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The Daily Caller report cited by Grayson was written by the president of neocon group
Verify chemical weapons use before unleashing the dogs of warhttp://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/
The interesting thing is that opinion is by the president of a group aligned with PNAC.
The Foundation for Democracy in Iran is a U.S. organization. Several of its Board Members are current or former CIA assets, including former CIA Director Wollsey and former Defense intelligence operative Frank Gaffney, and others are openly affiliated with the Mossad intelligence agency, including Menashe Amir.[citation needed] FDI was founded in 1995 by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Peter W. Rodman, Joshua Muravchik and American intelligence officials advocating regime change in Iran.[citation needed]
Recently, the group gained attention for a lawsuit it brought in the Southern District of New York for Manhattan alleging that Iran was behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks.[citation needed]
Its website delivers news and intelligence concerning Iran.
In 2005, the website reported sources said that Iran "is planning a nuclear weapons test before the Iranian New Year on March 20, 2006", whereas a 2005 assessment by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded "if Iran threw caution to the wind, and sought a nuclear weapon capability as quickly as possible without regard for international reaction, it might be able to produce enough HEU for a single nuclear weapon by the end of this decade" assuming no technical problems [1].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Democracy_in_Iran
Recently, the group gained attention for a lawsuit it brought in the Southern District of New York for Manhattan alleging that Iran was behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks.[citation needed]
Its website delivers news and intelligence concerning Iran.
In 2005, the website reported sources said that Iran "is planning a nuclear weapons test before the Iranian New Year on March 20, 2006", whereas a 2005 assessment by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded "if Iran threw caution to the wind, and sought a nuclear weapon capability as quickly as possible without regard for international reaction, it might be able to produce enough HEU for a single nuclear weapon by the end of this decade" assuming no technical problems [1].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Democracy_in_Iran
Kenneth Timmerman
Kenneth Timmerman is a rightist author and policy advocate who directs the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI), which he founded in 1995 with Joshua Muravchik and Peter Rodman to push hawkish U.S. policies on Iran. The National Endowment for Democracy provided the group's start-up funding. For many years a journalist with mainstream outlets like Time magazine and the author of some well-received books on global affairs, Timmerman appears to have eschewed traditional journalism in favor of right-wing, hawkish activism by the early 1990s. According to his own telling, he was “fired by Time magazine for investigating the Clinton sell-off to Communist China of our national strategic technology, and it became increasingly difficult to get anything in the New York Times or Newsweek or Time or onto ABC, CNN, those types of places. Since then I've proudly waved my conservative banner."[1]
Timmerman has also been a member of a number of neoconservative-aligned pressure groups, including the Committee on the Present Danger and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, both hardline “pro-Israel” organizations that have supported an expansive "war on terror" aimed at Islamic countries.
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In addition to his writings, Timmerman has been active in promoting a lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims alleging Iranian culpability for the attacks. “The only real effect of the case is to promote right-wing political myths about Iran,” explains journalist Gareth Porter. “One of the peculiarities of such cases is that the witnesses are not subject to cross examination in court. The witnesses have every incentive, therefore to indulge in false testimony, knowing that there will be no one to challenge them.”[4]
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As a correspondent for the conservative Newsmax.com, Timmerman has been broadly critical of the Barack Obama administration.[6] In an interview with the New English Review, Timmerman summed up his view of the administration’s Middle East policies: “I believe the common thread between Obama’s response to the cries for freedom of the Iranian people and his enabling of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is this: Obama likes radical Islamic rule.”[7]
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Timmerman_Kenneth
Kenneth Timmerman is a rightist author and policy advocate who directs the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI), which he founded in 1995 with Joshua Muravchik and Peter Rodman to push hawkish U.S. policies on Iran. The National Endowment for Democracy provided the group's start-up funding. For many years a journalist with mainstream outlets like Time magazine and the author of some well-received books on global affairs, Timmerman appears to have eschewed traditional journalism in favor of right-wing, hawkish activism by the early 1990s. According to his own telling, he was “fired by Time magazine for investigating the Clinton sell-off to Communist China of our national strategic technology, and it became increasingly difficult to get anything in the New York Times or Newsweek or Time or onto ABC, CNN, those types of places. Since then I've proudly waved my conservative banner."[1]
Timmerman has also been a member of a number of neoconservative-aligned pressure groups, including the Committee on the Present Danger and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, both hardline “pro-Israel” organizations that have supported an expansive "war on terror" aimed at Islamic countries.
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In addition to his writings, Timmerman has been active in promoting a lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims alleging Iranian culpability for the attacks. “The only real effect of the case is to promote right-wing political myths about Iran,” explains journalist Gareth Porter. “One of the peculiarities of such cases is that the witnesses are not subject to cross examination in court. The witnesses have every incentive, therefore to indulge in false testimony, knowing that there will be no one to challenge them.”[4]
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As a correspondent for the conservative Newsmax.com, Timmerman has been broadly critical of the Barack Obama administration.[6] In an interview with the New English Review, Timmerman summed up his view of the administration’s Middle East policies: “I believe the common thread between Obama’s response to the cries for freedom of the Iranian people and his enabling of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is this: Obama likes radical Islamic rule.”[7]
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Timmerman_Kenneth
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