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Newsday
"His resolution doesn't need presidential approval, but it demands
presidential action about Iran's "pursuit of nuclear weapons,"
despite the lack of certainty that Iran is doing that. Last year, the
nation's 16 intelligence agencies reported with high certainty that Iran
had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and with moderate
certainty that it had not started it up again. Ever since, the Bush
administration has tried to downplay that National Intelligence Estimate,
but the intelligence community has not formally revised it."
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Jan 8,
2008
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AP
White House emails on backup tapes, Plame identity leak evidence, McCellan
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Antiwar, on Rosen Weissman
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Jan 11,
2008 Asia
Times, How the Pentagon planted a false story By Gareth Porter
... WASHINGTON - Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a
broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon
briefing to turn the January 6 US-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz
into a sensational story demonstrating Iran's military aggressiveness, a
reconstruction of the events following the incident shows. ...
The initial press stories on the incident, all of which can be traced to a
briefing by deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in
charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman, contained similar information
that has since been repudiated by the navy itself.
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Jan 16,
2008 "WMR
has learned that Bush committed himself to supporting an Israeli government
plan to launch a three-pronged major military assault on Hamas in Gaza,
Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is
also some evidence that the non-existent naval "incident" between
U.S. Navy ships and Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz was a
staged event concocted by neocons still present within the Department of
Defense and White House, as well as by Israeli intelligence elements, to
create a "Gulf of Tonkin"-like incident to drive the United States
into a military engagement with Iran. ... However, just as U.S.
Air Force senior brass, aided by officers and enlisted personnel at Minot
and Barksdale Air Force Bases who prevented a B-52 carrying nuclear armed
cruise missiles from flying to the Middle East last Labor Day weekend for a
planned attack on Iran, senior U.S. Navy officers stepped in to avert a
pretext for conflict with Iran. ... The naval
"incident" was hyped as Bush was readying for his departure to
Israel where he and all major Israeli political leaders, including Olmert,
Labor Party leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Likud Party leader
Binyamin Netanyahu had all lined up to support a U.S.-backed Israeli strike
on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Moreover, Bush met with two of the most
extreme members of the Israeli government, anti-Arab Moldovan Jewish racist
Avigdor Lieberman and Rafi Eitan, the Israeli intelligence control officer
for convicted and jailed-for-life Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. While in
Israel, Bush was pressed by Israeli leaders to pardon Pollard or commute his
sentence to time served."
more
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Jan 19,
2008 Washingtonian
"Ellis also knew that the subpoenas might derail the case. If the
administration balks at allowing sworn testimony by senior officials about
sensitive conversations, the case against Rosen and Weissman could be
dismissed. ... The line between information that can and can’t get
passed is blurred by the amount of officially sanctioned daily intelligence
sharing between the United States and its allies. Such exchanges are
particularly intense between the United States and Israel, which regularly
trade information and assessments on terrorism and other perceived
threats."
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AP
missing tapes, CIA, investigation, Plame, Cheney
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Feb 29,
2008 American
Thinker "AIPAC case prosecutor quits Clarice Feldman With
little more than a month to go before the AIPAC criminal case is scheduled
to go to trial, the prosecutor has announced he's leaving government
service. The top prosecutor in the case against two former AIPAC
staffers is quitting. Less than two months before the trial date Kevin
DiGregory, an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia's Eastern District, is
joining the private intellectual property firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips
starting Monday. DiGregory has led the classified information case
against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's former
foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, since
they were indicted in August 2005.
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Jan 8,
2008 A Times
Online (a Rupert Murdoch paper) file
pic "A
WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt
government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear
weapons secrets. ... Sibel
Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the
FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while
based at the agency’s Washington field office. ... She approached The
Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had
revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in
Turkey. ... Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted
the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive
military and nuclear institutions. ..." and WMR
August 31, 2005 -- A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As
reported previously on WMR
, federal investigators are poring over wiretap transcripts and other
intelligence that link the Larry Franklin/Rosen/Weissman AIPAC investigation
to the investigation of who in the White House leaked the name of Valerie
Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover
company to journalists, including Robert Novak. According to intelligence
insiders, a new nexus of the investigation is the intelligence relationship
discovered between AIPAC and the American
Turkish Council (ATC). As with the AIPAC and Mossad penetration
of the Pentagon, a similar ATC and Turkish intelligence penetration of the
Defense Department was discovered and it reportedly involved some of the
same players involved in the AIPAC probe, including former Deputy Secretary
of Defense for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith.
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Feb 24,
2008 CASMI
"Despite the latest positive report of the IAEA on Iran' nuclear
programme [1], efforts to launch a war against Iran are gathering pace [2].
Given the unpopularity of such a war, the big powers are keeping very quiet
about it whilst using highly sophisticated methods to psychologically
prepare their citizens. At the same time, all we hear about Turkey in the
Western European and North American mainstream media is the accession talks
with the European Union, the conflict between the religious AKP government
and the country’s secular establishment (including the military) and the
cross-border operations into Northern Iraq. Is there no connection between
Turkey and this new threat of war? How does psychological preparation work
in the case of Turkey? What pressure are the leading NATO countries putting
on the Turkish Government? How is the extra-parliamentary opposition
reacting to the prospective next stage of the ‘Global War on Terror’?"
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Mar 12,
2008 InfoIsrael.net
"By Yossi Melman IHC Abstract Three months ago a US federal grand
jury issued a subpoena against James Risen, The New York Times reporter for
national security and intelligence affairs, ordering Risen to give evidence
in court as to who leaked information about secret CIA and Mossad plans
regarding Iran's nuclear program. ... Risen discussed such possible
CIA-Mossad operations against Iran in his book, State of War: The Secret
History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. One idea was to sabotage
electric power to the nuclear sites; another was called Operation Merlin, to
dupe a former-Soviet nuclear engineer into penetrating Iran's nuclear
program and disrupting it. The CIA bungled Merlin because they had to fool
the expert former-Soviet nuclear engineer who had defected to the US in the
90s; and then fool the Iranian nuclear scientists and technicians into
accepting the fake (dud) Russian bomb plan ginned up by the CIA, which would
be delivered by the former-Soviet engineer cum CIA operative. The results
were disastrous for the CIA: the former-Soviet engineer detected the errors
in the bomb plans; pointed out the errors to his Iranian counterparts to
convince them he was truly on their side; the Iranian nuclear program was
enhanced in spite of the preceding; and the CIA operation may have helped
Iran assemble a nuclear warhead."
