Posted on 04/30/2006 3:27:40 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
Impatient Mossad warns
of 'monster in the making'
'This is what we know and this is what
we'll do if you continue to do nothing'
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
If the visit to Washington last week by the head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, was not enough to communicate Israel's growing impatience with the international community's failure to deal with Tehran's unchecked development of nuclear technology and bellicose threats to wipe the Jewish state "off the map," Ehud Olmert, prime minister designate, made it clear yesterday by denouncing Iran's president as a "psychopath" and comparing him to Hitler.
 Meir Dagan |
Mossad chief Meir Dagan, in Washington last week in preparation for a visit to the U.S. by Olmert on May 23, held secret meetings with U.S. officials to discuss Iran's nuclear program, reports the London Times. While details of the meetings were not revealed, it is believed Dagan met with his counterparts at the CIA, the Pentagon and the National Security Council.
"Dagan is not given to small talk and niceties," said an Israeli intelligence source, who believes Dagan's message to Washington policy makers was simple and blunt: "This is what we know and this is what we'll do if you continue to do nothing."
The revelation of the briefing comes in the wake of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) admission of alarming "gaps" in its knowledge of Iran's centrifuge program to enrich uranium and the level of involvement of Iran's military. Many intelligence experts believe Iran is operating a parallel nuclear program where military applications are secretly under development. Mossad reportedly claims to have evidence of enrichment sites in Iran hidden to IAEA inspectors "which can short-cut their timetable in the race for their first bomb."
"When I read the recent reports regarding Iran, I saw a monster in the making," said Dr. Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Israeli parliament's foreign and defense committee.
Steinitz, who oversees Mossad's activities in Iran, fears Iran's first nuclear bomb is just one year away. "There is only one option that is worse than military action against Iran and that is to sit and do nothing," he said.
Publically, at least, the Bush administration is still talking diplomacy and economic sanctions to achieve a "peaceful solution" following last week's IAEA report documenting Iran's non-compliance.
The U.S., Britain, France and Germany will face off this week against a resistant China and Russia over a resolution from the U.N. Security Council mandating Iran suspend its uranium enrichment. Given President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scornful dismissal of resolutions from the U.N., something stronger, like sanctions could follow.
Russia and China, however, may scuttle any U.N. efforts to stop Iran. China just announced a $100 billion energy deal with Iran, with Beijing's ambassador declaring, "No country can prevent the deal." If the U.N. fails to act, the U.S. will seek Iran's economic isolation at the July G8 summit in St. Petersburg.
But given the fast pace at which many intelligence experts believe Iran's nuclear program is advancing, July is a long time off, especially for the Israelis who, as WorldNetDaily has reported, are already being targeted by Iran's missiles and rockets stationed in Lebanon under the control of Hezbollah surrogates.
"If we do not see any progress on the political or economic track that convinces the Iranians to back down, one of the parties will use the military option," a senior Israeli source said in Washington last week. Dragging out the negotiations indefinitely is not an option.
"Ahmadinejad speaks today like Hitler before taking power," Olmert said. "So you see, we are dealing with a psychopath of the worst kind — with an anti-Semite. God forbid that this man ever gets his hands on nuclear weapons, to carry out his threats."
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GEE! Why would anyone think that.
I've gotta tell ya, the last country to be concerned should be the US although we should be concerned. If anything, Europe should be far more concerned. They'll be "within reach." Something tells me that Russia isn't "off the hook" either in spite of their support for Iran and their totalitarian regime with Hitler-like intentions.
I simply LOATHE Powell.
His reasoning is faulty and he couldn't resist that dig at America for using the bomb.
IMO, Japan and Hitler deserved to have a bomb dropped on them. Too bad we didn't take Hitler out sooner.
As for Iran....just ludicrous for him to suggest that it's leader is sane or rational.
If he hand't been averse to taking out Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War, perhaps we wouldn't be having to clean up his leftover mess.
I'm sure the decision not to go into Iraq was Bush Sr.'s not Powell's. His reasoning is faulty however and for him to hold that view reveals a large naivete. I'm sure he couldn't convince Israel of that either.
Advocating genocide does little to persuade of either the rationality or reasonableness of your positions.
Ol' Wings<-------
Learning to purposly mispill some of these kay woids....
Keeps the eshelon fischers gissing...
Or not --- who nose....
Have a grate daze....
So you believe that the United States, "The Great Satan", has nothing at risk in permitting a nuclear armed Iran over the next 20 years?
I always knew that there was a good reason why the US has been giving Israel foreign aid to the tune of $3B/year. Having Israel deal with the Iran Problem would be bargain at twice the price....
What's messy about a smooth surface of freshly-formed glass where a desert used to be??
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbors, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
-- Neville Chamberlain
Prediction how many posts going be on FR when Mossad attack Iran nukes
500
5000
10,000
God help us.
Go talk to someone else...
The post advocated killing 70 million people. If that ain't genocide, the word means nothing.
Nope. Just pointing out that posting that we should kill 70 million with Nukes in a country that, AFAWK, hasn't attacked us isn't a persuasive position.
Ya okay...
< Sam Kinneson >
Good answer... I'm gonna be watchin you!...
< / Sam Kinneson >
Israel is far stronger than Iran.
Czechoslovakia was not even close to the strength of Germany, although they would have put up a tough fight.
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