Posted on 06/19/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Saudi King Says Middle East Crisis Will Affect The World
DUBAI, June 19 (Bernama) -- The Saudi king has warned of an impending "explosion" in the Middle East, saying that it will not only affect the region but will spread all over the world, the English daily Gulf News reports.
"The Middle East region suffers from the longest conflict in our contemporary history which is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Israel's occupation of Arab lands," King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, said in an interview with the Spanish El Pas newspaper which was published simultaneously in Al Riyadh newspaper yesterday.
"At this point in time we are exerting efforts to solve this conflict, but we are witnessing an expansion of the crisis to include other countries like Iraq and Lebanon," he said.
"This makes the region replete with troubles that pose grave concerns for us. My fears are the fears of all reasonable men that the explosive situation will not be confined to the region but will extend to the whole world," he added.
The Saudi monarch yesterday began a five-nation trip that will take him to Spain, France, Poland, Egypt and Jordan.
King Abdullah also underlined the importance of solving the problem of Iran's nuclear programme peacefully in a way that guarantees all countries in the region to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in accordance with the standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=268361
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My own opinion, someone is trying to activate a plan that was in development when these tapes were first released.
My opinion is the same.
The number stuck in my mind is ‘3’ and I can’t think of why it is.
It might be interesting to know the date of the first releases and what was hit or threatened then???
I just woke up, so need more coffee, before I start thinking.
A key question that is being asked by analysts is “Why? Why the repost
of the old messages?”
reward is up to 50 million (like 25 million more means anything to a “towel head” or “sorry sheet head”).
StillProud told us the 3 was important for...meaning something is serious? an intent?
I remember something she said about if a statement was made 3 times, it was to be taken seriously.
I’m am going on a recall from 2 or 3 years ago though.
We have eaten there for about 5 years and never been sick, now we are down to one place to eat here.
Iran says U.S. is too stretched to attack it
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070729/ts_nm/iran_usa_mottaki_dc_1
BERLIN (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has told a German magazine that the United States has too many problems in Iraq to become involved in armed conflict with Iran.
Military action is sometimes discussed in Washington as an option in trying to derail what it sees as Iran’s drive to develop nuclear weapons.
The United States “is not in a position to get into a new military conflict,” Mottaki was quoted as saying in an excerpt of an interview to be published in Focus magazine.
“170,000 American soldiers can guarantee neither their own safety nor the security of Iraq,” he said.
The United States and its allies say Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment program is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran insists it is purely for peaceful power generation.
The United Nations has imposed sanctions on Iran for failing to stop enrichment, but Mottaki reiterated that Iran had no intention of curtailing the program.
Mottaki has dismissed the U.N. sanctions already imposed and said that tougher penalties would not change Iran’s mind.
There was no mention of plans for further talks between Iran and the United States on Iraq.
Oooo pooty is a prince amoung men now!!!!
Textbooks rewrite history to fit Putin’s visionTony Halpin in Moscow
As Russia flexes its foreign policy muscles against the West and President Putin enjoys record approval ratings, the Kremlin is turning its attention to schools to instil a new sense of nationalism in children.
Two new manuals for teachers have been accused of glossing over the horrors of the Soviet Union and of including propaganda to promote Mr Putin’s vision of a strong state.
One, for social studies teachers, presents as fact Mr Putin’s view that the Soviet collapse was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. It describes the United States as bent on creating a global empire and determined to isolate Russia from its neighbours.
Many of those behind the second book, a history of Russia from 1945 to 2006, have close links to the Kremlin. Its final chapter is titled Sovereign Democracy, a term coined by a key Kremlin aide, Vladislav Surkov, as an ideological justification for Mr Putin’s authoritarian rule.
The chapter quotes Mr Surkov repeatedly and praises Mr Putin as the man responsible for “practically every significant deed” in Russia since 2000, when he became President.
Mr Putin’s most controversial actions are shown in an approving light, including the destruction of the Yukos oil company and the imprisonment of its chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The book describes this as an “unambiguous message” to business to “obey the law, pay your taxes and don’t try to put yourselves above the Government”, adding: “They got the message.”
Mr Putin’s support for Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine’s rigged presidential election of 2004 is also defended. Mass protests in the Orange revolution eventually brought his pro-Western rival, Viktor Yushchenko, to power, but the manual states: “Yanukovych was the only candidate capable of truly resisting Yushchenko. So Russia’s choice was clear.”
The book describes Josef Stalin as “the most successful Soviet leader ever” and dismisses the prison labour camps and mass purges as a necessary part of his drive to make the country great. The manuals are intended to serve as the basis for developing new textbooks in schools next year, though Education Ministry officials insisted that they would not be compulsory.
