• Iran Nuclear Watch

    Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Report on Iran “DISHONEST?”

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    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohammed ElBaradei briefs the media before a board of governors meeting at Vienna’s U.N. headquarters September 11, 2006.

    AP: IAEA: U.S. report on Iran ‘dishonest’

    A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran’s nuclear capability is “outrageous and dishonest” in trying to make a case that Tehran’s program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said.

    BULL

    El Baredi is “paying back” the United States for America’s unsuccessful attempt to block his reappointment as head of the IAEA. Remember Mohammed’s “October Surprise released in order to influnece the 2004 Presidential elections?

    Jamal Ware, a spokesman for the House committee, confirmed they had received the letter and said the chairman had referred it to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. Rush Hold, D-N.J. They will review it and issue a formal response if necessary, he said.

    “All IAEA complains about is a photo caption. If you read the report, it’s very clear that what it is saying is that Iran is working to develop the capability to enrich uranium to weapons grade, not that they have done so,” Ware said. “They use a string of adjectives, while not pointing to any substantive criticism of the report. There are areas where we would disagree with them. A disagreement does not make what we say erroneous.”

    Great, now there is a political turf war between the United States and the United Nations. Almost like it was planned by Iran or maybe its chief apologist, Egyptian Mohammed ElBaradei, to deflect the United States desire to enforce UNSCR 1696.

    Is it too late to send these feckless United Nations bastards packing?

    And America needs the IAEA and ElBaradei, why?

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    The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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  • Global War on Terror,  Iraq War,  Terrorists,  The Ryskind Sketchbook

    The Ryskind Sketchbook: High Threshold

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    The Ryskind Sketchbook: High Threshold

    Intelligence Failure In The Senate

    Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who, having seen the same intelligence as the Bush administration and our allies, issued warnings as loudly as anyone, saying from the Senate floor in October 2002 that “I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat” and insisting “we can no longer afford to wait around for a smoking gun.”

    But now he says the report shows “the Bush administration’s case for war was fundamentally misleading.”

    It’s Levin’s and Rockefeller’s analyses that are misleading.

    The report says one of Saddam’s senior intelligence operatives, Faruq Hijazi, admitted to meeting bin Laden in 1995. But the report accepts at face value Hijazi’s claim that “this was his sole meeting with bin Laden or a member of al-Qaida, and he is not aware of any other individual following up on the initial contact.”

    No mention is made of the December 1998 meeting between bin Laden and Hijazi in
    Afghanistan that got worldwide coverage in newspapers such as Milan’s Corriere Della Sera and London’s Guardian, as well as the New York Post. In 1999, an ABC News report mentioned this meeting and reported Saddam offered bin Laden asylum, citing their “long relationship.”

    A 1998 e-mail from Richard Clarke, national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counterterrorism, to then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger warned that if bin Laden were flushed from Afghanistan, he might just “boogie to Baghdad.”

    As the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes has reported, reams of captured documents reveal that elite Iraqi military units trained 8,000 al-Qaida terrorists, belonging to groups such as Algeria’s GSPC, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ansar al Islam and the Sudanese Liberation Army, at camps in Samarra, Ramadi and at Salman Pak.

    The links were confirmed by 9/11 Commission Vice Chairman Thomas Kean, who said: “There were contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida, a number of them … They were definitely there.”

    Indeed there were. Abdul Rahman Yasin, a member of the al-Qaida cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb, found safe haven in Iraq, and documents recently found in Tikrit indicate Saddam provided Yasin with both a home and a salary. Why?

    The Clinton Justice Department alleged in a 1998 indictment against bin Laden that “al-Qaida reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al-Qaida would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al-Qaida would work cooperatively with the government of Iraq.”

    So, what in the hell is Senator Rockefeller’s problem?

    Political opportunism……

    Pathetic


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  • Iran Nuclear Watch

    Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – “We Can Better Lead The World”

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    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from right, points to a journalist during a photo opportunity at Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Wednesday in the heavily Muslim West African nation of Senegal for talks with his Senegalese counterpart, Abdoulaye Wade. Ahmadinejad _ en route from Iran to Cuba, where he’ll join dozens of leaders at a summit of the Nonaligned Movement _ was expected to spend only a few hours in Senegal, Wade’s office said.

    Ynet: Ahmadinejad: We can better lead the world

    Iranian president says nuclear standoff with West can be resolved peacefully; adds: ‘there is no need for UN sanctions against his country; US should moderate its language’

    Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says nuclear standoff resolvable by dialogue Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that his country’s nuclear standoff with the West can be solved through dialogue, while calling for unspecified “New conditions” in negotiations.

    Why is the world bothering to listen to Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric on their nuclear program?

    IRAN COVETS NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO IMPOSE THEIR ISLAMIC HEGEMONY

    “We believe the on the basis of law and justice, we can better lead the world,” he said at an early-morning briefing, amid a powerful electrical storm that brought power cuts to the conference hall, before flying onto Cuba. Ahmadenijad earlier met with President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, a heavily Muslim and deeply impoverished West African nation.

    Right

    An Islamic fundamentalist theocracy?

    Convert or die…..God Willing…….

    BULL…..

    The United States should immediately move the recalcitrance of Iran to halt uranium enrichment in the United Nations and demand enforcement of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1696.

    End of story……

    MM has So now he wants a “dialogue”

    Dialogue? How about reopening the reformist Iranian newspaper, Shargh?

    Oh, here’s another chance for dialogue–a protest of Ahmedinejad at the U.N. in New York next week. Mark your calendars:

    NATIONAL SOLIDARITY RALLY
    Wednesday, September 20th
    12:00 Noon, Rain or Shine
    Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
    2nd Avenue at 47th Street
    New York City

    Stay tuned…..

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    The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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