Prosecutor: Mexico trying to dismantle Arizona smuggling lawPHOENIX A prosecutor seeking to convict dozens of illegal immigrants for illegally crossing into Arizona has accused the Mexican government of organizing legal efforts to dismantle a state law targeting immigrant smugglers.
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas says the Mexican government has arranged for a lawyer to challenge his legal opinion that illegal immigrants suspected of using smugglers to cross into the state can be charged as conspirators.
The lawyer al... (more)
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At Baghdad morgue, a daily influx of bodiesBaghdad morgue, an aging one-storey building in the north of the Iraqi capital, is the last stop for those embroiled in the country's bitter and bloody rivalry between Shiites and Sunnis.
Dozens of people from both Muslim sides make the grim trip to the morgue each day, where they wait and search together for their loved ones, most of whom were kidnapped and brutally killed in communal bloodshed that has rocked the insurgency-wracked country.
"I came to search for m... (more)
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Full Text : The President of Iran's Letter To President BushTranslated by "Le Monde" (.pdf)
Mr George Bush,
President of the United States of America
For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions
that exist in the international arena -- which are being constantly debated, specially in political
forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These ha... (more)
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Israel: 'Iran can also be wiped off the map'Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."
"Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program," Peres told Reuters, adding that "Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us."
Peres's vehement expressions came the same day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote to US President George W. Bu... (more)
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Olmert: We will ensure Jewish majorityPrime Minister Ehud Olmert delivers speech during special Knesset session to mark Herzl Day, says: 'We must ensure that there will be a proven Jewish majority, otherwise the term Jewish state becomes empty of meaning'
The Knesset will mark a special day dedicated to Theodor Herzl on Monday evening, in accordance with a law passed two years ago. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a speech that "we must ensure that there will be a proven Jewish majority in the State of Israel,... (more)
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Ahmadinejad writes to US outlining global visionIran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to George W Bush, the US president, outlining plans to resolve "the current vulnerable situation in the world", an Iranian official has said.
It is thought to be the first letter from an Iranian president to an American leader since the Iranian revolution in 1979, and an official said it would be delivered later today to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
"In this letter, he has given an analysis of the current world situat... (more)
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US War Doctrine And IranThe Paris meeting on Iran, which the media dubbed "secret" because journalists were barred from it from start to finish, ended in failure as expected.
The positions of the sides remained the same. The United States wants the United Nations Security Council to pass the toughest possible resolution on Iran's nuclear file. By and large, the Europeans are leaning toward the U.S. proposal, while permanent members of the Security Council Moscow and Beijing insist on talks. The negotiato... (more)
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Death squads deepen division in BaghdadBAGHDAD – Three apparently coordinated car-bomb attacks in Baghdad and Karbala killed around 30 people Sunday, as Iraqi politicians said they were near agreement on cabinet posts for a new government that they promise will come to grips with the country's deteriorating security situation.
The morning blasts were accompanied by reports that the bodies of about 45 men were found in various parts of Baghdad within 24 hours from Saturday morning. Most were bound, some bearing si... (more)
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Iran President Offers Bush `New Ways' to Ease Nuclear TensionsIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said last month his country has successfully produced nuclear fuel, has written a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush proposing new ways to ease tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
``In this letter, while analyzing the world situation and pinpointing sources of problems, he has introduced new ways for getting out of the current, fragile international situation'' Gholam Hossein Elham, a government spokesman, said on state-run Fars Ne... (more)
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Bush administration refuses to talk directly with its main foes WASHINGTON - Last month, the chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea wanted to meet privately with his North Korean counterpart, hoping he could persuade Pyongyang to return to talks on eliminating its nuclear weapons program.
But the meeting between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Vice Premier Kim Kye Gwan on the sidelines of a conference in Tokyo never took place.
Hill's superiors in Washington forbade him from talking directly ... (more)
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Russia Has Not Promised Iran to Oppose Sanctions — MinisterRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Russia had made no pledges to oppose sanctions against Iran.