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Jewish
Voice New Jersey "Is it connected to the classified
information case against two former AIPAC staffers? A bid to
pressure Israel to concede more to the Palestinians ahead of a new round of
peace talks? Connected to the murky circumstances of Israel's mysterious
airstrike in Syria last September? For now, the main question surrounding
the case of Ben- Ami Kadish, the octogenarian New Jersey man arrested this
week for allegedly sharing classified information with Israel decades ago
is: Why now?" more search terms:
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May 14,
2008 JTA
The government recently filed a rare pretrial appeal to an appeals court
after a number of rulings by federal Judge T.S. Ellis III, sitting in
Arlington, Va., undercut much of the prosecution's case. ...
"The government put a lot of pressure on AIPAC and basically misled
AIPAC on what it was that Keith and Steve did," Lowell said.
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May 28,
2008 AP/
Yahoo Book.... WASHINGTON - Former White House Press Secretary Scott
McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush relied on an aggressive
"political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the
Iraq war, and that the decision to invade pushed Bush's presidency
"terribly off course.' The Bush White House made "a decision
to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most
needed" — a time when the nation was on the brink of war, McClellan
writes in the book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House
and Washington's Culture of Deception." ... The way Bush managed the
Iraq issue "almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the
only feasible option." ... "In the permanent campaign era,
it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's
advantage," McClellan writes. White House aides seemed stunned by the
scathing tone of the book, and Bush press secretary Dana Perino issued a
statement that was highly critical of their former colleague. more
search terms: disgruntled, we are puzzled .. It is sad, this is not the
Scott we knew, Bush .... has more pressing matters than to spend time
commenting on books by former staffers, Fran Townsend, counterterrorism ...
book is self-serving, disingenuous, unprofessional, Iraq war was a
strategic blunder, not necessary, waging and unnecessary war is a grave
mistake, his words badly misguided, harsh assessment, McClellan followed
Bush from Texas, loyal public voice,
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June 2,
2008 Alternet,
Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's memoirs contain a transcript from a bloodthirsty and
over the top private speech by Bush. ... "Shocking Bush
speech .... "'Kick ass!' [Bush] said, echoing Colin Powell's
tough talk. 'If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek
them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff,
this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's
an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal. "There is a series of
moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are
resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be
confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not
blinking!'" Keep in mind that the bloodlusty rhetoric of this "pep
talk" wasn't meant to rev up Marines heading into battle. These were
the President's well-embunkered top advisors in a strategy session on the
eve of major military offensives in Iraq."
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Antiwar,
Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party? Don't bet the ranch on it by Justin
Raimondo
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June 4,
2008 911Truth
... Daniel Hopsicker’s excellent works, “Welcome to Terrorland:
Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Coverup in Florida” and “Barry and ‘the
Boys’” in paperback, and the video, "The Secret History: Mohammed
Atta and the Venice Flying Circus." and “9/11 Dust & Deceit
at the World Trade Center”.
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Senate Intelligence Committee, download Phase
IIA, IIB
Bush lies to war.
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YouTube
Retired General William Odem, died of a sudden heart attack, called for the
impeachment of Bush if he didn't extricate our troops from Iraq.
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The
Nation McClellan agreed to appear June 20 and his lawyer, Duke
University law professor Michael Tigar says, "He has agreed to testify
in the same spirit that he wrote the book... Mr. McClellan is available to
tell what he knows.''
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June 10,
2008 Antiwar,
"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."
 
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June 16,
2008 WMR
Houston ship channel security the focus of Madsen and people close to George
H. W. Bush, 'false flag' event, keywords: HUMINT, Carnaby's Blackberry
and numerous cell phones, activate port surveillance cameras, Special Agent
R. Jennings, Carnaby Shipping Ltd, NOC, American Global Enterprise, Israeli
Mossad, liquefied natural gas, AIPAC,
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WMR
"August 23 /August 19, 2005 -- Revelations about Satterfield and Able
Danger are connected. The recent revelations that the Deputy Chief of
Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, David Satterfield, is the USGO-2
named in the Franklin-Rosen-Weismann indictment and the coming forward of
the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and his
evidence that the elite Able Danger force had Mohammed Atta and three
other hijackers under surveillance in 2000 and was prevented from taking
action are related stories. Shaffer was the liaison between DIA and the U.S.
Special Operations Able Danger team that was tracking Atta and his cell in
the United States and abroad. The Pentagon inaction is being blamed on
lawyers for the U.S. Special Operations Command who prevented the FBI from
being informed of the Atta team's activities. What is being overlooked is
that there was a significant neo-con element within the Clinton
administration. It included then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen (a
Republican) and the career Pentagon officials like Office of Net Assessment
chief Andy Marshall, the indicted Larry Franklin, and Harold Rhode, who all
increased their power in the Bush administration. This network was close to
Clinton State Department officials Martin Indyk, who lost his security
clearance while ambassador to Israel, and Dennis
Ross, (now an advisor to Obama)
of the pro-Likud Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP),
the think tank that provided a number of personnel for Douglas Feith's
Office of Special Plans, including David Schenker and Michael Makovsky
(brother of WINEP Senior Fellow David Makovsky). WINEP's advisory board
includes such neocon figures as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, James Roche
(of Boeing-Air Force tanker contract fraud infamy), Jeane Kirkpatrick, and
Max Kampelman. The pre-911 restrictions on Able Danger are evidence that the
neo-cons were as damaging to the security interests of the United States
under Clinton as they have been under Bush."
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WMR
Houston ship channel the focus of Madsen and people close to George H. W.
