Next Up, Iran?
Aiding the Iraqi insurgency and building nukes puts that nation at risk of pre-emptive strikes.
By David Kenner and Jill Hunter Pellettieri
Posted Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, at 9:38 AM PT
Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 22
The imposing threat of Iran: By examining intelligence reports, U.S. News reveals examples of how Iran is supporting Iraqi insurgents, such as sending intelligence agents into Iraq "tasked with finding information on U.S. military plans," as well as training terrorists. "For years, the State Department has identified Iran as the world's pre-eminent state sponsor of terrorism." It's the Iranian threat of nuclear attack that's most disconcerting, however. The former chief weapons inspector in Iraq tells U.S. News, "I would not put it past [Iran] to carry out spectacular attacks to demonstrate the cost of a hostile policy. That is the policy issue—can we learn to live with Iranian nuclear capacity?" ... Another article stipulates that "The United States estimates that Iran could field its first nuclear weapon in three to seven years." According to one official, Iran's involvement in Iraq and the knowledge of nuclear capabilities begins "to tip the balance in the direction of pre-emptive military strikes" against Iran.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2109744/
Obama must have read my post last week.
Pak nukes will be destroyed if Musharraf is ousted: US leader :
Washington, Sept 28 : Pakistan's nuclear arsenal will be destroyed if any move is made in that country to oust President Pervez Musharraf, a candidate for the US Senate has claimed.
The Dawn quoted Barack Obama as telling the Chicago Tribune that Washington would in all probability launch military strikes in Pakistan to destroy that country's nuclear arsenal if Musharraf lost power.
He further went on to say that the Bush Administration is concerned about the possibility of Islamic militants assuming power in case Musharraf was overthrown. (ANI)
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