Jan 7 (Reuters) - Five Iranian boats carried out aggressive manoeuvres and showed hostile intent against three U.S. Navy ships at the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday, an incident Iran played down as "ordinary". Full Article at Reuters Alert Net

Bush is to leave Tuesday for Israel, where he hopes to jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he launched in Annapolis late last year. Full Article at The Washington Post

Defense Minister Ehud Barak will lay out for U.S. President George W. Bush the differences in interpretation regarding Iran's nuclear program between the Israeli security establishment and the American intelligence community. Full Article at Haaretz

The president leaves Tuesday for Israel, where he hopes to jumpstart the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he launched in Annapolis late last year. Full Article at The Washington Post

Israel does not have any evidence which could turn the tables on a recent US intelligence report which concluded that Iran has stopped developing nuclear weapons, according to the senior political-diplomatic forum at the Prime Minister's... Full Article at Ynetnews

ISRAELI security officials are to brief President George W Bush on their latest intelligence about Iran’s nuclear programme - and how it could be destroyed - when he begins a tour of the Middle East in Jerusalem this week. Full Article at The Raw Story

ISRAELI security officials are to brief President George W Bush on their latest intelligence about Iran's nuclear programme - and how it could be destroyed - when he begins a tour of the Middle East in Jerusalem this week. Full Article at Huffington Post

US President George W. Bush will try this week to reassure US allies in the Middle East that his administration continues to view Iran as a threat and will not abandon its friends in the face of it. Full Article at The Australian