ANY EXCUSE WILL DO FOR WAR-MONGER BUSH TO LAUNCH HIS NEXT CRIMINAL
WAR: =91United States Is Drawing Up Plans To Strike On Iranian
Insurgency Camp=92 =96 =91Former UN Weapons Inspector Says Attack On Iran
'Virtual Guarantee'
Lies and propaganda lay the groundwork for the world=92s #1 war criminal
to start bombing yet ANOTHER country=85.
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United States Is Drawing Up Plans To Strike On Iranian Insurgency Camp
By Michael Smith,
Sunday Times, UK,
May 4, 2008.
The US military is drawing up plans for a =93surgical strike=94 against an
insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with
attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last
week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at
the involvement of the Guards=92 special-operations Quds force inside
Iraq, training ****=92ite militias and smuggling weapons into the
country.
Despite a belligerent stance by Vice-President Dick Cheney, the
administration has put plans for an attack on Iran=92s nuclear
facilities on the back burner since Robert Gates replaced Donald
Rumsfeld as defence secretary in 2006, the sources said.
However, US commanders are increasingly concerned by Iranian
interference in Iraq and are determined that recent successes by joint
Iraqi and US forces in the southern ****t city of Basra should not be
reversed by the Quds Force.
=93If the situation in Basra goes back to what it was like before,
America is likely to blame Iran and carry out a surgical strike on a
militant training camp across the border in Khuzestan,=94 said one
source, referring to a frontier province.
They acknowledged Iran was unlikely to cease involvement in Iraq and
that, however limited a US attack might be, the fighting could
escalate.
Although American defence chiefs are firmly opposed to any attack on
Iranian nuclear facilities, they believe a raid on one of the camps
training ****=92ite militiamen would deliver a powerful message to
Tehran.
British officials believe the US military tends to overestimate the
effect of the Iranian involvement in Iraq.
But they say there is little doubt that the Revolutionary Guard
exercises significant influence over splinter groups of the radical
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr=92s Mahdi Army, who were the main targets of
recent operations in Basra.
The CBS television network re****ted last week that plans were being
drawn up for an attack on Iran, citing an officer who blamed the
=93increasingly hostile role=94 Iran was playing in Iraq.
The American news re****ts were unclear about the precise target of
such an action and referred to Iran=92s nuclear facilities as the likely
objective.
According to the intelligence sources there will not be an attack on
Iran=92s nuclear capacity. =93The Pentagon is not keen on that at all. If
an attack happens it will be on a training camp to send a clear
message to Iran not to interfere.=94
President George W Bush is known to be determined that he should not
hand over what he sees as =93the Iran problem=94 to his successor. A
limited attack on a training camp may give an impression of tough
action, while at the same time being something that both Gates and the
US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, could accept.
SOURCE:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article38680=
63.ece
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Former UN Weapons Inspector Says Attack On Iran 'Virtual Guarantee'
By John Byrne,
EawStory.Com,
Monday May 5, 2008
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who was among the original
experts to question Bush Administration claims that Iraq had weapons
of mass destruction, now says he believes an attack on Iran is a
"virtual guarantee."
"We take a look at the military buildup, we take a look at the
rhetoric, we take a look at the diplomatic posturing, and I would say
that it=92s a virtual guarantee that there will be a limited aerial
strike against Iran in the not-so-near future=97or not-so-distant
future, that focuses on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command,"
Ritter said last week in a little-noted interview with Amy Goodman's
Democracy Now. "And if this situation spins further out of control,
you would see these aerial strikes expanding to include Iran=92s nuclear
infrastructure and some significant command and control targets."
Ritter, who led the UN mission to inspect Iraqi weapons from 1991 to
1998, also questions Administration claims that Syria was developing a
nuclear weapon in concert with North Korea. RAW STORY has written in
detail regarding concerns from intelligence officers, who say that
satellite photographs of the alleged site offer no formal proof, and
officials are internally skeptical of such claims.
