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Report: Livni hunted Palestinian terrorists for Mossad in Europe


Haaretz
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00 UTC
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni served as a Paris agent for the Mossad overseas intelligence agency in the 1980s during a series of missions it ran to kill Palestinian terrorists across Europe, according to the Sunday Times.

The report cites Livni's former colleagues as saying the Kadima frontrunner was on active duty in 1983, when senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Mamoun Meraish was shot dead by two Mossad agents in Athens.
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Vader

Best of the Web: And the winner is ... the Israel lobby

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:12 UTC


AIPAC rules America
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They're all here - and they're all ready to party. The three United States presidential candidates - John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Madam House speaker Nancy Pelosi. Most US senators and virtually half of the US Congress. Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. And a host of Jewish and non-Jewish political and academic heavy-hitters among the 7,000 participants.

Such star power wattage, a Washington version of the Oscars, is the stock in trade of AIPAC - the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the crucial player in what is generally known as the Israel lobby and which holds its annual Policy Conference this week in Washington at which most of the heavyweights will deliver lectures.
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Target

Libya to resolve Lockerbie claims with US


BBC
Sat, 31 May 2008 07:17 UTC
The US and Libya have agreed to work together to resolve compensation claims from the Lockerbie bombing and other 1980s attacks blamed on Libyan agents.

Libya has already paid out $8m (£4m) to each Lockerbie victim's family but has not made final payments of $2m amid a dispute over America's obligations.

A US court ruling that Libya should pay billions of dollars to Americans killed by another bomb incensed the Libyans.

They are hoping for an all-in-one deal to cover that and the other attacks.
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War Whore

SOTT Focus: War Whores : US propaganda ramping up against Iran

SOTT Focus
SOTT.net
Thu, 22 May 2008 21:30 UTC
The rabid dogs of the US media have been out in force against Iran and Ahmadinejad in particular.

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For whose benefit is the US election farce being run?

Ann Coulter, that bastion of good taste and rational thought, spewed a piece with the catchy title "If we could talk to the Animals", in which she praised Bush's Knesset speech last week, paints Ahmadinejad as McHitler and Barack Obama's comment that he would speak with Iran as appeasement.

The spleen with which she rants, devoid of any truth, and the depths to which she will stoop to push her War Whore agenda knows no limits. She even refers to Barack Obama as "B. Hussein Obama" - now that is really cheap, isn't it? But when you're selling the supreme crime against humanity (war of aggression), stooping so low is a matter of course.

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Magnify

Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?

Gareth Porter
Inter Press Service
Wed, 21 May 2008 03:10 UTC
The U.S. military command in Iraq continues to talk about an alleged pipeline of Iranian weapons to Iraqi Shiites opposing the U.S. occupation, implying that they have become dependent on Iran for indirect-fire weapons and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).

But U.S. officials have failed thus far to provide evidence that would support that claim, and a long-delayed U.S. military report on Iranian arms is unlikely to offer any data on what proportion of the weapons in the hands of Shiite fighters are from Iran and what proportion comes from purchases on the open market.
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Pistol

China denies weapons shipped to Zimbabwe


Reuters
Wed, 21 May 2008 05:42 UTC
BEIJING - China on Wednesday denied that a Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe had managed to get its cargo to the landlocked African nation, saying the ship and the weapons were on their way back to China.

Comment: See here for the original story claiming the delivery was completed via the DRC.

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USA

SOTT Focus: Piecing Together Barack Obama

Joan Wallace
Sott.net
Wed, 21 May 2008 21:40 UTC


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A disturbing New York Times Op Ed piece from May 12th entitled "President Apostate?" by Edward N. Luttwak indicates that Barack Obama would be viewed in the Muslim world as an apostate, given he was born to a Muslim father but left the faith, a crime that under Muslim law, Luttwak states, is punishable by death. Luttwak keeps his commentary to what he perceives to be the diplomatic complications engendered by this situation were Obama to become president, however the implied threat of assassination is not without serious resonance.
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Bomb

Israel officials: Bush means business on Iran nukes

Barak Ravid and Shahar Ilan
Haaretz
Sun, 18 May 2008 10:16 UTC
Israel is fully satisfied with the results of the visit of George W. Bush, including policy on Iran's nuclear program, senior officials in Jerusalem said yesterday.

"In talks with the president of the United States during his visit it was made clear that Bush's statements on the subject of Iran's nuclear program are fully backed in practice," a senior official said.

Comment: See also:

Israeli Army Radio: Bush's Iran attack in months

which was denied by the White House.

It seems that Bush made some serious promises in private while he was in Israel and now the Israelis are spilling the beans.


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Propaganda

Propaganda Alert! We face a common Islamist threat, Netanyahu tells Mubarak


Agence France Presse
Mon, 19 May 2008 10:30 UTC
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - Israel and Egypt face the same threat from radical Islam, Israel's right-wing Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Hosni Mubarak & Benjamin Netanyahu
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Hosni Mubarak (R) talks to Benjamin Netanyahu
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Light Saber

Israel must be held to same nuclear scrutiny as Iran

Joe Parko
The Tennessean
Sun, 18 May 2008 05:31 UTC
First, we went after nonexistent nuclear weapons in Iraq, and now we are consumed with the possibility that Iran might develop nuclear weapons sometime in the future.

Hillary Clinton has declared that she would obliterate Iran if it ever attacked Israel with a nuclear weapon. But what nobody wants to talk about is the fact that Israel has had a secret nuclear weapons program for more than 30 years that has produced well over 200 nuclear bombs.
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