{"article":{"id":218261,"heading":"Senate Report Exposes Key Role of the Israel Lobby in Fomenting War with Iran","author":"AIPAC","created":"2008-06-12 23:56:00","modified":"2013-11-11 00:53:44","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:53:44","article":"

'Faster, Please!'

Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran

by Justin Raimondo

Scott McClellan, the most significant defector from behind the Iron Curtain of the War Party's domain, doesn't think we were lied into war. According to him, it was all due to the \"partisan\" attitudes that dominate Washington discourse on every issue. As he puts it, \"the permanent campaign\" atmosphere made them do it: \"I don't think that this was some deliberate, conscious effort to mislead the American people.\"

In an interview with Keith Olbermann the other night, he disdained the very idea as a \"conspiracy theory.\" McClellan seems to believe that the need to bias intelligence is inherent in the American political system, the inevitable consequence of the Washington ethos as defined by the struggle between the two major parties. He denies any \"criminal intent\" in the actions of the administration and its flunkies, and he trivializes the matter by referring to \"people sitting around a table\" making plans to dupe Congress and the American people. The evidence, however, points in the other direction, as \"Phase Two\" of the long-awaited and deliberately-delayed report of the Senate Intelligence Committee makes clear [.pdf].

In spite of Keith's effusive reference to McClellan as \"the Rosetta Stone\" for helping us understand what we've endured during the past eight years, the former White House spokesman seems incapable of deciphering what he saw and participated in, as the first section of the \"Phase Two\" Senate report shows. All the prewar \"talking points\" of the administration, and the flimsy-to-nonexistent \"evidence\" used to back them up, are here debunked, and the pattern of deceit is all too clear. However, it is the second section of the report – which deals with the activities of the Office of Special Plans and other parallel intelligence-gathering operations set up by the neocons – that suggests something more sinister than extreme partisanship is motivating the actors in this drama of deception.

In 2001, as the wheels that would eventually drive us to war with Iraq began to turn, the groundwork was being laid for the inevitable denouement of that historic error: the present looming conflict with Iran.

Leafing through the story of the secret Rome meetings conducted by Michael Ledeen and Manucher Ghorbanifar – set up by a \"foreign intelligence service,\" as the report avers – this section of the Senate report reads like a spy thriller set in the future, a future in which we are about to go to war with Iran.

Neocon warlord Ledeen isn't just one of the War Party's most tireless polemicists. The fun part about being a foreign agent disguised as a \"commentator\" is that you get to rail away at the Bushies for not being enthusiastic enough about the Grand Plan of \"liberating\" the Middle East, demanding \"faster, please!\" Yet Ledeen isn't just one of those armchair types who merely pontificates from his pundit's perch: this student of Italian fascism is a man-of-action, too.

Indeed, that's a considerable understatement. He and Ghorbanifar are longtime partners in crime, having been the two biggest spiders at the center of the Iran-Contra web, in which Ledeen and Ghorbanifar deployed their contacts in Israel – and within the Iranian government – to broker the mid-1980s arms-for-hostages deal.

As the Senate report reveals, Ledeen and Ghorbanifar, together with a group centered around the Office of Special Plans – and including a former Pentagon official convicted of engaging in espionage on behalf of Israel – met with a group of Iranians and officials of a certain \"foreign intelligence service\" that is never named. The purpose of the meeting: regime change in Iran.

The Office of Special Plans was one of several neocon-created \"parallel institutions\" designed to circumvent the ordinary vetting process for intelligence gathered by U.S. agencies. Two analysts from the neocons' DoD policy shop, Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin, were assigned to the Rome meetings. Franklin was once Douglas Feith's top Iran analyst. His career ended in 2005 when he was convicted of stealing U.S. state secrets on behalf of Israel.

Rhode, an expert on the Middle East, speaks a good number of languages, including Farsi, Turkish, and Hebrew, and was the key organizer for and advocate of the Iraqi National Congress in the U.S. He was described by one CIA hand as \"living out of [Ahmed] Chalabi's office\" during his time in Iraq. Indeed, Rhode served as Chalabi's American agent, rallying support for the American Enterprise Institute's Che Guevara when Chalabi's offices were raided by U.S. forces. It later came out that Chalabi was doing just what Franklin was doing – stealing U.S. secrets on behalf of a foreign power.

