Would Israel “Fix Intelligence” to Justify Attacking Iran?
August 1, 2012 15:34 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• How often do you see headlines or tweets like this?
• Tehran’s letting the Taliban set up an office in eastern Iran, and is even considering providing them with surface-to-air missiles. The Wall Street Journal (via Google News) explains the rivals’ common interest:
Iran, a Shiite theocracy, wasn’t friendly with the Sunni Taliban government ousted by the U.S. in 2001 and hasn’t permitted an official Taliban presence in the country until now. But these days both sides “see America as the bigger enemy” a Western official in Kabul said.
“Iran is willing to put aside ideology and put aside deeply held religious values . . . for their ultimate goal: accelerating the departure of U.S. forces from Afghanistan,” the official said.
Arab Spring Winter
• LA Times: Syria rebels check passports at border crossing from Turkey.
• The Assad regime’s targeting medics who treat injured rebels. But the Christian Science Monitor finds that the heionous deaths of colleagues has boosted their resolve.
Three Aleppo University students, who had been helping treat demonstrators shot by Syrian security forces, were arrested at a checkpoint in mid-June. Their mutilated and charred bodies were found in a burned out car a week later.
• Syrian rebels acquiring shoulder-fired surface to air missiles is an important story. But I think NBC News correspondent Richard Engel was overly breathless about a scoop that hasn’t been independently verified. Breath in and count to 10 before watching the NBC News video.
• Time’s Tony Karon wonders if Bashar Assad will be replaced by a “Junta in a Box.”
• AFP: The army and rebels are clashing in two Christian districts of Damascus.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Good news in Israel-India relations. See my Shout Out to India.
• CNET: Google and Apple removed streaming apps for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV from their apps stores.
• Worth reading: Stephen Walt’s Expanding Definition of the Israel Lobby (via David Frum)
• The Times of Israel on this morning’s border incident:
IDF soldiers traveling near the Egyptian border fired into the neighboring country after thinking their bus had been shot at by terrorists, Wednesday morning.
It was not immediately clear if the bus was fired upon or if soldiers responded to hearing a nearby firefight.
The shooting, near Motzav Karmit, reportedly came as Egyptian security forces were engaged in a firefight with smugglers along the border.
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Moll
6:12 pm
Aug 01, 2012
Never mind CIA analyst, Ray McGovern “fixing intelligence” to reflect his opinionated bias! Someone remind him that the golden rule applies, everytime: you get back exactly what you hand out, so “treat others the way you want to be treated”.
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jeb stuat
12:07 am
Aug 02, 2012
Intelligence is never 100% certain. Despite the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi subjects Husseins regime tortured and murdered the left is still fixed on the faulty WMD info not the end which remains a positive for Iraq despite Obama’s precipitous retreat that has allowed Al-Qadea and foreign fighters re-entry into the country. Clinton gutted Counter intel because it could embrass some of his policies because at the edge you have a good look at what politicans and policy makers wish to down play. The sad truth is many Americans have been duped into believing it is the neo-cons andZionists who “conspire” and ignore the even greater manipulations of American apologists like Obama.
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Nigel
4:49 am
Aug 02, 2012
“As we saw 10 years ago with respect to Iraq, if one intends to whip up support for war, one needs to find a casus belli — however thin a pretext it might be. How about juxtaposing “weapons of mass destruction” with terrorism. That worked to prepare for war on Iraq”
Most people seem to have very short memories. IAEA weapons inspectors confirmed the existence of (mobile) WMD. And the fact they supposedly haven’t been found might be down to the reports early in the war of mass movements of equipment across the Iraqi-Syrian border. So, were the weapons inspectors lying? And were the mass media reports lies? Rather than saying they didn’t exist, it’s time to ask where confirmed objects are!
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R. Cross
1:49 pm
Aug 02, 2012
Why should Israel apologise to Turkey for the Mavi Marmara affair? The Turks and the Palestinians went out of their way to create the incident and, I suspect, most of the foreign reporters (including that naive little girl from South Africa) were on that vessel. This was the ONLY vessel that offered resistance. In that case, Turkey should apologise to Israel and assume full responsibility for the incident. WARS have started with less provocation!
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