See the previous article,Iran Announces Nuclear Technology Improvements for some of the background
MI6 chief visits Mossad for talks on Iran’s nuclear threat
UK Times
THE head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett, is to visit Israel later this month as Britain forges closer links with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
Iran’s nuclear programme is expected to be high on [...]

UK Telegraph
Boris Johnson is the new London Mayor
Boris Johnson claimed a remarkable victory in the London mayoral contest on Friday night to cap a disastrous series of results for Gordon Brown in his first electoral test as Prime Minister.
Photo: Newly crowned London Mayor Boris Johnson gives his acceptance speech at City Hall. Out going Mayor [...]

Debka - DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources disclose a signal victory in Hamas’ expansionist drive Friday, May 2, when its members scooped up 28 of the 50 seats of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council in a secret ballot.
Hamam Said, 64, a Palestinian Hamas operative from the West Bank town of Jenin, was elected the movement’s General [...]

Western scientists intrigued by photos from Iran’s nuclear site
International Herald Tribune
Barbed wire and antiaircraft guns ring a maze of buildings in the Iranian desert that lies at the heart of the West’s five-year standoff with Tehran over its program to enrich uranium.
It is a place of secrets that Iran loves to boast about, clouding the [...]

Debka
Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy tells CBCNews 60 Minutes Bob Simon that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threats against Israel must be taken extremely seriously. In an interview to be aired Sunday, April 27, the general said: “I think it is a very serious threat to the state of Israel, but more than this, to the whole world. They [...]

German footage of the evil mufti of Jerusalem visiting the evil mufti of Berlin during WWII. The Jerusalem mufti wanted to expand Hitler’s efforts to exterminate the Jews.

by Tom Gross
The repeated claim by Barack Obama and his supporters in the media that Shia Iran doesn’t help Sunni terror groups yet again reveals their ignorance of foreign affairs, an ignorance that may prove extremely dangerous.
While Shia and Sunni extremists do of course have deep theological differences they cooperate in at least a dozen [...]

THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among [...]

By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com
In the 1960s, Brigitte Bardot was France’s national icon, a pouty-lipped poster girl for the glories of her home country. So it is a sign of how radically times have changed that yesterday’s silver-screen darling is today’s enemy of the people.
Bardot’s “crimes,” such as they are, are straightforward: She has committed the sin [...]

by Michael Rubin
National Review Online in Middle East Forum
Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkey’s most prominent theologian and political thinker. Self-exiled for more than a decade, Gülen lives a reclusive life outside Philadelphia, Pa. Within months, however, he may be as much a household a name in the United States as [...]

Breitbart.com
MEXICO CITY (AP) - If you’re seeing your grocery bill go up, you’re not alone.
From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor. But so are dramatic changes in the [...]

From The Terror Finance Blog

The Bush Administration’s search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat — which isn’t there.”
For the first time, the Bush Administration plans to give $150 million in cash directly to the [...]