In a UPI piece by Richard Sale, a \"former senior intelligence official\" who served in the Coalition Provisional Authority is quoted as saying that \"'Rhode was observed by CIA operatives as being constantly on his cell phone to Israel,' and that the information that the intelligence officials overheard him passing to Israel was 'mind-boggling.'\"

As for Franklin, his activities on behalf of the Israeli intelligence services, acting through the American-Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC), have been covered extensively in this space. Together with Ledeen – founding president of JINSA – and Ghorbanifar, whose extensive and long-standing links to the Israelis are common knowledge, the provenance of this whole Rome operation seems beyond dispute. The Senate report informs us that the Rome meetings were coordinated and facilitated by this mysterious, unnamed \"foreign intelligence\" entity, and then mentions the presence of at least one official of SISMI, a personal friend of Ledeen's, but the report's language is ambiguous – although it isn't hard to figure out that the Italian connection is just a diversion.

So here we have American officials, without the full knowledge or consent of their superiors, including the president, traveling around on the taxpayers' dime, in concert with and apparently under the direction of the Israeli government, plotting regime change in Iran, and rehearsing all the talking points that we hear today from the Pentagon and the White House. At one point, we are told, Ghorbanifar wrote down his plan for regime change on a napkin in a bar, telling Franklin he would need at least $5 million to start initial \"disruptions\" in and around Tehran, but that the bill would get higher as the \"revolution\" progressed.

The idea was to set up Ghorbanifar as the sponsor of an Iranian version of the Iraqi National Congress, a network that would disseminate intelligence on Tehran's inner workings as well as work to overthrow the regime. As in the case of Chalabi, who bilked the U.S. out of millions, cash considerations figured prominently in the schemes of the Rome cabal. At one point, the report informs us:

\"The proposed funding for and foreign involvement in Mr. Ghorbanifar's plan for regime change were never fully understood. A synopsis of the Rome discussions averred that Ledeen and Ghorbanifar advised Mr. Franklin and Mr. Rhode that the [foreign government support] for this information collection opportunity and financing by [ foreign] corporate enterprises midway through the interviews. The costs would be in the millions.\"

The bill would be picked up by this not-so-mysterious \"foreign government\" generously supplemented by a \"multi-million dollar business deal that the foreign government arranged for the two Iranian interlocutors\" – and, of course, by the U.S. taxpayers.

Here is the quintessential neocon recipe for regime change, involving a lot of cash floating in a thick soup of ideology, with a bold flavor of espionage pervading the dish.

It's interesting that a lot of the most incriminating material was gleaned from interviews with Franklin, no doubt pried out of him with the charges of espionage hanging over him. He was sentenced to a mere 12 years in prison and a hefty fine for delivering sensitive materials stolen from his Pentagon office to Israeli embassy officials. Using AIPAC as the go-between, the Israelis ripped off intelligence about terrorist activities in Central Asia and U.S. operations in Iraq, and when Franklin was caught, he spilled the beans but good in a frantic effort to avoid spending the rest of his life in the big house. Perhaps the release of the Senate report – and the starring role played in its narrative by Franklin, the convicted spy – will bring renewed attention to the case against Franklin's handlers, former AIPAC bigshot Steve Rosen, and the group's point man on Iran, Keith Weissman.

For years, the Justice Department has been trying to prosecute Rosen and Weissman without releasing vital U.S. secrets and compromising our national security. The defense – the best money can buy – has engaged in a strategy of \"graymail\" from the beginning and stymied what are probably not the Justice Department's best efforts. The chief prosecutor in the case recently announced he was leaving for greener pastures, and there has been a lot of political resistance to this case for all the usual reasons, and then some.

\"Oh, everyone does it,\" is the standard defense. That's what Washington is all about: trading information. Baloney. These two were caught red-handed receiving vital U.S. secrets from Franklin and passing them on to their Israeli handlers in what was a classic spying operation. That's not \"trading information,\" it's espionage. It's embarrassing to have to point this out, but in the present atmosphere, in which any indication that Israel might be undermining the interests of its major benefactor is dismissed as evidence of resurgent anti-Semitism, the plain truth needs to be stated in unequivocal terms.

For years, I've been saying that the only way to understand the Iraq war – a war that hurt, rather than advanced, American interests – is to see it as a successful covert action carried out by the Israelis and their American collaborators. The \"Clean Break\" scenario, launched by American \"advisers\" to then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, laid it all out in 1996. That was the theory, the practice of which is revealed in second section of the Senate intelligence report. It's no accident that two individuals involved in creating that seminal blueprint for the \"transformation\" of the Middle East, Doug Feith and David Wurmser, are intimately connected with the activities examined in the Senate report.

