Archive for the 'Middle East' Category
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Think Progress…June 13, 2010
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‘The United States “has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,” according to senior U.S. officials. An internal Pentagon memo dubs Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”’
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How about these […]
Posted in Military, Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorism, Middle East, Lebanon, Dubai, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Somalia, Natural Resources |
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency
1 day ago
DOHA (AFP) — Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.
“We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do […]
Posted in Middle East, Communications, Internet, Asia, Crime |
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Gulf prankster possible message source
January 14, 2008
Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.
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But, two can play at this […]
Posted in Military, Bush, Middle East, Iran, Weapons |
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Bush teary-eyed about Auschwitz
TheStar.com
January 12, 2008
JERUSALEM–A teary-eyed U.S. President George W. Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz yesterday at Israel’s Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.
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(AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)
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How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to powerRumours of a link between […]
Posted in Business, Bush, World War II, Middle East, Israel, Third Reich, Prescott Bush, Holocaust |
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Pope refuses to meet Rice: report
Wed Sep 19, 12:58 PM ET
ROME (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday.
Rice “made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope” to boost her diplomatic […]
Posted in Middle East, Automobiles, Pope Benedict XVI, Condoleezza Rice, Vatican |
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Foreign Policy
The Terrorism IndexSeptember/October 2007
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In the third Terrorism Index, more than 100 of America’s most respected foreign-policy experts see a world that is growing more dangerous, a national security strategy in disrepair, and a war in Iraq that is alarmingly off course.
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Posted in Bush, Polls, Terrorism, Middle East, Pakistan, Politics, War |
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Doug Feith’s Arabic problem.
At a recent forum, career U.S. intelligence officer Patrick Lang recounted a job interview he had with neocon war architect Douglas Feith. Lang, who had previously run the Pentagon’s world-wide spying operations, “was put forward as somebody who would be good at running the Pentagon’s office of special operations and low-intensity warfare, […]
Posted in administration, Military, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pentagon, Terrorism, Middle East |
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
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Images: (warhead) mda.mil via huffingtonpost.com
Posted in Military, Nuclear Issues, Middle East, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Weapons |
Friday, January 19th, 2007
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Ex-Rice speechwriter: She doesn’t have ‘vaguest notion’ of Middle East history
Michael Roston
Published: Friday January 19, 2007
An ex-State Department speechwriter today told the Wall Street Journal that his former boss Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacked a clear understanding of modern Middle Eastern history.
The article by Neil King, Jr. takes up the tendency of Secretary […]
Posted in Cold War, Middle East, State Department, Condoleezza Rice |
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
“Official: Saudis to back Sunnis if U.S. leaves Iraq
POSTED: 11:13 a.m. EST, December 13, 2006
• Source says Saudi king “read riot act” to Vice President Dick Cheney about Iraq
• Saudi Arabia would support Sunnis in Iraq if the U.S. pulls out, the source says
• King reportedly would “intervene aggressively” but not support al Qaeda in […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, Energy, Cheney, Middle East, Islam, Iran |
