U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that Iran's development of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable" and the Islamic Republic must end its "support of terrorist organizations."
Obama said he would be reviewing a letter from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, congratulating him on his election, and would "respond appropriately." But he said the U.S. approach to Iran could not be done in a "knee-jerk" fashion. "I think we've got to think it through," he said.
At his first news conference since winning Tuesday's election, Obama said he was moving with "all deliberate haste" to fill cabinet positions in his administration and expected to be announcing names within weeks.
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I thought we ... "could have just one President at a time." I wonder how that security clearance background investigation is coming, subject interviews, etc?
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Snark of the Week Award goes to Ptah! Well done, me lad! Well done! ROFLMAO!
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You know if the poor bastard had an ounce of sense, he'd keep his bloody yap buttoned up. At least until he's had a opportunity to be briefed and make some sound assesssments. Nothing like being in over your head before your feet are even wet, and then letting everyone know it.
(AKI) - The Syrian government has claimed that a militant belonging to Fatah al-Islam, an Al-Qaeda inspired group was behind the September bombings that killed 17 people and injured 65 others in the capital, Damascus. Syrian state television on Thursday showed what it claimed to be 12 members of Fatah al-Islam confessing they had planned the attack.
The militants interviewed also claimed that one of Fatah al-Islam's financial sources is the Future Movement or Tayyar al-Mustaqbal, a Lebanese political movement led by Saad Hariri, son of slain Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Most of the people shown on TV were Syrian nationals, Palestinian refugees and a Yemeni national.
One of the militants, Abdel Baqi Hussein, a Syrian national claimed that the suicide bomber was a Saudi Arabian citizen known as Abu Aisha Abu Bandar Jazrawi and that the explosives used in the attack were smuggled from neighbouring Lebanon. "The objective was to rattle the Syrian regime," said Baqi Hussein.
I'm guessing the al-Qaeda boys are even less enthralled with Alawites as they are with Shi'a ...
The militants interviewed also claimed that one of Fatah al-Islam's financial sources is the Future Movement or Tayyar al-Mustaqbal, a Lebanese political movement led by Saad Hariri, son of slain Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Oh what a convenient accusation, just as Syrian troops reach the border ...
Another militant, Mahmoud Hussein, said there were plans to carry out attacks in Syria against security buildings, British and Italian diplomats and vehicles carrying security personnel, said Syria's state news agency Sana on Friday.
One of the terrorists claimed that another source of financing of Fatah al-Islam came from Gulf citizens who were members of the militant group.
Baqi Hussein also said that the car used in the bombing was a stolen Iraqi-registered taxi that operates the Damascus-Baghdad route. The 220 kilogrammes of explosives were reportedly packed in a large sports utility vehicle and detonated by the suicide bomber.
The explosion took place on 27 September at the junction between Damascus international airport and a popular Shia shrine frequented by Iranians, Iraqis and Lebanese, called Sayyida Zeinab in the area of Kazzaz. It was the deadliest bomb attack in Syria by Islamist militants in two decades and the third major attack this year.
Fatah al-Islam emerged in November 2006 when it split from Fatah al-Intifada (Fatah Uprising), a Syrian-backed Palestinian group based in Lebanon.
During a bloody standoff with authorities at the Palestinian refugee camp, Nahr al-Bared, in northern Lebanon last year, about 400 people, mainly militants and soldiers, died in the violence and some 40,000 people were displaced.
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I think Harari's fate was sealed on November 4th.
Director of Iran's National Oil Co (NIOC) says the country has reduced its oil output by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 4.04 million bpd.
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Not sure whether this is a typo or merely prescient:
Iran plans to increase its oil production to 5 bpd by the end of 2010, while the country's refining capacity is projected to double to 3.2 million bpd, Emadi declared.
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RWW Iran can not refine much of it's own oil. Not even enough to cover their own domestic needs. They must first export the oil to India, it gets refined there, and then imported back to Iran. I imagine that it's quite the sore point for the Masters Of The World.
I am reminded of this Rube Goldberg like arrangement every time I hear "Iran is on the brink" of fielding a deliverable nuclear weapon.
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