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01/08/2006:

"Some Recent Al-Jazeera articles"

Fanatic Netanyahu stands waiting with a bomb for Iran
"Netanyahu has the inside track on winning the election and forming the government - by a narrow margin. One of the more likely outcomes is that voters who would have gone with Sharon to Kadima will be less likely to support Olmert. They will come home to Likud," said Gerald Steinberg, a professor of political studies at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv.

Sharon: End of an unrepentant terrorist
All Arabs, whether Egyptians, Palestinians, Lebanese or Jordanians, put ARIEL SHARON at the top of the list of Israeli leaders who treated them with both violence and contempt. To the Arab world at large, the image of the ailing Prime Minister is solidly fixed as the “Butcher” or the “War Criminal”, and the basic feeling now at the prospect of his death was that it would be a shame if he passed away peacefully in bed.

The U.S. digging in for a long stay in Iraq
As PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH announced an end to the U.S.’s funding to “rebuild” IRAQ, contracts were being made to build a $1 billion U.S. Embassy complex in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government offices, the U.S. military command and some Western embassies.

The U.S. readies its WMDs
...New U.S. policies that involve the use of nuclear weapons were formulated in the administration document "Nuclear Posture Review" of 2001 and became more defined in a Pentagon draft document "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations," Jorge Hirsch, a professor of physics at the University of California San Diego, wrote in an article published on a San Diego Union-Tribune website.

These policies, the drafters of which occupy the upper echelons of the BUSH administration, allow the use of nuclear weapons against adversary underground installations, against adversaries using or intending to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S. forces and for rapid and favorable war termination on U.S. terms.

Hirsch suggests that those policies could be implemented in the near future against the Persian Gulf.

Americans are quite well advanced in their planning for the use of those weapons, which raises the fears that other countries will, out of fear, try to build their own. A new concept of warfare is being developed.

The final straw for President Bush in Iraq
According to a poll of Military Times readers, support for President THE U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH's leadership as commander-in-chief and support for the war in Iraq is dropping among the U.S. military. Over the course of the last year support for IRAQ WAR dropped 9 percent, and barely a majority, 54 percent, view the commander-in-chief's performance as positive.

Losing the support of active duty military could be the final straw for PRESIDENT BUSH in IRAQ. Already, the foreign policy establishment – former military, former intelligence officials and former Foreign Service officers – have publicly expressed their opposition to the war. In addition, Gold Star families who have lost loved ones, military families with members currently serving, and IRAQ WAR veterans are speaking out against the war. And, there have been increasing cases of soldiers refusing to return to IRAQ. In addition, the military has been unable to meet its recruitment goals.

from the 'Conspiracy Theories' section:

FBI evidence of Mossad involvement in September 11 attacks on the U.S.?!
On the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked how they could affect Israeli-U.S. relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)".

An article by reporter Jim Galloway, published on The Austin American-Statesman on Nov. 25, 2001, stated that the FBI had evidence suggesting that the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence, along with some rogue American and foreign spy agencies, may be deeply involved in or even entirely responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks as well as other acts of terrorism against the United States.

The new U.S. 20 dollar bill contains hidden pictures of 9/11- “Coincidence or a Conspiracy”?
Can simple geometric folding of the $20 bill contain a representation of September 11 attacks on the United States?

This was sent by one of Al Jazeera friends, and we would like to share it with you.

"Instead of a new beginning, Iraq is caught in a very old colonial trap"
The current political turmoil in Iraq is the direct result of the illegal occupation, and although the country’s political future is very much in flux, oil remains the central feature of the political landscape.

The newest U.S. strategy: Iraqis kill each other instead of the Marines