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Obama's plan to talk with Iran shows 'weak judgment,' Kyl says

 May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senator Jon Kyl said Barack Obama's willingness to negotiate with Iran shows "weak judgment," signaling his party will likely focus on portraying the Democratic presidential candidate as naive about rogue nations. Obama's stance of holding talks "without preconditions" with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "shows weak judgment, and frankly, naivete," Kyl, the No. 2 Republican leader in the Senate, said on "Fox News Sunday." Obama, the likely Democratic nominee, campaigning in Oregon today, said "you've got to talk to countries like Iran and countries like Syria, even though they're our adversaries, the same way that John F. Kennedy talked" to former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Kyl on Fox asked, "What would Senator Obama be talking to Ahmadinejad about, this man who calls Israel a stinking corpse, who said that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth?"  [read more]
 
Jihadis Urge Naval Terrorism in the Middle East
 Islamist forums and jihadi media have been promoting and threatening to perpetrate naval terrorism as an important strategic trend in the jihadi path. Jihad Press, an e-journal affiliated with al-Qaeda, issued a statement entitled "Naval Terrorism, a Strategic Necessity," which was carried by several different jihadi forums (hanein.info, April 30). The Jihad Press article was re-published by other pro-jihadi media outlets attributing it to al-Qaeda, some of which added further comments intended to instigate naval terror attacks in Yemen (asrarpress.net, April 30). The Jihad Press report praises air, ground and underground retaliatory terror attacks against the Zionist/Crusader campaign against Muslims, including the 9/11 attack, the Madrid bombings of March 2004, the 2005 attack on the London transit system and the bombing of the Egyptian resort city of Sharm al-Shaykh in July 2005. The next phase of the struggle, according to the report, should be naval terrorism to control the sea and sea passageways, beginning with maritime passages around the Arabian Peninsula. In Yemen, al-Qaeda succeeded in striking at "Crusader targets" twice: The first attack, carried out by a small boat full of explosives, was on the USS Cole in October 2000; a second "naval" suicide attack by an explosives-laden boat ruptured both hulls of the French oil tanker Limburg off the coast of Yemen in 2002. [read more]
 
Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for suicide attack
 
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistani Taliban militants on Monday said a weekend suicide attack that killed 13 people was carried out in revenge for a suspected US missile strike on a rebel hideout. The suicide bomber struck near an army base in the northwestern city of Mardan on Sunday night, in the deadliest attack since a new government came to power in late March and began talks with the militants. "Our local Taliban leaders in Mardan have telephoned us and claimed responsibility for the attack," Maulvi Omar, the spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement), told AFP. [read more]


 
Bin Laden vows to fight Israel on 60th anniversary
 
 Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape marking Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations to continue the fight against the Jewish state and its allies and not give up an inch of Palestinian land. "We will continue, God permitting, the fight against the Israelis and their allies ... and will not give up a single inch of Palestine as long as there is one true Muslim on earth," the al-Qaeda leader said in the tape posted on an Islamist website on Friday. [read more]

 
Israel not to swap Palestinian prisoners for soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah
People's Daily Online
 
Israel has refused to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for two soldiers kidnapped by the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, local daily Ha'aretz on Sunday quoted an official as saying. Israel and Hezbollah have been negotiating a prisoner swap via German mediator Gerhard Konrad since two Israeli soldiers, Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, were kidnapped in a cross-border raid on July 12, 2006, which ignited a 34-day military conflict between the Jewish state and Lebanon.[read more]

 
 
Iraq party: Punish U.S. soldier who shot at Quran
CNN.com

 
Iraq's most powerful Sunni Arab political party on Monday said a U.S. soldier's desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, requires the "severest of punishments," not just an apology and a military reassignment. The Iraqi Islamic Party, the movement of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, condemned what it said was a "blatant assault on the sanctities of Muslims all over the world." An American staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader used a Quran for target practice on May 9. The U.S. commander in Baghdad on Saturday issued a formal apology and read a letter of apology from the shooter. A military investigation found the shooter guilty of the offense; he was relieved of duty and will be redeployed to the United States for reassignment, a U.S. official said. [read more]


 
Exclusive: Olmert and Barak finally opt for truce rather than military operation in Gaza
Debka File 
 
Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak will inform Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at their meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh Monday, May 19, that the kidnapped Israel soldier Gilead Shalit must be included in the ceasefire deal. Israel and Hamas have been using Egypt's good office to negotiate a ceasefire. Without consulting the security cabinet, our military sources reveal that Olmert and Barak have finally come down in favor of a truce with Hamas instead of a substantial military operation to eliminate the Palestinian fundamentalists' war machine and wipe out the missiles plaguing their Israeli neighbors. [read more]



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