UPI International Intelligence articles from February 2007

UPI International Intelligence archives from February 2007

Commentary: Deciphering wall writing.
February 1, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been reading the handwriting on several walls. He has known for some time Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was a tad disingenuous when he kept...

Review of the Arab press.
February 1, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 1: The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi welcomed a condemnation by a group of multi-partisan British legislators of the sanctions imposed on the Palestinians, and who called for...

Analysis: N.Korea's next leader?
February 1, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's eldest son Kim Jong Nam seems out of contention to succeed his father as he has remained in exile for the past several years. Kim Jong Nam, 35, was said to...

Analysis: 13 CIA agents wanted in Germany.
February 1, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A German court has issued an arrest warrant for 13 Central Intelligence Agency officers believed to be behind the notorious U.S. extraordinary rendition of a German-born terror suspect. The...

Analysis: Odds of U.S.-Iran conflict?
February 2, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Is a spring offensive by the United States against Iran to shatter the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions in the offing? Or will diplomacy and common sense prevail? There are two...

Policy Watch: Iraqi democracy's obstacles.
February 2, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Whatever else has gone wrong in Iraq, the Bush administration can point to the fact that free elections have been held there and that a democratically elected government is in place, albeit...

Outside View: Did Saddam deserve death?
February 2, 2007... Byline: LEONID MLECHIN MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Saddam Hussein's execution in Baghdad has caused so much indignation in the world that one may think he was an innocent man who has fallen victim to bloodthirsty executioners. True, there...

Analysis: From Muslim hordes to atom bomb.
February 2, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- For the third time in its history, Islam is trying to bring "the true faith" to the rest of the world. However, this time is particularly dangerous, according to one of the world's...

Politics & Policies: Wes Clark warns Iran.
February 5, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Gen. Wesley Clark is concerned by Iran's nuclear ambitions and cautioned the Islamic republic to take U.S. warnings "very, very seriously." In a private conversation with this...

Walker's World: Europe vs. Globe.
February 5, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Opinion polls throughout Europe report that the biggest issues on the mind of the European public are the economy, jobs, immigration and Islam. But the dominant issue on the political...

Review of the Arab press.
February 5, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 5: The United Arab Emirates' al-Khaleej Monday blasted the international Quartet Middle East peace committee in its Friday meeting in Washington, saying it was an American...

Analysis: Kosovo's long walk.
February 5, 2007... Byline: EDITH HONAN UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- With a draft recommendation from the United Nations' special envoy for Kosovo now on the table, the former Yugoslav province -- and U.N. protectorate since 1999 -- has moved one step...

Outside View: Chirac's Iran gaffe.
February 5, 2007... Byline: PYOTR ROMANOV MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Politicians often say things they don't really mean. But sometimes they let themselves loose and start telling the truth, which only brings more trouble. The blunders committed by U.S....

Outside View: Slip of Chirac's tongue.
February 6, 2007... Byline: BOUTHAINA SHAABAN DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- It seems that journalists who met with President Chirac last week could not adhere to the "off the record" rule to which they all agreed. Judging by the nature of the information...

Review of the Arab press.
February 6, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 6: Bahrain's Akhbar al-Khaleej commented Tuesday it is not enough to say that the American occupation of Iraq has failed in describing the repercussions that befell the Iraqi people...

Analysis: Germans debate anti-terror moves.
February 6, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Germany's courts and the country's top security official are in a constant quarrel over how much freedoms police and intelligence agents should have when investigating a criminal or terror...

Analysis: The surge is on in Iraq.
February 6, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- In response to President George W. Bush's surge of additional U.S. troops to help secure the Iraqi capital, insurgents have responded with a surge of unprecedented violence. Over this...

Realpolitik: Ending Iran's defiance.
February 6, 2007... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- That Iran stands today able to challenge or even defy the United States in every sphere of American influence in the Middle East attests to the dismal failure of the Bush administration's...

Analysis: U.N. chiefs' changes opposed.
February 6, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed splitting the Department of Peacekeeping Operations into two divisions, but the non-aligned nations are not keen on the proposal,...

Outside View: China check-mating U.S.
February 7, 2007... Byline: JAMES R. MANCHAM MAHEe, Seychelles, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- (first of two parts) Britain and France fought over the Seychelles Islands in the 19th century, not for its natural beauty but because of the strategic location on the...

