Ad plays on tension between races, says Democratic challenger.
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships --Report says 17 boats used --MPs seek details of UK role The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of prisoners. The analysis, due to be published this year by the human rights organisation Reprieve, also claims there have been more than 200 new cases of rendition since 2006, when President [sic] George Bush declared that the practice had stopped. According to research carried out by Reprieve, the US may have used as many as 17 ships as "floating prisons" since 2001. Prisoners are interrogated aboard the vessels and then rendered to other, often undisclosed, locations, it is claimed.
Nuclear bomb blueprints for sale on world black market, experts fear --Warning as Swiss destroy documents to prevent leak Nuclear bomb blueprints and manuals on how to manufacture weapons-grade uranium for warheads are feared to be circulating on the international black market, according to investigators tracking the world's most infamous nuclear smuggling racket. Alarm about the sale of nuclear know-how follows the disclosure that the Swiss government, allegedly acting under US pressure, secretly destroyed tens of thousands of documents from a massive nuclear smuggling investigation.
Fischer: US, Israel will attack Iran Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says Israel is planning to attack Iran in the near future over its nuclear program. He wrote a piece that appeared in today's Daily Star, an English-language Lebanese newspaper, arguing that President [sic] Bush's recent visit to the Middle East was a precursor to a war against Iran. "The Middle East is drifting toward a new great confrontation in 2008. Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin," he said. Fischer said Bush's speech during his address to the Israeli Knesset this month indicated a coming Israeli-US attack on Iran's nuclear program.
Nuclear bomb blueprints for sale on world black market, experts fear --Warning as Swiss destroy documents to prevent leak Nuclear bomb blueprints and manuals on how to manufacture weapons-grade uranium for warheads are feared to be circulating on the international black market, according to investigators tracking the world's most infamous nuclear smuggling racket. Alarm about the sale of nuclear know-how follows the disclosure that the Swiss government, allegedly acting under US pressure, secretly destroyed tens of thousands of documents from a massive nuclear smuggling investigation.
Fischer: US, Israel will attack Iran Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says Israel is planning to attack Iran in the near future over its nuclear program. He wrote a piece that appeared in today's Daily Star, an English-language Lebanese newspaper, arguing that President [sic] Bush's recent visit to the Middle East was a precursor to a war against Iran. "The Middle East is drifting toward a new great confrontation in 2008. Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin," he said. Fischer said Bush's speech during his address to the Israeli Knesset this month indicated a coming Israeli-US attack on Iran's nuclear program.
Divorces inflict home front damage on US troops as Iraq war drags on --As successive combat tours become the norm, David Smith reports that many exhausted soldiers are returning to be faced with a broken marriage With the Iraq war in its sixth year, some American soldiers are on their third or fourth combat tour - 15 months away from home with just 18 days' leave. The strain is showing on their relationships and many will return home, exhausted, to find a disenchanted wife has walked out. Divorce rates among the US military are soaring.
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