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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (10540)	11/30/2005 11:10:39 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

rufff, whats your feeling about 2006, given that 2005 was historic in these main areas of interest: locally, stocks, commodities (gold), intesrest rates, regionally, the Sharon era, Hezbollah, Al-queda, and last but not least!, the US Military's expanding reach into the hostile M/E. Notice: I left out weather. I have less shade than ever!

To: rrufff who wrote (10540)	11/30/2005 12:47:29 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

and, along with that thinking comes this: MI head: Nuclear talks with Iran will be pointless after March '06 By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent "If by the end of March 2006 the international community will have failed to halt Iran's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons, diplomatic efforts on the matter will be pointless, and international attempts to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons will have failed," Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aharon Ze'evi said at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Wednesday. A number of committee members said Ze'evi's remarks indicated that the international community's failures would lead to military actions to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, after April 2006. "The MI chief paints a somber and worrying picture. Iran will become a regional nuclear power, and the world has no response. We must accept that the diplomatic effort will fail," committee chairman MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud) said. Advertisement Ze'evi added that Arab states are starting to fear an Iran with nuclear capabilities, as they believe Iran may pose a nuclear threat to them. He said that Hezbollah planned a massive rocket attack on civilian targets along the northern border and deep into Israeli territory last wek. Ze'evi added that the combined attack on the village of Ghajar and Israel Defense Forces outposts aimed to garner a harsh IDF response, and that the group planned to respond by firing long-range Katyusha rockets along the northern border. Ze'evi estimated that the Iranians were aware of the Hezbollah attack, that Syria supported it, and that it was intended to ease international pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. The MI chief said Hezbollah would continue attempts to kidnap soldiers or Israelis abroad, and would send unmanned aircraft into Israeli air space.