Outside View: China check-mating U.S. (2).
February 7, 2007... Byline: JAMES R. MANCHAM MAHEe, Seychelles, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- (Second part of a two part article.) Despite closing down the U.S. Embassy in the Seychelles, the islands remained "the most hospitable and secured port/place" in the Western...

Review of the Arab press.
February 7, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 7: The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi Wednesday blasted the Arab and Muslim reactions to Israel's digging near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine, as...

Walker's World: The post-Bush era.
February 7, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The city of Washington was blanketed in snow Wednesday and its inhabitants draped and hooded against the below-zero cold, but in politics and diplomacy there is more than a hint of spring...

Analysis: Italy's hooligan problem.
February 7, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Italy has been shocked by a wave of right-wing hooligan violence that has killed a police officer and injured dozens of people. Observers say the fascist mob is professionally organized, and...

Outside View: Latest Middle East irony.
February 7, 2007... Byline: EDWARD GABRIEL WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A major consequence of the installation of a Shiite majority government in Iraq, a first in the Arab world, is the rise of Shiite power in other countries of the Middle East. Although the...

Outside View: Putin's Mideast tour.
February 7, 2007... Byline: MARIANNA BELENKAYA MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan Feb. 11-13, an official trip no Russian leader has ever made before (Boris Yeltsin's attendance at the burial...

Commentary: Theaters of the absurd.
February 8, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Iran's man at the United Nations since 2002, Javad Zarif, spoke with Washington think tankers and pundits for two hours. It was a virtuoso diplomatic performance, albeit off the...

Review of the Arab press.
February 8, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 8: The Palestinian al-Quds said in its editorial Thursday that despite Arab and Islamic condemnations, Israel continued to excavate near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's...

Analysis: Optimistic note on N.Korea talks.
February 8, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Can this week's international talks on North Korea's nuclear drive reach a written agreement in which the defiant communist country would take steps to dismantle its nuclear weapons in return...

Analysis: Germany beefs up Afghan mission.
February 8, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The German government wants to send six reconnaissance planes and 500 additional troops to southern Afghanistan to aid in the fight against the Taliban, but Germany's opposition and Afghanistan...

Analysis: The Arabian peacemaker.
February 9, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is earning his marks as the new peacemaker in the Middle East after successfully extracting an agreement Thursday putting an end to weeks of bitter clashes...

Analysis: N.Korea strives to win energy.
February 9, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- North Korea has largely focused its demands at the international nuclear talks on a supply of heavy fuel oil in return for steps toward nuclear disarmament, reflecting the country's acute energy...

Policy Watch: Russia-Iran gas OPEC unlikely.
February 9, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Will a natural gas cartel emerge that will work to increase gas prices, as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries does for oil prices? Fears that this could happen have been...

Outside View: The lost leader of Belarus.
February 9, 2007... Byline: ROBIN SHEPHERD BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- If the gods first make mad those whom they wish to destroy, then Alexander Lukashenko, the brutal autocrat in charge of Belarus, may be heading for problems. Since losing his...

Analysis: Temple Mount clashes, again.
February 9, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Clashes at one of the world's holiest sites between stone-throwing Muslim demonstrators and Israeli policemen in heavy riot gear Friday ended with 30 injuries and fears it could be a...

Review of the Arab press.
February 12, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 12: The United Arab Emirates' al-Khaleej commented in its editorial Monday on Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements at a security conference in Munich in which he...

Analysis: Gemayel vying for presidency?
February 12, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Amine Gemayel, a former Lebanese president, was received at the White House last week and granted a half-hour meeting in the Oval Office with President George W. Bush, national security...

Atlantic Eye: Let them rot.
February 12, 2007... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN OTTAWA, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof terrorists Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar have spent 24 years behind bars. They seek to be released. Doing so would be an outrage. They are...

Walker's World: What Putin meant.
February 12, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- There were three striking features about Russian President Vladimir Putin's weekend diatribe against the Bush administration's "policies of hyper-force." The first was that it came as...

Analysis: Seoul's N.Korea burden.
February 12, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- At a time when nuclear envoys are struggling to reach a deal on persuading North Korea to end its nuclear arms program in return for massive energy aid, critics and the opposition in South...

Analysis: More time for N.Korea nuke talks.
February 12, 2007... BEIJING, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Negotiators at the six-party talks in Beijing Monday were considering extending the talks one more day in a final bid to keep diplomatic efforts from stalling over the issue of energy aid in exchange for North Korea...

