Israel Has 'Specific Information'-Soliders to be Sent to Iran 07/15/2006 1:00:54 PM EDT · 3 replies · 179+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666261/posts World Tribune ^ | July 14, 2006 | East West News Services
Israel has 'specific information' soldiers will be sent to Iran SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Friday, July 14, 2006 JERUSALEM — Iran plans to take two Israeli soldiers abducted by Hizbullah. Israeli officials said Hizbullah intends to transfer the Israeli soldiers captured on July 12 to Iran. They said the transfer would ensure that Israel could not win the release of the soldiers through military means. "We also have specific information that Hizbullah is planning to transfer the kidnapped soldiers to Iran," Foreign Minister deputy director-general Gideon Meir told a briefing on Thursday. Hours later, Iran denied that it wants the...
Bush, Putin announce new program to combat nuclear terrorism 07/15/2006 12:49:01 PM EDT · 5 replies · 66+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666258/posts AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | 07/15/2006 | Unknown
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, making a united stand against terrorism, announced a new program today to detect and track terrorists trying to get their hands on nuclear and radioactive materials. "It reaffirms the shared desire of Russia and the United States to counter this dangerous threat and opens new horizons for our joint efforts," Putin said at a news conference held as the Group of Eight summit got under way. "We hope that this initiative will draw the attention of other participants in the G-8 and will deliver concrete results." The new program,...
New power struggle emerging in mideast 07/15/2006 12:46:46 PM EDT · 5 replies · 175+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666256/posts DesertNews.com ^ | July 15, 2006 | Thomas L. Friedman
When you watch the violence unfolding in the Middle East today, it is easy to feel that you've been to this movie before and that you know how it ends — badly. But we actually have not seen this movie before. Something new is unfolding, and we'd better understand it. What we are seeing in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and Lebanon is an effort by Islamist parties to use elections to pursue their long-term aim of Islamizing the Arab-Muslim world. This is not a conflict about Palestinian or Lebanese prisoners in Israel. This is a power struggle within Lebanon, Palestine...
Bodies of Two Israeli Sailors Found Aboard Hezbollah-Damaged Ship 07/15/2006 12:46:02 PM EDT · 10 replies · 239+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666255/posts FoxNews ^ | July 15th, 2006 | FoxNews/AP
JERUSALEM — The bodies of two of the four Israeli soldiers missing in a Hezbollah attack on their warship off Lebanon were found Saturday aboard the damaged vessel, military officials said. The ship was severely damaged Friday either by a drone loaded with explosives or a missile fired by Hezbollah as the Israeli navy blockaded Lebanon as part of its military offensive against the guerrillas.
Cell leader in New York subway plot trained at Palestinian refugee camp 07/15/2006 12:39:10 PM EDT · 3 replies · 82+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666251/posts Geostrategy-Direct ^ | July 19, 2006
Assem Hammoud, 31, the architect of a plan to bomb New York tunnels, was trained and directed by Al Qaida to strike by the end of this year, U.S. and Lebanese officials said. "Security forces were able to track e-mails and conversations on an extremist Islamic website used to recruit terrorists," the Lebanese Internal Security Forces said in a statement. Hammoud, nicknamed the "Andalusian prince" in an apparent reference to Islamic emirs who once ruled Spain, was trained in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein Hilwe near Sidon, the ISF statement said. Ein Hilwe has long been a hotbed of...
Travelers pay exorbitant sums to escape Israel's massive assault 07/15/2006 12:13:30 PM EDT · 10 replies · 335+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666246/posts Daily Star ^ | July 15, 2006 | Lysandra Ohrstrom, Daily Star Staff
BEIRUT: Hundreds of Lebanese nationals and foreigners crowded into Beirut's bus depot Friday and bid for the last remaining seats on taxis and buses heading for the Syrian border as Israel intensified its air campaign against the country's infrastructure, leaving the main highway to Syria impassable. Families camped in the filthy underpass of the Charles Helou terminal amid piles of suitcases, appliances, and other hastily collected belongings. A group of Syrian workers holding $14 bus tickets shoved each other as they fought their way onto one crowded vehicle. The men in front tried to squeeze their arms into the closing...
