The Guardian
01/17/05
Ian Traynor

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American special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for US air strike targets for suspected nuclear weapons sites, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

In an article in the latest edition of the New Yorker, Hersh, who was the first to uncover US human rights abuses against Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison last year, reports that Pakistan, under a deal with Washington, has been supplying information on Iranian military sites and on its nuclear programme, enabling the US to conduct covert ground and air reconnaissance of Iranian targets, should the escalating row over Iran's nuclear ambitions come to a head.

Acting on information from Pakistani scientists knowledgeable about Iran's nuclear programme, Hersh reported, US commandos have penetrated territory in eastern Iran seeking to pinpoint underground installations suspected of being nuclear weapons sites.

Hersh told CNN yesterday: "I think they really think there's a chance to do something in Iran, perhaps by summer, to get the intelligence on the sites.

"The last thing this government wants to do is to bomb or strafe, or missile attack, the wrong targets again. We don't want another WMD flap. We want to be sure we have the right information."

The New Yorker report said the Americans have been conducting secret reconnaissance missions over and inside Iran since last summer with a view to identifying up to 40 possible targets for strikes should the dispute over Iran turn violent.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1392078,00.html

Related links:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/272150p-233046c.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/16/hersh.iran/index.html
http://www.regimechangeiran.com/

Hey, has your president got a mate who wants a slice of the Pistachio nut market then?  ;D

Why not have a go at Israel, they're a nuclear power who are encroaching into a neighbouring country? Oops, I'm forgetting something...

http://maddox.xmission.com/bomb_iran.html

http://maddox.xmission.com/bomb_iran.html


Funny!!!  I love Dr. Suess.  We need someone like Philbo to do a "One Bush two Bush, red Bush, blue Bush" parody.

But seriously, I figured Iran would be next.  Why not?  We can certainly attain the same success there as we have achieved in Iraq.  All hail (hiel?) Ceasar and the new imporium.

Thanks for posting an article from the Guardian, GWB.  There may be hope for you yet!
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The Bushies already have copious egg on their faces over the Iraq debacle.  If they raise the national debt ceiling any higher, they'll have to install an express elevator, and our military reserves are already tapped out.  Exactly what do they think they're going to fight with in Iran?  Furthermore, I shudder to think about the long term ramifications of a military attack on Iran.  Iran is not just Iraq spelled with an "n," you know.

Oh, OK, I just remembered, Iraq is about to have their first ever democratic elections.  Boy, I almost forgot why we went over there in the first place.  We wanted them Mooslims to free and fair elections, like they have in Ohio!

Holy Toledo!  If we can do it Columbus, we can do it in Baghdad, maybe we can even install another shah in theran!
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Thanks for posting an article from the Guardian, GWB.  There may be hope for you yet!
;)



I did it while holding my nose. 

Want to check for bias with The Guardian?  Simply go to their website, http://www.guardian.co.uk/, and check that ad on the very top of the page, I see it every time I go there (it may be gone by the time you go there, or you may get a different ad, but I always get the same one.)  It's a Bush PUPPET, dancing to the world, and a sign comes up that says "Most Americans think the world supports the war in Iraq....could be the newspapers they're reading."  What a liberal load of garbage that is.

Besides, looks like those articles and sources got it wrong:

"CIA responds, says FOXNEWS.
Pentagon says errors of fundamental fact riddle article as well as flawed premise.

Admit they are surveilling Iran, and updating contingencies, but have NO plan to attack Iran at present." -Fox news.