Bush, 'false flag' event, keywords: HUMINT, Carnaby's Blackberry and
numerous cell phones, activate port surveillance cameras, Special Agent R.
Jennings, Carnaby Shipping Ltd, NOC, American Global Enterprise, Israeli
Mossad, liquefied natural gas, AIPAC, full
article and Carnaby / CIA
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June 18,
2008 Findlaw,
John Dean: "The Importance of Scott McClellan's
Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee -- Including Possible New
Obstruction of Justice Charges for Scooter Libby and Karl Rove.... No
one believes that Fitzgerald (and his team) were anything less than vigorous
in investigating the effort to discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson by
revealing that his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. Yet
since no one knows what Fitzgerald learned, except those who cannot speak of
what they know, it is not possible to determine whether he might have been
outfoxed by the White House. As experienced a prosecutor as Fitzgerald is,
he was playing in a very different league when investigating the Bush White
House. These folks make Nixon’s White House look like Little Leaguers –
and based on what is known about the Plame investigation, I have long
suspected that Fitzgerald was playing out of his league"
....McClellan, hearings, obstruction of justice, Cheney, Libby, Bush
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June 19,
2008 McClellan will testify June 20, ... What will mainstream
press coverage be like?...at this point no build up for the event.
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June ,
2008
JTA
Court throws out
gov't appeals in Rosen case ... A U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of
two former AIPAC staffers who sought to narrow the government's appeal of
rulings in a classified information case. ... The 4th Circuit
Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. ruled Friday that prosecutors may only
appeal the scope of evidence to be declassified in their case against Steve
Rosen, the former foreign policy chief at the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst.
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June 23,
2008 Telegraph.uk
John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has
predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential
election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.
Iran attack
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WMR
has learned from reliable sources that the Defense Department has ordered a
step-up in production of the AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile from
the Lockheed Martin Hellfire production facility at the Anniston Army Depot
in Alabama. Iran attack
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WMR
If lawsuits were permitted against telecommunications firms, the discovery
process may have resulted in details being unearthed about the extent of
Israel's involvement in federal wiretapping and illegal surveillance
of Americans. Domestic
spying, Amdocs
new additions to Clinton / Bush death list On
April 27, 2002, Solly, 53, died of a sudden heart attack at his Silver
Spring, Maryland home shortly before he was to anchor a newscast. WJLA news
director Phil Smith also succumbed to a heart attack within three weeks of
Solly's sudden death. To ensure a lock on the no
retroactive lawsuit provisions, the man who became HPSCI chair, Sylvestre
Reyes, supported the measure. He was joined by other AIPAC sure bets,
including Brad Sherman (D-CA), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Ellen Tauscher (D-CA),
John Yarmuth (KY), Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Jason Altmire (D-PA), and, for added
measure Pelosi. If lawsuits were permitted against telecommunications
firms, the discovery process may have resulted in details being unearthed
about the extent of Israel's involvement in federal wiretapping and illegal
surveillance of Americans. search terms: FISA, Amdocs, AIPAC,
surveillance, telecom immunity, Israeli Art Students, 911, wiretaps, T2S2,
HIDTA, WMR
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June 24,
2008 WMR
has learned from reliable sources that the Defense Department has ordered a
step-up in production of the AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile from
the Lockheed Martin Hellfire production facility at the Anniston Army Depot
in Alabama full
article
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BBC,
former German Foreign Minister, Joshka Fischer."Iran must understand
that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous
military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious
negotiations to begin," he said.
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Global
Research Meanwhile, a US-sponsored political engineering
process has entered its last phase, warning the entire political spectrum in
Turkey to toe the line. It is relentlessly trying to ensure that a fully
compliant government is in power before launching the next Anglo-American
war on Iran and possibly on Syria.
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CASMI
- Dark
Government
- Deep
Journal
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June 25,
2008 Iran blockade resolution (Act of
War): House Resolution 362, introduced by Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-NY)
and Mike Pence (R-IN), calls for the United States to "initiate an
international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic,
political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear
enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all
refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on
all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or
departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian
officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear
program." This sense of the Congress resolution, complemented by Senate
Resolution 580, introduced by Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN) and John Thune
(R-SD), would impose a naval, land, and air blockade against Iran and be
tantamount to an act of war. The resolution is the brainchild of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which decided on the
course of action two weeks ago during its annual meeting in Washington,
DC. WMR
World War III
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Politico
(conservative) "Conyers
issues subpoena to DOJ for Bush-Cheney interviews on Plame leak
... House Judiciary Committee John Conyers has issed a subpoena to the
Justice Dept. for the unredacted interviews with President Bush and Vice
President Cheney on former CIA operative Valerie Plame, as well as numerous
other documents sought unsuccessfully by Democrats for years. ...
Conyers is also seeking FBI notes of interviews with some top former White
House officials, including Karl Rove, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Scott
McClellan, Dan Bartlett and Andrew Card."
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June 25,
2008 Newsday
"Sometime soon, Rep. Gary Ackerman hopes, the House will vote on his
get-tough-on-Iran resolution under rules that allow it to be considered as a
noncontroversial item. But it should get a lot more scrutiny than
that. ... Though the resolution doesn't use the word
"blockade," its critics say that those restrictions would amount
to one. They fear that this resolution could set off an unpredictable
cascade of action-reaction that would help those in the Bush administration
who still favor a military strike against Iran
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June 28,
2008 Gozlem
"While the EU is imposing strict sanctions against Iran, Turkey seems
to be getting closer due to both countries’ problems with terrorism. The
Turkish Land Forces Commander, General Ilker Basbug recently announced that
there is a partnership between Turkey and Iran in the fight against the PKK"
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WayneMadsenReport "has
recently learned from knowledgeable U.S. Intelligence Community sources that
Entwistle's contract for P-Tech involved "wiring backdoors" into
the computer systems of the FAA, NORAD, Pentagon, and White House to bring
about the operational collapse of the computer systems during the morning of
9/11. full
article
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June 29,
2008 "U..S. escalating covert operations
against Iran - report ... the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran,
which include the Central Intelligence Agency, have now been significantly
expanded, the article said, citing current and former officials.