Analysis: Palestine texts falsely accused.
February 12, 2007... Byline: JANELLE ZARA WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The conflict between Israel and Palestine made its way to Capitol Hill last Thursday when Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, joined the Palestinian Media Watch to release the group's report on...

Analysis: Pax-Islamica 'Made in Mecca'.
February 12, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- In the coming days and perhaps weeks, the two major Palestinian parties will try to form a national unity government, but it is not clear how long it will survive. The two parties,...

Analysis: U.N. Ivory Coast rep bows out.
February 12, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The head of the U.N. mission in Ivory Coast for the last two years, former Swedish Ambassador Pierre Schori, has detailed some of the problems encountered in the West Africa...

Review of the Arab press.
February 13, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 13: Jordan's al-Arab al-Yawm commented Tuesday on Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan, saying it is too early to predict the tour will...

Analysis: Making peace, 'bottom up'.
February 13, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT MADABA, Jordan, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Well into dinner at a classy restaurant in Madaba, Jordan, the music prompted guests to dance. Palestinian and Jordanian men lined up shoulder to shoulder and rested their arms on...

Analysis: Putin reclaims Russian clout.
February 13, 2007... BERLIN, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The anti-U.S., anti-NATO speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin has unsettled European officials. But observers should not be surprised; his words come as part of a deliberate effort to reclaim lost Russian clout,...

Analysis: Kim Jong Il's birthday bonanza.
February 13, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Massive energy and economic aid which would be given to North Korea under Tuesday's nuclear deal is a birthday bonanza for supreme leader Kim Jong Il, who has suffered from pressure and...

Outside View: Facing Western supremacy.
February 13, 2007... Byline: M.D. NALAPAT NEW DELHI, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The foreign ministers of the three giants of the Asian landmass -- Russia, China and India -- will meet Feb. 14 in New Delhi to advance an old proposal for a Trilateral Global Alliance that...

Commentary: Iran & Barbara Ann.
February 13, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The prestigious magazine The Economist, not MAD magazine, has a $2.2 billion B2B stealth bomber on its cover this week headlined "Next stop Iran?" In response to my question about...

Analysis: Timor-Leste still needs help.
February 13, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The U.N. envoy to Timor-Leste -- the former East Timor -- says the island nation is cautiously optimistic about its future ahead of upcoming elections, but still needs the world...

Analysis: World's center shifting to Asia.
February 13, 2007... Byline: REBECCA PEARSEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- As Yang Liwei climbed into his spaceship in the middle of the Gobi Dessert one early morning in 2003, much of the world prepared to watch out for the tail of China's spaceship flashing...

Review of the Arab press.
February 14, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 14: Lebanon's as-Safir Wednesday ran an article by Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah marking the second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's...

Analysis: Israel, Turkey probe closer ties.
February 14, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will try to expand Israel's strategic relations with Turkey during a two-day visit to Ankara that starts Wednesday. Since its early days Israel...

Walker's World: The costs of Putin.
February 14, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Something close to a standing ovation has greeted the stylish way that the new American Defense Secretary Robert Gates reacted to the highly aggressive speech of Russian President Vladimir...

REALPOLITIK: Another missed opportunity.
February 14, 2007... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- It has been famously said the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The recent meeting, hosted by Saudi King Abdullah, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, between President...

Analysis: Iran, 'a very serious threat'.
February 14, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Iran today poses a five-pronged threat, warned the man who first blew the whistle on the Islamic republic's nuclear program. Iran is "a very, very serious threat to the free world,"...

Analysis: U.S. missile plans for Europe.
February 14, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The United States has irritated Russia with its plan to place an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe, and even within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the move is controversial. ...

Review of the Arab press.
February 15, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 15: Lebanon's an-Nahar commented Thursday that the massive demonstrations in Beirut Wednesday marking the second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination...

Analysis: Kim marks birthday with deal.
February 15, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- With a nuclear deal on hand, North Korea has moved to fan a festive mood for its "Great General" leader Kim Jong Il's birthday in a bid to promote his cult of personality among a...

Analysis: Spain's 'trial of the century'.
February 15, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- With many questions still unanswered amid a surge of political bickering, the trial over Europe's worst terror attack to date started Thursday in Madrid, Spain. Rita Betancourt and her...