In response to remarks from his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, who said that Russia and China “have officially told us ... (of) their opposition to sanctions and military attacks” against the Islamic Republic, Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov stressed that Russia has “made no such announcements”.
Moscow had not decided... (more)
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Bush: US must ensure Israel's securityUS President George W. Bush said Thursday at the American Jewish Committee conference in Washington that the United States had a strong and inalienable obligation to ensure the security of Israel, referring to the threats Iran had made against the Jewish state.
Bush repeated his pledge that the United States would not deal with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority so long as Hamas refuses to disavow terrorism and to acknowledge Israel's right to exist.
The US preside... (more)
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Bush 'committed' to Israel securityPRESIDENT George W. Bush said overnight that the United States has an "unshakeable" commitment to defend Israel, which has faced outspoken threats from Iran's hardline leader.
"America's commitment to Israel's security is strong, enduring and unshakeable," Bush said in a speech in Washington to the influential American Jewish Committee, which is marking its 100th anniversary.
He said the United States and Israel were "natural allies and these ties will never be brok... (more)
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White House denies reports that U.S. employs terror groups for special ops in IranEarlier today at the White House Press Briefing, Scott McClellan, the outgoing press secretary, denied reports that the U.S. is employing terrorist groups for special operations in Iran, RAW STORY has found.
When asked if U.S. policy has been changed with respect to three different terrorist organizations that have reportedly been active recently against Iran "based on the notion that an enemy of our enemy is our friend," McClellan insisted that it hadn't.
"Our poli... (more)
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Bolivia orders troops to seize gas and oil supplies· President tells foreign firms to give up ownership
· Analysts say move is part of contract renegotiation
Bolivia's president took a big step towards nationalising his country's gas and oil industries yesterday, ordering troops to occupy gas fields and threatening to evict foreign companies unless they agreed to surrender ownership to the state.
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president who was elected last December after years of unrest, sent... (more)
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Blast kills two at Palestinian national security headquarters in Gaza townGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An explosion destroyed a building inside a Palestinian national security compound in the northern Gaza Strip on today, killing two police officers and wounding seven others, Palestinian security officials said.
The Israeli army denied any involvement in the explosion. Israel has been firing artillery shells into northern Gaza in recent weeks in response to Palestinian rocket fire.
The cause of the blast, which collapsed a one-floor building ... (more)
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The Sins Of Venezuelan President ChavezThe oil rich despots of Saudi Arabia , the Gulf States and Kazakhstan use the oil wealth of their people to enrich themselves and their ruling elites , set up Swiss bank accounts and in the case of the Royal Saud Family,.finance terrorism. Democratic activists and thinkers are persecuted.
Such regimes, which strip the wealth of their countries for personal gain, are emulated in many countries and supported by the G8 as valuable allies.
In oil rich Venezuela , howeve... (more)
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Strategy of dividing Iraq starting to make sense, some officers, analysts sayWASHINGTON — As sectarian violence persists in Iraq, U.S. military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea largely dismissed months ago as a fringe thought: that the surest — and perhaps now the only — way to bring stability to Iraq is to divide the country into three pieces.
Those who see the partitioning of Iraq as increasingly attractive argue that separating the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds may be the only solution to the ... (more)
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Iran 'attacks Iraq Kurdish area'Iraq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north.
Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing into Iraq, the defence ministry in Baghdad said on Sunday.
It said the Iranians targeted the PKK, a Kurdish group that has waged a 15-year insurgency against Turkey.
The PKK is believed to have links with anti-Iranian Kurdish fighters. There are no details on casua... (more)
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Imposing Sanctions on Iran Illegal — Russian Diplomat A former Russian Duma speaker said here Saturday that there was no legal basis for the imposition of sanctions on Iran by the UN Security Council, IRNA agency said Saturday.
Talking to IRNA, Ruslan Khazbulatov said Iran’s nuclear activities were being conducted within the framework of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
On the report of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei to the UN Security Council, he was of t... (more)
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