.. Many of these activities are not specified in the new finding, and
some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature, it
said. ... Among groups inside Iran benefiting from U.S. support
is the Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People's Resistance Movement,
according to former CIA officer Robert Baer. Council on Foreign Relations
analyst Vali Nasr described it to Hersh as a vicious organization suspected
of links to al Qaeda." file
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June 30,
2008 "Scott Ritter, US
Tour of Duty Real Intelligence
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June 31,
2008 Washington
Independent "More in our ongoing coverage of J Street's
efforts to build a better American Zionist movement. Earlier this month, J
Street endorsed a Washington Democrat running for Congress named Darcy
Burner. Burner is the driving force behind something called the Responsible
Plan, a manifesto and strategy for withdrawing from Iraq that this year's
crop of progressive Democratic candidates are supporting. Natural fit,
right? Well, according to OpenLeft's Matt Stoller, AIPAC -- the powerful,
right-wing Israel lobby group in Washington -- is none too pleased:"
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Payvand
News Iran hasn't invaded another country in over 200 years. The United
States encouraged Iraq's war with Iran (1980-1988) by providing Saddam
Hussein with intelligence and military support. Iran's major oil refineries
were destroyed during the war, so Iran was forced to export its crude oil to
be refined. The U.S. sponsored sanctions have prevented Iran from repairing
or building new refineries, so they have been forced to rely on other forms
of energy. Nuclear power was introduced to Iran by the U.S. after its
democratically elected government was overthrown by the CIA in 1953. Cheney,
Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, on behalf of President Ford, persuaded the U.S.
imposed Shah of Iran to build over 20 nuclear reactors full
article
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July 3,
2008 Houston
Chronicle "Was rocket moments from striking Continental
flight? Probe of launch near Bush airport has stalled, FAA records
indicate A Continental airliner might have been only a minute away
from colliding with what the pilot described as a model rocket that shot
past his cockpit window, Federal Aviation Administration records obtained by
the Houston Chronicle show.
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July 4,
2008 AFP
Shirin Ebadi "National Peace Council" of around
70 dissident Iranian politicians, social activists and intellectuals.
The list of people who signed on as founding members of the council included
figures like Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the outlawed but tolerated Freedom
Movement and Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death but pardoned for
apostasy. Also included is the film director Jafar Panahi, winner of
the top prizes at the Berlin and Venice film festivals and Iran's leading
female film-maker Rakhshan Bani Etemad.
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OpEdNews
"And Israel KNOWS that the Iranians have purchased some sophisticated
Russian missile and radar defense equipment that will take until the end of
the year to install and make operational. Israel is in a "use it or
lose it" position as far as neutralizing Iran is
concerned." and Madsen:
Russia is installing an upgraded radar system in Iran to protect Iranian
nuclear sites. It is expected the upgrade to the Tin Shield (NATO code name)
mobile Russian radar in Iran will foil the stealth capabilities of Israeli
attack aircraft and missiles and, therefore, some experts see an Israeli
attack on Iran before such an advanced radar system becomes fully
operational. and see Debka
File
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Iran
Press TV "Mullen: Iran war, too stressful for US ... Admiral
Michael Mullen Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff says opening up a
third front for a war on Iran would be extremely stressful for the
military. Speaking at a Defense Department press conference, amid
increasing speculation that Israel will launch a military strike on Iran,
Admiral Michael Mullen said he did not need an already unstable part of the
world to be 'more unstable.' ... "I think that just about
every move in that part of the world is a high-risk move," the top US
military chief cautioned."
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July 7,
2008 MWC
News "America’s Knesset, servile hirelings of Israel’s
lobby, rush to pass yet another resolution conceived by AIPAC and authored
and co-signed by its most slavish puppets, Ackerman and Ros-Lehtinen in the
House and Lieberman and Bayh in the Senate, Resolutions H. Con. 362 and S.
580, the “Iran War Resolution.” Virtually all Congressmen with the
exception of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich and all Senators, including McCain
and Obama, will vote to support this resolution. Passage provides Bush with
power to impose a unilateral blockade on Iran, an act, if done without UN
sanction, is an act of war. This resolution, a virtual carbon copy of the
resolution that has mired us in Iraq, does nothing for the security of the
United States, indeed it does the opposite, but it does secure continued
funding of Republicans and Democrats by AIPAC and Israel.
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July 12,
2008 Think
Progress The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer
and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was
caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration
inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library
being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.” Will have an
effect on Bush plans to attack Iran.
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Ynet
News Report: US backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
... (Video) Pentagon official says Bush told Israel to 'get on with
preparations, stand by for immediate attack' on Iran's main nuclear sites if
diplomatic efforts fail. 'This administration will not attack Iran. This has
already been decided,' official tells Sunday Times Ynet Published:
07.13.08, 07:52 / Israel News VIDEO - The Sunday Times quoted a senior
Pentagon official as saying that President George W. Bush has told the
Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military
strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down.
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July 16,
2008
AFP "Iran
accepts nuclear talks but has 'red lines": Khamenei: TEHRAN (AFP)
— Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Tehran
is ready for negotiations over the nuclear crisis but warned it would not
step over any "red lines" in the search for a deal.
... His comments came days ahead of a key meeting between Iran's top
nuclear negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief, which will also be
attended by a US envoy for the first time in a major policy shift by
Washington. "
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July 16, 2008 -- WayneMadsenReport
U.S. contractor leaving Saudi Arabia - another warning sign of impending war
with Iran Although Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
William Burns is meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in Switzerland
and the State Department announced plans to open a U.S. Interests Section in
Tehran, the Dick Cheney-American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) war
hawks and neocons are still beating the war drums for a U.S. attack on Iran
to placate the Jerusalem government and the Likud Party opposition.
