 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his country would proceed with its disputed nuclear program, comparing its nuclear drive to a train that has no reverse gear or brakes. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, however, said what Iran needed was “a stop button.” Ahmadinejad also repeated his call for negotiations, saying the time for “bullying” had expired. International leaders have demanded that Iran halt uranium enrichment. “The train of the Iranian nation is without brakes and a rear gear,” the radio quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a gathering of Islamic clerics. “We dismantled the rear gear and brakes of the train and threw them away sometime ago.” ...
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 Cheney arrives in Persian Gulf for talks |
Vice President Dick Cheney landed in the U.S.-allied Arab monarchy of Oman on Sunday and went directly to talks with its foreign minister, Omani government officials said.A U.S. embassy spokesman in Oman declined to detail Cheney's plans or the focus of his visit to the sparsely populated oil-producing state, which allows the United States use of four air bases. But an Omani government official said Cheney was to discuss regional security issues, including the U.S. standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. The official, in the capital Muscat, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak to the press.Oman sits across the strategically important Strait of Hormuz from Iran, through which two-fifths of the world's oil passes....
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| Snowstorm heads east after blasting Midwest |
A huge winter storm barreled toward the East Coast on Sunday after dumping more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest, grounding hundreds of airline flights and closing major highways on the Plains.Seven traffic deaths in Wisconsin were blamed on the storm.Parts of Wisconsin could get up to 24 inches of snow, said Tom Zajdel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wis.The storm knocked out power to thousands of homes and business, including more than 100,000 in Iowa, plus parts of Illinois, Nebraska and Ohio.Moist air the storm system pulled from the Gulf of Mexico fueled violent thunderstorms in the South, sweeping cars off roads, crumpling businesses and sending mobile homes flying. Tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana....
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Editor - 10:39:00 02-25-07
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| Indonesian ferry suddenly sinks |
An Indonesian ferry involved in a deadly mid-voyage fire on Thursday has sunk with several safety investigators, police and journalists on board. A TV cameraman has died and three others are missing, local media says. There were 16 people on the Levina I ferry off the coast of Jakarta when it suddenly leaned to the right and sank, said a reporter who was on board. Earlier, the death toll from Thursday's fire rose to 41 after rescuers found 21 bodies drifting at sea, officials said. The fire is the latest in a string of deadly transport incidents in Indonesia, leading to concern over its safety record. The Levina I ferry was 80km (50 miles) from Jakarta's port Tanjung Priok when a fire broke out. Some 250 passengers are known to have survived, but there are fears that some people are still missing. ...
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| US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran |
America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme. In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions. The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime. In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials. So all that talk about “any nation supporting terrorists” is just for others, and don’t apply to the USA? At what point do we check to see just who are the mad men, and who are the terrorists?...
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| U.S. developing contingency plan to bomb Iran: report |
Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue. The special planning group was established within the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in recent months, according to an unidentified former U.S. intelligence official cited in the article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the March 4 issue. The panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq, according to an Air Force adviser and a Pentagon consultant, who were not identified. The consultant and a former senior intelligence official both said that U.S. military and special-operations teams had crossed the border from Iraq into ...
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