News for 04-08-06

04-08-06 - THE IRAN PLANS by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has challenged the reality of the Holocaust and said that Israel must be "wiped off the map." Bush and others in the White House view him as a potential Adolf Hitler, a former senior intelligence official said. "That's the name they're using. ..."....In August, the Washington Post reported that the most recent comprehensive National Intelligence Estimate predicted that Iran was a decade away from being a nuclear power...the White House's interest in preventing an Israeli attack on a Muslim country, which would provoke a backlash across the region, was a factor in its decision to begin the current operational planning. In a speech in Cleveland on March 20th, President Bush depicted Ahmadinejad's hostility toward Israel as a "serious threat. It's a threat to world peace." He added, "I made it clear, I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally Israel." ..."The best terror network in the world has remained neutral in the terror war for the past several years," the Pentagon adviser on the war on terror said of Hezbollah. "This will mobilize them and put us up against the group that drove Israel out of southern Lebanon. If we move against Iran, Hezbollah will not sit on the sidelines. Unless the Israelis take them out, they will mobilize against us."


04-08-06 - US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran: report The administration of President George W. Bush is reportedly planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility. This was reported in August in the American Conservative by former CIA official Philip Giraldi. But then, this piece could be psyops. Doubtful though.


04-08-06 - Iran Hopes IAEA Visit Will Ease Tensions


04-08-06 - Libby testimony shows a White House pattern of intelligence leaks


04-08-06 - Rumsfeld and Rice fall out over war tactics


04-08-06 - Bush 'disappointed' data on prewar Iraq were wrong Somebody needs to be held accountable, to say the least, for being 'wrong'.


04-08-06 - 'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named TWO employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war, an official investigation has allegedly found.


04-08-06 - Lawyer: Bush Left Leak Details to Cheney


04-08-06 - Iraqi prisoners vanishing in 'black hole': Blair envoy The first was an elderly Iraqi woman picked up in the middle of the night by US soldiers shortly after the war. Relatives in Britain appealed to Clwyd for help in finding her.


04-08-06 - Iraq discovers oil in Kurdistan


04-08-06 - Egypt's Mubarak warns of Iraq civil war, Iran influence


04-08-06 - Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America? The goal of using the Nazi analogy is to suppress any realistic debate about the pluses and minuses of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and to make sure any American raising questions about U.S. support for Israel is seen as siding with the "Islamofascists," the heirs of Nazism


04-08-06 - Hersh: Bush Calls Ahmadinejad Hitler, "Considers" Nuclear Holocaust


04-08-06 - Washington's Invisible Man As the lobbyist who has ignited what might be the biggest government scandal since Watergate, Jack Abramoff?now sentenced to 70 months in jail for conspiracy and fraud?became notorious for tossing around money, much of it from the casinos of his Indian-tribe clients, to influence key lawmakers


04-08-06 - A lesson from the Holocaust for us all Israeli academic researchers have themselves proved that no such radio broadcasts were ever made, that the Palestinians fled - victims of what we would today call ethnic cleansing - after a series of massacres by Israeli forces, especially in the village of Deir Yassin, just outside Jerusalem.