healing the blind roberts

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya- 22nd anniversary of Hamas

"Negotiations have failed, and the negotiators said after 18 years that the result is zero," he told the crowd, who were dressed in the party's green and waving flags.
"We say today in the name of the Palestinian people ... Hamas will not go back on its line of resistance and struggle until it achieves for our people their freedom and independence, God willing."

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American and European intelligence agencies have acquired a neatly typed Persian document which describes a plan for measuring the output of a neutron initiator—a necessary piece of equipment for triggering a nuclear explosion. Though the document is crystal clear in subject, its origin and ultimate purpose are not. The CIA has yet to confirm the documents authenticity.

“This information’s been sloshing around for well over a year. It’s not new to the intelligence people. They’ve taken account of it. If, in fact, the document’s on the level, it shows the Iranians at some point were interested in testing an initiator. That’s not a warhead or the core of a bomb. It’s another reminder — as if one were needed — that the Iranians have a lot of explaining to do when it comes to things nuclear.”-anonymous American official

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Credit Suisse will pay US authorities over $536 million for violations related to what the company is calling “payments during the period 2002 to April 2007 involving parties that are subject to US economic sanctions” (aka Iran). The bank's press release is posted here.

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Here is the statement from British Foreign Minister David Milliband concerning the British courts warrant for the arrest of Tzipi Livni.