By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the Palestinian Intifada. One of his recent documentaries, Suicide Killers, explores the psychology of suicide bombers. It is based on interviews with the victims of suicide bombers, the families of suicide bombers, would-be bombers themselves, and experts on suicide killer mentality. He has just completed a film: "First Comes Saturday, Then Comes Sunday," which explores the plight of Christians in Lebanon, Egypt and Palestinian Territories. He is also working on a film, "Proliferation," which documents the contagion of suicide killing around the world, including inside the U.S. He recently moved to the U.S.
FP: Pierre Rehov, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Rehov: It is always a pleasure to answer your questions.
FP: Well, it is always a pleasure to listen to your answers.
Tell us about the film you just completed.
Rehov: It’s a film that was inspired by the horrible episode at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002. If you remember, after a series of deadly suicide attacks, which had ravaged Israel, the Israeli government finally decided to eliminate the terror infrastructure inside Palestinian territories. A large military operation ...   more »

By Ori Lewis and Rebecca Harrison
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of fraud on Friday and said a probe into alleged bribe-taking had been widened to look at whether he made duplicate claims for travel expenses.
Police and prosecutors said they asked the Israeli leader during questioning on Friday to "give his account about suspicions of serious fraud and other offences", which involved him billing different public bodies for the same trips abroad.
Police questioned Olmert for the third time on Friday as part of an investigation into allegations he took bribes from American businessman Morris Talansky. Olmert has said he did nothing wrong in his dealings the New York Jewish fundraiser but has promised to step down if formally indicted.
The investigation could hamper U.S.-backed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians if Olmert is forced to quit.
"According to the suspicions, during his tenure as Jerusalem mayor and trade and industry minister, Olmert would seek duplicate funding for his trips abroad from public bodies, including from the state, with each of them requested to fund the same trip," the statement from police and prosecutors said.
Police suspect Olmert's travel agency issued multiple invoices ...   more »

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was in Damascus this week. It had nothing to do with the Turkish-mediated Israeli-Syrian “peace talks” that Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been trying to spin into a raison d’être for his miserably corrupt, incompetent governance.
Instead Abbas met with an anti-American dictator, Bashar Assad, and with leaders of three anti-Israeli, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist organizations—Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine—to discuss achieving unity between two other terrorist organizations, Hamas and his own Fatah.
If this sounds rather important, it got little coverage. After all, there’s nothing sexy here for the international media, nothing you can spin into “Palestinians seek peace, but Israel keeps building settlements” or “Moderate Palestinians and Israelis seek peace, but both need to curb their extremists.”
Now why would the “secular moderate” Abbas be meeting in Damascus with the likes of Ramadan Abdullah Shallah—find him here on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list—whose Islamic Jihad outfit is defined as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Israel, is responsible for this list of suicide attacks and much other terror, and ...   more »

VIENNA, Austria —
World energy needs will spike by more than 50 percent by 2030 but adequate oil reserves, conservation and new methods of recovery mean supply will keep pace with demand, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said Thursday.
Still, OPEC's secretary general acknowledged that dangers to steady supply exist. Addressing one — the threat of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran because of its nuclear defiance — he warned that his organization was unprepared — and unable — to make up for resulting oil shortfalls.
"It is impossible to replace the production of Iran," OPEC's No. 2 producer, Abdalla Salem El-Badri told reporters at the presentation of the organization's long term oil market outlook. “The prices would go unlimited ... I can’t give you a number.”
The United States and Israel have not ruled out a military strike on Iran as a last option if it does not give up uranium enrichment and heed other U.N. Security Council demands meant to dispel the fear Tehran wants to make nuclear arms.
Tehran produced just over 4 million barrels of crude a day last year — more than 10 percent of OPEC's total production.
In its report, "World Look ...   more »

By Pat Hagan and Fiona Macrae
Tomatoes are being used to create an edible Alzheimer's vaccine
Tomatoes could be used as a vaccine against Alzheimer's, scientists claim.
They have genetically modified the fruit to create an edible vaccine that fires up the immune system to tackle the disease.
It works by attacking the toxic beta-amyloid protein that destroys vital connections between brain cells, causing Alzheimer's.
They say reducing the build up of the protein could prevent or delay the onset of the devastating disease, which affects 400,000 Britons.
Although around 500 new cases are diagnosed every day and a global epidemic is predicted by 2050, currently drugs only slow the disease's progression rather than curing it outright.
However, they do not work for everyone and there is a desperate need for new treatments.
To create the vaccine, the scientists combined the gene behind the betaamyloid protein with the tomato's genetic code.
They then fed mice the designer tomatoes once a week for three weeks.
Blood samples taken from the mice revealed the tomatoes triggered their immune systems to release disease-fighting antibodies, although the levels of plaques in the brain were not reduced.
The researchers from the Korea Research Institute of ...   more »

By Adrian Blomfield, Moscow Correspondent
Last updated: 7:54 PM BST 11/07/2008
Russia has ordered the United States to drop its missile shield proposals after claiming that Iran's recent military exercises proved that Tehran did not have the firepower to attack Europe.
Escalating a war of words with Washington, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that this week's Iranian missile tests had provided further evidence of an American plot to neuter Moscow's nuclear deterrent.
Iran launched a disputed number of its Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, which have a maximum range of 1,250 miles, during this week's Great Prophet III military exercises.
Even though some analysts say that the Shahab-3 is capable of hitting southern Hungary, Mr Lavrov claimed the tests showed that American plans to build a missile defence shield in Central Europe were unnecessary.
"This proves what we've said before, that the idea of deploying the US missile shield in Europe is not needed to monitor and respond to missiles of this range," he said.
"We are certain that talk of a missile threat emanating from Iran is an invented motive for deploying a missile shield in Europe."
The minister's comments, which will cause both perplexity and irritation in Washington, ...   more »

Expert says growing threat posed by Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists
WASHINGTON – A top scientist today warned the House Armed Services Committee America remains vulnerable to a "catastrophe" from a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack that could be launched with plausible deniability by hostile rogue nations or terrorists.
William R. Graham, chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack and the former national science adviser to President Reagan, testified before the committee while presenting a sobering new report on "one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences."
It is the first report from the commission since 2004 and identifies vulnerabilities in the nation's critical infrastructures, "which are essential to both our civilian and military capabilities."
Not taking the steps necessary to reduce the threat in the next three to five years "can both invite and reward attack," Graham told the committee.
The scariest and most threatening kind of EMP attack is initiated by the detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude in the range of 25 to 250 miles above the Earth's surface. The immediate effects of EMP are disruption ...   more »