US prepares to evacuate nationals from Lebanon 07/15/2006 12:06:38 PM EDT · 10 replies · 260+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666243/posts ABC News ^ | Jul 15, 2006 | Reuters
Jul 15, 2006 — ROME (Reuters) - Italy began evacuating its nationals from Lebanon Saturday while the United States, France and the Netherlands prepared to do the same as Israeli planes pounded the country. Some 410 people left Beirut in an Italian convoy of vehicles on Saturday, Italy's Foreign Ministry said. The group was mostly made up of Italians and other Europeans, who were expected to arrive in the Syrian port city of Latakia. Two C130 Italian military aircraft will then fly the group back to Rome, with help from a commercial flight departing from Cyprus, the ministry said. The...
The Rogues Strike Back 07/15/2006 12:06:30 PM EDT · 10 replies · 354+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666242/posts Iranvajahan/WeeklyStandard ^ | July 15, 2006 | Robert Satloff
The Rogues Strike Back July 15, 2006 Weekly Standard Robert Satloff Iran thumbs its nose at Western diplomats and continues nuclear enrichment. Hamas's chief, speaking from Damascus, boasts about kidnapping an Israeli soldier. Hezbollah launches a cross-border raid, prompting Israeli retaliation in Beirut and a return volley of rockets on northern Israel. Just another bleak week in the hopeless Middle East? Regrettably, no. This one was different. This was the week the Dark Side went on the offensive. Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah: These are not marginal fringe groups. The first two are sovereign states, the third forms the elected...
The Timeline 07/15/2006 11:58:53 AM EDT · 20 replies · 343+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666240/posts NRO ^ | 7/15/2006 | Michael Ledeen
It was depressing to read Thursday night's press conference with Steve Hadley and Condi Rice, because it was almost all about process, and not about war. Aside from their quite proper insistance that we do want a viable, free Lebanon, it was all about "I've called this one, he's called that one, we're talking, talking, talking all the time, not to worry." There are harsh parameters on this moment, which is an opportunity waiting to be seized. In another week or so the "international community" (the appeasers and "stability" mavens) will force Israel to stop. At that moment, we should...
Saudis attribute offensive to Hizbullah's rogue 'adventure' 07/15/2006 11:56:02 AM EDT · 5 replies · 214+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666237/posts The Daily Star (Lebabon) ^ | July 15, 2005 | Walid Choucair
Comments from a Saudi official made Thursday that the people should distinguish between legitimate resistance and dangerous adventurism by some parties without cooperation from their governments and the Arab states represented a major shift in the kingdom's position regarding the escalating violence in Lebanon. A ministerial source in Beirut said Lebanon had been informed of the Saudi position during a telephone call Wednesday between Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. The source added that the Saudi stand reflected the position of the Gulf countries, which have reservations regarding the respective political positions of Hamas and...
The Real Iranian Threat 07/15/2006 11:50:42 AM EDT · 2 replies · 229+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666234/posts Iranvajahan/WSJ ^ | July 15, 2006 | ROYA HAKAKIAN
The Real Iranian Threat By ROYA HAKAKIAN July 15, 2006 At long last, some good news from Iran reaches U.S. shores. AkbarGanji, one of Iran's leading advocates for democratic change, will arrive in the U.S. today. More than his arrival, it is his survival that should count as a small miracle: No one in Iran has so boldly broken political taboos and lived to tell the tale. Mr. Ganji has denounced the country's rulers as members of a fascist regime and, borrowing the famous words that Ayatollah Khomeini used to address the Shah, has said that Supreme Leader Sayyid...
Eight hurt as rockets land in Tiberias, 35 km from Lebanon 07/15/2006 11:35:39 AM EDT · 9 replies · 463+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666227/posts Haaretz ^ | July 15, 2006 | Yuval Azoulay, Amos Harel and Yoav Stern
18:31 IDF deploys Patriot missile batteries in Haifa (Channel 10)