The entire report is a goldmine of information that gives us a fascinating overview of the lies that lured us into war. And lies they were, whatever McClellan may say or believe. This is another mark of Empire: when the superpower, as the Old Right polemicist Garet Garrett pointed out more than half a century ago, is taken hostage by its own satellites. A globe-spanning Empire becomes, in effect, \"a prisoner of history,\" driven by foreign lobbyists and their domestic constituencies, and is no longer cognizant of distinctly American interests.

Yes, we are prisoners of history. Our invasion of Iraq has led directly to a looming confrontation with Iran, just as the war-planners knew it would. What the second portion of the Senate report shows, however, is that we are also prisoners of the Israel lobby, which is inexorably pushing us into war with Iran. That lobby exercises enormous power in Washington and beyond, effectively policing not only the media but the government for the least sign of \"anti-Israel\" (i.e., pro-American) activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals – and its enemies.

Yet there is growing resistance to the Lobby's hegemony, especially within intelligence, counter-intelligence, and law enforcement circles. They, after all, are expected to put up with Israeli shenanigans conducted on American soil and stand by while the White House and the Pentagon let our alleged best friends get away with the crown jewels, the family silver, and the quarters in the cookie jar to boot.

Now the Senate report has blown away much of their cover; that and the recent exposure of Ben Ami Kadish, an Israeli spy handled by the same spook who directed Jonathan Pollard, constitute a double body-blow to Israel's fifth column in America – which is, today, just another name for the War Party and its top leadership.

As Ledeen might put it: \"Faster, please!\"

