UPI editor-in-chief is reporting that Israel plans to attack Iran

[TexasLawyer]

So is this a moonie talking or is this for real?

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of the United Press International (UPI), at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they had been to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel had used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it would be missiles. Asked if Israel would employ Cruise missiles, he replied, “with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again”, which meant that it would be the weapon of choice.

Asked if tunnel entrances to widely scattered Iranian nuclear facilities would be targeted, he responded that Israel had its own geo-stationary spy-in-the-sky satellite taking constant pictures of Iran with a resolution down to 70 centimetres. “We know far more than anyone realises,” he added.

De Borchgrave’s report quoted a poll of conservative Republicans by a conservative web-based news service, which showed overwhelmingly strong support for bombing Iran.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\05\09\story_9-5-2006_pg1_3

[ShortnFiery]

1. My first thought: Duck and Cover! eom

[The Magistrate]

2. It Is A Moonie Talking, Ma'am

[SpiralHawk]

8. Mooooooooon media organ

What are the republimoonies up to this time?

[TexasLawyer]

9. I think I'm with you, Mr. Magistrate

This guy's been full of juicy, warmongering (and Wrong) info since before the Iraq war started. I just looked at a page full of his craziness. But I think the Pakistanis are taking him seriously.

Saddam's war plan

Washington Times
July 14, 2002

If President Bush doesn't have a war plan on his desk to unhorse Saddam Hussein — maybe he doesn't allow the New York Times to touch his desk — the Iraqi dictator most assuredly has one on his desk. It will include everything in Iraq's arsenal, according to what Saddam told his inner circle of advisers and two sons during a five-hour meeting last month that was leaked to a Kuwaiti newspaper. "Everything" in this instance means weapons of mass destruction. Iraq is known to possess both chemical and biological WMDs.

Saddam made clear to his acolytes he would wait for the U.S. to throw the first punch — and then hit back with everything he's got, both on the battlefield and "all other fronts." This presumably means the activation of "sleeper" cells in the U.S.

The beneficiary of the Iraqi leak was Al-Watan-Al-Arabi, which quoted sources close to the ruling family in Baghdad. Present at Saddam's war council were two new officials "who were recently assigned by (Saddam´s son] Qusay to organize intelligence cells abroad." It's a safe bet that "intelligence cells" in this instance is Iraqi jargon for "sabotage of U.S. targets of convenience."

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http://www.benadorassociates.com/borchgrave.php

[Robbien]

3. Israel has been saying they will attack Iran since 9/11, and

probably even before that.

Just another reason why Iran wants nukes.

[babylonsister]

4. Under that scenario, can you blame them? nt

[Skip Intro]

5. So an unnamed Israeli official cites a newsmax poll...(link to poll --->)

http://www.newsmax.com/poll/iran/?s=lh

the poll, which is not referenced by name in the article, is cited by this unnamed Israeli official as evidence of support for attacking Iran, and it turns out its a newsmax poll...

the whole thing reeks

[TexasLawyer]

6. The neo-cons are the same people who relied on "Curveball"

and his fabulously wrong WMD info. I wouldn't be surprised if BushCo relied upon something so outrageously unreliable as a NewsMax poll.

[TexasLawyer]

7. That poll is MESSED UP!

It has not been shown that Iran even HAS a nuclear weapons program. That's a big part of what the hubbub is about.


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