Israel’s Spy Revolt
The war of words over an Israeli attack on Iran is splitting the political leadership from military and intelligence chiefs. And that dangerous divide in Jerusalem might well lead to real war. BY NATAN SACHS Something has gone very wrong with Israel’s posture on Iran’s nuclear program. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister [...]
Michael McConnell, left, national intelligence director, and Thomas Fingar of the National Intelligence Council in 2007. March 31, 2012 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON — At the nation’s top spy agency, the ghosts of Iraq are never far away. One C.I.A. analyst who had helped develop some of the intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s [...]
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Photo source: NYT The US needs to follow a policy that is in our national interests. Iranian nuclear bombs would be irrelevant. Even if they were able to fit them into long-range missile, they can not do anything with it. If they used them, the [...]
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Israel has cut working relations with the UN Human Rights Council, officials say, after it decided to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The foreign ministry has reportedly told its envoy in Geneva not to co-operate with the council or with UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay. It will [...]
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By Finian Cunningham Global Research, March 23, 2012 Source: Global Research Saudi rulers are struggling to contain a new wave of public protests that has erupted across the Arabian kingdom as security forces open fire on unarmed civilians. The big question: is the House of Saud finally beginning to collapse like the fragile house of [...]
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The former chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency has cautioned against an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites and put his trust firmly in US President Barack Obama to intervene if and when necessary. In excerpts of an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” programme to be aired in full on Sunday, Meir Dagan said he believes [...]
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Leaders of different Arab countries have sharply reacted to the killing of Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali in Dhaka. Some of them strongly condemned the killing, terming it a “terrorist act”. The Bangladesh foreign ministry claimed that Khalaf was a non-diplomat, and he had been working as an administrative staff of the Royal Saudi [...]
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From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith. by Ayaan Hirsi Ali | February 6, 2012 We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind [...]
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One possible Israeli target, the uranium-enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, was guarded in 2007 by antiaircraft artillery Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press By ELISABETH BUMILLER February 19, 2012 WASHINGTON — Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in [...]
Continue reading …Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari faces charge of blasphemy after tweets about Muhammad
February 12, 2012 No Comment
By David Keyes, Published: February 9 Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia on Wednesday night and is likely to be extradited soon to Saudi Arabia, where he will be tried for blaspheming religion. Kashgari, 23, had fled the kingdom Monday after he received thousands of death threats. His crime? He posted on [...]
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The UN Security Council is expected to vote later on Saturday on a resolution backing an Arab League peace plan for Syria, amid reports of more than 200 people killed by shelling in Homs. The draft resolution calls on President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a deputy to oversee a transition. Russia has objected [...]
Continue reading …U.S. officials concerned by Israel statements on Iran threat, possible strike
February 3, 2012 3 Comments
Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, walks with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Tel Aviv last October. Barak said that time is running out for stopping Iran’s nuclear advance, as the country’s uranium facilities disappear into newly constructed mountain bunkers By Joel Greenberg and Joby Warrick, Published: February 2 JERUSALEM [...]
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