Russia offers aid to Hamas

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4911310.stm

Last Updated: Saturday, 15 April 2006, 00:48 GMT 01:48 UK

"Palestinians to get Russian aid"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hamas supporters in Gaza City condemn the withdrawal of aid
Russia has said it will grant the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority urgent financial aid, in opposition to the policy of the EU and the US.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the pledge to authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a telephone call, Moscow said.

The US and EU cut off aid after Hamas took power on 30 March because the militant group refused to renounce violence or recognise Israel.

Iran on Friday urged the Muslim world to help fund the authority.

A Russian foreign ministry statement said: "Mahmoud Abbas stated his high appreciation of Russia's intent, confirmed by Sergei Lavrov, to grant the Palestinian Authority an urgent financial aid in the nearest future."

Mr Lavrov said on Tuesday withholding aid to the Palestinians was a mistake."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In Tehran, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, opened a three-day forum on Palestinian solidarity by calling on the Muslim world to help the Palestinian people and their Hamas-led government."

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Yessir! They are willing to ship all the AK-47's the Palestinians can eat.

Ping

And in other news, hippies complain about getting wet at an antiwar rally, blame Bush for the rainstorm.

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Russia Offers Own Throat for Cutting

Y not! Another chance to take a pound of flesh from the US and the west. The Cold War continues by proxy.

Hey if Russia has money to support the Palestinians - that's great - better them than us. And maybe they can talk the rich Arab countries into being sugar daddies too.

UPDATE:

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http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/04/14/bill-clinton-gave-iranians-blueprint-for-nuclear-bomb/

"Bill Clinton Gave Iranians Blueprint for Nuclear Bomb"
April 14, 2006
Jim Kouri
by Jim Kouri, CPP

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Last night, radio talk show host and former US Justice Department official Mark Levin shocked many listeners when he reported that President Bill Clinton gave nuclear technology to the Iranians in a harebrained scheme.

He said that the transfer of classified data to Iran was personally approved by then-President Clinton and that the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program.

The CIA, using a double-agent Russian scientist, handed a blueprint for a nuclear bomb to Iran, according to a new book “State of War” by James Risen, the New York Times reporter, who exposed the Bush administration’s controversial NSA spying operation, claims the plans contained fatal flaws designed to derail Tehran’s nuclear drive.

But the deliberate errors were so rudimentary they would have been easily fixed by sophisticated Russian nuclear scientists, the book said.

The operation, which took place during the Clinton administration in early 2000, was code named Operation Merlin and “may have been one of the most reckless operations in the modern history of the CIA,” according to Risen.

It called for the unnamed scientist, a defector from the Soviet Union, to offer Iran the blueprint for a “firing set” — the intricate mechanism which triggers the chain reaction needed for a nuclear explosion.

The Russian was told by CIA officers that the Iranians already had the technology detailed in the plans and that the ruse was simply an attempt by the agency to find out the full scope of Tehran’s nuclear knowledge.

But, contrary to orders not to open the packet, he added a note which made it clear he could help fix the flaws for money."

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http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/04/13/nuclear-iran-beware-of-the-russian-bear-in-the-middle-east/

"Nuclear Iran: Beware of the Russian Bear in the Middle East"
April 13, 2006
Jim Kouri
by Jim Kouri, CPP

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As the Iranians are moving closer to developing a nuclear weapons program, the Russian government is telling the world not to worry. An Russian official is being quoted as saying the centrifuges available to Iran are not sufficient to launch industrial uranium enrichment. A Russian nuclear expert concurred.

“Uranium enrichment in Iran is not arousing concerns in Russia.There is nothing unexpected in this. The availability of 164 centrifuges in Iran is a fact that has been known for a long time,” Russian Atomic Energy Agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko told China’s communist party-controlled news agency.

“These centrifuges allow Iran to conduct laboratory uranium enrichment to a low level in insignificant amounts. The acquisition of highly enriched uranium is unfeasible today using this method,” Kiriyenko said.

However, a senior Iranian official and former president Hashemi Rafsanjani told the Kuwait News Agency that Iran had operated the first unit of 164 centrifuges and successfully enriched uranium.

And then there’s Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bragging on Tuesday that Iran had “joined the world club of nuclear technology.”

