SPB News for Sunday.

Report: Iran will use oil as weapon if attacked

Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In — When prime-time cable news ratings for the second quarter of 2008 are officially released next week, they will show that Fox News reclaimed the top spot among viewers in their mid-20s through mid-50s, those of greatest interest to news advertisers …

Barack Obama to visit Britain

U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran - report U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President [sic] George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday. Funding for the covert escalation, for which Bush requested up to $400 million, was approved by congressional leaders, according to the article, citing current and former military, intelligence and congressional sources... U.S. Special Operations Forces have been conducting crossborder operations from southern Iraq since last year, the article said.

Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy A former head of Mossad has warned that Israel has 12 months in which to destroy Iran's nuclear programme or risk coming under nuclear attack itself. He also hinted that Israel might have to act sooner if Barack Obama wins the US presidential 'election.' Shabtai Shavit, an influential adviser to the Israeli parliament's defence and foreign affairs committee, told The Sunday Telegraph that time was running out to prevent Iran's leaders getting the bomb.

In Courts, Afghanistan Air Base May Become Next Guantanamo --The military is planning to spend $60 million to build a new, larger facility that could accommodate 1,000 captives. Human rights groups and activists have become increasingly concerned about the U.S. military prison at Bagram, about 40 miles north of Kabul. The prison has grown steadily over the years and has about 600 detainees, military officials said. Some of the Bagram prisoners have been there since 2002, activists said. In legal filings, the 'Justice' Department has fiercely fought the Bagram [habeas corpus] suits, arguing that "Bagram airfield is in the zone of war" and not in a peaceful locale such as Guantanamo.

Pakistani Forces Move In On Taliban -- Hundreds of Pakistani military and police forces moved into the key northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday to head off a possible attack by the Taliban and other Islamist 'insurgents,' marking the first major military operation in Pakistan's fractured border region since a new government was elected in February.