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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Confirms Resumption of Atomic Fuel Research
A general view of a uranium processing site is seen in Isfahan, 340 km (211 miles) south of Tehran in this March 30, 2005 file photo.
Reuters: Iran eyes atomic research
Russian diplomats sought a compromise on Saturday to Tehran’s disputed nuclear program but
Iran confirmed it was poised to resume atomic fuel research that will further inflame international anger.Hossein Entezami, spokesman for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told the Fars news agency that talks with Russian diplomats in Tehran had been “satisfactory” and would continue on Sunday.
Britain, France and Germany want Iran to allow Moscow to produce its nuclear fuel to ensure it is processed only to the low grade needed for power stations, not to higher levels more suitable for use in atomic bombs.
Iran, which hid nuclear work from U.N. inspectors for 18 years until 2003, insists it needs enriched uranium to generate electricity and says it has every right to produce its own nuclear fuel from the uranium it mines it its central deserts.
“The two sides are going to discuss Russia’s proposal for joint uranium enrichment, the scale of this, and also enrichment on Iranian soil,” Entezami was quoted as saying by state television before the talks.
His remarks chimed with Iran’s senior nuclear negotiators who say they are willing to discuss some shared nuclear fuel work with Russia but that the EU demand for all the enrichment to be conducted abroad is unacceptable.
More stalling by Iran and Russia wants to sell more missle technology to the Iranians.
A United Nations Security Council referral is imminent.
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Samuel Alito Watch: Concerned Alumni of Princeton and Democrat Desperation – Witness PULLED
DailyPrinceton.com: CAP critic dropped from Alito witness list
Dujack ’76 regrets controversial op-ed, will not testify before Senate committeeAn alumnus tapped by Democrats to testify in next week’s Senate hearings on Samuel Alito ’72 will no longer appear, removing the only witness slated to speak specifically about a controversial conservative alumni group of which Alito was a member.
Stephen Dujack ’76, an environmental writer, had been outspoken in his condemnation of the group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which during the 1970s criticized the University’s move to coeducation and adoption of affirmative action. Opponents of Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court had seized on his membership in the group to show that he is out-of-step with mainstream America on core issues.
Though it wasn’t immediately clear why Dujack was removed from the Democrats’ witness list, some observers believe he was vulnerable to attacks over an April 2003 Los Angeles Times column he wrote that compared animals killed in slaughterhouses with victims of the Holocaust.
The piece written by Dujack: Alito needs to shed his CAP
Almost 20 years ago, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) collapsed like a modern House of Usher, so rotten from within from its own deceptions and peculiar madness that it could no longer sustain its own weight. For Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito ’72, the reappearance of CAP in the national press last week because he included it on that now infamous 1985 job application must have been as shocking as the reappearance of Roderick Usher’s dead twin sister in Poe’s famous story.
Or, it should have been. At the very least, Judge Alito will have to explain to the Senate Judiciary Committee why he paid dues to an outfit whose modus operandi was deceit and dirty tricks. He will have to explain how he permitted himself to belong to an organization that was overtly racist and sexist for its entire 14-year existence — at times passionately so, too.
Dujack is a LEFTIE NUT CASE and after outing the Democrats pulled him to avoid embarassment.
This entire issue of CAP is ludicrous.
But….. the Democrats are DESPERATE to defeat Alito.
Stay tuned……..
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NSA Surveillance Watch: AP Poll- Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop?
The ASSociated Press: Poll: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop
A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.
Over the past three weeks, President Bush and top aides have defended the electronic monitoring program they secretly launched shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, as a vital tool to protect the nation from al-Qaida and its affiliates.
Yet 56 percent of respondents in an AP-Ipsos poll said the government should be required to first get a court warrant to eavesdrop on the overseas calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens when those communications are believed to be tied to terrorism.
Flap reads the poll differently than KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer.
Look at the poll graphic above.
Does the poll NOT ask the question:
Should the Bush Administration be required to get a warrant before monitoring communications between Americans in the United States and suspected terrorists?
