10/05/06
Foreign Policy In Focus What's going on with the current bustle around U.S. naval stations? According to Time, the Navy has issued "Prepare to Deploy Orders" (PTDOs) to a strike group including minesweepers, a submarine, an Aegis class cruiser, and a mine hunter. Taken alongside disclosures that the chief of naval operations asked his planners for a rundown of how a blockade of Iranian oil ports would work, these military preparations led Time to conclude cautiously that the United States "may be preparing for war with Iran."
Military officials downplay these recent moves as routine. But given the administration's recent history of manufacturing threat, misreading intelligence, and misrepresenting war plans, it is tempting to read between the lines-especially when increasingly hot rhetoric is coming from Washington. |
Washington Post
October 5, 2006 US allegations are put to test in Iraqi desert
Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled by the United States against Iran: that Iran is secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding, and training for attacks on US-led forces in Iraq. A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the desert in the start of what British officers said would be months of patrols aimed at finding the illicit weapons trafficking from Iran, or any sign of it. There's just one thing. "I suspect there's nothing out there," the commander, Lieutenant Colonel David Labouchere, said last month, speaking at an overnight camp near the border. "And I intend to prove it." Comments: More evidence that the Bush administration utters nothing but lies.
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5 October 2006 |
By News AgenciesLast
update - 17:21 06/10/2006 Russia and China reject the use or threat of force against Iran over its nuclear program and believe any attempts to pressure Tehran with ultimatums are counterproductive, the Interfax news agency quoted a top Russian diplomat as saying Friday.
"Iran is a large regional nation that has noticeable influence on the situation in a wide and very tense region. Speaking to it in the language of threats and ultimatums, attempts to drive it into a corner, are counterproductive," the agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev as saying. |
Last Updated: Friday, October 6, 2006 | 11:14 AM ET
CBC News Officials of six big powers were gathering in London on Friday to talk about Iran's nuclear ambitions, with the United States again pushing them to get tough with the Islamic republic if it won't give up its uranium enrichment efforts.
But mechanical problems in a U.S. military transport plane meant U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be late and nothing much would happen, officials said. |
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