As The Washington Post first reported, an influential Pentagon advisory board was given a briefing prepared by a Rand Corporation analyst who said the U.S. should consider seizing the oil fields and financial assets of Saudi Arabia if it did not stop its support of terrorism.
That is why the money is being used to kill people in Congo and Britain should stop its support".
"If America stops its support, Musharraf wouldn't last for a day," said Usman Majeed, 31, a businessman in Islamabad, echoing the sentiment of many middle-class Pakistanis.
Mr. Olmert has said he would be willing to resume talks if Syria showed its intentions were genuinely peaceful, for example by stopping its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and for Palestinian militant factions based in Damascus.
"The bank has taken an important first step in essentially stopping its support for coal-fired power plants, but climate change is caused by more than just coal," said Stephen Kretzmann, director of Oil Change International.
The President then provided a list: stop its support for Hamas and Hezbollah; stop meddling in Lebanon; coöperate in the investigation of the murder, in 2005, of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's former Prime Minister; and stop serving as "a transit way for suicide bombers heading into Iraq".
Mr. Armitage indicated in his closed briefing that the Bush administration has had indirect contact with Iran, but that it was not clear what steps Tehran was prepared to take to stop its support for terrorism or help Washington in its struggle with Mr. bin Laden and the Taliban.
"With the start this week of the first direct peace talks since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen, the UK government should help turn the current ceasefire into a permanent peace by stopping its support to one side of the conflict.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk called for the UN and the US to freeze Russian assets until the troops are pulled back, and Moscow stops its support of separatists.