Look at the Rasmussen Poll taken December 26-27 and whose question more accurately reflects the NSA Surveillance progam.
The Rasmussen question:Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
The RESULTS of the Rasmussen Poll:
Survey of 1,000 Adults
December 26-27, 2005
Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 64%
No 23%Is President Bush the first President to authorize a program for intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 26%
No 48%Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely.
Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while 26% are not sure.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans believe the NSA should be allowed to listen in on conversations between terror suspects and people living in the United States. That view is shared by 51% of Democrats and 57% of those not affiliated with either major political party.
Survey of 1,000 Adults
December 26-27, 2005
Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 64% No 23%
Is President Bush the first President to authorize a program for intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 26% No 48%
Did the ASSociated Press come/jump to the wrong conclusion or was the AP conclusion simply validated by a faulty or poorly worded poll question.
Or was this simply MSM BIAS?
The NSA Surveillance program whose details of which remain classified involved the intercepts between suspected foreign terrorists outside the United States to people within the United States.
This was NOT merely a DOMESTIC or within the United States warrantless surveillance program. But, a limited program for communications originating outside the United States.
President Bush: “The NSA program is one that listens to a few numbers called from the outside of the United States of known al-Qaida or affiliated people.â€
The ASSociated Press does NOT make this distinction or publish the facts.
Media Bias?
You betcha……..
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Iraq War Watch: NO WMD’s But Saddam Trained Thousands of International Terrorists – REDUX
Michelle Malkin has SADDAM’S TERROR TRAINING CAMPS
According to a new report in the Weekly Standard by Stephen Hayes, new documents found in post-war Iraq confirm earlier reports that Saddam Hussein actively funded and trained Islamic terrorists.
In the past, some have claimed that these camps were used to train Iraqi counter-terrorism units in anti-hijacking techniques. But it’s hard to square that with Hayes’ report that most of the trainees belonged to Islamic terrorist organizations located in northern Africa.
My friends at Power Line are on the story here and here. Rick Moran weighs in.
This is important news. It ought to be on the front pages. It won’t be. So spread the word.
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AJ Strata weighs in on harnessing the power of the blogosphere to disseminate the news.
Ruins of a former Taliban and Al Qaeda headquarters/training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan
Powerline: Iraq’s Training of Terrorists Documented
We spoke with Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard earlier this week; he told us that he was about to publish a bombshell: documents and photographs discovered in Iraq show that in the years leading up to the war, Saddam’s regime trained thousands of international terrorists at several camps in Iraq.
Steve Hayes story: Saddam’s Terror Training Camps
THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.
The secret training took place primarily at three camps–in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak–and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda, chief among them Algeria’s GSPC and the Sudanese Islamic Army. Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis. According to three officials with knowledge of the intelligence on Iraqi training camps, White House and National Security Council officials were briefed on these findings in May 2005; senior Defense Department officials subsequently received the same briefing.
John Hinderaker continues:
Only a tiny fraction–between two and three percent–of the 2,000,000 “exploitable items” recovered in Iraq have been translated. Only in the last few weeks has the Bush administration finally made a commitment to devoting the necessary resources to reviewing and translating the Iraqi documents. Until now, the administration has been reluctant to allow access even to the handful of unclassified documents that have been translated. Thankfully, that posture is changing.
While we have barely scratched the surface of Iraq’s intelligence records, it is already obvious that Saddam was a major supporter and enabler of Islamic terrorism:
“As much as we overestimated WMD, it appears we underestimated [Saddam Hussein’s] support for transregional terrorists,” says one intelligence official.
Apparently there are boxes full of photographs of jihadists training in Saddam’s camps. I’m looking forward to seeing them.Flap is too!
But, will the New York Times publish them?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir: Hillary Clinton Fined for Campaign Violations
Money and Power CORRUPT both sides of the aisle.
But, CORRUPTION seems to follow the CLINTONS.
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