http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/ InBrief: News in Context en Copyright © 2005, ThreatsWatch, LLC. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:57:46 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Having earlier rejected 38 IAEA inspectors and refused entry to them in protest of the UN Security Council’s sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Iran has now also demanded the removal of the IAEA’s lead nuclear inspector, Chris Charlier, as well.... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/iranian-nuclear-cycle-demands/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/iranian-nuclear-cycle-demands/ Iran Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:57:46 -0500 On Wednesday, Hizballah political leader Hassan Nasrallah declared that he could topple the Lebanese government anytime he wanted to. This statement was made as he decided to call off the Hizballah protests ongoing in Lebanon, at least for the coming... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/hizballah-pulls-back-as-suppor/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/hizballah-pulls-back-as-suppor/ Lebanon Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:04:56 -0500 Israel’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Brigadier General (Res.) Ephraim Sneh, says more can be done by the global community to pressure Iran and keep it from going nuclear. At a forum hosted by the Institute For Contemporary Affairs (ICA) in... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/spoiler-of-israelpalestinian-r/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/spoiler-of-israelpalestinian-r/ Iran Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:00:08 -0500 While the telegraphed ‘surge’ of US troops into Baghdad seemingly meets more questions of meeting planned Iraqi troop levels than those of America, the multi-faceted front with Iran remains active and fluid. The US raid on an Iranian office in... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/iraqiiran-relations-challengin/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/iraqiiran-relations-challengin/ Iraq Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:18:45 -0500 Acting swiftly on intelligence, United States forces operating out of a base in Djibouti dispatched an AC-130H gunship to engage al-Qaeda terrorists on the move in southern Somalia. Reportedly, the primary target among the group was Abu Talha al-Sudani, a... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/us-strikes-alqaeda-in-somalia/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/us-strikes-alqaeda-in-somalia/ Somalia Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:50:20 -0500 ABC News is reporting that the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), going by the name of Jomo, has threatened attacks on Nigeria’s oil facilities. In a series of emails sent to ABC News,... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/mend-threatening-attacks-on-ni/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/mend-threatening-attacks-on-ni/ Nigeria Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:00:56 -0500 Following the trend consistently seen throughout the duration of the advance driven by the Ethiopian army, approximately 3,000 Islamic Courts Union fighters fled the southern Somali port city of Kismayo overnight, the ICU’s final urban stronghold in Somalia. While the... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/alqaeda-and-the-icus-somali-re/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2007/01/alqaeda-and-the-icus-somali-re/ Somalia Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:45:00 -0500 Within the context of the emerging budding Russia-Iran alliance, where Moscow has placed its weight behind another rogue (and budding nuclear) threat to America and the West, Putin’s Kremlin openly seeks to deepen its ties and relationship with Kim Jong-Il’s... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/the-glasnost-ghost-russias-sov/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/the-glasnost-ghost-russias-sov/ Russia Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:50:32 -0500 Rather than fuel their own population and economy with the productivity of competition, excellence and the resultant prosperity, the Iranian theocratic state has established Gaza as a Free Enterprise Zone for terrorists, utilizing Hizballah as a conduit for capitalism. Iran’s... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/irans-capitalism-free-enterpri/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/irans-capitalism-free-enterpri/ Iran Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:45:02 -0500 Ethiopia has emerged as the only nation willing to directly confront the al-Qaeda franchise Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, driving into the east African nation with tanks and pushing the Islamists and their fighters - including foreign terrorists poured in... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/reversal-of-fortunes-in-somali/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/reversal-of-fortunes-in-somali/ Somalia Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:15:52 -0500 Israel continues to hold back regarding Gaza operations as yet another rocket attack was launched from Gaza, the latest by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which injured two Israeli teenagers in Sderot. The PIJ claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming that... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/israel-struggles-with-attacks/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/israel-struggles-with-attacks/ Israel Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:00:12 -0500 While the United States, Britain and France are said to begin a push to finally bring a sanctions vote on Iran before the United Nations Security Council, Russia and Iran today announced the deepening nature of their nuclear partnership. In... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/budding-alliance-iranrussia-co/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/budding-alliance-iranrussia-co/ Iran Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:22:35 -0500 While the Baker-Hamilton Commission report continues to be debated within the United States, recent days have seen almost universal rejection of the report’s recommendations from Iraqi leaders. Kurdish and Shi’a leaders have been especially critical, and even Shi’a figures with... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/iraqi-leaders-respond-to-baker-1/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/iraqi-leaders-respond-to-baker-1/ Iraq Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:00:44 -0500 As the United Nations makes an about-face, launching “the third-largest fundraising campaign in the world” in order to provide aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government, Hamas’ PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is in Tehran meeting with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/iran-fueling-hamas-and-hizball/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/iran-fueling-hamas-and-hizball/ Iran Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:55 -0500 In a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush rejected the Iraq Study Group’s call of direct talks with Iran without preconditions. Stating that there is a way for Iran to begin engaging the United States diplomatically,... http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/bush-rejects-isg-call-for-iran/ http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/12/bush-rejects-isg-call-for-iran/ Iran Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:20:45 -0500