Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John R. Bradley, a British journalist and author. His last book on the Middle East was the critically acclaimed Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (2005). He joins us to discuss his new book, Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution. He maintains a website at www.johnrbradley.com. for more click here
MOSCOW Georgia and Russia have come close to war in recent days and the threat of armed conflict remains, Mikhail Saakashvili, the Georgian President, told Russian journalists.for more click here
Civil war has returned to Lebanon and Hizbullah seems to be winning, having taken over parts of Beirut. for more click here
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s long-simmering political crisis lurched deeper into violent civil conflict Thursday as bands of Shiite and Sunni gunmen battled in the streets for a second day and politicians took to the airwaves to denounce each other for pushing the country toward war. for more click here
Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the United States of mounting an imperialist conspiracy against Russia that could push the world into a new Cold War. for more click here
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close”, a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday. for more click here
BELGRADE, May 4 (Reuters) - Serbia could arrest four war crimes fugitives still on the run from the Hague tribunal, including top suspect Ratko Mladic who is likely in the country, the U.N. chief prosecutor was quoted on Sunday as saying.
The arrests are key to Serbia’s progress towards European Union membership. A pact on closer ties, signed between Belgrade and the bloc last week, is due to go into effect only when all, and especially Mladic, are brought to trial. for more click here
Sunday Times: Israel has evidence against Iran’s nuclear capacity - similar to that which led Israel to destroy Syria’s nuclear reactor. for more click here
THE head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett, is to visit Israel later this month as Britain forges closer links with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
Iran’s nuclear programme is expected to be high on the agenda in an intelligence-sharing process described by Israeli officials as a “strategic dialogue”. It is building on long-standing cooperation between MI6 and Mossad, both of which have extensive spy networks in the Middle East. for more click here
The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country. for more click here