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Israel ‘does Azerbaijan airbase deal’ in plan to attack Iran

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Israel’s military may have negotiated access to strategically placed air bases in Azerbaijan that could be used in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, US officials have said. The unconfirmed report in Foreign Policy magazine suggested deepening co-operation between Israel and the Caucasian republic, which shares a border with Iran. It said that Israel and [...]

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Indonesia opposes potential US plan for base in Australia

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto

Indonesia has objected to a potential plan by the Pentagon to build a military base in Australia’s Cocos Islands, saying the initiative threatens Indonesian sovereignty and security. “Our protest was based on the data we already gathered regarding the issue. The data were gathered through monitoring using planes and radar,” Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal [...]

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U.S. says will not stay in Afghanistan longer than necessary

Western nations plan to withdraw most of their troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. (Reuters)

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the United States was committed to long-term ties with Afghanistan but did not want to keep troops there longer than needed to disable al Qaeda and ensure a modicum of stability as foreign forces withdraw. “President (Hamid) Karzai understands we are interested in a strategic partnership with the Afghan [...]

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U.S. spy agencies find no evidence that Iran is on nuclear bomb track: report

The U.S. spy agencies’ latest assessments are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program. (Reuters)

U.S. intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence indicating Iran’s decision to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Unlike the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog saying on Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, U.S. intelligence agencies believe otherwise, The Times cited unnamed current and [...]

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Hindu FBI Informant in Mosque: “FBI Betrayed Us” Say Iowa Muslims

Arvinder Singh, a Hindu who has been attending Des Moines mosques over the past seven years pretending to be a convert, was revealed to be an FBI informant.

The Muslim community in Iowa is frustrated and angry over FBI’s sending informants into mosques to spy on worshippers, seething with a sense of betrayal that has undermined trust between American Muslims and security agencies. “That was really surprising, very sad that somebody would come or the FBI or Homeland Security would send somebody here [...]

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Legitimising censorship: proposed US bill will kill Internet

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by Graham Webster Source: Al Jazeera It would have been the most expensive political ad buy in the history of the world. Google’s search engine, the most visited website in the world, displays a black block over its logo. Wikipedia, the sixth most visited site globally, has disabled its English-language service. This unprecedented action to oppose [...]

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The Guantanamo Legacy – Ten Years of Criminality Go Beyond This One Base and One State

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Dr Abdul Wahid Last week I attended an event in London marking the 10-year anniversary of the American gulag at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, organised jointly by Cage Prisoners, Islamic Human Rights Commission and Reprieve. It was also the launch of a project by Cage Prisoners called “Laa Tansa –(Never Forget)”, a campaign aimed [...]

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‘US committing act of war on Iran’

An interview with Edward Spannaus, editor of the Executive Intelligence Review in Washington

A prominent political analyst says the US has engaged in an act of war through its efforts to impose an oil embargo against Iran as well as targeting the trade of other nations with the Islamic Republic. China also condemned the US-led unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran, saying the American establishment is seeking to internationalize [...]

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