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Written by Seymour Hersh
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
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Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? A STRATEGIC SHIFT Mar. 05, 2007, The New Yorker- In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. |
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Written by The Independent
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
Brigadier Yossi Baidatz: "Hizbollah is building up more firepower than it had before the war... some is still en route from Syria"
Feb.21, 2007- How easily the sparks from the American-Israeli fire fall across the Middle East. Every threat, every intransigence uttered in Washington and Tehran now burns a little bit more of Lebanon. It is not by chance that the UN forces in the south of the country now face growing suspicion among the Shia Muslims who live there. It is no coincidence that Israel thunders that the Hizbollah are now more powerful than they were before last year's July war. It is not an accident that Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah's leader, says he has brought more missiles into Lebanon. |
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Written by Scoop
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
Letter from Lebanon: To travel or not to travel
Mar. 02, 2007- The lights are out and nobody’s in. At first glance anyway. Security gates are pulled down over the shop window of the Lebanese travel agency in central Paris. Litour, located on Avenue de l’Opéra, is a longstanding favourite of Lebanese expats travelling home to visit friends and family. And now it’s gone bankrupt. |
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Written by Marlin Dick
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
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For Marlin Dick, the former editor in chief of Beirut Daily Star, the United States are wrong to envisage the Lebanese policy as an opposition between pro and anti-Syrian groups. The fundamental problem is of a socio-political nature: No solution can be found as long as the Shiite majority will not be properly represented by the institutions. Voltairenet.org, Feb. 01, 2007- Nearly two years ago, I wrote that Lebanon was a divided country after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri. Then, the dramatic "Cedar Revolution" was ending Syria’s direct control of its neighbor and a round of already-scheduled parliamentary elections was on the way, expected to cement a new political order. |
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Written by Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
"Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran."
Feb. 23, 2007- DUBAI, UAE, 21 February 2007. (revised 23 Feb 2007). Code named by US military planners as TIRANNT, "Theater Iran Near Term" has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.
According to the Kuwait-based Arab Times, an attack on Iran under TIRANNT could occur any time between late February and the end of April. This assessment, however, does not take into account the disarray of US ground forces in Iraq as well as the untimely withdrawal of several thousand British troops from the Iraq war theater, many of whom were stationed in Southern Iraq on the immediate border with Iran. |
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Written by The Telegraph
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
"If we don't sort these issues out now we could have a situation where American and Israeli war planes start shooting at each other."
Feb. 24, 2007- Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq. But to do so the Israeli military authorities in Tel Aviv need permission from the Pentagon.
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