Another ominous war sign has been reported to WMR. The U.S. contractor Booz
Allen Hamilton (BAH) is reportedly planning to withdraw its training staff
that is supporting the Royal Saudi Naval Force at its base in Jubail, Saudi
Arabia. Jubail is located on the Persian Gulf and is well within the
range of Iranian missiles expected to be used against Saudi and U.S. targets
in the Gulf in the event of a U.S. and/or Israeli attack on Iran. The
report on BAH states that its contractors will begin pulling out of Jubail
in October of this year.
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Today's hearing in the Judiciary Committee focused on
mounting evidence that senior members of the Bush Administration
specifically approved torture techniques outlawed by US and International
law. This issue is directly relevant to the articles of impeachment
introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich relating to torture, and today's hearing
should add momentum to our campaign in favor of impeachment hearings.
During my questioning of Mr. Ashcroft, he refused to answer my repeated
direct questions about the so-called "principals meetings" he took
part in with Vice President Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald
Rumsfeld, and Alberto Gonzales where these key officials reportedly approved
detailed interrogations against specific prisoners that included torture
techniques including water boarding. Despite the fact that much of this
information is in the public record, Mr. Ashcroft stubbornly refused to
answer my legitimate questions and instead decide to "keep faith"
with the Bush Administration and keep secrets from the American people and
the Congress of the United States.
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July 16,
2008 JTA
The federal judge in the classified information case against two former
AIPAC staffers set a trial date of Oct. 28. Separately, Ellis ruled in
favor of the prosecution in allowing as evidence a Washington Post article
from June 15 2003; that article, by Michael Dobbs, on Iran policy wars
within the Bush administration, quoted senior administration officials as
refusing to discuss a directive by President Bush on Iran because it is
classified. .... The same directive was
allegedly the topic of discussion between Rosen, Weissman and Larry
Franklin, then a Pentagon Iran analyst. The prosecution intends to use the
article to show that Rosen and Weissman likely knew the document, a National
Security Presidential Directive, was classified. Franklin has pleaded guilty
in the case.
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July 18,
2008 New
York Times Using Bombs to Stave Off War By BENNY
MORRIS, Li-On, Israel, Tucker Nichols ISRAEL will almost surely
attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months — and the
leaders in Washington and even Tehran should hope that the attack will be
successful enough to cause at least a significant delay in the Iranian
production schedule, if not complete destruction, of that country’s
nuclear program. Because if the attack fails, the Middle East will almost
certainly face a nuclear war — either through a subsequent pre-emptive
Israeli nuclear strike or a nuclear exchange shortly after Iran gets the
bomb. ... It is in the interest of neither Iran nor the United States (nor,
for that matter, the rest of the world) that Iran be savaged by a nuclear
strike, or that both Israel and Iran suffer such a fate. We know what would
ensue: a traumatic destabilization of the Middle East with resounding
political and military consequences around the globe, serious injury to the
West’s oil supply and radioactive pollution of the earth’s atmosphere
and water. .... But should Israel’s conventional
assault fail to significantly harm or stall the Iranian program, a
ratcheting up of the Iranian-Israeli conflict to a nuclear level will most
likely follow.
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Jerusalem
Post
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July 19,
2008 OpEdNews,
Impeachment hearings, Kucinich, Plamegate, executive privilege
Judiciary Chairman John Conyers is set
to begin "preliminary hearings" on Dennis Kucninch's article
of impeachment on Thursday, July 25, according to impeachment activists
working the Hill. Conyers is tying himself in knots trying to avoid using
the word "impeachment," but that's what Kucinich's article is: an
article of impeachment against George Bush, tightly focused on claims that
Saddam possessed WMD and that he had a connection to 9/11, in the run-up to
the invasion of Iraq.
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July 19,
2008 Indymedia
Venezuela: "Maj.Wm. B. Fox, Cpt.Eric H. May - 19.07.2008 07:34 An
impressive medley of military officers join Captain Eric H. May in alerting
the public to the danger of Bush administration foul play in the upcoming
terror drills Noble Resolve and Diablo Bravo. Intro: An impressive medley of
military officers join Captain Eric H. May in alerting the public to the
danger of Bush administration foul play in the upcoming terror drills Noble
Resolve and Diablo Bravo. SUMMER ALERT! Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer
Maj. William B. Fox Dr. James H. Fetzer Capt. Eric H. May SFC Donald S.
Buswell .... Neo-cons and their allies are
pounding the drums of war against Iran. Just after his White House meeting
on June 4, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that war with Iran
was a done deal: "George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian
threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on that matter before
the end of his term in the White House." ... Antiwar
In his July 14 article “Amber Alert! Get Ready for War” Antiwar
Justin Raimondo states “The Israelis have already been using U.S. bases in
Iraq to train for the coming attack… [Bush] is more determined than ever
to leave his lasting mark on the Middle East and the world.” In his July
15 article “A Phony Crisis – And A Real One” Antiwar
Pat Buchanan writes: “Israel and its Fifth Column …seek to stampede us
into war with Iran.” In his article, “9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda” Digg
Dr. James H. Fetzer explained why the Bush Administration needs another
(self-inflicted) “false flag” attack to expand the failing war in the
Middle East. In “False Flag Prospects, 2008” Lonestar
Icon Captain Eric H. May proved the connection between official
terror drills and the U.S. 9/11/2001 and UK 7/7/2005 terror attacks. As
experienced military professionals, it is our mission of conscience to
publish alerts to the American people whenever the danger of a false flag
attack is high. We face that danger now with several suspicious military
exercises just ahead of us. On July 22 Virginia will run a Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD) scenario at the Richmond International Airport. For two
weeks we have tried to gather particulars on the terror drill from the
Virginia National Guard. The command has been evasive, refusing us access to
personnel involved in the WMD-related activities. July 28-August 1, a wide
array of U.S. military, police, and disaster agencies will be running
multiple terror and catastrophe drills. The two main terror drills are “Noble
Resolve” and “Diablo Bravo.”
