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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (5734)	8/29/2004 4:53:22 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9018

Whether Iran will cut off oil export perhaps will depend on the scope and the duration of the attack by Israel or US. I think the first and main concern for the war party is how strong Iran can respond to the attack and hit back to Israel. Now Iran has the hard-to-defend-against Russian Sunburn missiles and Iran's new missiles. Iran has warned recently, if Israel attacks its nuclear site, Iran will hit back by bombing Israel's nuclear site.

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (5734)	8/30/2004 4:10:58 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9018

You heard it here FIRST --Judeofascists' next ploy to draw France into their Iraqi mess: French unite to ask for hostages' release Nicole Clark/IHT Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Foreign minister heads to Middle East (again) PARIS President Jacques Chirac sent his foreign minister once again to the Middle East late Sunday to try to secure the release of two French journalists kidnapped by Iraqi militants who are demanding that Paris hasten plans to deploy French and NATO troops in Iraq. A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq released a videotape of the journalists, Christiane Lesnot and Georges Malblondot, late Saturday and threatened to execute them within 48 hours if France did not announce a plan to dispatch French or NATO troops in Iraq. The plan is due to take effect by December 1st. The demand was a departure from a dozen previous kidnappings in Iraq, in which the kidnappers have generally called on members of the U.S.-led coalition to withdraw their troops in exchange for the release of their nationals. Two Turkish hostages were freed by Iraqi militants in August 2004, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said, less than a week after the men's employers announced they were pulling out of Iraq to save the men's lives, The Associated Press reported from Istanbul. The Pan-Arab satellite-television channel Al Jazeera reported Sunday that the militants claiming to be holding the hostages had called France's anti-war stance "an aggression on the Islamic religion and world freedom." In a televised address late Sunday, Chirac said that the government was doing "everything" to secure the men's release and that more was at stake than the lives of the two hostages. "It is the defense of freedom of expression" that is in play, Chirac said. "So also are the values of our republic." Chirac said Foreign Minister Michel Barnier "is leaving immediately for the region to develop the necessary contacts there and coordinate our representatives' efforts." Chirac spoke as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin held an emergency meeting of his cabinet. Those discussions were expected to continue late into the night. Earlier in the day, Dominique de Villepin, the interior minister, met with leaders of the country's top Jewish organizations to discuss the situation. Both sides vigorously condemned the actions of the hostage-takers. "French people of all origins and all religions are united in support of our compatriots Christiane Lesnot and Georges Malblondot," Villepin, who was flanked by Jewish leaders, said, according to Agence France-Presse. "Together, we ask for their release." [...] Adapted from: iht.com