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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a meeting with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Damascus January 19, 2006.

ASSociated Press: Iran’s leader challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel

In a new attack on the existence of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Europe to take back the Jews who emigrated to Israel, adding that no Jews would remain in Israel if Europe were to open its doors.

Ahmadinejad delivered the challenge after arriving in Syria for a two-day visit on Thursday. Addressing Europe, he asked: “Would you open the doors of your own countries to these (Jewish) immigrants so that they could travel to any part of Europe they chose?”

“Would you offer the necessary guarantees that you would provide for their security when they came to your countries and not allow another anti-Semitic wave in Europe?” he added in an apparent reference to recent attacks on Jewish cemeteries and properties in European states.

Winds of War with Israel and the United States.

Ahmadinejad provoked an international outcries last year when he said Israel should be “wiped out” and that the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in World War II was a “myth.”

In his comments in the Syrian capital, which Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Friday, Ahmadinejad forecast that the West would not answer the questions he had posed but would instead accuse him of “talking against global peace.”

He said Europe should welcome Jewish people to prove its sincerity in supporting people’s freedoms.

He added he was confident that no Jews would remain in Israel if European countries allowed them to immigrate.

Ahmadinejad left Syria late Friday to return to Iran.

Ahmadinejad is provoking Israel, but Israel is not taking the bait. And thumbing his nose at the European Union and particularly Germany.

War plans developing…….

Stay tuned……..

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kisses the door of the shrine of al-Sayydah Zeinab, the grand daughter of Prophet Mohammed in al-Sayydah Zeinab district near Damascus, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2006. The Iranian President arrived in Damascus on Thursday on a two-day visit for talks with his Syrian counterpart.

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Iran Watch: Winds of War – Iran President Meets Anti-Israel militants in Syria

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The JAWA Report: Jawa Report Helps Nab Would-be Terrorist (Blogoversary Surprise)

Two years ago today I started blogging by warning in my very first post, If you think this is offensive, just wait til I really get going! What a way to celebrate my blogoversary!!!

The long awaited moment has arrived that I can reveal some of the details of The Jawa Report’s involvement in the capture of a would-be terrorist. Some of you already know some of the details as I have talked about them from time to time in a cryptic manner. I don’t want to overemphasize our role in the wannabe terrorists capture, nor do I wish to claim that the man now in custody would have been able to accomplish his stated goal of building and detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States–clearly he did not have that capacity–but this website did play a role in his capture.

Congratulations to Dr. Rusty Shackleford and the JAWA Report, a proud member of the Bear Flag League on their Blogoversary.

Sweet job, Rusty!

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) visits a Shi’ite Muslin shrine near Damascus, January 20, 2006.

Reuters: Iran president meets anti-Israel militants in Syria

Reuters: Israel accuses Iran and Syria over Tel Aviv bomb

The owner of a sandwich stand looks at his destroyed shop after a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv January 19, 2006.

Winds of War are blowing across the Middle East…….

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Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, seen here in 2004. Iran may have received three shipments of sophisticated P-2 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium. One diplomat said there were reportedly three shipments of one centrifuge each from Khan’s black-market network in 1997.

ASSociated Press: Iran Moving Currency As Pre-Emptive Move

Iran is moving its foreign currency reserves out of European banks as a pre-emptive measure against any possible U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, the Central Bank Governor said Friday.

Ebrahim Sheibani told reporters that Iran has started transferring the foreign currency reserves from European banks to an undisclosed location, the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency reported.

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Jacques Chirac Watch: Threats May Spur Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

Jacques Chirac Watch: France Will Respond to Terrorism with Nukes

Iran Nuclear Watch: Mohamed ElBaradei Rejects EU Call to Condemn Iran at February IAEA Meeting

Iran Nuclear Watch: IEAE to Hold Emergency Iran Meeting February 2nd

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Scorns EU 3’s Draft Nuclear Resolution

Iran Nuclear Watch: France Rejects Iran’s Request for More Talks on Nuclear Program

Iran Nuclear Watch: European Union 3 Draft Resolution Opens Door to United Nations Security Council Sanctions

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia and China Do NOT Support Sanctions Against Iran

The Iran Files

The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image

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Peggy Noonan writing in The Wall Street Journal, Not a Bad Time to Take Stock

I don’t think Democrats understand that the Alito hearings were, for them, not a defeat but an actual disaster. The snarly tone the senators took with a man most Americans could look at and think, “He’s like me,” and the charges they made–You oppose women and minorities, you only like corporations and not the little guy–went nowhere. Once those charges would have taken flight, would have launched, found their target and knocked down any incoming Republican. Not any more. It’s over.

Eleven years ago the Democrats lost control of Congress. Then they lost the presidency. But just as important, maybe more enduringly important, they lost their monopoly on the means of information in America. They lost control of the pipeline. Or rather there are now many pipelines, and many ways to use the information they carry. The other day, Dana Milbank, an important reporter for the Washington Post, the most important newspaper in the capital, wrote a piece deriding Judge Alito. Once such a piece would have been important. Men in the White House would have fretted over its implications. But within hours of filing, Mr. Milbank found his thinking analyzed and dismissed on the Internet; National Review Online called him a “policy bimbo.”

