World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/25/8519/

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US Rebuked Over Syria Nuclear Case

By Al Jazeera and agencies

The head of the UN nuclear monitoring agency has criticised the US for withholding intelligence information that it says showed the construction of a nuclear reactor in Syria. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on Friday also hit out at Israel for bombing the site before inspectors could investigate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19800.htm



US Statement on Alleged Syria Nuclear Links

Full text: US statement

Full text of the White House statement accusing Damascus of accepting North Korean aid to build a nuclear reactor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19801.htm



Syria Statement on US Nuclear Claim

Full text: Syria Statement

"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic regrets and denounces the campaign of false allegations that the current United States administration continually launches against Syria claiming the presence of nuclear activity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19802.htm



Syrian Nukes: The Phantom Menace

By John W. Farley

Are the wonderful mainstream media, who gave us Saddam's mythical Weapons of Mass Destruction, lying to us again? The answer is yes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19807.htm



An Act Of War

Interview: Seymour Hersh

By Sarah Brown

Seymour Hersh, one of the world's best known investigative journalists, has turned his attention to the mysterious and controversial bombing of a Syrian facility by Israel last year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19803.htm



Evidence-based Bombing

By Scott Ritter

By publishing intelligence on a possible Syrian nuclear facility, the US has endorsed after the fact Israel's illegal use of force in attacking it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19819.htm



Syrian ambassador to U.S. says CIA fabricated photos of alleged nuclear reactor

"The photos presented to me yesterday were ludicrous, laughable," Ambassador Imad Moustapha told reporters at his Washington residence.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/978052.html



Why Did Israel Bomb Syria?

Pepe Escobar: Real News Video Report

The real story behind the September air strike has not been investigated.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19824.htm



Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims

"The new US campaign of lies should surprise nobody -- it's a continuation of the same policy of US pressure against Syria that's been going on" for the past five years, the paper added.

http://tinyurl.com/4xpg5u



Timing suspicious in spy case

Global attention was focused last week on disturbing revelations about the help North Korea had secretly provided to Syria to build a nuclear reactor that was destroyed by Israeli warplanes last year.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=477603



Bush: Syria Nuclear Briefing A Warning To North Korea, Iran

U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday said his decision to brief members of Congress on an Israeli attack on an alleged Syrian nuclear facility was meant as a "message" to North Korea and Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/4lc48v



Iran President blasts of US

Describing the United States a ''bullying power'' whose time had ''come to an end,'' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today spewed venom against Washington from the Indian soil saying it was collapsing and falling down.

http://tinyurl.com/3s9caz



Iran President: Weak Dollar Behind High Oil Prices

"The high crude oil prices do not have any relation to production or consumption," Ahmadinejad said during a state visit to India. "(It is) because of the decrease in the value of the dollar."

http://tinyurl.com/4o3d5v


From Information Clearing House

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Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/25/syria/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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