BOLTON ENCOURAGES ISRAEL TO ATTACK IRAN
"At a lecture in Herzliya, Israel... the former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said: “One can say with some assurance that in the next year the use of force by the United States is highly unlikely. This increases the pressure on Israel in that period of time... the time to take the plan of action is before Iran acquires the weapons”... Bolton was of the view that Iran’s response “will be a lot more measured than people think.”
--DEBKAfile (Israel), Wednesday, January 23, 2008
http://www.debka.com/index.php
Saturday, January 19, 2008
RUSSIA TO DEFEND IRAN WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
"Russia's military chief of staff (Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky) said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies (like Iran)... "
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1fg9K4w_OQvYX65kemvhiOOJTZAD8U92Q881
"... The China-Iran-Russia alliance can be considered as Beijing's and Moscow's counterpunch to Washington's global ambitions. From this perspective, Iran is integral to thwarting the Bush administration's foreign policy goals. This is precisely why Beijing and Moscow have strengthened their economic and diplomatic ties with Tehran. It is also why Beijing and Moscow are providing Tehran with increasingly sophisticated weapons..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GF04Ad07.html
"Russia's military chief of staff (Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky) said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies (like Iran)... "
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1fg9K4w_OQvYX65kemvhiOOJTZAD8U92Q881
"... The China-Iran-Russia alliance can be considered as Beijing's and Moscow's counterpunch to Washington's global ambitions. From this perspective, Iran is integral to thwarting the Bush administration's foreign policy goals. This is precisely why Beijing and Moscow have strengthened their economic and diplomatic ties with Tehran. It is also why Beijing and Moscow are providing Tehran with increasingly sophisticated weapons..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GF04Ad07.html
Friday, January 18, 2008
IRAQI POLICE SAY IRAN NOT INTERFERRING
Iraqi Police Commander in Basra Dismisses Accusations Against Iran
Al-Alam Television
Thursday, January 17, 2008
(Text of report by state-run Iranian Arabic-language television news channel Al-Alam)
The commander of Basra Police, Staff Maj-Gen Jalil Khalaf, has described the US-British accusations that Iran is meddling in Iraqi affairs and undermining the security situation as nothing more than a political game. He said the Iraqi security services have not obtained any evidence pointing to a negative Iranian interference in southern Iraq... The commander of Basra Police, Staff Maj-Gen Jalil Khalaf, described the US and British accusations against Iran as nothing more than a political game, saying that the Iraqi security services have not found any evidence which would point to an Iranian interference in southern Iraq... As regards the countries (concerned), it is their problem and this is politics."
http://www.juancole.com/2008/01/basra-police-chief-denies-iran-mischief.html
Iraqi Police Commander in Basra Dismisses Accusations Against Iran
Al-Alam Television
Thursday, January 17, 2008
(Text of report by state-run Iranian Arabic-language television news channel Al-Alam)
The commander of Basra Police, Staff Maj-Gen Jalil Khalaf, has described the US-British accusations that Iran is meddling in Iraqi affairs and undermining the security situation as nothing more than a political game. He said the Iraqi security services have not obtained any evidence pointing to a negative Iranian interference in southern Iraq... The commander of Basra Police, Staff Maj-Gen Jalil Khalaf, described the US and British accusations against Iran as nothing more than a political game, saying that the Iraqi security services have not found any evidence which would point to an Iranian interference in southern Iraq... As regards the countries (concerned), it is their problem and this is politics."
http://www.juancole.com/2008/01/basra-police-chief-denies-iran-mischief.html
Thursday, January 17, 2008
HOW PENTAGON PLANTED SPEEDBOAT STORY
"... the Navy disseminated a short video into which was spliced the audio of a phone call warning that U.S. warships would "explode" in "a few seconds"... Pentagon officials had all day Sunday, Jan. 6, to discuss what to do about the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz. The result was a decision to play it up as a major incident... The decision came just as President George W. Bush was about to leave on a Middle East trip aimed in part at rallying Arab states to join the United States in an anti-Iran coalition... A separate audio recording of a voice, which came across the VHS channel open to anyone with access to it, was spliced into a video.. That was a political decision... made in the office of the secretary of defence. That decision involved a high risk of getting caught in an obvious attempt to mislead."
"... The decision to treat the Jan. 6 incident as evidence of an Iranian threat reveals a chasm between the interests of political officials in Washington and Navy officials in the Gulf. Asked whether the Navy's reporting of the episode was distorted by Pentagon officials, Cmdr Robertson of 5th Fleet Public Affairs would not comment directly. But she said, "There is a different perspective over there."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40801
"... the Navy disseminated a short video into which was spliced the audio of a phone call warning that U.S. warships would "explode" in "a few seconds"... Pentagon officials had all day Sunday, Jan. 6, to discuss what to do about the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz. The result was a decision to play it up as a major incident... The decision came just as President George W. Bush was about to leave on a Middle East trip aimed in part at rallying Arab states to join the United States in an anti-Iran coalition... A separate audio recording of a voice, which came across the VHS channel open to anyone with access to it, was spliced into a video.. That was a political decision... made in the office of the secretary of defence. That decision involved a high risk of getting caught in an obvious attempt to mislead."