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July 26,
2008 WMR
Gates selection to replace Moseley, General Norton Schwartz, recently
rattled his saber against Russia in his Senate confirmation hearing, warning
Russia not to station bombers in Cuba in retaliation for U.S. missile shield
bases in the Czech Republic, Poland, and possibly, Lithuania. As Gates was
decrying "creeping militarization" of American foreign policy, his
Air Force Chief of Staff selectee was warning Russia not to cross a
"red line" by stationing bombers in Cuba, stating, "I think
we should stand strong and indicate that that is something that crosses a
threshold, crosses a red line, for the United States of America."
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July 27,
2008 New
York Sun Prosecutors Argue for More Secrecy in Aipac Case
"The district court's view that unlawfully conspiring to disclose
classified information about troop movements to a foreign government is
'patently' unprotected by the First Amendment, but disclosing classified
information to a foreign government about terrorist attacks on those same
troops is a 'core value' of the First Amendment proves the point that
'judges ... have little or no background in the delicate business of
intelligence gathering,'" prosecutors wrote in the brief filed late
Friday night. "Clandestinely obtaining and passing U.S. government
classified information to the Israeli government does not represent
participation in a 'public debate' to 'influence United States foreign
policy.'" search terms: graymail, graymailing,
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Press
TV, Iran ... "This follows the recent publication of an Army
War College 'Parameters' article, in which US Defense Secretary Robert Gates
said that a war against Iran would be 'disastrous on a number of levels',
arguing that 'another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need'.
... Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen,
has also said that fighting a third front would have serious consequences.
"We do not need an already unstable part of the world to become more
unstable," he has said.
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JTA
Joe Klein talks
with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about his running feud with the
“Commentary crowd” over his assertions that Jewish neocons are pushing a
pro-Israel agenda at the expense of U.S. interests (recap: Round
I, Round
II, Round
III). His bottom line: Listen, people can vote whichever way they
want, for whatever reason they want. I just don’t want to see policy
makers who make decisions on the basis of whether American policy will
benefit Israel or not. In some cases, you want to provide protection for
Israel certainly, but you don’t want to go to war with Iran. When Jennifer
Rubin or Abe Foxman calls me antisemitic, they’re wrong. I am anti-neoconservative.
I think these people are following very perversely extremist policies and I
really did believe that it was time for mainstream Jews to stand up and say,
“They don’t represent us, they don’t represent Israel.”
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Aug 6,
2008 AP
Apparently to allay Israeli concerns, Bush administration officials last
week assured visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that the U.S. has
not ruled out the possibility of a military strike on Iran. And the U.S.,
aware of Israel's high anxiety over Iran's nukes, is also hooking Israel up
to an advanced missile detection system known as X-Band to guard against any
future attack by Iran, said a senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because the discussions over the issue have not been
made public. .... With sanctions and
diplomacy still the international community's preferred method to get Iran
to stop building the bomb, an Israeli strike does not appear
imminent. ... If it did attack, however, Israel
would have to contend with upgraded Iranian defense capabilities, including
29 new Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile systems Iran purchased from Russia last
year in a $700 million deal.
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Aug 8,
2008 Jerusalem
Post "If Russia goes through with the
sale of its most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Israel will
use an electronic warfare device now under development to neutralize it and
as a result present Russia as vulnerable to air infiltrations, a top defense
official has told The Jerusalem Post. ... The
Russian system, called the S-300, is one of the most advanced multi-target
anti-aircraft-missile systems in the world today and has a reported ability
to track up to 100 targets simultaneously while engaging up to 12 at the
same time. It has a range of about 200 kilometers and can hit targets at
altitudes of 27,000 meters. ... While Russia has
denied that it sold the system to Iran, Teheran claimed last year that
Moscow was preparing to equip the Islamic Republic with S-300 systems. Iran
already has TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.
... Neutralization of one of the main components of Russian air
defense would be a blow to Russian national security as well as to defense
exports. "No country will want to buy the system if it is proven to be
ineffective," the official said. "For these reasons, Russia may
not deliver it in the end to Iran."
-
Aug 11,
2008 Antiwar
A Not-So-Diplomatic Turn The continuing frailty of US-Iran relations and the
possibility of war by Sadegh Kabeer Last week Iran responded to the latest
European proposal regarding its controversial nuclear program. The so-called
Iran Six, however, were neither amused nor heartened by the proposal's
apparent "ambiguity" regarding the demand that Iran cease it
enrichment activities. .... In
short, Tehran will continue to refuse to forgo its right to uranium
enrichment, and the Bush administration, despite the very loud protests of
hawks, will continue along the path of "aggressive diplomacy,"
i.e., more sanctions, in a bid to break the back of the Islamic republic.
The possibility of full-blown military conflict remains real, but it is
presently tempered by energy prices and the global economic downturn.
Rapprochement, however, is a distant prospect, and the NPT remains the only
genuine alternative by means of which a resolution to the ongoing crisis can
be found.
-
DailyTimes,
Pakistan the Ad Hoc Group Against Israeli Attack on Iran,
have signed the following declaration: “There is no military, political or
moral justification to initiate war with Iran. A constant flow of
information bears witness to the fact that the Israeli government is
seriously considering attacking Iran, in order to disrupt its nuclear
plans.
-
Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs ... Where Are They Now? A Rogues’
Gallery of American Israel-Firsters Compiled by Janet McMahon ELLIOT ABRAMS—Cheryl
Hanin Bentov (“Cindy”): American-Israeli Mossad agent; Stephen Bryen—Member
of advisory board and former executive director of the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs (JINSA); Adam Ciralsky—CIA contract employee
fired in 1999 for failing to reveal a relationship with two U.S.-Isreali
employees of Israeli defense firms; John Deutch—Former CIA director whose
security clearance was revoked for having prepared top-secret briefings and
storing highly classified reference material on his unclassified and
unsecured home computer.; Douglas Feith—Former under secretary of defense
for policy, he established the Office of Special Plans, which produced “inappropriate”
intelligence leading up to the war on Iraq; Philip Heymann—Former
assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal
Division, who failed to act on a written recommendation by Deputy Assistant
Attorney General Robert Keuch that a grand jury investigate allegations of
espionage against Stephen Bryen; Michael Ledeen —Former New Republic
correspondent in Italy, where CIA station files listed him as an agent of
influence of a foreign government Israel; Nathan Lewin—Attorney for
Stephen Bryen and Larry Franklin; former schoolmate of and Supreme Court
clerk with Philip Heymann; I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby—Graduate of Yale
University, where he studied under Paul Wolfowitz; attorney for fugitive
financier Marc Rich when Rich was pardoned by President Clinton; Lt. Col.