However, in order for the Iranian scientists to produce their own fuel at least for the initial loading of a nuclear reactor, “one needs to have not some hundred-and-a-half centrifuges, but thousands of times more,” Viktor Mikhailov, ex-minister of the Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy who leads the ministry’s Institute for Strategic Stability.

But why should the United States and the United Nations believe the Russian government? Afterall, US intelligence agencies have for years known about Russian duplicity in Iraq. In fact, recent declassified reports indicated that Russian intelligence gave Iraq’s military leaders US war plans for the 2003 invasion. Today, Iran is a cash cow for the Russians and it’s in their best interest to prop up the current regime."

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Last Updated: Saturday, 15 April 2006, 00:48 GMT 01:48 UK

"Palestinians to get Russian aid"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hamas supporters in Gaza City condemn the withdrawal of aid
Russia has said it will grant the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority urgent financial aid, in opposition to the policy of the EU and the US.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the pledge to authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a telephone call, Moscow said.

The US and EU cut off aid after Hamas took power on 30 March because the militant group refused to renounce violence or recognise Israel.

Iran on Friday urged the Muslim world to help fund the authority.

A Russian foreign ministry statement said: "Mahmoud Abbas stated his high appreciation of Russia's intent, confirmed by Sergei Lavrov, to grant the Palestinian Authority an urgent financial aid in the nearest future."

Mr Lavrov said on Tuesday withholding aid to the Palestinians was a mistake."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In Tehran, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, opened a three-day forum on Palestinian solidarity by calling on the Muslim world to help the Palestinian people and their Hamas-led government."

I'm trying very hard to see the difference between Putin and all the other Communist leaders. I know he has a better tailor but I can't see much else.

OPINION: I think you nailed the difference.
Other than that; I don't see a difference, either.

He has a better looking wife then some of the swethogs his predecessors had.

If I were Abbas I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the money to arrive. Amen.

Nature abhors a vacumn.

"Already posted, but sourced to Fox, not to Reuters: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615714"

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Have a nice Easter.

Smiling...

My husband said practically the same thing.

I know that Clinton helped the Chinese out with weapons designs, Russia with massive foreign aid and military secrets, and rogue regiemes by ignoring them.

OPINION: History, if recorded accurately will be a harsh judge of the Clintons and the Clinton administration.

Just some thoughts for consideration.......Unfortunately, it seems to me that many of you have been rather shortsighted and politically selective in your criticism of US presidential administrations for funding and supporting currently unfriendly regimes in the world. Need I remind you all of our support for Saddam, the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan (which produced Al-Qaeda), others in Latin America like Pinochet, African leaders such as Mubarak. It's not like the US hasn't made it's fair share of bad choices when supporting certain leaders in the world. We act out of self interest at the time and fail to see what might be produced out of our actions. Then those who oppose a particular administration or party selectively choose which ones to criticize as "one of the greatest mistakes in US foreign policy history." I think it is incredibly unfair, uninformed, and frankly, un-American to not try to see the "big picture" of our country's actions. If we don't try to do this as citizens, we will be aiding what many see as the destruction of our country's current world power status. From how many of you write, it does not seem that you either believe this is possible, or want it to happen.

Additionally, regarding the criticism I continue to see regarding Putin, I argue that this is ill-informed as well. How many of you have talked to the Russians to find out what they think of him? Americans don't like him because he creates his own foreign policies and refuses to be used as a puppet of our government. What's wrong with that and acting in what he sees as the best interest of his country? Maybe before criticizing other leaders, we should be putting ourselves in their shoes to determine if their actions are rational. I'd argue his are. The comparisons to the former communist leasers is simply ridiculous. Russians support Putin, his strong central government, and the stability it brings them. Putin is much better than the chaos created by Yeltsin. At least under Putin inflation is under control; Russia is experiencing economic growth, and Russians don't worry about whether or not they can afford to eat today. Will Americans not stop with the criticism until every country in the world adopts American-style democracy?!? For once, it might be nice for citizens to realize that we only support democracy when it's convenient to us (because we believe we can influence the new leadership). We support dictators as long as they side with us. Hypocrisy is almost inherent in US foreign policy (as with the foreign policy of almost any other country in the world). Citizens should critique and analyze the rhetoric rather than consuming it in one big gulp like the Kool-Aid others have used. Exercise your democratic rights and duties to be critical of your government and its actions, regardless of your party affiliation or the party affiliations of government leaders.

I know that this has been somewhat of a tirade. For that I apologize. For my statements, however, I do not.