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| Former Mossad head: Kill Ahmadinejad |
| 2007-04-19 |
| A policy I (and I am sure all RBers) can support, but will General Pelosi support it? Western countries must unite in an effort to assassinate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former head of Mossad Meir Amit said on Wednesday night. "Even though in the past I have been opposed to assassinating Arab leaders, this case is different because it alone is the center of the nuclear issue," Amit told the weekly Kfar Chabad magazine set be published on Thursday. Amit said he did not perceive an existential danger to Israel following Iran's nuclear development - "but that is only on condition that we do something about it." The former Mossad chief went on to say that the nuclear facility in Dimona presented a deterrent against Ahmadinejad's intentions. "I think that this is the only reason that he won't attack us," he said. Meanwhile, Iran has started enriching small amounts of uranium gas at its underground plant and is already running more than 1,300 of the machines used in the enrichment process, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The confidential document - a letter to Iranian officials from a senior IAEA staff member - also protests an Iranian decision to prevent agency inspectors to visit the country's heavy water facility that, when built, will produce plutonium. Enriched uranium and plutonium can both be used for the fissile core of nuclear warheads. The letter, signed by IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen and dated April 18 - Thursday - said the agency wanted to "take note of the information provided by Iran ... that Iran has put into operation" 1,312 centrifuges - the machines used to spin the gas into enriched uranium. The letter also cited Iranian information to the agency that "some UF6 is being fed" into the centrifuges, referring to the uranium gas that can be enriched to levels potent enough to be used for nuclear arms. Iran says it wants to enrich only to lower levels suitable to generate nuclear power. But suspicions about its ultimate intentions, after nearly two decades of nuclear secrecy exposed only four years ago, have led to UN Security Council sanctions for its refusal to freeze its enrichment program. It was unclear what the purpose of the uranium gas feed was. A diplomat accredited to the IAEA, who demanded anonymity because he was disclosing confidential information, said the operation appeared to be part of "stress tests" meant see if the machines were running smoothly. But he and another diplomat said that, even if the operation was not meant to enrich large amounts of uranium, it appeared to be the last step before larger-scale enrichment begins. Last week, Iran said it had begun operating 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz facility - nearly 10 times the previously known number. The US, Britain, France and others criticized the announcement, but experts - and several world powers - expressed skepticism that Iran's claims were true. Still the letter reflected a swift advance in the program. A little more than two weeks ago, diplomats familiar with Iran's nuclear dossier had said Teheran was running only a little more than 600 centrifuges, and had not introduced any uranium gas into them. Its heavy water enrichment facilities at Arak also are under suspicion, because the plant produces plutonium, which can also be used in an arms program. Iran argues it needs the plant for medical research, despite a Security Council demand that it also freeze construction at Arak. When it is completed within the next decade, Arak will produce enough plutonium for two bombs a year. Iran last month announced it was unilaterally abrogating part of its Safeguards Agreements linked with the IAEA under which Teheran is obligated to report to the agency six months before it introduces nuclear material of any kind into any facility. In his letter, Heinonen suggested that Iran invoked this move in denying his inspectors the right to visit the Arak facility, but argued it was illegal, because such agreements "cannot be modified unilaterally." Beyond that, Heinonen said, IAEA inspectors should be allowed to visit Arak because the section abrogated by Iran had to do with early provision of design information of new nuclear facilities and "not to the frequency or timing of" agency inspections to verify information on design already provided by Iran. |
| Posted by:Brett |
| #18 Nope. He's been dead for years. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2007-04-19 19:17 |