Outside View: Putin's Mideast visit.
February 15, 2007... Byline: MARIANNA BELENKAYA MOSCOW, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Gas, terrorism, and Palestine were the key issues raised during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan. Trade and economic cooperation deserve...

U.S.: $18 million for Iraqi refugees.
February 15, 2007... WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The United States said it will accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees and will give $18 million to the U.N. refugee agency for operations in Iraq. The announcement was made Wednesday after a meeting between U.S. Secretary...

Analysis: U.N. refocuses Haiti mission.
February 16, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council has unanimously extended until Oct. 15 the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti, ordering it to "continue the increased tempo of operations" in support of a...

Policy Watch: Putin's Munich speech.
February 16, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's Feb. 10 speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy received a lot of press coverage in the West for its criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Less...

Analysis: Promoting peace in Ankara.
February 16, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- On a tree lined street outside the prime minister's office, a military honor guard in white helmets, belts and leggings waited for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. A soldier...

Analysis: Extend Congo mission.
February 16, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council has renewed its peacekeeping mission -- the largest in the world -- in impoverished Congo, scene of on-again, off-again armed confrontations, mostly in...

Germany probes spy death.
February 19, 2007... BERLIN, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- German prosecutors are probing the mysterious death of a high-ranking German intelligence agent. Ulrich Woessner, a 57-year-old agent of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, was since 2003 responsible for...

Review of the Arab press.
February 19, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 19: The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi said Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will find himself in a serious crisis on the internal Palestinian front, as well as with...

Walker's World: Congress' kabuki drama.
February 19, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- An extraordinary three days of debate in the House of Representatives and an equally unusual Saturday session in the U.S. Senate led to a dispiriting and inconclusive result. Its real...

Analysis: Tough test for Liberia's leader.
February 19, 2007... Byline: JACKSON KENTEBE AND ANNA DWORACZYNSKA WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf returned from Washington scoring an international victory over her male African counterparts. Her weeklong visit saw...

Analysis: Misinterpreting the Mecca accord.
February 19, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The ink on the Feb. 8 Mecca accord reached between Fatah and Hamas calling for a government of national unity in Palestine and a cessation of hostilities between the two groups had barely...

Analysis: France haunted by Nazi past.
February 19, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Maurice Papon, an infamous French Nazi collaborator, died Saturday in a Paris hospital at the age of 96. How France dealt with the man is exemplary for how the country continues to deal with...

Analysis: No breakthrough in Jerusalem.
February 19, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The heads of Israel and Palestine came together, but beyond actually meeting up in the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they seem to have made little headway, if...

Review of the Arab press.
February 20, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 20: In its editorial Tuesday, Palestine's al-Quds said the results of the meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. Secretary...

Analysis: How much longer in Afghanistan?
February 20, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The way Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf reads the geopolitical tea leaves in the Middle East and South Asia is not to our liking, but hardly surprising. Political science 101...

Realpolitik: Syria can make a difference.
February 20, 2007... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. administration officials are increasingly talking about the wisdom of engaging with Syria to try to gain its support and participation in efforts to stop the already chaotic situation...

Analysis: Rising racism alarms EU, Germany.
February 20, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Racism and xenophobia are becoming decidedly more pronounced across Europe, and it is fast becoming an issue of major concern for Germany which currently holds the presidency of the European...

Analysis: Israel police reform not easy.
February 20, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- In an attempt to shake up Israel's police, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter accepted the resignation of its chief and decided to remove its deputy whilst nominating their...

Review of the Arab press.
February 21, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Feb. 21: Arab papers continued Wednesday to criticize the results of the meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. Secretary of...

Walker's World: The EU's power grab.
February 21, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- In a bombshell article in Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper, former German President Roman Herzog launched a sharp attack on the European Union as a power-grabbing and...

Analysis: U.S.-Iran tensions rise.
February 21, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- As the Wednesday deadline set by the United Nations for Tehran to back down from its controversial nuclear program failed to be met, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he was ready...

Atlantic Eye: Cheney's misguided swan song.
February 21, 2007... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN TOKYO, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Vice President Cheney has an appalling ethics record, and he is still in office. As he begins his long adieu to U.S. voters, he wastes millions of dollars in taxpayers' money on a junket...

Analysis: Poles, Czechs for U.S. missiles.
February 21, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Poland and the Czech Republic are both likely agree to U.S. anti-missile installations on their territory, despite the controversy involved. "We have agreed that our response to the (U.S.)...