[F14 Pilot]

unbelievable!

[R. Scott]

This explain all those UFOs seen over Iran.

[Darkwolf377]

Hersh exposed little about Abu Grahib that the Pentagon hadn't already reported months before; he just reported it in the New Yorker so his effette liberal readers suddenly felt it was important because it was now in THEIR magazine.

I'd love to know what he thought he would be accomplishing by reporting about this. I'd love someone to ask him to his face "Do you think reporting this will harm or help the US in preventing Iran from acquiring WMD?" and not let him weasel out of answering.

[r9etb]

When I first saw the headline, without even opening the link I knew it was another Seymour Hersch a$$-wipe. The boy's about as full of crap as a sumo wrestler's chamberpot.

[spodefly]

Good. All the good citizens of Iran need to get as far away from any Iranian nuke facilities.

[Dark Wing]

The web logs have picked this story up:

http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/006176.php


Pakistan Turns States Evidence
by Trent Telenko on January 17, 2005 04:05 AM

I don't as a rule trust Seymour Hersh's stories on the US Military, but I have seen hints here and there supporting his story about American Special Forces teams hunting for nuclear sites in Iran. While American military strategic reconnaissance is a necessary preparatory step for an invasion of Iran, this report does not necessarily mean we are going to invade. The intelligence gathered could be used for any of a number of things short of invasion ranging from diplomacy through Special Forces "Direct Action" missions, to one off precision air-strikes to a full blown air campaigns.

The key fact here isn't the "sexy angle" of American Special Forces being used to avoid Congressional Intelligence Committee oversight, or that Hersh is shilling for his sources on the CIA bureaucracy and the Congressional Intelligence Committee staffs. It is that Pakistan has turned "States Evidence" on the Iranian nuclear program.

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