Iran planning strike on Europe: analyst

[TexasLawyer]

Hmmmmm...


Iran planning strike on Europe: analyst
May 23, 2007 - 6:34AM

Iran is attempting to draw up plans to strike targets in Europe and has reconnoitered European nuclear power stations, a security analyst told a meeting at Britain's parliament.

Claude Moniquet, president of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre, a private think-tank in Brussels, said his organisation also had evidence Tehran has increased the number of its intelligence agents across Europe.

"We have serious signals that something is under preparation in Europe," Moniquet said. "Iranian intelligence is working extremely hard to prepare its people and to prepare actions."

The centre, which he said deals directly with European intelligence agencies, believes Iranian operatives have carried out "reconnaissance of targets in European cities, including nuclear power stations," Moniquet said. He mentioned no other specific targets.

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AP Digital

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Iran-planning-strike-on-Europe-analyst/2007/05/23/1179601443913.html

[global1]

1. Here We Go Again.......nt

[snappyturtle]

2. Now we know why the Brits are leaving Iraq. They

will be needed at home.

[TexasLawyer]

6. good point

[Wiley50]

3. Here it comes folks

Presidential Directive 51

TERRER! TERRER! Bin Laden's orders to attack outside of Iraq

Dems fucking FOLD AND BEND OVER

Now THIS

It will build quickly from here

Prepare for tanks in the streets outside YOUR home

It's coming Quick!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. If I was Iran, I would be doing the same thing...

after all, they have been threatened by the West.

If N. Korea was shaking their hoo-has at us (like the shrub is at Iran) damn straight we would be making plans to retaliate.

[Purveyor]

5. Come on DNC, give Bush everything he needs (a blank check) to take on this threat!!!

:sarcasm:

[Horse with no Name]

19. The DLC

Not the DNC (the one Dr. Dean runs).

[peacebird]

7. is this what our covert operators in Iran have been doing? Sending "yellowcake" lies

about Irans plans?

Somehow it just seems too convenient, and exactly like one of KKKarls ideas to drum up support and drown the admins current woes....

[kineneb]

8. horsepucky

I have to question the whole idea, given how many ex-pat Iranians live in Europe. Why would they want to blow up members of their own families?

Some of my Persian family live here and quite a few are in various parts of Europe.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Time to add to the list

I've been waiting for something to happen


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFowNFvmUxw

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that youve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we cant even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire


OMG! Iran has a secret plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x941127

Bush's Inconceivable Interest in Iran Sat Apr-01-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=819437

Senior U.S. Officials “Want to Hit Iran” Tue Apr-04-06
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Larisa Alexandrovna: CHENEY TAPS IRANIAN ARMS DEALER FOR IRAN TALKS Thu Apr-20-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=977234

Seymour Hersh said something startling about Rumsfeld on Democracy Now Fri Aug-18-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1936421

So former DLC, PNAC member Abram Shulsky feeding Cheney info on Iran?Sat Aug-19-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1944614

Fuck. Iran has started "war games." Escalation may only be expected.Sun Aug-20-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1949812

Attack on Iran is Coming Sun Aug-27-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1993284

"Grave threat". Yes, it's deja vu all over again. Thu Aug-31-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2022620

UN attacks US nuclear report on Iran erroneous misleading unsubstantiated Sun Sep-17-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2159951

We Are Conducting Military Operations Inside Iran Right Now Tue Sep-19-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2168218

Navy told: Prepare to blockade Iran by Oct 1 Mon Sep-18-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2161779

Pentagon Iran Office Mimics Former Iraq Office Wed Sep-20-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2179484

“This is the largest massing of military power in the region, and it is gathering for a reason.” Sat Nov-18-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2753952

Seymour Hersh: Cheney Says 'Whether Or Not Dems Win-NO STOPPING Military Option With Iran' Sun Nov-19-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2757350

Does anyone still believe the US will launch a full scale invasion of Iran? Mon Dec-04-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2856177

