Middle East

A former US intelligence official has admitted that CIA operatives in Pakistan had held talks with the Jundallah terrorist group led by Abdolmalek Rigi. Soon after the 9/11 attacks, a senior Jundallah member, acting on Rigi's behalf, approached CIA agents in Pakistan and told them the group would help the US against both Iran and al-Qaeda, prominent US weekly magazine Newsweek reveals in its March 1 issue.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hardened attacks on Teheran; Russia together with the USA and France stumbled at Iran’s enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. The latest claims made by Netanyahu and Ahmadinezhad are being discussed and analyzed in MSM. What way Iran is going to resist the pressing of the world community?

According to The New York Times the US Secretary of State Hillary Clint ...

Many intelligence agencies are suspected of carrying out assassinations, but few are as notorious for doing so as Israel's Mossad. Although the agency has become legendary for its amazing successes, it has still had its share of failures. If the Mossad was behind the recent killing in Dubai, it might be another blemish on the agency's reputation.
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The American sociologist Norman Birnbaum initiates his commentary on relationship of western countries with Iran published today in Tageszeitung. Birnbaum thinks that the Iranian government is adopting that aggressive facilities sometimes inherited by the USSR in its relations with the West. Whereas the Soviet Union was ready to discuss some Western proposals, the Western capitals generally reacted embarrassedly unless in a panic way. The same thing is with the Iranian agreement to enrich Uranium abroad – they see the decoy in it.
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Vice squad patrols in Saudi Arabia are checking shop-windows! Vice squad patrols are checking the shop-windows. “No red items are allowed!” Rosalba Castelletti wrote in the article printed in La Repubblica. Red roses and chocolates in form of hearts are prohibited goods on February 14 in Saudi Arabia. So called religious police prohibits St. Valentine’s Day because that this day people are recalling a Christian martyr abandon themselves to sins. Just for this reason since yesterday the special patrols are checking for absence of all the red items, including flowers and items in form of hearts in shop-windows – whatever that somehow reminds of St. Valentine’s Day. ...

A former Iraqi deputy prime minister who encouraged the United States to topple dictator Saddam Hussein said Sunday that Washington had interfered in the war-torn country's March 7 general election. Ahmed Chalabi said US Vice President Joe Biden and Washington's ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill applied pressure to a committee responsible for vetting candidates and on judges who ruled on who could stand for office. "The appeal committee was submitted publicly to the pressure of foreign groups, like Vice President Biden who said when he was in Iraq (in January) that he hoped Iraqi justice will dissolve the committee of integrity and accountability," said Chalabi.
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