Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison for passing intel

The Nazareth District Court Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man from the Jezreel Valley community of Mazareb to six years imprisonment for passing information on to Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War and conspiring to import narcotics.



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Sunday INTEL

Dubai



Bin Sulayem opens Materials Handling & Logistics Middle East and Automechanika Middle East

27-MAY-2007
The Director General of Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), Mr. Khalid A bin Sulayem, inaugurated two trade exhibitions - Materials Handling & Logistics Middle East and Automechanika Middle East - at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre on Sunday.



US
19-MAR-2007
DHS Daily Open Source


Analysis

What Is the Surge Doing to Us?

This article was originally published on Alternet.org.

The Army Surgeon General’s study of soldiers’ and Marines’ abuse of Iraqi civilians and other serious ethical problems was reported by the press a few weeks ago. That coverage addressed only a small part of the surgeon general’s findings and conclusions – the most important of which talked about what leads our troops to behave in such ways. This report, which can be found at http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/news/mhat/mhat_iv/MHAT_IV_Report_17NOV06.pdf, explains many important things about the war in Iraq, including how the war was lost, why the surge can only fail, and – perhaps worst of all – what the nation is doing to the Soldiers and Marines so many profess to support. Winslow Wheeler explains in an article made available at Alternet.org.

Continue Reading here http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3966&from_page=../index.cfm

China: U.S. Exaggerating Military Threat

BEIJING -- China lashed out at the United States on Sunday, rejecting a Pentagon report about Beijing's defense buildup as exaggerated and misleading, and saying that such rhetoric threatened attempts to improve military and trade links.



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Agreement in Ukraine Appears to Resolve Political Crisis

MOSCOW, May 27 -- Ukraine's divided political leadership early Sunday appeared to resolve a political crisis that had threatened to turn violent, with an agreement by the country's president and prime minister to hold parliamentary elections Sept. 30.



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Sunday Choice Clips

Mike Wallace interviews Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, in 1974 and '76



Troop Tracking Chips



Journalist recounts attack in Sarajevo on CNN

Iran Says EU Nuclear Talks Postponed

Iran says EU nuclear talks postponed
Stuart Williams
AFP
May 27, 2007

TEHRAN -- Iran and the European Union have agreed to postpone crunch talks seeking to break the deadlock in the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program, the foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana were due to meet Thursday, possibly in Spain, for their second encounter in just over a month.

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http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070527-053221-8020r

Hill & Obama

U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in Baghdad

Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.



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In Gulf, Cheney Pointedly Warns Iran

Aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf 150 miles off Iran's coast, Vice President Cheney warned Tehran yesterday that the United States and its allies will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, close off vital sea lanes for oil supplies, or control the Middle East.



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British Man Busted With al-Qaida Manual

LONDON -- Police investigating the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings charged a man Sunday with possessing an al-Qaida training manual.



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CIA briefing SEC monthly on terrorists: Barron's

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is being briefed monthly by the Central Intelligence Agency about terrorists and other criminals active in global stock markets, Barron's said in its latest edition.



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Lebanon Confronts A Fierce Adversary

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 21 -- A little-known Islamic militant group based in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon battled government troops Monday in some of the country's fiercest fighting since the civil war ended in 1990, surprising the Lebanese military with the scope of the...



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Ballot Boxing

VOTES SHOULD count and be counted. Agreed. But the devil is in the details. The House will soon consider a bill introduced by Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.) that aims to make all ballots voter-verifiable and recountable and to set up a system for audits, or partial recounts, of ballots in every federal race.



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Boost in Iran's Capacity To Enrich Uranium Noted

Iran has doubled its capacity to enrich uranium in the past two months but remains far from the technological know-how the Bush administration fears and the capabilities that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently claimed, according to an official letter written by a senior U.N. nuclear inspector...



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In Gulf, Cheney Pointedly Warns Iran

Aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf 150 miles off Iran's coast, Vice President Cheney warned Tehran yesterday that the United States and its allies will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, close off vital sea lanes for oil supplies, or control the Middle East.



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Iran Charges U.S. Scholar With Trying to Topple Regime

American scholar Haleh Esfandiari has been charged with trying to topple the Iranian regime, Iran's state-controlled television reported today.



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Cheney Stands Alone As Hard-Liner

WASHINGTON -- Most of the war hawks who stood with President Bush on Iraq are gone or departing, leaving Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney increasingly without much company in trumpeting steely resolve.



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