Jeremiah Mattysse—Naval intelligence officer who converted to Judaism and
in 2000, carrying several duffel bags containing top-secret information,
defected/went AWOL to Israel Richard Perle —As staff member for Sen. Henry
“Scoop” Jackson (D-WA), influenced hiring of Paul Wolfowitz by Arms
Control and Development Agency; heard on 1969 FBI wiretap discussing
classified information with someone at Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC;
David Tenenbaum—Mechanical engineer with U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive and
Armaments Command (TACOM), based in Warren, MI, who in 1997 admitted “inadvertently”
giving classified U.S. technical data to Israeli; Paul Wolfowitz —While
working for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, investigated in 1978
for providing to an Israeli government official, through an AIPAC
intermediary,
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Albawaba
"More than 100 hundred Israeli academicians and peace activists have
signed the following declaration: There is no military, political or moral
justification to initiate war with Iran. A constant flow of
information bears witness to the fact that the Israeli government is
seriously considering attacking Iran, in order to disrupt its nuclear plans.
We do not disregard irresponsible actions by the Iranian government - we
also oppose atomic weapons in principle and support the elimination of all
weapons of mass destruction from the region. However, it is clear that the
main source of the immediate danger of a new, widespread war stems from the
policies of the Israeli government and the flow of threats from it, backed
by provocative military maneuvers. ... After serious
consideration, we reiterate our position that all the arguments for such an
attack are without any security, political or moral justification. Israel
might get caught up in an act of adventurism that could endanger our very
existence, and this without any serious effort to exhaust the political and
diplomatic alternatives to armed conflict. .... We are not
certain that such an attack will occur. But the very fact that it is being
weighed as a reasonable option, makes it imperative that we warn and caution
against the destructive results of an offensive strike against Iran.
... Coordinating Group: Prof. Gadi Algazi; Judy Blanc; Prof.
Rachel Giora; Prof. Anat Matar; Prof. Adi Ophir; Prof. Yoav Peled; Reuven
Kaminer, Prof. Haggai Ram; Prof. Yehuda Shenhav; Prof. Oren Yiftachel.
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Aug 12,
2008 The
Peoples Voice, Flight 77, WTC7, BBC reported collapse of WTC7 before it
happened.
-
Aug 13,
2008 US warns against Israeli plan to strike
against Iran's nuclear facilities Harretz
-
Sibel Edmonds We
Can Change the World Edmunds
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Saudi Arabia and nuclear power Jerusalem
Post
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AsiaTimes
Georgia is one of Iran's "near neighbors" and as a result of
geographical proximity and important political and geostrategic
considerations, the current Russia-Georgia conflict is closely watched by
Tehran, itself under threat of military action by the US and or Israel,
which may now feel less constrained about attacking Iran in light of
Russia's war with Georgia. ... Representing a
serious new rift in US-Russia relations, the conflict in the Caucasus,
paralyzing the UN Security Council and igniting Cold War-type rhetoric
between the two military superpowers, is simultaneously a major distraction
from the Iran nuclear crisis and may even spell doom for the multilateralist
"Iran Six" diplomacy. This involves the US, Britain, Russia,
France, China and Germany in negotiations over Iran's uranium-enrichment
program, which some believed is aimed at making nuclear weapons.
-
Aug 20,
2008 Sun
Herald (error 404) Declassified Old Documents Shed New Light on AIPAC
Espionage Prosecution WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- More than one thousand
documents released under Freedom of Information Act filings reveal details
of a secret battle that raged between founders of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and top US law enforcement officials. The new book
"America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register
the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government" reproduces and
analyzes these files and their troubling implications for rule of law in the
United States. "America's Defense Line" also reveals stunning
details of a preferential deal engineered within the highest levels of the
US Department of Justice over the course of three years and implemented in
1965 -- but kept secret from the American public until today. Old documents
and new analysis from the Center for Policy and Law Enforcement raise many
questions about the upcoming October 2008 AIPAC espionage trial
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Aug 23,
2008 DissidentVoice
Rosen Weissman trial .... "Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
... american_zionist_council_foreign_agents_registration_1962
and IRMEP Institute for Research: Middle
East Policy
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RawStory
... links between Gulf War Syndrome, Anthrax vaccine, Ivins... Rove /
Bush knew... kept quiet.
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WMR
"In what was considered a diplomatic slap, Pakistan, which is an
official observer at the SCO, sent the national security adviser to the
Prime Minister, Mahmud Ali Durrani, considered a very low ranking
representative considering the fact that Russia was represented by its
president, Dmitry Medvedev and China by its president, Hu Jintao. Iran,
which is also an observer, was represented by President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
Also present in Dushanbe were Afghan President Hamid Karzai, an observer,
ans well as full members President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan,
President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of
Kazakhstan, and President Emomali Rakhmon of Tajikistan. India was
represented in Dushanbe by its foreign minister while Mongolia sent its
president. The President of Turkmenistan, not a SCO member, was also invited
to Dushanbe.
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Sept 2,
2008 Jerusalem
Post Sept 2, 2008, Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks
... On Saturday, Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff General Masoud Jazayeri
warned that should the United States or Israel attack Iran, it would be the
start of another World War.