| #17 I'd certainly like to think so, Mike. Has there ever been any audio or video showing bin Laden that has him making a solid reference to a specific post-9-11 (or thereabouts) event? A media whore like him usually is in the limelight every few months and this protracted silence is more than a little heartening. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-19 18:50 |
| #16 You need not bother putting Binny on your list. He's already Tango Uniform. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-04-19 18:12 |
| #15 Zen, there is one missing on the list, unless you think he's pushing up daisies. Putting Osama on the list seemed a little too obvious. I'll add him for decorum's sake. In some respects bin Laden is an also ran in that he cannot possibly maintain the sort of public profile that many on my list do in order to wield the influence they have. To that extent, Assad is a more suitable candidate. What the hell, I'll add both of them. They certainly aren't undeserving of it. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-19 13:42 |
| #14 Bounty time. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-04-19 11:58 |
| #13 Zen, there is one missing on the list, unless you think he's pushing up daisies. First thing that popped into my mind as well. |
| Posted by: Thoth 2007-04-19 10:39 |
| #12 "HIDEOUS BEAST" = Hildabeast? /need more coffee... |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-04-19 08:50 |
| #11 Works for me! |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-04-19 06:11 |
| #10 so kill him already |
| Posted by: Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-04-19 06:09 |
| #9 gromgoru, #25. ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-04-19 05:01 |
| #8 Zen, Where's Asad Jr? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-04-19 03:46 |
| #7 See also STRATEGYPAGE > SYRIA HAS A NEW [WAR/BATTLE] PLAN [AGZ ISRAEL]. Possibly moving 300 SCUDS closer to Israel in order to seemingly let Israel know SYRIA CAN HURT ISRAEL WHILE NOT DESTROYING ISRAEL??? Also Syria wants to expand its 10,000-man "elite infantry" units + capabilities, aka Commandos. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-19 02:53 |
| #6 Personally I think he's worm food. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-04-19 02:45 |
| #5 Zen, there is one missing on the list, unless you think he's pushing up daisies. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-04-19 02:05 |
| #4 There's a whole bunch of other topics that can be addressed by my preceding statements. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-19 02:02 |
| #3 IRAN > may want up to 50,000 centrifuges + is reportedly desirous of working wid NORTH KOREA to dev BALLISTIC MISSLES or related technologies.* PCorrectness > it doesn't matter iff Iran says before the World its has WMDS or wants nuclear weapons or energy, or even that it desires to attack US-WEstern-Israeli interests or targets, THE BURDEN IS ON THE USA AND ONLY THE USA TO DE FACTO PROVE IRAN IS MEANS + DOING WHAT IRAN'S OWN GOVT SAYS IT IS DOING, ELSE THE USA WILL BE ACCUSED OF FALSELY STARTING A NEW WAR??? ITs NOT for the UNO to stop the bad guys from being bad nor to stop them from threatening others, the greatest burden is on the good guys to prove their reasons for attacking the bad guys. IOW, e.g. GOD + HEAVEN MUST PROVE THEIR REASONS FOR TRYING TO STOP THE DEVIL + EVIL FROM THREATENING THE WORLD. THE BURDEN IS ON GOD TO PROVE + SHOW WHY NOSTRADAMUS' "HIDEOUS BEAST" SHOULD BE STOPPED FROM DESTROYING THE WORLD??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-19 00:49 |
| #2 "Even though in the past I have been opposed to assassinating Arab leaders..." Problem solved prior it's arising => Ahmadinutjob's not an Arab leader. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-04-19 00:09 |
| #1 1. Ayman al-Zawahiri 2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 3. Ayatolla Kahmeini 4. Mullah Muhammad Omar 5. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (Bashir) 6. Moqtada Sadr, 7. Abu Hamza al-Masri, 8. Mullah Krekar (AKA: Abu Sayyid Qutb), 9. Khaled Meshal 10. Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah 11. Ismail Haniya 12. Mohammed Abbas 13. Yusuf al-Qaradawi 14. imam Ahmed Abu Laban 15. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali 16. imam Omar Bakri Mohammed 17. imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa 18. imam Sheikh SyeSyed Mubarik Ali Gilani 19. Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal 20. Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi 21. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar 22. Prince Sultan Ibn Abd al-Aziz 23. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz 24. Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz He's there for a reason. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-19 00:05 |