Could Democratic senators today torture Clarence Thomas with tales of Coke cans and porn films? Not likely. Could Ted Kennedy have gotten away with his “Robert Bork’s America” speech unanswered? No.

And the end of the monopoly of course isn’t only in the news, it’s in all media.

READ IT ALL

And now from Michelle Malkin and Patterico with the decline of the Tribune Company, the media parent and owner of such MSM as the Los Angeles Times.

Michelle Malkin: THE LA TIMES GOES DOWN, DOWN, DOWN

Today’s poor earning report follows several previous reports of declining circulation at the LA Times.

Memo to Tribune officers: shoving liberalism down your readers’ throats is not a good business straetgy.

Patterico: Tribune Company Revenue, Stock Value Down

Shares in Tribune Co. tumbled Thursday after the media company reported a 6.1% drop in revenue last month on declines in both its newspaper and television businesses.

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Revenue from the publishing unit, consisting of its newspapers, dipped 4.2% to $413 million from $431 million in December 2004. The company said about $6 million of that $18 million drop was due to the timing of Christmas on Sunday and the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma in Florida.

Advertising revenue in the publishing division fell 4.5% to $333 million, down from $349 million. The decline included a 5.2% decrease in retail ad revenue and a 9.6% decline in national ad revenue, mainly at the Los Angeles Times. Classified ad revenue edged up 2.5%.

Circulation revenue was down 3.5%, the company said, citing volume declines at most of its newspapers and selectively higher discounting.

Evidence of the continuing decline of MSM pulp newspapers. Will the decline continue at this pace?

Probably and WILL ACCELERATE as the baby boom pulp newspaper reading generation is replaced with computer literate new media readers.

Flap wonders if Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times business writer and blogger, will DELETE any more comments on his blog for posting the BAD CIRCULATION NEWS?

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French President Jacques Chirac (R) and captain Goalou (L) visit “The Vigilant” nuclear submarine at l’Ile Longue military base, in northwestern region of Brittany. Chirac for the first time warned today that France could use nuclear weapons against states that launch or plan “terrorist” attacks against it involving weapons of mass destruction.

ASSociated Press: Chirac Nuclear Comments Draw Ire in Europe

President Jacques Chirac drew scorching criticism in Europe on Friday for suggesting France would consider a nuclear response to state-sponsored terrorism.

Chirac’s headline-grabbing comments in a speech Thursday sent a warning to countries like
Iran and sought to nip in the bud domestic debate about whether deeply indebted France still needs its expensive nuclear deterrent in the post-Cold War world.

The French leader, with his second and probably final term nearing its end, laid out an updated doctrine for France’s military might for the 21st century amid the threat of terrorism.

Previously from Flap’s Blog: Jacques Chirac Watch: France Will Respond to Terrorism with Nukes

Chirac seemed to draw little initial support abroad for his call for the European Union to pool its deterrent forces “in the perspective of a strong Europe.”

The volume of criticism could even set back that hope.

The Quotes:

“Jacques Chirac is an idiot,” chided Belgian daily De Morgen in an editorial. “He lives in a time where France is no longer a world power, but he’s still acting as if prolonging a Napoleonic dynasty.”

Spain’s El Pais called the speech “radical and dangerous.”

“Such saber rattling in the face of the current crisis over Iran’s atomic weapons program is basically a false signal,” said Xanthe Hall of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Berlin.

`I’m concerned that Iran will use these comments as a pretext to underline its own interests and that it will make negotiations more difficult rather than easier,” Eckart von Klaeden, a foreign policy spokesman in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, said in an interview in Berlin.

Conservative Milan daily Il Giornale suggested the “pacifist sympathies” for Chirac over his opposition to the U.S.-led Iraq war had worn off.

French President Jacques Chirac comes aboard “The Vigilant” nuclear submarine, at l’Ile Longue military base, in the northwestern region of Brittany.

Ahhhhh Jacques Chirac…….simply restating the obvious. The Europeans are so weak and indecisive. It was about time that some country within range of an Iranian nuclear missle expressed concerns about their own defense.

Do you think the Iranians or Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are receiving insight?

Nope.

But, the United States and Israel WILL PROVIDE IT.

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Iran Nuclear Watch: IEAE to Hold Emergency Iran Meeting February 2nd

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Scorns EU 3’s Draft Nuclear Resolution

Iran Nuclear Watch: France Rejects Iran’s Request for More Talks on Nuclear Program

Iran Nuclear Watch: European Union 3 Draft Resolution Opens Door to United Nations Security Council Sanctions

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia and China Do NOT Support Sanctions Against Iran

The Iran Files

French President Jacques Chirac visits the Naval Air Command base at Landivisiau.

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