Mr Putin gave them his seal of approval at a conference he hosted for teachers at his presidential dacha last month. He described Stalin’s Great Purge of 1937, in which 1.5 million people were imprisoned and 700,000 killed, as terrible “but in other countries even worse things happened”. Discounting the Soviet Union’s long history of oppression, he said: “We had no other black pages, such as Nazism, for instance.”
Leonid Polyakov, editor of the social studies manual, told Mr Putin that Russia was “disarmed ideologically” after the Soviet collapse, leaving other countries to judge whether it was a democracy. He said: “We are developing a national ideology that represents the vision of ourselves as a nation, as Russians, a vision of our own identity. Teachers will then be able to incorporate this national ideology, this vision, into their practical work in a normal way and use it to develop a civic and patriotic position.”
Pavel Danilin, who wrote the chapter on Sovereign Democracy, told The Times that it explained the “core transformation” of Russia under Mr Putin. “We understand that the only guarantee for our democracy is our sovereignty, our strong state, our strong army, our strong economy and our strong nation,” he said. “It is not an ideology. It is just common sense. And my intention was to explain that common sense to teachers.”
Mr Danilin, 30, is a projects manager at the Effective Policy Foundation, a think-tank with close links to the Kremlin. He was more blunt about his intentions on his web blog in response to criticism from teachers that much of the book was simply Kremlin propaganda. “You will teach children in line with the books you are given and in the way Russia needs,” he wrote, adding that schools had to “clear the filth and if it doesn’t work, then clear it by force”.
Alexander Filippov, who edited the history manual, is deputy head of another research institute linked to the Kremlin. He told The Times that the book was a response to the poor quality of existing textbooks and that “sovereign democracy is not proposed as the national ideology for schools”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2163481.ece
Cargo plane crashes in Russia, killing 8
www.chinaview.cn 2007-07-29 11:31:19 Print
MOSCOW, July 29 (Xinhua) — A cargo plane crashed in Russia early on Sunday, killing at least eight people on board, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
The plane hit the ground just after it took off from southeastern Moscow’s Domodedovo airport at 04:16 Moscow time (0016 GMT), Itar-Tass said, citing a spokesperson of the Emergencies Ministry.
The An-12 cargo plane, which belonged to the Atran Company, fell down four km away from the runway and went on fire with eight people onboard, said spokesperson Viktor Beltsov.
“The plane left Domodedovo for Bratsk at 04:16 Moscow time and was supposed to make an interim landing in Omsk. There were eight people onboard, including five crewmen and three passengers,” Beltsov was quoted as saying.
The aircraft’s oil tanks were filled with petrol for taking-off and it was smashed into pieces scattering at a large range of field, he said.
Another source with the ministry, however, was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying that there were seven people onboard and all of them were crewmen.
The Domodedovo airport was operating normally after the crash. “All planes take off and land according to schedule,” Itar-Tass said, citing an airport representative.
The four-engining propeller-driven An-12 was one of the most dated plane series in Russia. They were first put into service in 1958 and were now used for middle-and-long range cargo transport.
http://news.xinhuanet.com:80/english/2007-07/29/content_6445899.htm
Because he is dead.<<<
You may well be right.
I left the double post, so you would not miss it, saw it in my mail and rushed right over to post it, without checking to see that Calpernia had already done so.
Yes, you are right and with coffee, now I recall my thought on the ‘3’, it was a code in the last ‘new-old’ OBL tape and in the Zawahiri tape also.
I also read some place that the ‘3’ shows that you really mean what you have said.
My husband commits about 3 of those a day. :)
Thank you for the translation of the Beslan tape, it helps to hear what it really says, instead of what a reporter thinks it says.
I posted the link to here and Nord Ost on the Beslan thread, and pinged you with a question on the hand with a cross photo.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1873318/posts?page=37
My husband commits about 3 of those a day. :)
post 2308:
“170,000 American soldiers can guarantee neither their own safety nor the security of Iraq,” he said.<<<
Iran has no idea of what a few American soldiers can do, they have read too many of our liberal reports........in the news.
It is Pelosi who is their friend, not the American Military.
MY opinion.
“You will teach children in line with the books you are given and in the way Russia needs,” he wrote, adding that schools had to “clear the filth and if it doesn’t work, then clear it by force”.<<<
The new russia, follows the old communist ways.
Interesting, as the schools here work to change our history also.
Post 2310
Another Russian plane crashes, from the reports, it not a surprise, as they are unsafe.
I always think of Art Bell’s cruise, a few years ago, he came back and talked of the tires on the plane he was on to go into Russia as a side trip to the cruise, he said he could see the threads on the tires, they were that bald.
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