jpost.com - 2/13/2009
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Cypriot authorities have started unloading a detained ship which the government says has breached a UN ban on Iranian arms exports. A government statement said Friday the cargo, which it did not identify, would be stored on the island. State CyBC radio said containers were being transported to a ...
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com —
Most political blog readers will remember the storm
of controversy that erupted in early December 2007, when...
a new American "National Intelligence Assessment" claimed that Iran had stopped development of a nuclear weapon in 2003. The New York Times ...
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Now they tell us: Iran is pursuing a bomb
news.bbc.co.uk - 2/18/2009
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At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious
scholars and clerics met with senior Hamas officials to...
plot a new jihad centred on Gaza. The BBC's Bill Law was the only Western journalist at the meeting. In a hall crowded with conservative Sunni ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Clerics urge new jihad over Gaza
democracyarsenal.org - 2/11/2009
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democracyarsenal.org —
Joe Klein makes the following argument about how
we should approach Iran: the approach to Iran is...
best made carefully, circuitously. We need to make a deal with Russians first--the obvious one is suspending any plans for an anti-missile system in ...
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Don't Wait Until the Iranian Election
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Newspaper Roundup for Feb. 13, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
Home News National CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Feb. 13, 2009 Friday, February 13, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor Los Angeles Times: New L.A. gun control law proposed Would bar guns for those with certain misdemeanors Boston Globe: In stunning shift, Gregg pulls out Washington Times: Rahm Emanuel: White House not 'amateur hour' Washington Post: Financial Crisis Called Top Security Threat to U.S. Stimulus deal could mean $26 billion for California But not enough to stop tax hikes or spending cuts Miami Herald: GOP seethes over Charlie Crist's stimulus-plan support Rocky Mountain News: Home builders ...
Cyprus unloads weapons from Gaza-bound ship
Israel Matzav —
Cyprus unloads weapons from Gaza-bound ship [image] Cyprus Radio reported on Friday that the Cypriot army is in the process of unloading weapons found aboard the Iranian ship that has been docked in Limmasol since the beginning of the month. The weapons were intended for Hamas in Gaza. The army is taking the weapons to an army base that is near the Limmasol port. A government statement said the cargo, which it did not identify, would be stored on the island. State CyBC radio said containers were being transported to a naval base under police and military guard. The Cypriot-flagged Monchegorsk has anchored off the port of Limassol since it arrived Jan. 29 under ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/15/2009
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... Iranian Ship Carried Munitions Supplies A ship suspected of carrying arms from Iran to Gaza had no weaponry aboard but carried material for making munitions, Cyprus said Friday. Cypriot authorities began unloading the cargo Friday. The government said it breached a UN ban on Iranian arms exports. Defense Minister Costas Papacostas said more than 90 containers loaded with “raw material that could be used in the manufacture of munitions” would be stored at a naval base. The Cypriot-flagged ...
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