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U.S. and ISRAEL
PREPARE FOR IRAN +
Iranians
Rush To Prepare
Syrians Meekly Attempt Partial Compliance
North Korea Races to Develop Nuke Weapons to Deter Attack
"Our response to
any invasive measure will be massive."
Massoud Jazaeri,
Spokesman for Iran's
Revolutionary Guard
"...the
CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency had conducted
war
games on a strike at the Iranian program and had
been unable to keep
the conflict from escalating."
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- MER - Washington - 1
October:
Even as the two branches of the American
political establishment semi-debated last night who would fight the new
wars better than the other, even as U.S. and Israeli battle tanks and
attack aircraft bombed and killed in Iraq and Palestine worse than
ever, preparations to either force compliance or attack Iran, Syria,
Hezbollah (Lebanon), Hamas (Palestine), and North Korea soon after the
American election are fast proceeding at the Pentagon and the CIA.
Despite the recent disinformation about
Iran
spread by so many -- including Washington journalist Seymour Hersh as
revealed by MER last month -- it was the Israelis and their many
powerful operatives in Washington, more than any others, who
brought about the Iraqi invasion/occupation. And even
as they are
now working hard to deflect attention from themselves, they are at the
same time pushing hard to go after the next countries on their list
while awaiting the
'mandate' they will claim to be theirs when
the Bush/Cheney election takes place in a few weeks.
But even if the President should somehow be named Kerry and the party
controlling the Executive Branch the Democrats, much the same policies
will be pursued though the rhetoric and tactics will differ, in that
case with considerable thanks to the also powerful 'liberal' wing of
the Israeli/Jewish lobby which has near-total control of the Democratic
Party.
This very brief preview of what is to
come is in the current issue of Newsweek,
as associate publication of The
Washington Post. The article that follows was
published recently in The Washington
Star -- Washington's neocon newspaper -- which quite literally
daily whips up militant anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-China, pro-Israeli
sentiments preparing public opinion for what is to come.
Plans: Next, War on Syria?
Newsweek - Oct.
4 issue: Deep in the Pentagon, admirals
and generals are updating
plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense
Department unit responsible for military planning for the two
troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official
says. Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an
effort to
revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in
light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates
are
accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and
neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries. (Syria
is regarded as a major route for jihadis entering Iraq, and Iran
appears to be actively pursuing nuclear weapons.) Even
hard-liners
acknowledge that given the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, a U.S.
attack on either country would be an unlikely last resort; covert
action of some kind is the favored route for Washington hard-liners who
want regime change in Damascus and Tehran.
By Nicholas Kralev
THE WASHINGTON TIMES - September 22, 2004:
Iran
said yesterday it was preparing to enrich uranium, taking a key step
toward the capability of making atomic weapons just three days after
the United Nations' nuclear agency demanded that it suspend all such
activities.
The announcement came amid renewed speculation
that Israel,
which feels directly threatened by Iran's nuclear program, might use
one of 500 bunker-buster bombs and other military equipment that it has
requested from the United States to strike Iran's underground atomic
facilities.
"This is not the sort of ordnance needed for
the Palestinian
front. Bunker busters could serve Israel against Iran, or possibly
Syria," an Israeli source was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, chief of staff of
Israel's air
force, was quoted last week as saying that if the government decides
that a military solution to Iran's nuclear development is required,
"then the military has to provide a solution."
But Secretary of State Colin L. Powell
expressed skepticism
about the prospects for such a strike during a meeting last week with
editors and reporters at The Washington Times.
"I don't want to get too deeply into this, but
based on what I
know about the [Iranian nuclear] program, it is not one that lends
itself to a simple military solution," Mr. Powell said.
The secretary did not elaborate, but Newsweek
reported this
week that the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency had conducted war
games on a strike at the Iranian program and had been unable to keep
the conflict from escalating.
Gholamreza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran's Atomic
Energy
Organization, said yesterday that Iran had started converting 37 tons
of raw "yellowcake" uranium for use in nuclear centrifuges -- the
machines that enrich uranium.
"Some of the amount of the 37 tons has been
used. The tests
have been successful, but these tests have to be continued using the
rest of the material," Mr. Aghazadeh, one of Iran's vice presidents,
told reporters in Vienna, Austria, where he was attending a general
conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the IAEA, said
the agency was aware of Iran's plans and would monitor its activities.
IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei
"continues to call on
Iran, as did the board, to suspend such a test as part of their
confidence-building measures," she said.
Iran continued to insist yesterday that its
nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
"We are determined to obtain peaceful atomic
technology, even
if it causes the stop of international supervision," said President
Mohammad Khatami.
U.S. officials were not surprised by the
announcement and their comments echoed previous statements on the
subject.
"They have a continuous record of making and
then breaking
promises, both to the [IAEA] board as well as to others," a State
Department official said in reference to the Iranian government.
"This is the pattern of a country that has not
made the
strategic decision to give up its nuclear-weapons program," the
official said.
Both U.S. and Israeli officials declined to
comment on an
article in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz yesterday, which said
the United States would conclude a $319 million sale of military
equipment to Israel, including 500 bunker-buster bombs, after Election
Day.
Israel's announcement came after the U.S.
Defense Security
Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible military sale to
Israel worth as much as $319 million.
"Israel purchases a wide range of military
equipment from the
United States on an ongoing basis," one Israeli official said. "We
can't confirm specifics of any particular sale."
On June 1, the U.S. Defense Security
Cooperation Agency
notified Congress of a "possible" sale to Israel of "joint direct
attack munitions, as well as associated equipment and services." whose
"total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $319
million."
As part of the deal, the United States will
sell Israel nearly
5,000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the
allies in years, wire service reports quoted Israeli military officials
as saying.
The deal will expand Israel's existing supply
of the weapons, said the officials, who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
The agency listed the items that the Israeli
government had requested, including the bunker-buster bombs.
"This proposed sale will contribute to the
foreign policy and
national security of the United States by helping to improve the
security of a friendly country that has been and continues to be an
important force for political stability and economic progress in the
Middle East," the agency said in June.
"The proposed sale of this equipment and
support will not affect the basic military balance in the region," the
agency said.
Although U.S. and Israeli officials said the
deal in question
is no different from many other such sales over the years, Iranian
officials were quick yesterday to issue warnings.
An Iranian defense ministry spokesman said a
U.S.-Israel deal that targets Iran could be "psychological warfare to
test us."
"Our response to any invasive measure will be
massive," said Massoud Jazaeri, spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary
Guard.
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October 2004
Iran Next - Part 1
(October 31, 2004)
In a few days the American election itself will be history. The likelihood is the Bush/Cheney/neocon regime will remain in power; hard as that still is for so many to imagine and understand. Should the Democrats win the White House Middle East policies will be largely in the hands of the neoliberals and the super money-men like Haim Saban who when it comes to the Middle East and Israel have far more in common with the neocons than has yet been realized by many who will vote for them. Whatever happens on Tuesday next the build-up to attacking and if at all possible regime changing Iran is well underway and the showdown increasingly imminent.
Osama, Bush, Kerry - Past, Present, Future
(October 30, 2004)
Few Middle East realities have been heard during this long grueling American election campaign. Most of the rhetoric has been extraordinarily self-righteous and self-serving, disingenuous and dishonest. Sad and tragic as it is to have to say, for many in the Middle East and around the world beyond American shores, tactics aside, the words of Osama Bin Laden ring more true to their experience and perspective regarding U.S. foreign policy than those of either George Bush or John Kerry.
Fahrenheit 9/11 - Watch It On Your Computer This Weekend
(October 30, 2004)
Who would have imagined on 9/11 more than three years ago now that the top front-page story in the Washington Post Saturday before the 2004 election would be a picture of Osama Bin Laden addressing the American people! Reality keeps trumping fiction time after time in our era!
Escalating War Against the World after November 2nd?
(October 29, 2004)
Whether the Americans are lead by Bush and the neocons, or by Kerry and the neoliberals, the reality is that both of the great American political parties are today dominated by their super-hawkish Israeli-connected elements and that both are heavily mortgaged to major, however competing, segments of the Israeli-Jewish lobby in Washington.
ARAFAT - Pathetic Symbolism for the 'Grand Old Man' of the Palestinians
(October 29, 2004)
There is often such pathetic symbolism surrounding Yasser Arafat even as many of his people cling to his legacy as the 'symbol of Palestinian nationalism' -- itself nearly as tattered and frail as the Grand Old Man has himself become.
