they underline
the danger represented by the threat of aggression against Iran over
its nuclear programme, which of course Tehran insists is for peaceful
purposes only; but the repeated
private demands by the Saudi king Abdullah to "cut off the head of the snake" – backed
up by Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain (and, of course,
Israel) – also serve to drive home the utterly
unrepresentative nature of the client Arab regimes
that underpin western power in the Middle East.

While the Arab
rulers fear Iran and want the US to attack it, the majority of their people support
Iran's nuclear programme and believe it would be
"positive" for the region if Iran did develop nuclear weapons –
according to the most
recent poll carried out by the US Zogby
polling organisation and Maryland University in Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and otherof approximately 438 of the absentee ballot voters, who also
maintain mailing addresses in New York City, reveals that 48 have double
registrations. They voted by absentee ballot in Suffolk County, but are
also listed as current “active” voters on the New York City rolls.
Being registered in two separate jurisdictions is illegal and is a
felony in New York State.

In addition, our investigation reveals that one absentee ballot was
apparently submitted in the name of a Democratic voter enrolled in
Suffolk County, while election records at the Board of Elections in New
York City show that the same voter voted, on Election Day, in Manhattan.

WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration scrambled Monday to control the diplomatic damage from a
quarter-million leaked State Department documents reverberating across
the nation's capital and around the globe.

The White House ordered a
government-wide review of