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Turkey's Erdogan: Focus on Israeli nukes not Iran nuclear energy program


Press TV
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:55 UTC
The Turkish president has condemned Western countries' focus on Iran's nuclear program, stressing that the world should deal with Israel's nuclear weapons instead.

Turkey's "Radikal" newspaper on Sunday reported that Recep Tayyip Erdogan's strong comments against Israel's nuclear program was similar to his "one minute" stance in Davos in January when he walked out of a televised debate with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.

Erdogan told reporters in New York that Iran's nuclear program is not aimed at "military ends".

The Turkish president noted that Israel has "nuclear weapons" and has used "phosphorous bombs" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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'Military strikes cannot halt Iran's nuclear program'


Press TV
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:37 UTC
Salehi
© UnknownAtomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali-Akbar Salehi
The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says Iran's defensive readiness is at such a level that Israel will never be able to attack the Islamic Republic's nuclear installations.

Asked about the Israeli threats against Iran's nuclear program, Ali-Akbar Salehi ruled out the possibility of any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Brick Wall

Obama aide: No UN meeting for Obama, Ahmadinejad


Associated Press
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:28 UTC
A top adviser to Barack Obama says the president will not meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) at the United Nations next week.

U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice says she doesn't expect the two to have "direct engagement."

Obama will be in New York from Monday to Thursday for the gathering of the 192-member U.N. General Assembly.
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As talks near, US threatens Iran over nuclear work


Press TV
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:18 UTC
Days ahead of scheduled talks between Iran and the major world powers, the United States moves to make more threats against Iran's nuclear program.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Friday that Iran would face isolation and economic pressure should it continue to defy its nuclear activities.

"There will be accompanying costs for Iran's continued defiance: more isolation and economic pressure, less possibility of progress for the people of Iran," Clinton said.
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Best of the Web: Algerian kids falling prey to Jewish 'organ harvest'


Press TV
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:03 UTC
organ trafficking
© UnknownA newspaper article suggests that Algerian children are kidnapped, trafficked to Morocco where they are sold to Israelis or American Jews for the sake of organ harvest
An international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap children and harvest their organs is gathering momentum as another shocking story divulges Israeli plot to harvest organs from Algerian children.

The story, published in the Arabic-language Algerian daily al-Khabar, charges that Interpol, the international police organization, has revealed the existence of 'a Jewish gang' that was 'involved in the abduction of children from Algeria and trafficking of their organs.'

According to the story, bands of Moroccans and Algerians had been roaming the streets of Algerian cities in an attempt to hunt for young children. They then trafficked the kids across the border into neighboring Morocco.
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Document

Intelligence Agencies Say No New Nukes in Iran - Secret updates to White House challenge European and Israeli assessments

Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:01 UTC
The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program, two counterproliferation officials tell Newsweek. U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003.

The officials, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that U.S. intelligence agencies have informed policymakers at the White House and other agencies that the status of Iranian work on development and production of a nuclear bomb has not changed since the formal National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's "Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities" in November 2007. Public portions of that report stated that U.S. intelligence agencies had "high confidence" that, as of early 2003, Iranian military units were pursuing development of a nuclear bomb, but that in the fall of that year Iran "halted its nuclear weapons program." The document said that while U.S. agencies believed the Iranian government "at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons," U.S. intelligence as of mid-2007 still had "moderate confidence" that it had not restarted weapons-development efforts.
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India's Internet Connection to China Inexplicably Cut


2point6billion.com
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:43 UTC
Indian internet connections to servers in China appear to have been cut with no ability for Indian web users to access websites hosted in China.

The breach also appears to have affected corporate email with Indian employees are unable to connect to their colleagues and friends in China. Users in India have had to use services based overseas like Gmail to connect to China.

The reason for the disruption is currently unknown. It may be related to heightening border tensions between China and India that led to two Indian military personnel being shot and wounded after coming under fire from Chinese troops in the Indian-controlled Kerang area of Sikkim around two weeks ago.
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Hourglass

Flashback Former Gitmo Guard Tells All

Scott Horton
Harpers
Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:07 UTC
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© UnknownScott Horton
Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. "The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong," he told the Associated Press. Neely describes the arrival of detainees in full sensory-deprivation garb, he details their sexual abuse by medical personnel, torture by other medical personnel, brutal beatings out of frustration, fear, and retribution, the first hunger strike and its causes, torturous shackling, positional torture, interference with religious practices and beliefs, verbal abuse, restriction of recreation, the behavior of mentally ill detainees, an isolation regime that was put in place for child-detainees, and his conversations with prisoners David Hicks and Rhuhel Ahmed. It makes for fascinating reading.

Neely's comprehensive account runs to roughly 15,000 words. It was compiled by law students at the University of California at Davis and can be accessed here. Three things struck me in reading through the account.
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Stormtrooper

New Zealand Journalist Held In A Psychiatric Ward: Called "Delusional" For Saying 9/11 Was An Inside Job

Claire Swinney
clareswinney.wordpress.com
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:17 UTC
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© Claire Swinney
I was wrongly diagnosed as delusional by the psychiatric staff of Ward 7 at Northland Base Hospital in Whangarei and held against my will for 11 days in mid-2006, because I maintained the attacks of 9/11 were orchestrated by criminal elements inside the US Administration.

A definition of delusional: relating to, based on, or affected by delusions. A delusion: a false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness.

In light of the definition, one of the most astounding aspects to the ordeal was that when I met with the chief psychiatrist, Dr Carlos Zubaran for two formal mental health assessments, I held Issue 3 of Uncensored, which is shown in the picture above, and asked him to look at information related to the 9/11 attacks. This magazine contained an article I'd written entitled: Why Does TVNZ Lie To Us About 9/11?, which cited evidence which proved the official fable was a lie. Yet reminiscent of the fabled vampires afraid of the light of day, he refused to even cast his eyes over it during both of the so-called "assessments."
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Attention

Lack of Evidence Over Iran 'Nukes' Alarms US

Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:01 UTC
With US Poised to Press for New Sanctions, Rumors About Iran's "Breakout Capability" Are Spread

Though there appears to be virtually no evidence that they have any inclination to do so and considerable evidence to suggest they aren't currently doing so, US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Glyn Davies is now accusing Iran of desperately trying to retain the ability to hypothetically create a single atomic weapon if they chose to do so at some later date.
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