Archive for October 18th, 2009
Game Plan: If Israel Strikes Iran
Retired General Says Israeli Attack to Take Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Not Only Possible, the U.S. Should Join In
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/18/notebook/main5394593.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel
U.S. Middle East policy motivated by pro-Israel lobby
The AIPAC propagandist Dennis Ross moves over to the National Security Council
‘Israel may attack Iran after December’
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/10/15/israel-may-attack-iran-after-december/
http://NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria interviews author Tom Ricks – Afghanistan & Pakistan
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria interviews author Tom Ricks – Afghanistan & Pakistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaLrq2WK-Rk
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/10/the-rule-of-the-experts/
The Bottom Line (to the Afghan quagmire):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdNlNuQJuf0
US-led war in Afghanistan ‘unwinnable’
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/10/15/us-led-war-in-afghanistan-unwinnable/
Israel to rely on US veto
Israel to rely on US veto
http://www.theage.com.au/world/israel-to-rely-on-us-veto-20091018-h2vv.html
White House phones Jewish leaders to promise veto on Goldstone
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/09/white-house-phones-jewish-leaders-to-promise-veto-on-goldstone.html
UNHRC endorses Goldstone report, angers Israel
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/10/16/unhrc-endorses-goldstone-report-angers-israel/
Israel feels the heat over UN meeting on Gaza war
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/10/14/israel-feels-the-heat-over-un-meeting-on-gaza-war/
US Israel Lobby after Iran and out to suppress Goldstone report
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Iranian official blames deadly bombing on US and UK
Iranian official blames deadly bombing on ‘U.S. actions’:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/18/iran.suicide.attack/index.html
Suicide Blast in Iran Kills 42, Including Six Iranian Commanders
In Iran, six senior commanders in the country’s elite Revolutionary Guard were assassinated Sunday in a suicide bombing that killed as many as thirty-six others. The bombing occurred in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan near the Pakistani border. It has been described as the most serious attack against Iran in more than twenty years. The Sunni militant group Jundallah claimed responsibility for the attack. The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has vowed to “retaliate” against the United States and Britain after accusing them of backing Jundallah. Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Pakistan of also having links to the bombers.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “We ask the Pakistani government not to delay any longer in the apprehension of the main elements in this terrorist attack. And also, we were informed that some security agents in Pakistan are cooperating with the main elements of this terrorist incident, and we regard it as our right to demand these criminals.”
Six Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commanders Killed in Suicide Bombing, Iran Blames US and Pakistan
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/19/six_senior_iranian_revolutionary_guard_commanders
Iran urges UNSC to strongly condemn deadly blast
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=109130§ionid=351020101
Tensions Rise between Iran and Pakistan:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/19/world/main5395154.shtml?tag=topnews
US denies involvement in Iran suicide attack
Revolutionary Guard commanders killed in Iran bomb – washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101800596.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/18/national/a030754D60.DTL#ixzz0UHrkuhxv
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Iran threatens U.S. and Britain after Guard bombing
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59H0AH20091019
America and Great Britain’s Secret Support of Jandullah
http://watchingamerica.com/News/15111/america-and-great-britain-support-jandullah/
Ex-CIA agent confirms US ties with Jundullah
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109453§ionid=351020101
Seymour Hersh: US Training Jundullah for Bombings in Iran
by Solve_et_Coagula » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:18 pm
According to an interview with Seymour Hersh, the US is training terrorist groups to cause chaos inside Iran, provoking an aggressive reaction from the Iranians, which will serve as a pretext for military action from the US.
Source: CASMII
Seymour Hersh: US Training Jondollah and MEK for Bombing preparation
In an interview with NPR on his latest New Yorker Article, titled ‘Preparing the battlefield’, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reveals more striking details of his findings on the aim of the $400 million budgeted US covert operations inside Iran. He provides valuable information on US military preparations to strike the country, on the total expansion of the Bush Administration’s executive power, about the US recognition of Iran’s overall positive role in Iraq and on the US support for the anti-Iran terrorist organisations Jondollah, PJAK and MEK.
Hersh explains that the aim of the US covert operations inside Iran is to create a pretext for attack with the goal of regime change. “The strategic thinking behind this covert operation is to provoke enough trouble and chaos so that the Iranian government makes the mistake of taking aggressive action which will give the impression of a country in acute turmoil”, he said. “Then you have what the White House calls the ‘casus belli’, a reason to attack the country. That is the thinking and it is very crazy.”
On Iran’s role in Iraq, Hersh points out: “There is absolutely no clear evidence known to the American government that the Iranian leadership has any interest in provoking trouble with the United States in Iraq by sending in people to cause mayhem or kill Americans. There is just no evidence for it.” He continues further on: “Frankly, the guys I know in the inside– in the Special Forces, high up in DoD, high up in the intelligence community–if you push them hard enough, they tell you that Iran has been more of a force for stability in Iraq than negative”.
Hersh comments that the decision to launch these covert operations was prompted by the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate’s verdict that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons programme and that the approval by the US Congress leadership of the $400 million budget for the operations “is totally an expansion” of the executive powers of the Bush Administration.
He explains how the Bush Administration’s policy of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” has led the US to support the Baluchi organisation Jondollah and the MEK (Mujahideen-e-Khalq a.k.a PMOI), both of which have clear track records of terrorist activities including against the US. He reiterates that the US has been giving arms and cash to the terrorists in the MEK for years and reveals that “most of the [MEK] leaders have been taking our money and cashing it in an awful lot of bank accounts in London.” He also reveals for the first time that the US has trained MEK teams in the state of Nevada and that “they do a lot of crazy stuff inside Iran”.
Hersh warns that “we have been moving cruise missiles there for a few months now”, and that the US military is ready. “Our submarines are there, our destroyers are there with cruise missiles aboard, our aircrafts are there, our soldiers are there” to attack Iran within “10 to 12 hours” of the go-ahead order by President Bush, he says, stressing that troops have to go on the ground in Iran in order to destroy Iran’s defensive systems.
He finally points out that Bush “is going to be a very active president, I am afraid, until 11:59:59 seconds on January 20, 2009” and raises the alarm about an “October surprise”, a military attack on Iran, in particular if Obama continues to have a lead in the polls.
Listen to the whole interview here: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=92025860&m=92028303
For more information or to contact CASMII please visit http://www.campaigniran.org
- Subverting Iran
Washington’s Covert War on Iran: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070323&articleId=5165
Bloody attack in southern Iran: US-British-Israeli terror attack
MOSCOW, 18 Oktober (RIA Novosti). Behind today’s bomb attack on a high military in southern Iran, that killed 31 people, according to the latest data to suspect Iranian authorities of Great Britain.
The Iranian state television circulated a statement for an “informed source” who said Britain “immediately” was behind the attack. The London-based Foreign Office condemned the atrocity in Iran, without commenting on allegations from Tehran.
The assassination of a high commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards had been committed in the south of the country. The high military was killed. A suicide bomber had detonated his bomb outside a conference hall in the city of Sarbaz, when there commanders and tribal elders had gathered for a meeting. Among the casualties, there are several officers.
To the suicide attack, apparently the worst in the Islamic Republic for years, yet no one claimed responsibility. The Iranian parliament chief and ex-Atomchefunterhändler Ali Larijani in turn made the U.S. responsible for the attack, as reported the AFP. Before that had already expressed a spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard that were behind the murder “foreign elements” who are “connected with the U.S..”
In 1979 gebldete the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a conservative special unit of the army, which is tasked with monitoring the regime loyalty. They had also come in the war against Iraq (1980/88) are used.
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005345.html