Bush Uncensored; Cheney Unauthorized
(October 28, 2004)
MAKE SURE TO WATCH THESE TWO VIDEOS
ABOUT GEORGE BUSH and DICK CHENEY
Gaza Scam + Dem Party Emails American Jews
(October 27, 2004)
The price for the past political trickery has already been very high. The poison of the Israeli-Arab conflict has spread continually for decades now and played a substantial role in bringing about today's 'Clash of Civilizations' whose end is yet in sight. The eventual future price for what is happening these days threatens to be higher yet, potentially catastrophic.
IRAN Attack Imminent?
(October 24, 2004)
Though few in the world may fully realize it, international society is now at a historic moment and the future, even a potential World War III, is in the balance. Hence the leaks coming from Washington from those trying to warn, and to prevent, what the top neocons and Israeli operatives are pushing hard to bring about. Hence last month's extremely unusual 'Israeli Spy Scandal' which had officials in the FBI charging people working on the Iranian attack in coordination with the Israeli-Jewish lobby with espionage for Israel. Hence, as this article by a former National Security Council operative suggests: "Intelligence circles report that both intelligence agencies (CIA and Pentagon) are in open revolt against the Bush White House." It appears to have been quickly written and then quickly internet published using LebanonWire in the Middle East.
Cheney Uncovered - An Unauthorized Documentary by the CBC
(October 23, 2004)
Reporter Jean Heller presented Soviet satellite photos which did not show Iraqi troops amassed on the Saudi border to the Pentagon.
"It's what it (the photos) didn't show that's more important. What you expected to see were tanks on the border. There was none that we could see.
I said, look, if you can prove to me that our story isn't true, we won't run it. And they just ignored it.
They have never shown those (U.S. satellite images) photos. Not then and not since."
New CIA 'Shocking' Cover-Up
(October 22, 2004)
Completed in June, mandated by Congress nearly
two years ago, the CIA Report that names names
is being suppressed until after the election.
"What all the other reports on 9/11 did not do is point the finger at individuals, and give the how and what of their responsibility. This report does that," said the intelligence official. "The report found very senior-level officials responsible."
Talk about American Imperialism and Chutzpah!
(October 22, 2004)
The reaction in many quarters must be 'Oh My God'. Bill, Hillary, and Tenet all seek higher office! Talk about American Imperialism and Chutzpah!
The WARLORDS of AMERICA
(October 21, 2004)
Regardless of what happens on 2 November in the U.S. election, one group or another of "the Warlords of America" will be in power in Washington. And the years now immediately ahead, regardless if the President is named Kerry or Bush, are quickly shaping up as likely to be the most dangerous in modern history.
America on the Edge
(October 20, 2004)
The amazing thing about this American election is that in view of what has happened in the U.S. and in the world the Democrats should be running away with it -- and yet they are struggling everywhere and likely to go down to defeat.
Israel on Road to being Pariah State
(October 15, 2004)
Indeed Israeli policies and attitudes have for some time now seriously poisoned political relations throughout the Middle East, substantially helped bring about the era of the 'Clash of Civilizations', and through the powerful Israeli/Jewish lobby in Washington pushed the United States into the invasion of Iraq and other militarist isolated policies whose dangerous and destructive ramifications will be felt for many years to come
The Next Generation of Palestinians
(October 13, 2004)
If what has happened in Gaza in recent years would have happened in the USA (adjusted for population size) more than 100,000 Americans would have been killed and more than a quarter million homes destroyed by a foreign occupying army using battle tanks and attack helicopters against small resistance groups in cities and towns.
AMERICAN SECRET GULAG EXPANDING
(October 14, 2004)
THE CIA has greatly expanded its activities throughout the Middle East including in Jordan and Egypt as well as Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries throughout the region. Of course the CIA and the Mossad are working more closely together than ever to control the region and enforce what is now essentially the militarily imposed 'new world order' first announced during the current President father's days in the White House. Before President Bush I became President he was in fact the Director of the CIA, whose main headquarters is now named after him.
AOL Censors MER
(October 20, 2004)
AOL -- one of the largest internet service providers -- is blocking and censoring MER. Persons who subscribe to MER using an AOL email address can not receive MER -- it is being secretly censored from their mailboxes by AOL without notice of any kind. It is believed persons working for AOL may be censoring MER in coordination with Jewish Zionist groups. It may be that AOL has a special relationship with Jewish.com and other Israeli-connected groups in some way. It is all being done in secret with no notice of any kind to either AOL users or MER.
