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Official: Obama Made Secret Pledges to Israel Over NPT

by RAINman on 01. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

US ‘Support’ for Nuke-Free Mideast Comes With Strings
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum - 30 May 2010
Already expressing its “regrets” for the call for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East as soon as they had signed it, more reports are emerging indicating that the Obama Administration’s official “support” for the idea is incredibly narrow and comes with strings attached.
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Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons

by RAINman on 25. May, 2010 in Hard News

Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons

Chris McGreal in Washington
The Guardian, Monday 24 May 2010

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.

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US Intelligence admits Iran nuke document forged

by RAINman on 05. Jan, 2010 in General

Anti-Iran nuclear document shown to be fabricated by unknown foreign intelligence agency.
By Gareth Porter – WASHINGTON
Middle East Online    31 December 2009
US intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic [...]

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‘Neocon-ing’ Obama

by RAINman on 23. Dec, 2009 in Analysis

Middle East Online – 22 December 2009
Over the past year, influential neocon columnists were bashing Obama for putting renewed pressure on Israel for a peace deal. The neocons have blunted any serious Obama pressure on Israel to accommodate the Palestinians in a Middle East peace accord. The neocons appear to be especially eager to divert [...]

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GOP Senators: US, Not Israel, Should Attack Iran ‘If Necessary’

by RAINman on 07. Oct, 2009 in Videos NEW!!!

By David Edwards    Raw Story —    5 October 2009
This video is from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast 4th Oct 2009.

Two senior Republican senators say the United States, and not Israel, should attack Iran if military action becomes “necessary.”

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Intelligence Agencies Say No New Nukes in Iran

by RAINman on 21. Sep, 2009 in General

By Mark Hosenball
Newsweek   16 September 2009
Secret updates to White House challenge European and Israeli assessments.
The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program, two counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK. U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003.

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CIA declassifies report on Israel’s nukes

by RAINman on 20. Jun, 2009 in General

The 1960 report defends Israel’s nuclear ambitions, offers guidance on handling today’s nuclear-hopefuls.

By Walter Pincus

Washington Post

“We do not believe that Israel will embark on the development of nuclear weapons with the aim of actually starting a nuclear war,” reads the declassified 48-year-old CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate.

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Living with 75 tons of depleted uranium in Gaza

by RAINman on 27. May, 2009 in General

Gaza is littered with the depleted uranium Israel uses to strengthen its warheads. Now there will be many children born with deformities and even more precious land beyond human habitation or farming.

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