"The WAR on error"
Pope Benedict XVI met yesterday with Iran's foreign minister and received a message from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Vatican said. The Vatican did not release details of the content of Ahmadinejad's letter, but Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said the note focused on Saturday's U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Tehran, in the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
A series of polls in Germany paint a gloomy picture about German politics and the country's stance on European Union enlargement.
The European Union slammed a decision by the Zionist regime to build the Maskiot Jewish settlement in the West Bank as a violation of international law and unacceptable. "This development runs contrary to the commitment undertaken by Israel in the Roadmap. Such unilateral actions are also illegal under international law and threaten to render the two-State solution physically impossible to implement."
Israel's plan to construct a new settlement on the West Bank drew rare criticism Wednesday from the United States. If Israel goes ahead, it would violate Israel's obligations under the “road map” for peacemaking, a State Department spokesman said.
Saddam Hussein's Baath Party threatened to retaliate if the ousted Iraqi leader is executed, warning in an Internet posting it would target U.S. interests anywhere.
Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis not to hate the U.S.-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a Web site yesterday, a day after an appeals court upheld the former dictator’s death sentence and ordered him to be hanged within one month.
(BBC: Excerpts from Saddam letter)
It is time for the Arabs to see the real facts and American intentions behind words like "freedom" and "democracy," putting aside their ethnic differences and illusions about "friendship" with their enemy.
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Ethiopia's offensive against the Union of Islamic Courts in Somalia risks plunging the region into a long war which may end up strengthening the Islamists. And if America sees the invasion as a chance to weaken Islamic radicalism, it's seriously misguided.
The U.N. Security Council has again failed to act on the escalating violence in the Horn of Africa. For two late afternoons and early evenings the panel of 15-failed to reach an accord on how handle the situation, or even make a statement about it.
Sudan's Minister of Religious Affairs and Waqf yesterday stressed that his country supports Iran's foreign policy despite all external pressures. Referring to Sudan as Iran's best friend in the African continent, he called for further expansion of all-out cooperation between the two states.
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"The subcommittee staff investigated whether there was a connection between a German, Andreas Strassmeir, and Timothy McVeigh. There is reason for suspicion. ... Terry Nichols suggested that McVeigh often talked of his good friend "Andy the German. ... Obviously there was more to this relationship than is currently acknowledged. ... It is unclear why the FBI failed to question Strassmeir until January 1996, when he had already left the United States
For 6 years the Bush administration's national security team has been a dysfunctional family soap opera. This has been an administration that "if the sober consideration of history and facts stood in the way of bold action then it would be history and the facts that would be discarded."
For those who enjoy a bit of old GOP intrigue, there remains a behind-the-scenes and little-talked-about debate. It is about whether George H.W. Bush's presidential career, and the Bush dynastic rule it inaugurated, would ever have happened were it not for a quirky night at the 1980 Republican National Convention.
Since WW2, the French have been variously surprised, dismayed, irritated and outraged by the power of American culture and its effect on France and the world.
The United Arab Emirates plans to convert 8% of its foreign-exchange reserves to euros from dollars before September, the latest sign of growing global disaffection with the weakening U.S. currency.
Money is probably the one area in our lives that we never think of as being spiritual. If anything, we might perceive money as being the root of all evil. Furthermore, we may reason that having significant cash flow will send us down the slippery slope of materialism. Surprisingly enough, however, money can serve as one of the most spiritual resources we have.
The year is winding down. Only a few precious days are left. In the financial world, we continue to wonder how and when the present "good times" will pass away. Today’s frothy financial world bubbles on top of both lies and theft.
Have you heard the news? Belief is bad. Pick up an eggheady book review, an essay in Time magazine, or listen to a thumb-suck session on National Public Radio for very long and you’ll soon hear someone explain that real conviction — dogmatism! — is dangerous.
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