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US Operations in Iran
www.RightViews.com ^ | 1/17/05 | OJ

Posted on 01/17/2005 4:07:08 PM PST by OHJ

Seymour Hersh has published an article in the New Yorker claiming to site government sources pertaining to ongoing US military operations inside Iranian borders. Mr. Hersh states that special ops commando teams have been operating inside Iran to map out potential sites to strike in the event that diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear impasse fail. Mr. Hersh claims that private concerns within the government caused the information to be leaked. As a reporter who gained much notoriety from exposing the Abu Ghraib prison scandal last year, much stock is being put in his statement. The Pentagon, however, has categorically denied any merit to the story. You can read the official press release here.

I would find it inconceivable that the US government does not have

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1 posted on 01/17/2005 4:07:10 PM PST by OHJ
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To: OHJ
"private concerns within the government caused the information to be leaked"

Damn!

2 posted on 01/17/2005 4:13:06 PM PST by RAY (They that do right are all heroes!)
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I've read 2-3 threads on this, on FR.com, today. Why is this leaked? And by whom? Find them, charge-try-convict-sentence-execute the SOB(s)!

I want any and all SOBs who compromise/s America, dead, dammit!

10 years for an American Soldier's sense of "DWNTBD", in a time of war, isn't acceptable, IMO. God Bless Our Troops! Sgt Graner: I salute you.

3 posted on 01/17/2005 4:15:57 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (`1)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

Sounds like another disgruntled appeaser at the Agency. Hopefully, Goss & company have or will "smoke " him/her out.


I would have given medals to Sgt. Graner and the others involved at Abu Grahib.


4 posted on 01/17/2005 4:23:46 PM PST by afnamvet
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