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Read the reports of those who were there","author":"Renaldo","parent_id":218261,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-13 01:55:08","modified":"2008-06-13 01:55:08","fileurl":""},{"id":218280,"heading":"this is typical","article":"Why does the zionist lobby and authors like "Renaldo" keep posting empty, denials apologies etc. with out references and expect us to take seriously such comments as :\r\n"They asked for diplomacy[*] at AIPAC and if that failed, for economic sanctions[*]."\r\n*Diplomacy?\r\nWe're talking treason here against the people of America for foreign agents engaging in sinister and hostile acts from the israeli state.\r\nEspionage is serious sh*t.\r\n*economic sanctions?\r\nI doubt that the renegade israeli political arm through AIPAC is seriously considering a list of sancti\r\nons against itself.\r\nIt would however, be a good idea.\r\nI love the way israel needs to invert reality.\r\n\r\nHmmm\r\nTo convince us that you're a human being and not a spambot, please answer the following math question. \r\nType the answer in English: What is three plus four? \r\nI type in \r\nseven\r\nhit pulish button\r\nand\r\nget\r\n\r\nWrong answer to the math question.\r\n\r\n>back<\r\nTo convince us that you're a human being and not a spambot, please answer the following math question. \r\nType the answer in English: What is five plus three? \r\nwith \r\nseven\r\nstill in register\r\nI type in\r\neight\r\nhit publish button\r\nand get\r\nWrong answer to the math question\r\n>back<\r\nTo convince us that you're a human being and not a spambot, please answer the following math question. \r\nType the answer in English: What is two plus five? \r\nwith \r\neight\r\nstill in register\r\n\r\nWhat kind of crap is this?\r\nMy cookie vanished\r\nOkay I'll try again.\r\n-Wrong answer to the math question.-\r\nwith eight in register\r\nand a new question!\r\n\r\nSTEP 4: HUMAN-NESS\r\nTo convince us that you're a human being and not a spambot, please answer the following math question. \r\nType the answer in English: What is two plus four? \r\n- with eight still in register-\r\n\r\nHmm a NEW problem, all of a sudden, when I was able to publish earler today.\r\n\r\nDo I have a cookie?\r\n\r\nYup I do \r\none more try\r\nI type in\r\nsix\r\nand hit 'publish'\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"this is typical","parent_id":218261,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-13 18:56:42","modified":"2008-06-13 18:56:42","fileurl":""},{"id":218286,"heading":"Missed the Point","article":"But there is no crisis that requires 'diplomacy' or sanctions. This is exactly what Israel does in order to indefinitely stall the peace process, while it annexes Palestinian land.\r\n\r\nIsrael and PNAC created this non-crisis, with the fullintention of feigning another justification for yet another illegal war.\r\n\r\nThis is the same thing Bush said up to the day he started the illegal invasion of Iraq.\r\n\r\nBush Resurrects a Whopper \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400896.html","author":"Real Threat is Another Illegal War","parent_id":218261,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-13 21:50:30","modified":"2008-06-13 21:50:30","fileurl":""},{"id":218290,"heading":"Pro Israel, pro Peace","article":""We're talking treason here against the people of America for foreign agents engaging in sinister and hostile acts from the israeli state."\r\n\r\n\r\nAIPAC isn't a foreign agent- its a lobby.\r\nThey send Congressmen to Israel.\r\nEveryone should go to Israel .\r\nIts spectacularly beautiful.\r\nAnd when you go to Israel you learn the truth.\r\nThere are no "Jew only roads".\r\nAnd people live side by side.\r\n","author":"Zionist","parent_id":218261,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2008-06-14 02:27:06","modified":"2008-06-14 02:27:06","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2008\/06\/spring_in_israel.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2008\/06\/spring_in_israel.jpg"}},{"id":218312,"heading":"Israeli Hawks STILL Pushing for Strikes on Iran","article":"Israeli Hawks (Extremists) STILL Pushing for Strikes on Iran\r\n\r\nIsraeli hawks pushing for strikes on Iran \r\nBy DION NISSENBAUM \r\nMcClatchy Newspapers \r\n\r\nJERUSALEM \u2014 Six months ago, after American intelligence agencies declared that Iran had shelved its nuclear-weapons program, the chances of a U.S. or Israeli military strike on the Islamic Republic before President Bush left office seemed remote. \r\n\r\n(The report actually stated that there was no evidence of a program. The single contrary claim, sensationalized by the same media that disseminated Bush\/PNAC's lies about Iraq, came from a single, dubious source, a laptop computer from a "defector', reminiscent of the phony information obtained from criminal Ahed Chalabi about Iraq.) \r\n\r\nNow, thanks to persistent pressure from Israeli hawks and newly stated concerns by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the idea of a targeted strike meant to cripple Iran's nuclear program is getting a new hearing. \r\n\r\n(Likewise, the IAEA report actually states that there is no evidence of a program. The 'outstanding' areas of IAEA interest are minor, and its chief inspector has said that this is not of major concern, as arrangements have already been made to satisfy Israel's demands.) \r\n\r\nAs Bush travels across Europe to gain support for possible new sanctions against Iran, Israeli leaders have been working to lay the psychological foundation for a possible military strike if diplomacy falters. \r\n\r\nIn public threats and private briefings with American decision-makers, Israeli officials have been making the case that a military strike may be the only way to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. \r\n\r\n(Even though these 'ambitions' appear to be a work of fiction.) \r\n\r\n"Temperatures are rising," said Emily Landau, an Iran specialist at the Institute for National Security Studies, an independent Israeli research center. \r\n\r\n(No doubt. I'm sure every time one of the lies from these