"We have to be concerned about the evidence," Ritter said. "We have
interior photographs and exterior shots and nothing that links the
two. And so, on the surface, I would say that if you=92re bringing this
evidence to a court of law=97it=92s a strange dimension, the rule of law,
when we speak of American foreign policy lately=97you would have trouble
having anybody say yes, this is definitive evidence that links the
allegations to this specific site in question."
"And this notion that the reactor was on the verge of becoming
operational, again, is absurd," he adds. "You know, there would have
to be literally thousands of pounds of pure graphite that would have
to be introduced to this facility, and there=92s no evidence in the
destruction. You know, there were a number of re****ters who went to
the site after it was blown up. If it had been bombed and there was
graphite introduced, you would have a signature all over the area of
destroyed graphite blocks. There would be graphite lying around, etc.
This was not the case."
US intelligence officials told RAW STORY they =93found no radiation
signatures after the bombing, so there was no uranium or plutonium
present.=94
=93We don't have any independent intelligence that it was a nuclear
facility -- only the assertions by the Israelis and some ambiguous
satellite photography from them that shows a building, which the
Syrians admitted was a military facility.=94
The site of the alleged reactor was bombed in 2007. The UN is
currently probing US claims.
"I don=92t know what was going on at this site," Ritter said. "If the
images are accurate, it appears that Syria was producing a very, very
small research reactor. But it is not a reactor usable in a nuclear
weapons program. Syria was not violating the law."
The interview was highlighted by a diarist on Daily Kos.
Re****t fingers new Pentagon planning
Ritter's remark about Iran comes on the heels of a re****t Sunday in
the UK Sunday Times' which alleges that the Pentagon is drawing up
plans for a "surgical strike" against an alleged insurgent training
camp in Iran, and a CBS re****t that suggests US forces are prepared to
launch small-scale attacks.
Attributing the assertion to Western intelligence officials, the
Times' Michael Smith asserts that US officials have become
increasingly frustrated with Iran's Republican Guard force -- an elite
corps of the country's military -- which the Bush Administration has
designated a terrorist group. Western officials have accused Iran of
helping arming rebel militias in Iraq, and have accused Iran of
supplying IEDs.
Smith was the first to reveal the Downing Street Minutes, an account
of a secret 2002 meeting between Bush Administration officials and
British intelligence surrounding Iraq, in which MI6 director Richard
Dearlove remarked that facts around Iraq were being "fixed" around a
policy for war.
"US commanders are increasingly concerned by Iranian interference in
Iraq and are determined that recent successes by joint Iraqi and US
forces in the southern ****t city of Basra should not be reversed by
the Quds Force," Smith writes."'If the situation in Basra goes back to
what it was like before, America is likely to blame Iran and carry out
a surgical strike on a militant training camp across the border in
Khuzestan,'" he quotes a defense official as saying.
Nuclear facilities 'not targets'
Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker and RAW STORY's Larisa Alexandrovna
revealed internal Pentagon planning in a buildup to a potential Iran
conflict. Since the re****ts ran, however, rhetoric about Iran has been
toned down and concerns of a potential all-out war have diminished.
American officials are opposed to any attack on Iranian nuclear
facilities, Smith says. They believe, however, that an attack on a
militant camp could send a message to the Republican Guard.
CBS News re****ted last week about a potential strike on Iran.
"Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are
made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force
which directs operations in Iraq," they wrote.
"U.S. officials are also concerned by Iranian harassment of U.S. ****ps
in the Persian Gulf as well as Iran's still growing nuclear program,"
CBS adds. "New pictures of Iran's uranium enrichment plant show the
country's defense minister in the background, as if deliberately
mocking a recent finding by U.S. intelligence that Iran had ceased
work on a nuclear weapon."
Sources told Smith that no attack was planned on Iranian nuclear
facilities. Such attack plans have been criticized, because many of
Iran's facilities are located underground and not all locations might
be neutralized by an airstrike.
"If an attack happens it will be on a training camp to send a clear
message to Iran not to interfere," one intelligence officer said.
SOURCE:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Former_UN_weapons_inspector_says_attac=
k_0505.html
(This news item is posted here under =91Fair Use=92 provisions)
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These serious allegations, involving the alleged =91sale=92 of nuclear
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