Wasn't Iraq starting to give in a little, when we decided to attack?
LISBON (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said his talks on Saturday with Iran's nuclear chief were constructive and he hoped for another round in three weeks.
"It has been a constructive meeting ... I have to tell you that probably in three weeks we will try to see if we can meet again," Solana told reporters after four hours of discussions with Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani in Lisbon.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Where is Cheney right now anyway?
Lebanon still burning, and now:
Two suspected Kurdish separatists have rammed an oil-filled lorry into a police station in eastern Turkey in a suicide attack, army sources have said.
After the explosion late on Saturday, the station in Tunceli province was attacked by other members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the army counter attacked, the sources said.
The two separatists in the lorry were killed but no other details were available on the death toll.
http://english.aljazeera.net/...
This is not Iran, why would they want another war going in the middle east?
And in Yemen, I think someone tried to bomb an oil facility. Al qaeda is going after the oil.
Israel and USA just finished military exercises, and previously with Australia, too. It's summer. Olmert/Netenayhu going back and forth. Bloomberg. What is happening? Where's Congress?
And what exactly is happening in Gaza? Another Katrina?
Relief organizations in Gaza: Time is running out
Gazans try to resume normal life as aid efforts grow in wake of dwindling supplies. 'Situation in Gaza worsening by the minute, humanitarian disaster – imminent', say relief workers
"The situation in Gaza is worsening by the minute. Humanitarian disaster has been imminent for years but something has to be done now and very quickly," Eyad Nasser, spokesman for the Red Cross in Gaza, told Ynet Saturday.
The Red Cross had sent several teams into the Strip over the last few days, becoming the dominant relief organization in the area.
http://www.ynetnews.com/...
Arab lives are so cheap.
UPDATE:
Hamas fights crime clans for total control of Gaza
Jon Swain, Gaza
THE attack came with a barrage of mortars and a rattle of machineguns. In the narrow alleys of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, black-uniformed Hamas fighters laying siege to the compound of the Al-Astel family, one of Gaza’s infamous ruling clans, edged forward.
After a stunning victory over their secular Fatah rivals for control of Gaza and with the horrors of the fighting still fresh in people’s minds, Hamas, the militant Islamic organisation, was trying to disarm the clan known for drug smuggling and support of Fatah.
The compound held. After five hours of fighting and with two people killed, Hamas lifted its siege when a clan elder agreed to hand over their weapons.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
Hamas wants talks with Fatah, Fatah following US/Israel.
UPDATEII:
U.S.-led move to back Abbas gov't blocked in Security Council
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office has openly backed the new Palestinian emergency government and recognized the authority of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, yet a Security Council bid to support Abbas and isolate Hamas has been thwarted by the objections of Russia, South Africa, Indonesia and Qatar.
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They said that Russia and South Africa have questioned the legitimacy of the Palestinian emergency government and argued that a Palestinian unity government is not only still possible, but would be preferable to the emergency government headed by Fayad, which has authority in the West Bank only.
http://www.haaretz.com/...