"... The decision to treat the Jan. 6 incident as evidence of an Iranian threat reveals a chasm between the interests of political officials in Washington and Navy officials in the Gulf. Asked whether the Navy's reporting of the episode was distorted by Pentagon officials, Cmdr Robertson of 5th Fleet Public Affairs would not comment directly. But she said, "There is a different perspective over there."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40801
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
GOD AND CONSTITUTION
The Iranian Constitution:
"Article 1
The form of government of Iran is that of an Islamic Republic...
Article 2
The Islamic Republic is a system based on belief in the One God... Allah, His exclusive sovereignty and the right to legislate, and the necessity of submission to His commands...
Article 4
All civil, penal financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria..."
--Iranian Constitution
http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution-1.html
The Afghan Constitution:
"Article Three Ch. 1, Art. 3
In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam."
http://www.afghansite.com/afghanistan/afghanConstitution.asp
A Proposed Amendment to the US Constitution:
"... I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."
--Mike Huckabee
"... Ours will.. be a worldview with... with God at the center... will dominate public policy, the laws we make, and every other detail of our existence."
--Mike Huckabee, book titled "Character Is the Issue: How People With Integrity Can Revolutionize America", 1997.
The Iranian Constitution:
"Article 1
The form of government of Iran is that of an Islamic Republic...
Article 2
The Islamic Republic is a system based on belief in the One God... Allah, His exclusive sovereignty and the right to legislate, and the necessity of submission to His commands...
Article 4
All civil, penal financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria..."
--Iranian Constitution
http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution-1.html
The Afghan Constitution:
"Article Three Ch. 1, Art. 3
In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam."
http://www.afghansite.com/afghanistan/afghanConstitution.asp
A Proposed Amendment to the US Constitution:
"... I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."
--Mike Huckabee
"... Ours will.. be a worldview with... with God at the center... will dominate public policy, the laws we make, and every other detail of our existence."
--Mike Huckabee, book titled "Character Is the Issue: How People With Integrity Can Revolutionize America", 1997.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
VOICE ON U.S. VIDEO IS "FILIPINO MONKEY"
"... "I am coming at you. You will explode in a few minutes" - that was what the American navy men heard. An indignant Washington announced the US Navy was on the verge of firing ... But the Iranian footage of the "incident" makes a laughing stock of the US administration. The funny thing is, it was an incident that didn't happen. Commander Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, put a brave face, while admitting, "We don't know for sure where they [threats] came from. It could have been a shore station." Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon, Admiral Gary Roughhead, backed up explaining, "Based on my experience in operating in that part of the world, where there is a lot of maritime activity, trying to discern is very hard to do."
"Filipino Monkey" is the code name given by the US Navy to a mysterious but profane voice which often challenges it in the Strait of Hormuz. The voice could be, if The Seattle Times newspaper is to be believed, "likely more than one person, who listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps in, shouting insults and jabbering vile epithets". US Navy women are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment...."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA16Ak02.html
"... "I am coming at you. You will explode in a few minutes" - that was what the American navy men heard. An indignant Washington announced the US Navy was on the verge of firing ... But the Iranian footage of the "incident" makes a laughing stock of the US administration. The funny thing is, it was an incident that didn't happen. Commander Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, put a brave face, while admitting, "We don't know for sure where they [threats] came from. It could have been a shore station." Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon, Admiral Gary Roughhead, backed up explaining, "Based on my experience in operating in that part of the world, where there is a lot of maritime activity, trying to discern is very hard to do."
"Filipino Monkey" is the code name given by the US Navy to a mysterious but profane voice which often challenges it in the Strait of Hormuz. The voice could be, if The Seattle Times newspaper is to be believed, "likely more than one person, who listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps in, shouting insults and jabbering vile epithets". US Navy women are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment...."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA16Ak02.html
Friday, January 11, 2008
SPEEDBOAT VIDEO FABRICATED
US video on official DoD site first was blocked so it would not play completely and now has been taken down:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/briefingslide.aspx?briefingslideid=320
Same US video posted to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMqbjwxHV4&NR=1
The Iranians said the US video was compiled using earlier file pictures of the speedboats, and the audio was been fabricated so clumsily that the pictures and voices in the video are not even synchronized. The Pentagon admits the video is a fabrication in the sense that the video and the audio were recorded separately and then combined. And they can't even be sure where the audio came from. The foreign-accented voice was recorded from the internationally recognized channel for ship-to-ship communications, and Navy officials have said they are still trying to determine if the transmission came from the speedboats or elsewhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/middleeast/10iran.html?bl&ex=1200200400&en=ab0fa0fbe1b14f9c&ei=5087%0A
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011000692_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008011001831
A video of the routine encounter was recorded by the Iranians and posted on YouTube:
US video on official DoD site first was blocked so it would not play completely and now has been taken down:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/briefingslide.aspx?briefingslideid=320
Same US video posted to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMqbjwxHV4&NR=1
The Iranians said the US video was compiled using earlier file pictures of the speedboats, and the audio was been fabricated so clumsily that the pictures and voices in the video are not even synchronized. The Pentagon admits the video is a fabrication in the sense that the video and the audio were recorded separately and then combined. And they can't even be sure where the audio came from. The foreign-accented voice was recorded from the internationally recognized channel for ship-to-ship communications, and Navy officials have said they are still trying to determine if the transmission came from the speedboats or elsewhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/middleeast/10iran.html?bl&ex=1200200400&en=ab0fa0fbe1b14f9c&ei=5087%0A
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011000692_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008011001831
A video of the routine encounter was recorded by the Iranians and posted on YouTube:
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