Saudi clerics rally support for Sunnis and Saudi ambassador Abruptly ResignsTue Dec-12-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2902643

Act III in a Tragedy of Many Parts - The US Occupation of Iraq Sun Dec-17-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2935498

Century Foundation Iran White Paper Series Fundamentalists, Pragmatists and the Rights of the Nation Tue Dec-19-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2948146

Oh shit Tue Dec-19-06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2944423


KBR has been planning the invasion of IRAN since 2003
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3108489&mesg_id=3108489

Russian Admiral Says U.S. Navy Prepares Missile Strike on Iran
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3128152

while Bush sets his plans in motion to orchestrate a war with Iran.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3127918

NYT: 'Newly Revealed Orders" Issued By Bush Show US Has Opened A "Third Front Against Iran"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3122346&mesg_id=3122346

Iran? Just had dinner with a ranking Navy Officer from one of our gulf bound Carrier Groups
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=3108967

US military strike on Iran seen by April ’07; Sea-launched attack to hit oil, N-sites
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=3118092

The most dangerous George Bush is one who feels weak, powerless and under attack
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=3118627

Isn't it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=3095978

[Zywiec]

18. I'm bookmarking this

That way I can just add it to the GD every couple of days. Now I just need to compile the list of the same DU polls that people have been voting on since 2005, and a few of the "we won't have elections in 2008" posts and I'll be set.

Thanks!

[dave_p]

10. Clowns

Moniquet's just a third-rate ex-journalist and his "ESISC"'s basically himself and a half-dozen fellow paranoid Islamophobe warmongers (though he's the author of most of its amateurish output). Its material's about as well-sourced and fact-based as a Dubya address.

As you were.

[Canuckistanian]

22. The ESISCs membership just bloomed to 25!

Sorry, you'll have to translate from French:
http://www.esisc.org/page.asp?ID=1

[dave_p]

23. But...

How many of them know they're members? :D

[Canuckistanian]

25. Hahaha

Easy. They just have to look at their bank balances!

[malaise]

11. Well they're lining up the right wing governments in

Europe. Electronic voting and then drop some bombs.

[madrchsod]

12. ya right

europe can turn iran into glass and everyone knows that...

[scarletwoman]

13. Another big dollop of bullshit from the masters of war. Iran is not suicidal.

Yeah, bang the drums of fear -- it keeps the corpofascists in power.

sw

[emilyg]

14. pure crap - fear tactic - again

[MisterHowdy]

15. This sounds ludacris.

Politically, this makes no sense for Iran.

I don't believe it.
its a Scare tactic.

[MN ChimpH8R]

16. Bullshit on stilts eom

[TexasLawyer]

17. If accurate, Iran could be lining up targets in the event it is attacked.

Yet another reason to leave Iran alone. We already have one disastrous pre-emptive war that has blown up in our face.


Iran vows severe response if attacked
By M. A. Qudoos (Deputy Bureau Chief)

15 May 2007

ABU DHABI — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned the US against attacking his country and said that Iran will retaliate "strongly" in such an event.

"They realise that if they make such a mistake, the retaliation of Iran would be severe and they will repent," Ahmadinejad told a Press conference at the Emirates Palace here yesterday. He was responding to the comments made by US Vice President Dick Cheney that Washington would prevent Iran from dominating the Middle East.

“All people know they cannot strike us. Iran is capable of defending itself. It is a strong country," said Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad added: "With regard to others (Cheney) visiting the region, our stand is very clear. Our question is: what are the 'others' doing in our region?"

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2007/May/theuae_May437.xml§ion=theuae

[mmonk]

20. Private think tank.

'nuff said.

[Canuckistanian]

21. Who is this anal-ist?

Iran has no beef with Europe.

And, by the way, the ESISC - European Strategic Intelligence & Security Center is allied with the FDD - The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. A RW think tank.

[RL3AO]

24. WTF?

Is this the best they could come up with? Iran will attack Europe? The RW'ers are starting to lose it.