After query, AP says nuke watchdog didn't respond to after hour calls on Iran nuke claimUpdate: After an inquiry by RAW STORY, the Associated Press' Director of Corporate Communications Jack Stokes said they could not reach the spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency after running a story asserting that Iran had barred 38 IAEA inspectors.
"IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming and other agency officials did not immediately return after-hours calls from The Associated Press," AP reporter NASSER KARIMI wrote.
Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna ... (more)
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Is this bad reporting or propaganda? UpdateEarlier this morning, Reuters (and AP too) news service ran a piece citing one UK government official and an anonymous Iranian source alleging that the IAEA inspectors were thrown barred out of Iran. Now just to make clear why this is important, Saddam Hussein had allegedly done the same thing acco... (more)
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Neocons Baiting Iran With Second Strike GroupA top US diplomat has confirmed that a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group has been deployed to the Gulf in order to send a clear signal to Iran that they will be crushed if they continue to defy the wishes of the US government by enriching uranium.
"The Middle East isn't a region to be dominated by Iran. The Gulf isn't a body of water to be controlled by Iran. That's why ... (more)
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U.S.-tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm for Producers, ConsumersWhile the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting more than 3,070 American deaths and the U.S. treasury counting more than $600 billion of taxpayer money spent so far in Iraq , stealthily and suddenly the U.S. occupation’s oil prize rang louder than the war drums to alert the regional oil producers as well as the major world consumers to guar... (more)
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Kenya's police "gun down more people than criminals do"Nairobi - Kenyan police are responsible for nearly three-quarters of the country's gunshot deaths, more than shooting deaths caused by criminals, the independent Daily Nation newspaper reported on Monday.
Kenya's police, underpaid and overworked, often take the law into their own hands, gunning down suspected thieves or criminals in Nairobi's crowded downtown streets.
"The police have resorted to rampant extra-judicial killings in their fight against crime," the Nat... (more)
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Perle: Bush Will Attack Iran If NecessaryOne of America's most influential neocons says President Bush is prepared to use military force against Iran if he believes it will acquire nuclear weapons.
This past Sunday, Richard Perle, speaking in Israel at the Herzliya Conference, said he had no doubt of President Bush's intentions.
"President George Bush will order an attack on Iran if it becomes clear to him that Iran is set to acquire nuclear weapons capabilities while he is still in office," Haaretz report... (more)
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Hours before State of Union, Bush approval drops to low of 28 percent On the day of his State of the Union speech, President Bush's approval rating has dropped to a new low of twenty-eight percent, and sixty-four percent "disapprove of the way he's handling his job," according to CBS News.
"Two-thirds of Americans remain opposed to the president's plan for sending more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq — roughly the same number as after Mr. Bush announced the plan," CBS News reports. "And 72 percent believe he ... (more)
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Right on Time: Al-Qaeda deputy 'mocks Bush plan'Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has mocked US President George W Bush's plan to increase Iraq troop numbers in a video message, according to a US website.
In the tape, apparently intercepted by US-based terrorism think tank Site, Ayman al-Zawahiri challenged Mr Bush to send "the entire army" to Iraq.
The Iraqi insurgents would "bury 10 armies like yours", he said.
Earlier this month, Mr Bush announced the deployment of over 20,000 more troops in a bid to end... (more)
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UK Spying On Muslims Who Visit MeccaTHE intelligence agencies are monitoring every Muslim who travels from Britain to Mecca on pilgrimage in a wider effort to piece together intelligence on suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist activity.
A senior Whitehall official has disclosed that the operation targeting trips to the holy city in Saudi Arabia by more than 100,000 British Muslims is part of a trawl by MI5 and MI6 for information about movements of suspected terrorists. It follows evidence that British Islamic terrorists ha... (more)
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US productivity growth lowest for a decadeThe US economy last year recorded its lowest rate of labour productivity growth in more than a decade, with growth in output per hour worked falling behind the EU and Japan. The fall casts further doubt on the ability of the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as the US economy slows.
Research to be published on Tuesday by the Conference Board, the international business organisation, shows that US labour productivity in the whole economy grew by 1.4 pe... (more)
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Wired to report US unwittingly evolved superpathogen in Iraqi combat hospitals A drug-resistant bacteria that is infecting wounded US soldiers in Iraq -- and has spread to civilian hospitals in parts of Europe -- accidentally evolved in US military hospitals in Iraq, Wired Magazine will report in a massive expose on Monday, RAW STORY has learned.
The full story is now available here.
The several thousand word expose is set to bring uncomfortable new light to the bact... (more)
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We're Takin' It To the Street January 27!What madness has gripped America?
In November the nation clearly voted, by a margin of some seven million votes, for an end to the interminable war in Iraq and a return to sanity in Washington.