warmongering Extremists is refuted by the evidence, they get a bit hot under the collar ...) \r\n\r\nBush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have met twice in recent weeks for extended talks on Iran. America's intelligence chief, Mike McConnell, has traveled to Israel for private briefings, and Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz publicly declared that a military strike on Iran may be "unavoidable." \r\n\r\nIn Germany on Wednesday, Bush said that "all options are on the table" if Iran doesn't abandon its uranium enrichment programs. \r\n\r\n(But this isn't a justification for war, but it does expose Bush\/PNAC's use of the UN SC as a way to feign such a justification, in order to skirt the law prohibiting aggression.) \r\n\r\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greeted Bush's initiative by mocking the latest international efforts. \r\nIntelligence analysts disagree over the likelihood of a military strike on Iran before Bush leaves office. But there's little disagreement about the possible repercussions, which could include missile strikes on Israel, an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, renewed attacks on Israel from Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, a resurgence of Shiite Muslim resistance to U.S. forces in Iraq or an attack on oil shipping in the Persian Gulf, which could send crude oil prices well above $200 a barrel. \r\n\r\nSome analysts view the latest Israeli threats as an attempt to put pressure on Iran to capitulate to Western demands. Other analysts see the Israeli campaign as intended to press the Bush administration to take the lead if the two nations decide to launch a military strike on Iran. \r\n\r\n"The most likely scenario is that the Israelis will train and prepare as if they are very serious \u2014 and that's part of the bluff to get the U.S. engaged," said John McCreary, a retired intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense. \r\n\r\nThe key factor in any decision to launch a military strike is likely to be solid intelligence that Iran is rapidly advancing on its nuclear ambitions. \r\n\r\n(But a 'rapid advancement' is impossible, since this would require a massive expansion of its existing program, which would take considerable time, and be readily-apparent to the many eyes intently watching Iran's every move.) \r\n\r\n"I don't think there is that smoking gun that we can hold up and say that everyone should stand behind this," said Landau, who recently wrote an analysis titled "The Elusive Smoking Gun" for her think tank. \r\n\r\nBut Landau said the international debate had shifted in the weeks since the IAEA expressed "serious concerns" about Iran's nuclear ambitions and demanded more answers. \r\n\r\n(A gross misrepresentation of their actual statements.) \r\n\r\n(EDITORS: BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM) \r\n\r\nIsrael already has demonstrated an ability to persuade reluctant Bush administration officials of the need to stage a pre-emptive strike. Before launching an airstrike on Syria last September, Israel provided the United States with intelligence suggesting that its Middle East neighbor was building a nuclear plant. \r\n\r\n(However, this 'evidence' has since been refuted, and Israel's illegal Act of War was not directed at such a site. It is unclear what the point of the attack was; to send a message to Syria, to attempt a provocation of Iran, or to test the world's reaction to such an unprovoked act of aggression.) \r\n\r\nIn April, the CIA publicly unveiled detailed images of the Syrian target and said that it was a nuclear reactor built with help from North Korea. Syria has denied the allegation. International inspectors are expected to visit the site for the first time later this month. \r\n\r\n(This was put to rest long ago. It's been interesting to watch these Extremists try and resurrect this incident so long after the fact ...) \r\n\r\nConsidering Ahmadinejad's refusal so far to accept the international incentives, some analysts see support growing in Israel and the United States for a military strike. \r\n\r\n(It should be noted that Iran has done nothing wrong, and is well within its rights under the NNPT, and UN auspices. The same cannot be said of Israel's 150-plus nuclear weapons ...) \r\n\r\n"I think more and more people are looking to the military option as possibly the only thing that will work, and people are more and more feeling that negotiations won't work," said Meir Javendanfar, a co-author of "The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran." \r\n\r\n(But these people feel this way because the intention of this entire episode is only to start a war, nothing else.) \r\n\r\nHard-liners in the U.S. and Israel also dismiss the notion that U.S. or Israeli nuclear weapons would deter Iran from using such weapons itself if it succeeded in obtaining them. \r\n\r\n(Or tried to create a program which would allow them to ...) \r\n\r\n(END OPTIONAL TRIM) \r\n\r\nThe very fact that a military strike is percolating back into mainstream debate is a significant shift in the political discourse. \r\n\r\n(Not really. The world community hasn't fallen for Bush\/Israel's LIES, but they are intent upon a war, so here we go again. Note that the mainstream media is dutifully ignoring vital context in order to dutifully follow the line of these Neo-Fascists.) \r\n\r\nMost analysts dismissed the military option last December after U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Iran had shelved its nuclear weapons work in 2003 and was unlikely to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 or 2015. \r\n\r\n(Not exactly what the report said ...) \r\n\r\nThough Bush and Olmert challenged the assessment at the time, the analysis made it more difficult to make a case for swift military action. \r\n\r\n(Especially since they couldn't demonstrate any contrary evidence, because their entire line is another pack of LIES.) \r\n\r\nSince then, Israel has shared more of its intelligence with the Bush administration. \r\n\r\n(Which, likewise, fails to support these LIES.) \r\n\r\nLast week, Olmert traveled