghanistan
GHAZNI: Afghan provincial authorities on Sunday were investigating reports that 20 private security guards were killed in a United States-led coalition airstrike southwest of Kabul, two officials said.
US-led forces called in the airstrike to fend off an attack by Taliban on several posts of the local security company that guards a road construction project in the Giro district of Ghazni, a provincial government source said.
“According to the reports that we have received 20 people of the company have been killed in ... the coalition attack,” another official said.
A US military spokesman said he had no information about the incident which comes just days after the Afghan government said a US coalition airstrike killed nine Afghan soldiers in a mistaken attack in the southeastern province of Khost, Reuters reported.
Taliban militants also abducted 17 employees of a construction company in Kunar on Sunday, a spokesman for the provincial governor said, Reuters reported.
The Taliban said they would only free the captives after the company, building a US-led funded road, abandoned the project.
Gouged out eyes: Separately, armed assailants attacked a man and gouged out his eyes in front of his family in southern Afghanistan, AP quoted officials as saying on Sunday. The man, Sayed Ghulam, is being treated in a hospital in Kandahar.
Ghulam, 52, said three armed men knocked on his door in the Sangin district of Helmand province on Thursday. After he opened the door, they punched him in the face, put the barrel of a Kalashnikov rifle in his mouth and gouged out his eyes with a knife in the presence of his wife and seven children.
“I was crying, along with my children and wife, who was screaming for help, but they didn’t listen,” Ghulam said. Ghulam, a farmer, said he doesn’t know why he was attacked.
Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for Helmand’s governor, blamed Taliban fighters for the attack, saying the Taliban often kill innocent Afghans.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi denied that Taliban fighters were involved. “Whenever we carry out an attack we claim responsibility,” Ahmadi said. “We didn’t gouge out this man’s eyes.”
Aid worker: Meanwhile, surrounded by tight security, some 50 mourners gathered in Kabul on Sunday for the funeral of Gayle Williams, a British aid worker killed by Taliban gunmen on her way to work a week ago. The Taliban said they had killed Williams, 34, because she worked for SERVE Afghanistan, a British-based Christian aid organisation that the Taliban said was trying to convert Afghanistan’s fiercely conservative Muslim population.
SERVE denies it tries to spread Christianity and says its work concentrates on teaching children with disabilities.
Family, friends and colleagues, including her mother Patricia and her sister Karen, attended the funeral at the British Cemetery in the heart of the city.
Dozens of police surrounded the cemetery and blocked roads to traffic, a stark reminder of Afghanistan’s deteriorating security. Police patrolled the hill overlooking the ceremony, Reuters reported. agencies
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