March 2009

Report: U.S. warned Sudan before attack on Gaza convoy Haaretz, March 30, 2009 The U.S. warned the Sudanese government that weapons were being smuggled into the Gaza Strip through its territory ahead of a recent attack on a Gaza-bound arms convoy, which foreign media has attributed to the Israel Air Force, the pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq [...]

Israeli drones destroy rocket-smuggling convoys in Sudan By Uzi Mahnaimi, The Sunday Times, March 29, 2009 Israel used unmanned drones to attack secret Iranian convoys in Sudan that were trying to smuggle rockets into Gaza. The missiles have the range to strike Tel Aviv and Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona, defence sources said. The unmanned [...]

The “war on terror”, RIP By Christian Brose, Foreign Policy, March 24, 2009 Have you heard? The war is over! The “Global War on Terror,” that is. At least for speechwriters at the Defense Department: The end of the Global War on Terror — or at least the use of that phrase — has been [...]

Israel says car bomb defused at shopping mall Reuters, March 22, 2009 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday an explosives-laden car parked at a shopping mall in northern Israel, and defused by police, was an attempted Arab attack aimed at causing mass casualties. Share

Worried about apartheid? Too late, Mr Olmert, it’s already here By Tony Karon, The National, March 22, 2009 In one of her last acts as US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice had Nelson Mandela’s name removed from America’s terrorist watch list. Many Americans were shocked to learn that their favourite former political prisoner had ever [...]

How to discourage the speaking of truth to power By Paul R Pillar, Foreign Policy, March, 2009 The aborted appointment of Charles “Chas” Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council inflicts multiple costs on the U.S. national interest, some of which Freeman enumerated in characteristically lucid fashion in his withdrawal statement (reproduced at The [...]