nytimes.com - 2/20/2009
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U.N. officials said that the amount of uranium that Tehran now holds is sufficient to make an atom bomb. >
ft.com - 2/19/2009
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Iran has now built up a stockpile of
enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations...
officials acknowledged on Thursday. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its ...
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corner.nationalreview.com - 2/19/2009
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President Obama had been warned to avoid having
anything to do with the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism"...
conference this year. The U.S. walked out of the 2001 Durban I conference because it proved to be a U.N.-sanctioned platform for anti-Semitism. Its ...
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Durban II Planning
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Newspaper Roundup for Feb. 20, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... Group counters stimulus with Jesus in TV ad Chicago Sun-Times: 130 high-end restaurants join dining stimulus plan Washington Post: Skepticism arises over rural broadband stimulus Washington Post: Mortgage Rescue Eligibility Still Being Finalized Fox News: Obama's Housing Bailout Draws Comparisons to McCain's Plan Washington Post: University s Choice of Homecoming Drag Queen Sparks Campus Divide New York Times: Iran now has enough enriched uranium to make atomic bomb Washington Post: U.S.-China Trade Ties ...
Hope for Israel
Righteous Rantings —
... "In their first appraisal of Iran’s nuclear program since President Obama took office, atomic inspectors have found that Iran recently understated by a third how much uranium it has enriched, United Nations officials said Thursday. The officials also declared for the first time that the amount of uranium that Tehran had now amassed — more than a ton — was sufficient, with added purification, to make an atom bomb." ~ from the New York Times. ...
The Greatest Threat to Our National Security
Antiwar.com Original —
... intelligence community read some of the IAEA reports posted on the IAEA website. Or maybe talked to someone who claimed to have talked to A.Q. Khan, who is an expert on the technological capabilities needed for producing enough almost-pure Uranium-235 to make a nuclear weapon. Certainly, there is no one capable of making such a judgment in this country. Or in Israel. Of course, it wouldn't do much good for neo-crazy media sycophants, such as William Broad and David Sanger, at the New York Times , to actually read the IAEA reports. They breathlessly claim that the latest ...
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com 3/20/2009 — President Obama has produced a video in which he speaks directly to the people of Iran (watch it here). Blog reax from left and right here.CommentaryTo all those, right or left, who believe that President Obama's is doing something new in this, please ...
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Question: Thank you, Mr. President. ...
The Obama administration finds a bomb in Iran
pajamasmedia.com 2/13/2009 — [The following is a guest post from "TigerHawk," cross-posted here with permission from Richard, who is on the road. The story seems important, and has received scant attention in the media or blogosphere.]
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