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[rediger] Mars

  • 2006-03-23: Depleted Uranium For Dummies +
    • "During the early aerial bombardment and later tank war, President Bush and Secretary Cheney authorized the use of massive amounts of depleted uranium armaments for the first time in the history of warfare. This material is produced only by the United States and had been used experimentally in Vietnam and the 1973 Israel-Arab War. Internal Department of Defense reports had warned since 1943 about its use, and accurately predicted its poison gas effects on our troops."
  • 2006-03-27: Rapprochement? +
    • "Not Only Will the US Not Attack Iran, It Looks Like the Biggest Thaw in US/Iranian Relations Since 1979 is Suddenly and Inexplicably Underway"
    • "48 Hours That Changed the World – Oil Bourse Disappears; US-Iran OK Bi-Lateral Talks"

[rediger] April

  • 2006-04-02: John McCain Warns of Iran 'Armageddon'
    • 2008 presidential hopeful John McCain said Sunday that the consequences of a military conflict with Iran over that country's nuclear program could be so serious they could lead to "Armageddon."
  • 2006-04-05: Bird flu confirmed in dead swan +
    • "Preliminary tests have confirmed the H5 avian flu virus in a sample from a swan found dead in Fife, health officials have revealed. The exact virus strain is not known, but tests were continuing and further results were expected on Thursday."
  • 2006-04-04: Iran's spies watching us, says Israel +
    • "Senior Israeli military commanders say Iran has spent tens of millions of pounds helping its close ally, Hizbollah, the Shia Muslim militant group that controls southern Lebanon, to set up a network of control towers and monitoring stations along the entire length of Israel's border with south Lebanon."
    • "Some of the new control towers, which are made of reinforced concrete and fitted with bullet-proof reflective glass, are less than 100 yards from Israeli army positions and are clearly visible for long stretches along Israel's border. "
  • 2006-04-09: Iran says US military strike talk 'psychological warfare' +
    • «Iran has branded as "psychological warfare" media reports that the US military was planning air strikes to force Tehran to abandon its controversial nuclear program.»
    • «"We regard that (planning for air strikes) as psychological warfare stemming from America's anger and helplessness," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.»
  • 2006-04-11: Robert Scheer: Now Powell Tells Us +
    • "On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us."
  • 2006-04-12: US like Nazis: British Iraq refusnik
    • "A British Air Force doctor on trial for refusing to go to Iraq because he thought the war was illegal said on Wednesday he believed the United States was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany."
  • 2006-04-06: AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic Into NSA Says EFF
    • San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T. After asking EFF to hold back the documents so that it could review them, the Department of Justice consented to EFF's filing them under seal - a well-established procedure that prohibits public access and permits only the judge and the litigants to see the evidence.
  • 2006-04-17: - Bataljoner av selvmordsbombere står klare +
    • "Iran lover å hevne militæraksjoner - har pekt ut britiske og amerikanske mål."
    • "I et opptak The Times har fått tilgang til, oppfordrer Abbasi selvmordsstyrkene til å «følge de slu britene nøye». Han la til at «vårt mål er Storbritannias fall»."
  • The United States began planning attack on Iran before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
    • 2006-04-17: ‘US had designs on Iran before Iraq invastion’ +
      • "WASHINGTON: The United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran that involves missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz even before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former US intelligence analyst disclosed on Sunday."
    • 2006-04-17: 'US has planned since 2003 to invade Iran' +
      • "WASHINGTON/TEHRAN: The US has prepared several plans to attack Iran since 2003, a former intelligence expert with the US military reported Sunday in the Washington Post."
    • 2006-04-17: US Plan to Invade Iran Is Updated, Says Top Intelligence Analyst +
      • "WASHINGTON, 17 April 2006 — Disconcerting news from Washington. First we learned earlier this year that the Bush administration was making plans to attack Iraq even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now we learn Iran may also have been included in that plan."
    • 2006-04-17: US has been planning "Iran War" since 2003 +
      • "BEIJING, April 17 -- The United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran that involves missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz even before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former U.S. intelligence analyst disclosed. "
      • "U.S. and British planners have already conducted a Caspian Sea war game as part of these preparations, the scholar said."
    • 2006-04-17: Iran attack plan 'constant' +
      • "THE United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran even before the March, 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former U.S. intelligence analyst disclosed yesterday."
      • "According to military sources close to the planning process, this task was given to Army General John Abizaid, now commander of CENTCOM, in 2002," Mr Arkin wrote, referring to the U.S. Central Command.
    • 2006-04-17: Analyst discloses US war plans against Iran before Iraq invasion +
      • "WASHINGTON — The United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran that involves missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz even before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former US intelligence analyst disclosed yesterday."
  • 2006-04-19: Group: Yahoo Helped China, Again +
    • "BEIJING -- Yahoo turned over a draft e-mail from one of its users to Chinese authorities, who used the information to jail the man on subversion charges, according to the verdict from his 2003 trial released Wednesday by a rights group."
  • 2006-04-21: US prepared to go it alone over Iran +
    • "US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has invoked self-defence as a potential justification for military intervention in Iran. Rice said the US had the authority to act alone or with a coalition if the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme could not be resolved within the context of the United Nations Security Council."

[rediger] Mai

  • 2006-05-03: Hospital may have exposed some to HIV
    • "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California hospital was contacting some 300 morbidly obese patients after learning they may have been exposed to hepatitis or HIV by poorly cleaned instruments used in stomach-reduction operations."
  • 2006-05-09: 'Iran wants to change world order'
    • "Iran is interested not only in turning into a superpower, but also in changing the world order," Kuperwasser said at a conference on power projection at the Fisher Institute of Strategic Studies in Herzliya.
    • "Iran is at the forefront of global terrorism, and aids Hizbullah in Lebanon, al Qaida, and Palestinian terror organizations, and is behind attacks on US armed forces in Iraq," the general asserted.
  • 2006-05-09 Proposed rule changes would tangle the Web
    • "If the new telecom regulations pass without safeguarding net neutrality, the big telecom companies will be able to prioritize the Web for you. They will be free to decide which Web sites get to your computer faster and which ones may take longer - or may not even show up at all."
  • 2006-05-14: Spies ‘hid’ bomber tape from MPs
    • "MI5 is being accused of a cover-up for failing to disclose to a parliamentary watchdog that it bugged the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers discussing the building of a bomb months before the London attacks."
    • "MI5 had secret tape recordings of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the gang leader, talking about how to build the device and then leave the country because there would be a lot of police activity."
  • 2006-05-16: -- Pentagon releases new film of Sept. 11 plane attack
    • The new videos are not significantly different than previous still photos released from a security camera in the area. After viewing the tapes, Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano commented: "This is going to cause more conspiracy theories."
  • 2006-05-18: Asian Stocks Fall Most in a Year on U.S. Inflation; Sony Drops
    • May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks fell the most in a year as faster-than-expected U.S. inflation fanned concern rising interest rates will slow demand in the region's biggest export market. Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. dropped.


[rediger] August

  • 2006-08-25: Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor
    • "SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (OneWorld) - A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferenccz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars--Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq."
  • 2006-08-28: They know all about you (technology.guardian.co.uk)
    • "Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google & co"
    • (Internet search engines)
  • 2006-08-29: Ahmadinejad inviterer president Bush til TV-debatt
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