Posted on 01/16/2005 9:56:33 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran
22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.
The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said the secret missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites.
Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon (news - web sites) as saying, "The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."
One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, "This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq (news - web sites) is just one campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign."
The White House said Iran is a concern and a threat that needs to be taken seriously. But it disputed the report by Hersh, who last year exposed the extent of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"We obviously have a concern about Iran. The whole world has a concern about Iran," Dan Bartlett, a top aide to President Bush (news - web sites), told CNN's "Late Edition."
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'Bout damned time!
Well, I guess they aren't secret anymore.
Is there any interest anywhere in government to bringing back the term "Traitor"?
Light the fires...
I guess they're not secret anymore.
Of course, Sy doesn't understand the ramifications of going public with this sort of thing... anything for a story I guess... what an imbecile.
Seymour Hersh puts himself ahead of anything else. If true, he just damaged the mission. Let's say Iran now manages to get away with building nukes and attacks another nation with it. Will Hersh accept any responsibility for that? No, he won't.
Good old Seymour is a traitor going back to Vietnam. Although I have to admit, the bad guys knew we were there all along, they can't do anything about it. That's why they've been talking about UFOs and flying saucers. Nice cover story in case their people see one of our planes.
Hit Their Soil and Take Their Oil !
ping
My only hope is that this is disinformation to raise the paranoia level in Iran, but I doubt that.
If Mr. Hersh is damaging national security as I am afraid that he is, I wish that he would stop it, and I hope if that is true that whoever is helping him would also stop it.
We have no need to know about operations until this matter is clearly in the open.
Noo, that would be the fault of Boooosh!
Hersh and his buddy in the Pentagon may be traitors -- get rid of the Clintonites!
Seymour Hersh and Rooters. They make Debka look credible by comparison.
(Reuters)& The New Yorker = Loose Lips Sinking Ships
He probably doesn't know anything. Just making an educated guess. Unfortunately, it's probably true, so he might as well have been leaking.
Oh well .... Probably just a strange coincidence /sarcasm
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