jpost.com - 12/14/2008
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An Iranian Red Crescent vessel due to set sail for Gaza this week carries a "hidden agenda," providing cover for an attempt by Teheran's al-Quds Force to spread its influence and possibly ferrying intelligence agents, an American expert warned on Saturday. Iran's Red Crescent Society announced ...
haaretz.com - 12/11/2008
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haaretz.com —
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel
a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a nuclear...
attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said ...
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Obama's atomic umbrella: U.S. nuclear strike ...
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telegraph.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has branded
US PresidentElect Barack Obama's comments on Tehran's nuclear activities...
as "cowboy" talk the ISNA news agency reported.
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Iran accuses Barack Obama of 'cowboy talk'
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IRANIAN SHIP HEADED FOR GAZA - WITH "HIDDEN AGENDA"... OR A WMD!?
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JPOST: An Iranian Red Crescent vessel due to set sail for Gaza this week carries a "hidden agenda," providing cover for an attempt by Teheran's al-Quds Force to spread its influence and possibly ferrying intelligence agents, an American expert warned on Saturday. Iran's Red Crescent Society announced on its Web site last week plans to dispatch the ship with 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid. "The Iranian Red Crescent ship sailing to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is an example of Teheran's effort to gain political influence through social aid programs, subvert societies with intelligence agents acting as ...
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As if we need a report to be reminded what a colossal
mess Bush-Cheney made of Iraq.
An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction
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who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/14/2008
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... ‘Gaza-Bound Iranian Ship Has Hidden Agenda’ An Iranian Red Crescent vessel due to set sail for Gaza this week carries a “hidden agenda,” providing cover for an attempt by Teheran’s al-Quds Force to spread its influence and possibly ferrying intelligence agents, an American expert warned on Saturday. Iran’s Red Crescent Society announced on its Web site last week plans to dispatch the ship with 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid. “The Iranian Red Crescent ship sailing to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip ...
WAS THE TIMING OF ISRAEL'S HAMAS-GAZA COUNTER-ATTACK DETERMINED BY THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF THAT IRANIAN "HUMANITARIAN" AID SHIP?
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JUST ASKING... WE POSTED ON THIS LAST WEEK: COINCIDENCE OR PLAN OF ATTACK: HAMAS TRUCE WILL END JUST BEFORE ARRIVAL OF IRANIAN SHIP HAARETZ: MESHAL WON'T RENEW "TRUCE" WITH ISRAEL, SO IT WILL EXPIRE ON 12/19. A FEW DAYS LATER AN IRANIAN SHIP - WITH 1000 TONS OF "HUMANITARIAN" AID - WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE PORT IN GAZA. GUESS: HAMAS WILL TRY A MAJOR ATTACK ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH. Permalink - Posted by Reliapundit @ 10:50 PM AND HERE: IRANIAN SHIP HEADED FOR GAZA - WITH "HIDDEN AGENDA"... OR A WMD!? ...
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