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US forces inside Iran to pick sites for air strikes | ||||
2005-01-18 | ||||
AFP, Washington: Teams of US commandos have been operating inside Iran since last summer, selecting suspected weapons sites for possible air strikes, The New Yorker reported yesterday. The magazine's award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, who last year exposed the extent of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, wrote that he was repeatedly told by US intelligence and military sources that "the next strategic target was Iran."
"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign," a former high-level government intelligence official told the magazine. "The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign. We've declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy," the official said.
International allies are helping the Pentagon with its Iran plans, according to the magazine. Israeli consultants are helping develop potential weapons targets inside Iran. Pakistan is also involved. Pakistani scientists are providing information to an American task force that is penetrating eastern Iran searching for underground nuclear installations, the magazine said. In return, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has received guarantees that he will not have to hand over disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan to international authorities for questioning. Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear programme, in February took responsibility for transfers of nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The New Yorker article went on to describe how the Bush White House has solidified control over US intelligence operations and how the Pentagon has finagled new powers to conduct covert operations without oversight from the US Congress or involvement by the CIA.
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Posted by:Steve |
#3 Maybe the Bush Team is using hersh. Why else would they give him ANY info whatsoever? They know he's a freakin' idiot, out to discredit them any way he can. "....We've declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy." If the countries of the world don't want Americans coming soon to a country near them, chasing terrorists, all they have to do is stop helping the terrorists and start killing them. The mullahs in iran must be shittin' in their robes right about now. Ha ha ha..... They know our boys can put a 2,000 pound bomb right in their soup bowl at dinnertime. And, that's just eatin' at their insides. |
Posted by: Dudley Doright 2005-01-18 7:29:05 PM |
#2 Pssst! Iran, the US spies are pretending to be al-Qaeda operatives. Don't tell anyone, ok? actually it's just as easy to hide as Basij members...I'd purge em all along with the shifty AQ guys |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-18 2:16:31 PM |
#1 I doubt that "Seeless" Hersh knows what's going on. An earlier article said he was working on some kind of |
Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-01-18 1:57:32 PM |