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  • Intelligence expert who rewrote book on Iran

    12/08/2007 1:31:09 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 45 replies · 298+ views
    Guardian Unlimited ^ | Saturday December 8, 2007 | Ewen MacAskill in Washington
    Report has torpedoed plans for military action and brought 'howls' from neocons The intelligence came from an exotic variety of sources: there was the so-called Laptop of Death; there was the Iranian commander who mysteriously disappeared in Turkey. Also in the mix was video footage of a nuclear plant in central Iran and intercepts of Iranian telephone calls by the British listening station GCHQ.But pivotal to the US investigation into Iran's suspect nuclear weapons programme was the work of a little-known intelligence specialist, Thomas Fingar. He was the principal author of an intelligence report published on Monday that concluded Iran,...
  • US plans envision broad attack on Iran - analyst

    01/19/2007 6:39:09 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 68 replies · 1,872+ views
    Reuters (excerpt) ^ | January 19, 2007
    Excerpt - WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday. "I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005. "You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would destabilize the Middle East for years, White told the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington think...