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Bush, The Appeaser “delivers nothing but a lousy speech”

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(CBS/AP) Egypt’s state-owned press opened fire Saturday on U.S. President George W. Bush as he arrived for talks with regional leaders at the conclusion of a five-day Mideast tour.
The newspapers, whose management are all appointed by the government, criticized Mr. Bush’s speech Thursday in front of the Israeli Knesset for being overly supportive of [...]

Cheney Stalks Middle East One More Time

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Saudi king rejects Cheney’s belligerency
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah in a meeting with visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney has rejected any US military strike against Iran.
The Saudis say any nuclear non-proliferation efforts should include Israel, which is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East with around 200 nuclear warheads.
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Bush Iran Obsession “Only A Smattering Of Polite Applause”

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Bush says Iran threat to world security ABU DHABI (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush accused Iran on Sunday of threatening security around the world by backing militants and urged his Gulf Arab allies to confront “this danger before it is too late”.

Speaking in Abu Dhabi, [...]

Consequences: Foreign Policy or Foreign Fantasy

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Bhutto was key to US plan
Benazir Bhutto was central to American hopes of broadening out Pakistan’s government from the figure of General Musharraf. Washington helped engineer the political deal that saw her return and now it has seen that lead to disaster, with the loss of one of the key figures [...]

Self Destruction Does Not Win Wars

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Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.
BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate [...]

Climate Change vs Terrorists - Which One Are We Prepared For?

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Prior to the release of the the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:  
This fourth and final assessment — the so-called synthesis report — seeks to combine lessons from all three (prior reports). Its conclusions are culled from data contained in the thousands of pages that were essentially technical supplements to the panel’s [...]

US Creates Its Own Enemies - Terrorist Groups Still Growing

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LYBIAN GROUP JOINS AL QAEDA
Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said a Libyan Islamist group had joined the militant organisation and he urged mujahideen in North Africa to topple the leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
“Today, with grace from God, the Muslim nation witnesses a blessed step … Honourable members of the Fighting Islamic [...]

3000 Centrifuges Later - Give Bush Another Excuse, Please

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Iran is running 3,000 atomic centrifuges
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran had met a planned target of installing and running 3,000 atomic centrifuges used in enriching uranium, Iranian news agencies reported.
Iran had said it aimed to have that many centrifuges, which are set up in interlinked networks or “cascades” of [...]

US Fall From Grace Creates Global Power Shift

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THE GLOBAL POWER BAROMETER

In their own words:
 

“The world is bigger than the West”, a BBC correspondent; Source: BBC.

Russia, China and Iran are up as they warn the US to stay out of Central Asia.
HOW THE WORLD SEES AMERICA
The Bush Factor in Pakistan

Amar C. Bakshi: The administration has “actively rejected expertise and embraced ignorance,” [...]

Good Timing For Bush - American Al Qaeda Speaks

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Qaeda video vows attacks on US missions
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - A wanted American member of Al-Qaeda has warned in a new video that US diplomatic missions and other interests were ‘legitimate targets,’ vowing that the network would attack these ’spy dens.’
In the footage compiled by Al-Qaeda’s production arm As-Sahab, an unnamed narrator singled out US [...]

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