Unbelievable !!!

[Jennifer]

U.S.-Israel plan to strike Irans nuclear sites finalized
2/6/2005 4:00:00 PM GMT





Washington claims that Iran is covertly trying to develop a nuclear weapons' program

Experts from the U.S. Defense Department, the Pentagon and Israel have put final touches to a plan to launch a military strike targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, experts at the European Commission based in Brussels, revealed on Sunday.

The experts added that the implementation of this plan rested on a number of factors including the U.S. continuous efforts to hamper the EU-Iranian negotiations to persuade Iran to suspend all activities related to uranium enrichment, with the aim of justifying a military strike against the Islamic republic if it refused to bow to U.S. pressures.

The U.S. administration has stepped up pressure against Tehran over the past few months, claiming that it was covertly trying to develop a nuclear weapons’ program.

The EC experts, moreover, said that Washington was intensifying its intelligence activities aimed at spying on the Iranian nuclear sites and was also making use of the old laws allowing the CIA to support coup d'etats and arousing sectarian and ethnic conflicts in different countries.

Yesterday, American news sources reported that U.S. senators have set up a review panel of the CIA's intelligence on Iran in order to try and avoid the pitfalls that marked the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.

"We have to be more pre-emptive on this committee to try to look ahead and determine our capabilities so that you don't get stuck with a situation like you did with Iraq," Republican Sen. Pat Roberts chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was quoted as saying.

During his State of the Union speech on Wednesday, President Bush had called Iran "the world's primary state sponsor of terror" and repeated accusations that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran has continuously denied those charges and says its nuclear program is aimed solely at generating power for civilian use.

However, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when in London on a week long visit to European capitals said on Friday that an attack on Iran was not on the agenda "at this point in time."

According media sources, Senator Roberts stated, "The aim of the Senate review is to ensure that any weaknesses in American intelligence on Iran are being disclosed to policymakers, and that U.S. spy agencies have adequate resources to fill gaps in collecting information on the Islamic republic."

The top Democrat on the committee John Rockefeller is quoted as saying "One of the lessons we learned from Iraq was not to take all information at face value and to ask more questions in the beginning than in the end."

The cautious approach by the Senate Intelligence Committee is due to the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq being based on the false allegations of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction.

Senior aides said the review is part of a broader effort by the committee to anticipate potential intelligence gaps rather than investigating failures after they occur.

In a harshly critical report made public last July, the Committee said U.S. intelligence agencies overstated the Iraqi threat, relied on dubious sources and ignored contrary evidence in the run-up to the war.

Senator Roberts said the review would take place largely behind closed doors and that it was still in its early stages.

According to committee aides, the review is not a formal investigation and that there are no plans to make its findings public.

[Jennifer]

This is going to lead us into hell!!

[JTF]

dumbass,

More like incomplete... like his test scores in the reserves.