correntewire.com - 1/13/2009
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Response to Glenn Greenwald on August 8, 2007, regarding a highly praised policy paper by then-Obama foreign-policy advisor Samantha Power:
...the following bullet point deserves serious (as it were) scrutiny
The United States has not talked directly to Iran at a high level, and they have ...
longwarjournal.org - 1/16/2009
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Osama bin Laden’s son and three other senior
al Qaeda members living in Iran have been designated...
as terrorists by the US Department of the Treasury. Sa'ad bin Laden, Mustafa Hamid, Muhammad Rab'a al Sayid al Bahtiti, and Ali Saleh Husain have ...
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US sanctions senior al Qaeda members sheltering in Iran
americanprogress.org - 1/14/2009
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By Joseph Cirincione, Andrew J. Grotto | February
28, 2007 Read the full report (PDF) View flow...
chart depicting the five options in Iran View a nuclear fuel production schematic View a timeline of Iran's nuclear growth from 1967-1990 View a timeline ...
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Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Resolving the ...
msnbc.msn.com - 1/13/2009
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TEHRAN, Iran - Two men convicted of adultery
were stoned to death in northeastern Iran last month...
but a third convicted man managed to escape, Iran's judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. Ali Reza Jamshidi said the stoning took place in the city of ...
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Buried man escapes stoning death in Iran - Iran- msnbc.com
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Sigh. Sigh. I refuse to go through all this again. I last addressed the issue of "intelligence" in detail in December 2007: "Played for Fools Yet Again: About that Iran 'Intelligence' Report." I will provide you this excerpt: Let us start with the most crucial point. The reaction from all quarters to the NIE relies on several interrelated central assumptions, ones that are regarded as so unquestionably true that no one thinks they need to be stated: that major policy decisions, including decisions of war and peace, are based on intelligence in the first place; that a decision to go to war is one made only after ...
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