A few of the messages we have received from AOL subscribers to MER follow:
Major Iraq Attacks on Hold Until After U.S. Vote
(October 11, 2004)
The Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld made an unannounced visit to Iraq in recent days. And soon after the American election the superpower military will be much more fully unleashed throughout the country preparing to push the U.S.-appointed strong-man Iyad Allawai forward in the carefully staged 'election' that will proceed if 'conditions are right'. In other words, just as Hamid Karzai was U.S. -installed and then essentially U.S.-elected in Afghanistan, the same template is now planned for Iraq.
U.S. Forces IMF into secret Iraqi debt 'forgiveness' scheme
(October 11, 2004)
But maybe most of all in the longer run, and unspoken now for all of these reasons by the powers that be, once Iraq's prior debt to other countries is 'off the books', the new U.S.-installed and CIA-controlled government in Baghdad is free to sign agreements with the Americans -- secret or otherwise -- that will essentially mortgage Iraq's future oil revenues to the U.S.A. and those it approves.
Chomsky on American Force and Pre-emption
(October 10, 2004)
"Bush planners know as well as others that the
resort to force increases the threat of terror,
and that their militaristic and aggressive posture
and actions provoke reactions that increase
the risk of catastrophe."
IRAN - Targeted by U.S. and Israel
(October 9, 2004)
You would think after the Iraq debacle that the ability of the U.S. to blackball, sanction, and then attack, occupy and regime-change another country would be considerable reduced. Not so however as this article in Z Magazine helps explain with regard to Iran. Indeed, soon after the American election the situation will quickly escalate.
The Debates - Fixed and Controlled
(October 8, 2004)
The moderators -- both from the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) -- could have, and should have, asked hard, probing, unexpected questions like this:
Israeli AIPAC Spy Scandal - Update
(October 7, 2004)
It was just a month ago that the latest Washington spy scandal involving the very heart of the Israeli-Jewish Lobby had everyone buzzing. Then it faded from view as the corporate media moved on, as CBS News which originally broke the story found itself under assault, and as the election campaign and debates took center stage. Interesting, not one question from the PBS moderators about Israeli spying, nor even about the U.S. veto of the Security Council resolution condemning Israel, nor the International Court of Justice decision doing the same. Here's an update -- however inadequate -- from yesterday's L.A.Times. Though the real heart of the story should be AIPAC and the influence, tactics, and status of the Israeli-Jewish lobby; instead they focus on just the individual and not as they should on the large group of support persons and organizations. This should especially include, of course, the current cabal of largely Jewish neocons in top positions...including the one who hired Larry Franklin (Douglas Feith), and the ones who hired him (Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle).
AOL Blocks and Censors MER Articles
(October 6, 2004)
AOL is blocking and censoring MER articles because of pressures originating with Jewish and Israeli groups.
Emergency U.N. Security Council Meeting on Israel
(October 4, 2004)
The Springsteen 'Vote For Change' Concerts
(October 5, 2004)
"The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness
about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power." - Bruce Springsteen
Israel's Peacenik - Uri Avneri: Realities
(October 5, 2004)
"Uri Avneri, along with many Israelis and Jews, rightly fears that at some point Israel will be the direct target of blame for it's major contribution to having brought about such terrorism in the world and pushing the U.S.
into invading Iraq. It is an understandable fear;
for it is to a significant degree true."
Iraq is a "disaster...that will haunt the U.S. for decades" - Wall Street Journal Reporter
(October 2, 2004)
Iraq is a "disaster" that has deteriorated "into a
raging barbaric guerilla war" that will haunt the
United States for decades.
The Passion of the Bush
(October 2, 2004)
As the modern-day American-Israeli led Christian-Jewish crusade to remake the Middle East in the name of 'democracy and freedom' proceeds, this new documentary is telling indeed. It was first shown at the Republican Convention in New York a few weeks ago; and now, as a kind of Bush-loving counter to Fahrenhite 9/11, the DVD is being rushed out in advance of the upcoming election.
U.S. and Israel Prepare for Iran +
(October 1, 2004)
Even as the two branches of the American political establishment semi-debated last night who would fight the new wars better than the other, even as U.S. and Israeli battle tanks and attack aircraft bombed and killed in Iraq and Palestine worse than ever, preparations to either force compliance or attack Iran, Syria, Hezbollah (Lebanon), Hamas (Palestine), and North Korea soon after the American election are fast proceeding at the Pentagon and the CIA.
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