Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Why Austria attacked?

In IRAN THE POLICE STATE, hundreds of protesters, presumably quite spontaneously, hurled rocks at the American

scratch that

the Austrian embassy. Austria??!!

In the Sun Times:
Earlier in the day, 200 student demonstrators threw stones at the Austrian Embassy, breaking windows and starting small fires. The mission was targeted because Austria holds the presidency of the European Union.
Here are the countries who voted to refer Iran to the Security Council Saturday(Fox News, AP):
A look at how the 35-nation board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted on the resolution to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program, which was approved on a 27-3 vote with five abstentions:

YES:

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Yemen

NO:

Cuba, Syria, Venezuela

ABSTAINED:

Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Libya, South Africa

Stay tuned.

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