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Sept 8, 2008
Woodward
book release: Cheney has created a rival
chain-of-command
 ,
has penetrated US Army, Navy, led by Keane to Petraeus,... preceding the
election will be a confrontation with Russia, to play into perceived
national security weakness of Obama, help McCain / Palin... all related to Minot
/ Barksdale nuclear transfer incident,
Generals Casey, Abizaid, the operation will
coincide with Russia, STABILNOST 2008. (Stability 2008), new cold war, naval
presence in Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, USS George Washington, USS Peleliu,
7th Fleet, Russia lately going after Israeli oligarchy, tax evasion,
fraud, more search terms: Kolmakov, Ukraine, Moldova, Ossetia,
Abkhazia, Caspian Sea, CSTO, Armenia, IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 2008, CAUCUSUS
FRONTIER 2008, COSSACK STEPPE 2008, Nova Demba, Poland, RAPID TRIDENT,
Russian Black Sea, Baltic, Northern, Pacific Fleets, warning by Russian
General Valery Yevnevich
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Sept 9,
2008 Newsweek
The Justice Department has threatened to file criminal charges against a
former top National Archives official if he testifies as a defense witness
in a high-profile national-security case. ... J. William
Leonard, who resigned last January as the U.S. government's chief expert on
classified information, after a bitter clash with Vice President Dick
Cheney's office, has been cooperating with defense lawyers in a case
charging two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) with improperly disclosing national-security secrets,
according to recently filed court papers.
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Sept 14,
2008 Telegraph.uk
"Last week Israel's request for a fresh supply of GBU-28
bunker-busters, each weighing two tons and capable of punching through
reinforced concrete, was turned down by the US. ...
Instead, America has agreed to sell 1,000 versions of a much-smaller
satellite-guided bomb capable of hitting underground targets, albeit at a
shallower depth. ... Iran's nuclear facilities are
located at a number of separate locations, some of which are buried
underground. ... The United Nations nuclear
watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, yesterday said Iran had
increased its uranium enrichment programme and was not co-operating with an
inspections process. "
-
Media
Monitors, Mega Spy Case
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Sept 17,
2008 Washington Times "It's true that Mr.
Biden brings some political experience to Mr. Obama's ticket, but so could
many of Mr. Obama's other choices. Mr. Biden also narrows the race gap,
which unfortunately still exists in America. But again, so could any of the
other choices. ... So, what then? Mr. Biden, the
self-proclaimed Zionist, assuages Israeli and Jewish American fears that Mr.
Obama might not be so accommodating to Israel."
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WMR
The U.S. government's bail out of insurance giant American International
Group (AIG) comes as no surprise to intelligence community insiders. In
fact, AIG has been at the center of a number of CIA operations for decades.
The federal government's $85 billion "bridge" loan to AIG
essentially makes the United States government an 80 percent stakeholder in
AIG, a move that will prevent external players from peering into AIG's
myriad intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA, according to an insider
who has followed AIG's overseas operations for a number of years.
... The CIA's analysts who concentrate on Asia have also
enjoyed routine access to a huge AIG database maintained in San
Francisco. AIG's new building in Hong Kong was intended to be a major
outpost for CIA agents assigned the China "beat." However, Chinese
intelligence succeeded in thoroughly wiring the building with surveillance
systems and AIG's China operations were blown. Chinese intelligence could
not believe how sloppy Greenberg and the CIA were in handling the
Hong Kong operation." more search terms: Henry Kissinger,
Elliot Spitzer, Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg, Cornelius Vander Starr, Kenneth
Starr uncle, C. C. Starr & Company, Clinton, Greenberg CIA head?,
AIG goes back to OSS days, National Intelligence Council, Asia beginnings of
AIG, close to Beijing, NOC, AIG Hong Kong is CIA outpost, bugged by Chinese,
... Coral Re of Barbados, Starr Foundation
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Sept 27,
2008 Calgary
Herald "The Guardian quoted European diplomatic sources as saying
Israel sought U.S. President George W. Bush's approval for a military strike
against Iranian nuclear installations when he visited the country during its
60th anniversary celebrations in May. ... According to the
sources, Bush withheld his support even though the official U.S. line is to
say all options are on the table for preventing Iran from developing a
nuclear bomb, including the military option.
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Sept 28,
2008 Aljazeera
"Profile: Tzipi Livni, Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister [AFP],
Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, has called on Ehud Olmert to
resign the post of prime minister and said she would seek to take over as
leader of the Kadima party. ... Livni, born in Tel Aviv on July 8, 1958, is
a leading member of the Kadima Party, the largest party in the Israeli
parliament. ... She is Israel's second woman foreign minister, after the
late Golda Meir. And many Israelis would like to see her, like Meir a
generation ago, go on to become prime minister. ... Livni comes from a
well-known "ultranationalist" family but has endorsed withdrawal
from some occupied Palestinian lands as a pragmatic way to preserve Israel's
Jewish majority - if not to achieve a peace agreement. First elected to the
Knesset as a member of the Likud party in 1999, her father, Eitan, led the
armed underground group Irgun in the 1940s that fought for an exclusively
Jewish homeland in Palestine and opposed partitioning the territory with
Arabs. Livni renounced any such views after defecting from Likud and joining
Ariel Sharon, then prime minister, in forming Kadima in 2005. ... The
married mother of two served as justice minister under Sharon, and was a key
member of the team overseeing Israel's disengagement from Gaza. Politically
inexperienced. She came to politics just over a decade ago, following a
stint in the Mossad foreign intelligence service - as a legal adviser, some
say, while others speculate that she helped hunt Arab enemies abroad - and
then a career as a corporate attorney.
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Sept 28,
2008 TPM
Cafe "AIPAC's Iran War Resolution Defeated By M.J. Rosenberg -
September 30, 2008, 11:35PM Readers of TPM Cafe may recall my posts on HRes
362, the resolution that would have imposed a full blockade on Iran.
Although the bill's authors claimed it was not a "war resolution,"
my take was that a blockade is an act of war, no matter what the sponsors
said. ... I expected the resolution to pass because
AIPAC made it the centerpiece of its lobbying efforts for 2008.
... Credit goes to Israel Policy Forum, The J Street Project,
Americans for Peace Now, the National Iranian American Council, Churches for
Middle East Peace and a host of pro-peace Arab American groups who got
together to stop 362. And, miracle of miracles, we succeeded. One year after
the same coalition blocked AIPAC's bill to block most humanitarian aid to
Gaza, we prevailed again."
 
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