ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hamas.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=russia
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ON THE NET...
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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ON THE NET...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20114_Palestinian_Terror_State_Backs_Iran
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20114_Palestinian_Terror_State_Backs_Iran#comments
UPDATE:
ON THE NET...
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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ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hamas.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=russia
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ON THE NET...
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."