to Washington for extended talks with Bush that focused primarily on Iran. \r\n\r\n(On starting a war with Iran. And here is the beginning of the renewed Propaganda campaign I predicted at the time ...) \r\n\r\n"Every passing day the world acts, under the leadership of the United States, to achieve that goal that will prevent Iran's armament," Olmert said after meeting Bush. \r\n\r\n(This is NOT about the nuclear program, which came about AFTER these Fascists had plotted their war against Iran, in the name of regional power, OIL, defence contracts, etc ...) \r\n\r\n(EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE) \r\n\r\nOn Wednesday, Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said that Iran must understand that it must give up its nuclear ambitions in order to receive international incentives. \r\n\r\n(But ... Iran doesn't HAVE these. Interesting that statement, coming from a state which counts on not having its 'aid' and weapons dependent on its living up to many outstanding legal and moral obligations ...) \r\n\r\n"Only if they understand that there is a clear and stark choice, that there isn't wiggle room, only then can diplomacy succeed," Regev said. "I think in dealing with the Iranians it's important to have both carrots and sticks." \r\n\r\n(No, you're ONLY interested in 'the stick', meaning another unjustified illegal war. We know who the real threat is) \r\n\r\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 \r\n\r\n(c) 2008, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/ci_9561128?source=rss \r\n\r\nIran Will Cooperate with UN Probe into US\/Israeli Allegations \r\nhttp:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?13896S \r\n\r\nIsrael's Syrian Air Strike Was Aimed at Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?8196S \r\n\r\nThe ME has had a Secretive Nuclear Power in its Midst for Years \r\nhttp:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?8195S \r\n\r\nSpooks Refuse to Toe Cheney's Line on Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?8173S \r\n\r\nIAEA Again Verifies Iranian Compliance \r\nhttp:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?8130S \r\n\r\nIsrael Considering Strike on Iran Despite US Intelligence Report \r\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/iran\/story\/0,,2224052,00.html \r\n\r\nUS intelligence report heightens danger of Israeli strike on Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2007\/dec2007\/isra-d06.shtml \r\n\r\n'Laptop of Death': Revising the NIE on Iran \r\nThe entire claim that Iran was building nuclear weapons rests on a laptop provided by a single, dubious source. \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/ips\/akhavi.php?articleid=12028 www.antiwar.com\/prather\/?articleid=12025 \r\n\r\nIsraeli Extremists Prep for Nuclear Strike on Iran http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/7903\/index.php \r\n\r\nHersh: Israel Pressed me to Write Syrian Site was Nuclear http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Sy_Hersh_Israeli_raid_on_Syria_0208.html \r\n\r\nSy Hersh confirms: Syrian Facility Bombed by Israel Not Nuclear \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10935S \r\n\r\nA Strike in the Dark - What did Israel bomb in Syria? \r\nby Seymour M. Hersh http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/02\/11\/080211fa_fact_hersh\/?printable=tr \r\n\r\nWar Clouds Over Mideast \r\nhttp:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/?page=7\u00a7ion=0&article=108719&d=8&m=4&y=2008 \r\n\r\nIsrael & The 'Clash of Civilizations' \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?11022S \r\n\r\nThe largest threat to the region doesn't come from Iran: it comes from Israel's success in having had the US "neutralize" countries which it believes to be an existential threat to it's existence. However, there's just one little problem with this approach concerning Iran. Russia's diplomats have stated unequivocally that any attack against Iran will be perceived as an attack on Russia. \r\n\r\nUN Nuclear Watchdog in Milestone Iran Deal \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?14262S \r\n\r\nIran Dumps US Dollar in Oil Trading, US Preps War \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?14276S \r\n\r\nIsrael's Extremists STILL Beating Iran War Drums \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?14360S \r\n\r\nIran Mosque Blast Plotters Admit Israeli, US Links \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?14997S \r\n\r\nIsrael, US Joint Plotting Against Iran, Attack ElBaredei http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/7888\/index.php llll \r\n\r\nElBaradei: Iran Not After Bomb \r\nwww.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399278.html \r\n\r\nIsrael Calls for US Blockade of Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399342.html \r\n\r\nUS Report on 'Iranian Weapons' Postponed Due to Lack of Evidence \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?17560C \r\n\r\nPakistan May Turn Over U.S. Terrorists To Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399471.html \r\n\r\nIranian Mosque Blast Plotters Admit Israeli, US Links \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399467.html \r\n\r\nBombing Iran: Extremists' Mad Clamor Persists \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399468.html \r\n\r\nCarter: Israel Has At Least 150 Nukes \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399591.html \r\n\r\nIAEA Again Confirms: No Weaponization in Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399625.html \r\n\r\nMcLellan's Warning on Iran \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15853S \r\n\r\n'Hate Iran Week' at AIPAC \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15852S \r\n\r\nIsrael Launches 'Iran Command' for War \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?16362S \r\n\r\n\r\nBush Resurrects a Whopper \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400896.html \r\n\r\n","author":"Israeli Extremists STILL Pushing for","parent_id":218261,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-15 01:36:16","modified":"2013-11-11 00:53:45","fileurl":""}]}