Today, less than three months later, with a new Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, we have the president not pulling troops out, but sending more troops to Iraq, where the death toll is mounting faster than ever (25 U.S. troops killed in one day last weekend a... (more)
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Report: Gunmen In U.S. Uniforms Killed GIsA brazen attack on U.S. troops in southwest Iraq which left five soldiers dead was carried out by insurgents cleverly disguised to look like American officials in armored sports utility vehicles, according to a report Monday in the Washington Post.
The Post quotes the provincial governor as saying Iraqi guards at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala, 60 miles southwest of Baghdad, quickly waved through the vehicles as they approached at high speed, seeing inside peo... (more)
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Israeli billionaire Saban biggest donor to US politiciansCommunications tycoon has donated at least USD 13 million to American politicians. As a close friend of the Clintons he contributed to the Democrats, but President Bush has not been deprived either.
Israeli billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban is at the top of the list of donors to political campaigns in the US.
Fox Network revealed over the weekend that Saban has donated approximately USD 13 million to various candidates.
According to the report,... (more)
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'Fiscally conservative' Democratic faction refuses call to end war; Plans legislation focusing on accountability for funds Bush wants to spend on Iraq A group of forty-four "fiscally conservative" Democrats will not call for an end to America's military involvement in Iraq, RAW STORY has learned. Instead, the Blue Dog Coalition of House Democrats will introduce legislation this week focusing on accountability for money the White House wants to spend on the nearly four year long Iraq War.
In a press conference last Friday, Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat who was formerly the ranking minority member of the House Intelli... (more)
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Chinese Regime Admits To Organ Harvesting From PrisonersCHINA—In the middle of January, 2007, the BBC Chinese website published an interview regarding organ harvesting in China. For the first time, China's Ministry of Health spokesman Mao Qunan admitted to the practice of organ harvesting from executed prisoners in China, which he had publicly denied before. However, Mao evaded key evidences of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and denied that accusation.
This interview was conducted by BBC se... (more)
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Cell phones as harmful as cigarettes?MOBILE phones could turn out to be as damaging to health as cigarettes, a world expert says.
British expert Professor Lawrie Challis made the observation as he prepares to undertake a mass study of long-term phone users amid fears they are at greater risk of brain cancer. Prof Challis will monitor more than 200,000 volunteers for at least five years to check for signs of an increase in diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. The chairman of Britain's government-funde... (more)
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Defense official says Pentagon hid unspent funds in accountsWASHINGTON — The Pentagon has hidden at least $1.4 billion in other agencies' accounts instead of returning unspent money to the U.S. Treasury, the Defense Department's internal watchdog told Congress Wednesday.
Thomas Gimble, the Pentagon's acting inspector general, said Pentagon offices between 2002 and 2005 used the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Interior Department "to 'park' or 'bank' funds that were expiring."
GSA and Interior then spen... (more)
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Hillary Heralds 30 Year Plus Control Of America By Interlocking Crime Family Another Clinton in office would mean America being under the thiefdom of either a Bush or a Clinton for a total of at least 32 years, 36 if Hillary is re-elected (many now acknowledge that H.W. Bush pulled the strings as VP during the Reagan era), and they still say anyone can become President! What a pathetic joke!
Hillary Clinton surprised few when she announced her intention to run for the 2008 presidency in New York on Sunday.
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"Progressives" Whine About Hillary Bashing The announcement that Hillary Clinton is to run for President has rightfully worried many into debating the problems of political dynasties in America. Commentators have pointed out that should Hillary be elected it would mean America being under the control of either a Bush or a Clinton for a total of at least 32 years.
Some "progressives" out there, however, seem to believe that such a move would be...well, progressive.
In response to an ... (more)
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9/11 ballot question won't have congressional helpVermont's two U.S. senators and one congressman are not interested in urging a new investigation into the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
A Burlington group working through the fall and early winter gathered more than 1,350 signatures -- 5 percent of the city's registered voters -- to put an advisory question about 9/11 on the city's Town Meeting Day ballot.
The question asks whether Vermont's congressional delegation should be "advised to demand a new, thoroug... (more)
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Israelis prepare public for conflict with 'genocidal' Iranian regimeSenior Israeli politicians and analysts appear to be preparing the public for military conflict with Iran as the Iranian President again refused to bow to international demands to curb its nuclear ambitions, and Tehran announced fresh military manoeuvres.
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu told a security forum in Herzliya yesterday that individual states and companies should go beyond the UN economic sanctions. He argued that the first step should be to invoke financial... (more)
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Gunmen storm empty Gaza beach siteA group of masked gunmen claiming to be members of al-Qaida on Tuesday attacked an empty seaside tourist resort in Gaza City with explosive devices and automatic weapons, saying they wanted to send a warning to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah legislator Muhammad Dahlan.
According to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Oasis Resort is owned by Dahlan, although its registered owner is listed as Yussef Barakeh, a resident of Bani Suheila near Khan Yunis.
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