Archive for September 18th, 2008
Former Pakistani Official Condemns U.S. Incursions
A former Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations is criticizing the United States for military incursions into his country in search of al Qaeda and Taliban forces who have sought refuge there.
Munir Akram says, if the U.S. military wants to enter Pakistan it needs the support of the government there.
“Pakistan must defend its territory,” Akram declared during his appearance today on New Talk Online on Paltalk.com.
Some callers suggested that this is a Pakistani problem, because that nation hasn’t secured its border with Afghanistan. But Akram noted that the United States has a similar issue protecting its border with Mexico.
“The real problem,” he says, “is in Afghanistan.” Where, he says, the NATO strategy is failing.
He says the way the military is conducting itself is “creating enemies.”
There have been news reports suggesting that the United States is increasingly distrustful of both the Pakistani military, some of whom are regarded as rouge forces in support of the Taliban, and the intelligence services, which are suspected of leaking information to the enemy. Akram, who, of course, has heard the allegations, says there is “no evidence of rouge forces.”
Iran A Continuing Threat To The World
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Three experts on Iran briefed reporters today at a conference sponsored by The Israel Project. Called as a precursor to Iranian Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit next week to the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly.
All three expressed concerns about Iran’s human rights violations, its exportation of terror and its development of nuclear weapons.
Michael Ledeen, a former White House national security adviser, says Iran has been, for years, engaged in proxy wars against the United States and Israel. And is directly involved in destabilizing neighboring Iraq.
He advocates supporting the Iranian people in the overthrow of their government. He notes that 70-80 percent of Iranians strongly disfavor their government.
Lily Mazahery, founder and president of the Legal Rights Institute represents some of the most high profile political dissidents, human rights activists and victims of human rights violations around the world. Something, she say, at which Iran excels.
Are Star Wars In Our Future?
Could the next big military battleground be in outer space? Some experts say the possibility truly exists, and it’s something that should be avoided at all costs.
This isn’t a fight between humanoids and aliens we’re talking about here. Rather it’s a potential fued with fellow earthlings, over satellites that nations are using to spy on one another.
In a just released report, the Council on Foreign Relations raises the alarm that the United States and China may be inching toward an extraterrestrial showdown.
Last year, China successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon. Earlier this year, the United States destroyed an out-of-control U.S. satellite. These two events, the CFR report suggests, shows that the stuff of science fiction could soon become reality.
What if, the report authors ask, China turned its new space age weaponry on U.S. spy satellites?
“The strategic reverberations of that collision have shaken up security thinking in the United States and around the world,” writes Bruce MacDonald, an independent consultant in technology and national security policy and currently senior director to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.
A Convincing Argument About Iran’s Threat To World Stability
Top Israeli investigative reporter Ronen Bergman presented a tough-to-dispute case about Iran’s nuclear and conventional threat to peace in the world during his appearance today on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com.
Iran, though its surrogates, has its tentacles in the Middle East, in Africa, in Europe and in the Americas. And, he adds, Iran is unquestionably pursing nuclear weapons. If that happens, he argues, a nuclear arms race will be unleashed on the Middle East.
The story of Iran’s fight with the rest of the world, and the 30-year war waged with Iran by the Mossad and the CIA, is revealed in his page turning book, The Secret War With Iran. A book that reads like a novel but is, nevertheless, fact.
